I wonder how many women chose the bear because they thought that porridge might be involved? While it can't be that many, surely it's more than 0.

I've always said that I liked Bitcoin but it really needed more centralized points of failure.

Downloading my Google Takeout because years ago I uploaded a bunch of mp3's to Google Music which I've since lost to various hard drive failures over the years. Now I'm trying to get them all back a zipped 2GB at a time.

I removed my postgres database that I was going to use because I was having issues with the storage in the vm i was running (syncing the blockchain in 1tb will do that to you) and had to increase the size. Now that I'm trying to put it back, it's failing because bitnami decided to lock their images behind a paywall. Now I'm going to have to go shopping around for a new chart. (just swapping the image didn't cut it and I want something more minimal anyway) I'm tempted to just do away with helm altogether and just define everything in nix.

Whenever an image of John Cena is posted online, you know exactly what everybody will be commenting. Some people are so transparent

TIL that sliced bread was originally described as the greatest thing since bread was wrapped. So now you know.

I never did end up using all that cobblestone.

Vampires in the future will have had to have gone through all of the celebrity deaths, constantly. Watching your friends and loved ones pass away would suck, obviously, but there that extra little bit of gossip you hear as you're stalking the corridors of the space station at night that that one child actor you liked that was in that one thing has just passed away of old age that really twists the stake in your heart which doesn't even work anymore because there is no more wood.

A-10 on that first blast sometimes, but then once I get everything worked out, D-5

Due to its close proximity to current technological capabilities. an advanced robot that malfunctions and thinks it's sentient isn't as fantastical as it once was. For that reason, it's unlikely we'll ever see a reboot / sequel to Short Circuit.

My torrent of all the Loony Tunes has finally finished, so now I'm watching shorts from 1943. The first one I put on was an all-blackface version of Snow White.

Ben Sisko being into Baseball is kinda like how people go to the renaissance fair.

A lot of things can be managed with shell scripts, but you're going to find that you're going to have to write a lot of things to manage and merge different bits of configuration if your config gets complex enough. (especially when you're managing multiple systems with the same config) With nix, it's usually pretty good at merging different modules of config together and has plenty of tools to assist with that. One big thing that nix does well that a bash equivalent would have to deal with is tracking what is installed to make sure it's all uninstalled properly. With nix, the programs that are "installed" are the ones listed in the config (+ dependencies) and to uninstall them you simply remove them from the config. When you rebuild and switch, they'll no longer be there. The files will still exist in the nix store (basically its cache plus more) until garbage collection cleans up what is no longer used. (for me, every 2 weeks) Also, it's worth noting that you can do most of the user-level stuff by just using nix and home-manager. NixOS is when you want to extend that process to the whole OS.

Time spent waiting for systemd targets to restart on a machine you're about to reboot is time you will never get back.

One of the great things about #NixOS is that since your entire system configuration is just sitting in a single git repo, you can pretty much just fire up Cursor and vibe code your whole environment.

It's such a shame we never got a Crank 3