2026-04-13T21:01:06Z https://yabu.me Stuart Longland (VK4MSL) https://yabu.me/npub12n5weher8thl0qlj398tvw2rmwpr33z8j443lpg28xyuzkef9dksnd9dex https://mastodon.longlandclan.id.au/system/accounts/avatars/109/573/513/395/599/946/original/d9f62920e1e1edbb.jpg https://mastodon.longlandclan.id.au/system/accounts/avatars/109/573/513/395/599/946/original/d9f62920e1e1edbb.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswr7fmvvcdesu20w95gw65hk0pygqpfvp38jz6w7zsuem2wewsutczyp2w3mxlyvawlaur72y5ad3eg0dcywxyg72kk8u9pgucns2m9y4k6hu6emr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs04ffs8tgdmmnqqnnnd30pj5pteecz5nln4rlsh7f9p0hxjag3zys7ft7hj'>nevent1q…t7hj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;Ohhh, but it&#39;s too expensive for us to shift away from Microsoft!!!&#34;<br/><br/>It&#39;s a drug effectively. With a pushy dealer that&#39;s got them over a barrel for every shot. 2025-10-23T21:06:16Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgn3r77ua538gmp0td248fjg0mueqghu767e5xu8037hsj74hw9qgzyp2w3mxlyvawlaur72y5ad3eg0dcywxyg72kk8u9pgucns2m9y4k6e7njt4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszlmwg843lmlw79ntc9kqymhuvzpf7lj0x4rzws0grznr265q5m5c333kly'>nevent1q…3kly</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Every phone has a mindfulness app built-in… even the ancient AMPS phones from the 80s.<br/><br/>It&#39;s called the off button. 🙂 2025-10-04T06:35:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvkw00la7g2amn46tte3z7wj7tdxw87g78nn59xzn3maxne9zwlhqzyp2w3mxlyvawlaur72y5ad3eg0dcywxyg72kk8u9pgucns2m9y4k6lqtqxw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgs2p4ph5r4rtu98ax3rkzrprhqf20q5qqkajcx4es99cgwx05t3q96hu3m'>nevent1q…hu3m</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>30V doesn&#39;t really arc very far… air dielectric strength is in the order of 3kV/mm, or is there something I&#39;m missing?<br/><br/>I could understand it being a problem if this was a typical solar installation for mains-grid generation, in which case panels are wired up in series for 600V DC or more. A 600V AC fuse won&#39;t like that.<br/><br/>While 100V+ DC might be a problem, I think an AC fuse rated at 250V should cope with 30V. <a href="https://forum.digikey.com/t/under-what-general-circumstances-can-ac-fuses-be-directly-used-in-dc-circuits/50746">https://forum.digikey.com/t/under-what-general-circumstances-can-ac-fuses-be-directly-used-in-dc-circuits/50746</a> suggests I can get away with it here.<br/><br/>One challenge I have is actually sourcing a DC &#34;midget&#34; fuse from the bigger suppliers, their offerings are all 125V and above, but AC.<br/><br/>I&#39;d buy DC rated fuses if I knew where to get them from. This last lot came from Mouser, I&#39;ve looked at Digikey, RS and Element14, they don&#39;t seem common. 2025-10-03T07:51:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxs6dwqs7erm2kcwnp0dr0ra2wevt45aq9026pya5gr4mp7fumz8czyp2w3mxlyvawlaur72y5ad3eg0dcywxyg72kk8u9pgucns2m9y4k63yv735 Silly question for the #ElectricalEngineering people here… I have DIN-rail fuse holders in my server&#39;s solar set-up which take a so-called &#34;midget&#34; fuse (10×38mm cylindrical).<br/><br/>The holders are rated to 30A, I&#39;ve actually got two lots of holders, the original ones are 600V rated, the others are 1000V. I&#39;m using panes with an open-circuit voltage of &lt;30V and they wire up in parallel *after* the fuse holders.<br/><br/>I have 10A fast-blow fuses in there now (Littelfuse 0BLF010.T). The panels I&#39;ll be putting up on Monday have a short-circuit current of ~18A, so they&#39;ll definitely blow at midday. I have some new 20A fuses (Littelfuse 0BLN020.T) coming.<br/><br/>They&#39;re kinda pricey and I&#39;ve got to order them. I was looking at a 5AG fuse today, which I have a stack of 40A ones in stock (I realise my holders are 30A and the panels won&#39;t even break 20A)… but really, what is the difference between a 5AG and a midget fuse?<br/><br/>The dimensions are reportedly the same. This is an extra-low-voltage DC install (&lt;48V)… are the midget fuses just a higher rating for industrial use or is there some other gotcha I need to be wary of?<br/><br/>#CircuitProtection #Fuse #5AGFuse #MidgetFuse 2025-10-03T04:29:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2hcctp4rke4vdh72dse94qg2ty4w7n88gw2x2jhpyd2645edpgsgzyp2w3mxlyvawlaur72y5ad3eg0dcywxyg72kk8u9pgucns2m9y4k6m48g2a Just lugged (with my father&#39;s help) 3×350W solar panels from the front door up to the back deck ready for installation on Monday.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.snowys.com.au/12v-350w-fixed-solar-panel-glass-roof-top">https://www.snowys.com.au/12v-350w-fixed-solar-panel-glass-roof-top</a> ← 20.1kg a piece, 1850mm×1015mm×35mm.<br/><br/>Bloody exhausted.