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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • Anyone else chuckle on the parallel in saying to use the UUID is no different than saying “just hardcore the IP bro”

    It’s more like setting a static IP. The UUID is set when you create the partition and won’t change unless you force it to change.

    You can also use any of the GUI utilities which can add it to your fstab.

    There’s a lot of things that are made way too difficult on Linux for seemingly no reason. This isn’t one of them.




  • I just accidentally deleted my crontab about an hour ago because r is right next to e.

    Fortunately my computer backs itself up often so I could just grab the old crontab but it was annoying and would have been problematic if I didn’t.

    I also had to recover my computer a few months back because someone whoopsied the default apt repositories for Ubuntu x64 arch and pushed the x86 software there instead.





  • SD has pass through charging, so once the battery is fully charged and also while it is plugged in, you aren’t powering it through the battery like cell phones and most laptops do.

    That’s how nearly all modern devices work. Li-Ion can’t be charged and discharged simultaneously. There is circuitry to split the power between the battery and the device when it’s being charged.

    Cheaper devices will just stop charging when you use them or they won’t work at all when plugged in.






  • Only way I’m using most shopping sites is if I know they’re trustworthy and if they support PayPal or one of the major payment processors. I’m not going to type my CC number into a random website and trust that they aren’t hacked.

    There are a lot of issues with PayPal, but at least it makes it easy for me to get a refund if the seller refuses. The last time I had to get a refund, it was because the seller told me I had to ship my $20 product back to China in order to get a 50% refund. This was despite the returns agreement explicitly requiring them to cover return shipping and that shipping it to China would have cost me about $150.