mausmalone

Old school jack-of-all-trades webmaster, but I mostly talk about old video games and computing.

pronouns: he/him
website: https://mattpierce.info

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2025-11-08 22:55:23 UTC

When I got into cycling this summer there was a point when I figured I should set goals. There's lots of options to choose from - from max power or FTP or VO2Max or max speed or max distance.
My goal was more modest: I want to get up the hill.
Today I made it up the hill.
I even mostly made it up the hill from the Little Red Lighthouse. I didn't walk any part of it, but I had to put my foot down thanks to slipping on some wet leaves.
#cycling
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2025-08-24 22:30:15 UTC

A symbolic victory but an important one for me. 2 weeks aver having been hit by a car I got out there and did the same route.
Unfortunately I had to do it with my old department-store bike which is FAR less efficient than the gravel bike I lost in the accident so my legs are screaming with exhaustion.
#cycling
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2025-03-18 13:41:01 UTC

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Can I ask a very tangential question?
What happens in, for example, apt when a package name changes? Is there a mechanism that will automatically move users over? Or will they need to remove/install manually?
(I'm not asking to play devil's advocate, I really just have no idea how package managers handle this situation.)

2024-11-30 06:41:33 UTC

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accurate, IMO
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2024-09-04 23:13:41 UTC

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An office floor or a computer lab full of desktop PCs with massive droning fans.

2024-07-31 22:40:02 UTC

Hot #mastodon tip - if you see someone put up a post saying that they're looking for their people (like anybody trying to grow #blackmastodon, for example) and you're not who they're looking for - why not give a boost?
Maybe if enough people do it you can six-degrees-of-separation connect them to the community they're seeking.

2024-07-31 22:31:23 UTC

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a sincere question that maybe could be video worthy: how?
Like, I currently am using the Backups app in Ubuntu (which is apparently just deja dup rebranded) and the only way I can think of to test it is to format my PC's SSD and try to restore it. But that seems like a REALLY RISKY way to test a backup.
So how would, say, an experienced sysadmin such as yourself test a backup without creating an actual emergency scenario?