“Finally… Now I can compile Firefox and use it in the same afternoon.”

Probably, but it’s also the perfect excuse the relearn sailing the high seas if you haven’t done it in a while.

The blessing and curse of simplicity.

The spirit of /u/RimjobSteve lives on, even as reddit perishes.

Hmm, opens fine with my adblocker. Does yours say which list is blocking them?

I may have written that in a confusing way. I’m saying systemd’s job is service management. Systemd-resolved is an unnecessary bit of scope creep.

The magnet is the antenna mount type, but I personally would use one of the roof rack screw points, to act as structure and a ground plane connection.

Slate Auto: “Cloud? Oh, you mean that completely optional telematics thingy that’s intended more for business fleets! Yeah, that’s excluded by default on our vehicle.”

There’s also a few cases of feature and scope creep, including the infamous systemd-resolved.
Systemd, your job is to launch services, manage logs, and do timers and relaunches on a service crash. DNS is out of scope, leave that to existing services.

Stop calling them federal agents. They are, by legal definition, domestic terrorists.

The Department of Homeland Security defines terrorism as a premeditated threat or act of violence, against persons, property, environmental, or economic targets, to induce fear or to intimidate, coerce or affect a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof…^[1]

^[1] Author not listed. (2025). Terrorism. New Hampshire DSHEM. https://www.hsem.dos.nh.gov/prevention/information-analysis-center/terrorism

sad bikepath-less american noises

Sounds like an improvement to me.

Easy check, grab a voltmeter and do it yourself.
Pull the plug, set voltmeter to AC, and read the voltage across the prongs. If you get anything over the usual float voltage you get from just holding the probes ungrounded, then you have a problem.

Redundancies and failsafes are always a best practice in engineering work. This is no different.

I mean, yeah? You give anything a connection to a global network with billions of people, and there will always be a chance for it to be exploited. Hell, even my personal OpenVPN instance for remotely accessing my home servers has to fend off attacks.

This is why my next vehicle will be a slate truck. Zero internet connectivity by default, and updates can be done via USB-C from a phone (which can be vetted as needed).

Pfft, I got one with TODO_Obfuscate_URL. I wish I saved it.

You tried the usual tools, found they were insufficient, and subsequently made a workaround for your needs. That last bit alone is more enough. Most people stop at “It didn’t work” and give up saying computers are too hard.

I always say, if your problem looks like a nail and can be held like one, don’t force yourself to use a frozen chicken breast. Grab the hammer.

…with professional-grade tactical gear.
The gear includes firearms, ballistic full-body armor, flash bangs and smoke grenades, tear gas…

Where the fuck are you sourcing explosives and tear gas as a civilian, and more importantly…
Where can I get some? Purely for home defense, of course. Definitely not wanting it for defrost purposes.

That’s just bureaucracy in general. Left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing, until it receives an after action report, signed in triplicate, two months after that knowledge stopped being useful.

Uh-huh. Sure.
I’ll get right on that, as soon as you can explain exactly how the singular genitive declension of the Latin word Dēus has literally any bearing whatsoever on office policies.