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Water St. Ch'Town

In case anyone sees this and is heading to town this morning, Water St. has been closed, plan on taking Grafton St. or Riverside Dr.

Absolute genius, doing construction on all three routes off the bridge at the same time.

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  • A really good way to do linux is to play around and break things, but to have a backup you can restore from.

    I don't know about other distros specifically, but Mint comes shipped with Timeshift, which is easily configurable and can be set up to include your home directory. Make a backup on an external drive every now and again so that if you break everything, you only lose a bit of work instead of all of it.

    Search engines are your friend. If you want to do something, look it up first (ex/ "How do I [x] on linux") and read some of the answers. Don't just go with the first option you see, and if it looks decent but you don't understand it try looking up the commands it uses to find some documentation.

    Learning linux isn't something you can do as passively as you can with Windows, so take time to really try and learn things you're looking to do.

    And a good rule of thumb is that if you think your system should be able to do something, it probably can.

  • How do you backup your downloaded ROMs?
  • I have terrible but defined habits for my ROMs. I use the same folder structure for all of them.

    ./[platform]/[game]/[game].zip

    ./[platform]/[game]/[game].iso

    ./[platform]/[game]/saves/...

    If it's a series, using Pokémon as an example, I also have:

    ./Pokemon/Backups/[game].zip

    ./Pokemon/[generation]/[game]/[game].iso

    So it's not that good of a backup, mainly there in case the iso corrupts, but I think it's better than nothing.

  • Alternatives to GitKraken?
  • I just had to go and check because I got my 2 year subscription for ~$0.75 a month ($1 CAD) back in April. When I check their pricing page while not logged in, it shows me that I can save 50% on my first year and pay $6 monthly.

  • One big happy family.
  • This may be shit advice, but it may help.

    I have a mint laptop and was also linux illiterate when I started. The way I did most of my learning was by googling (or duckduckgo-ing) "How do I [x] linux mint" and reading through stack overflow threads. If this doesn't return results, (almost) any solution for Debian or Ubuntu will work on Mint.

    In general, I just assumed that if I thought the computer could do it, there would be a way to do it.

  • Java Was The Future
  • I work with Java. And I'm definitely 'rose tinted glasses' because I also learned to code in Java. But I'm the opposite.

    Do you use Java at home?

    Fuck no, I want to stay sane.

  • Are you happy with your username?
  • I've been using mine since 2011, and I will continue using it for many years. I have an alternate one that I use in some cases (things that need a little more professionalism attached), but for everything else, I will forever be LordPassionFruit.

    I also have never tasted passion fruit.

  • Apparently, Catholic dating is all about money
  • I grew up Catholic, and (at least here, Catholicism is a really big place) it's not so much "he has money" as it is "he will bring stability."

    The second commenter's "cash cow" comment is a bit of an outlier in my experience, because usually the highlights of dating a nerd are more akin to the second comment. They'll be an active father and attentive husband, and they're less likely to cheat (in their view). I've also heard things like this about D&D/Warhammer players, because they use their imagination alot (making them good at entertaining children) and the hobbies take a lot of focus (meaning they'll be willing and able to tackle problems that arise).

    Older catholics are used to men whose only role in the family is "produce baby and produce money", so a lot of modern dating advice is in the guise of "make sure he's a good man before you marry him"

  • [Edited]Do you noticed when someone write or work with the left hand?
  • I only noticed with my partner after they already told me they were a lefty, and we were working together one day and kept bumping each other.

    Now we make sure that I sit on the right and they sit on the left.

  • Single payer/socialized heath care vs private vs combined
  • Part of the time scale was how low risk the issue ended up being. We knew from the first few months that even if it was a tumor, so there was no "rush" to get me in to see people.

    One of the 'mindsets' of single payer is that more severe/risky issues can get fast tracked over less severe/risky ones. Ultimately, all that was happening to me was that my vision was slightly affected (because my eyelid wouldn't open fully). But had it been a tumour, I likely would have been on the surgeons table within a month of them finding out.

  • Cache Appears to Exceed Maximum Cache Size

    I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, and it doesn't bother me, but I noticed this while messing around in the settings and figured I should mention it here.

    My current cache is at 157.1 MB and maximum cache is set to 128 MB.

    This might just be a nothing burger, but if it isn't I'd rather speak up than not. Loving the app

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