<br/><br/>I&#39;ve got some homework to do first… a RPi Pico and three INA-219 featherwing boards turned up yesterday. I have to knock the 0.1ohm resistors off those boards and solder up some connectors so I can hook them and the Pico up… then write some firmware for the Pico that&#39;ll poll the INA-219s and give me voltage and current measurements.<br/><br/>The current shunts are already on the rack: one on the battery feed, one on the solar and one on the load. I&#39;ll then plug that into the TS-7670 and write something to poll it over USB and feed `collectd`.<br/><br/>Maybe Modbus/RTU, since I think `collectd` supports that… not sure. (I did find `collectd`&#39;s support for Modbus was crap though, might look at better options.)<br/><br/>Means next week I may have some 120W used panels… still producing a decent amount of current … looking for a new home.<br/><br/>#SolarCluster 2025-10-02T10:09:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxkkuzxh0p8nwpzsah6u2tzwugmdh79dwgwgfdxmh22qnjntfmf4qzyp2w3mxlyvawlaur72y5ad3eg0dcywxyg72kk8u9pgucns2m9y4k6p0r7k6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqtclmepzp2a4vfk0qyy35yjlqw57sep6srrn78xs35lljlytqcwqlwcyvy'>nevent1q…cyvy</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Is a pig really heavier than a bull? 2025-09-28T21:34:19Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx8h449gfexhzu5u8kghlk85fuvtf3zrptgc3ys93lw57uhysyu3gzyp2w3mxlyvawlaur72y5ad3eg0dcywxyg72kk8u9pgucns2m9y4k67xrzjz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspx6qz4lruq5jwkqq3gkpu7skk96urp0n48u0duugdmd2z5vgjchs8kw3gf'>nevent1q…w3gf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Seems Viktor Orban would be a lot happer if Hungary were an exclave of Russia.<br/><br/>Not sure that&#39;s what their people want though.<br/><br/>In which case he should hold a vote to get a mandate for Hungary to leave the EU and join them. If the vote fails, he should resign his position. 2025-09-28T19:52:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszag5ddthe08gll8rh0tjy8l6ct7x2yx3sxj57taem8wtsjqu2p0szyp2w3mxlyvawlaur72y5ad3eg0dcywxyg72kk8u9pgucns2m9y4k68mhw4j Dashboard tweak… I have a Raspberry Pi Pico and a couple of INA-219 &#34;featherwing&#34; boards that I plan to knock the shunt resistor off of and wire up to the current shunts that are already installed on the rack.<br/><br/>The plan is to make a firmware image that can poll the INA-219s and present the voltage/current/power readings over USB serial for the TS-7670 to read. Then I&#39;ll be able to plot that information here instead.<br/><br/>But for now, the information from the CET PMC-512 in the mains switchbox will do. GP1 is the mains circuit that the rack connects to, it shares that with the dishwasher, dryer and washing machine… so a big spike here isn&#39;t bitcoin malware — it&#39;ll be something else on the same circuit.<br/><br/>I should have the other bits in a couple of weeks.<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.longlandclan.id.au/system/media_attachments/files/115/272/876/121/738/141/original/baa7d95c9e661503.png"> <br/> 2025-09-26T22:11:44Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqke4x2scwm70esylexkpe3s9uv2zp84dvwym080m5zq9r2na2kvgzyp2w3mxlyvawlaur72y5ad3eg0dcywxyg72kk8u9pgucns2m9y4k6ctqsgf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw60duztg0d4t6pmc4cktcmsdhnxdn2tmgaetcz9am5xcpxsnfkygerwfwy'>nevent1q…wfwy</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Sounds like you&#39;re all revved up with no place to go. 2025-07-05T09:12:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdq94uq69e00x7crc7qfhxxsfv5wp8xg088zjran6tu8vgeu9tmgqzyp2w3mxlyvawlaur72y5ad3eg0dcywxyg72kk8u9pgucns2m9y4k6u4c5dc I was planning on doing a back-up of the #Ceph cluster today in preparation of migrating it to a later release… but of course, I&#39;ve misplaced the PSU for my external 4TB back-up drive.<br/><br/>I noticed it was getting pretty tight on space too, and given it&#39;s now 5 years old, figured it was time for a new one. I&#39;ve got a 6TB one coming.<br/><br/>In the meantime, I had another crack at the Ericsson F5521GW 3G module in the Toughpad.<br/><br/>If I boot with init=/bin/bash on the kernel command line, then modprobe cdc-acm, I see 3 ACM devices appear, and I can use `screen` with them.<br/><br/>I managed to remove the old PIN code on the SIM card I have in there but couldn&#39;t get the GPS going, most I got out of it was a &#34;Operation not allowed&#34; error.<br/><br/>Doing this in early init seems to be enough to convince the module to stay enumerated. Something though, tells it to go bugger off early in the boot sequence unless I talk to it first.<br/><br/>A bit of a nuisance to be honest… but I&#39;m somewhat closer.<br/><br/>#ToughPad #EricssonF5521gw 2025-06-20T11:05:33Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrwpcqmptvhzy365l86shn2vjdup7d0vga0e3zynnwxauj0n0gxtqzyp2w3mxlyvawlaur72y5ad3eg0dcywxyg72kk8u9pgucns2m9y4k6xzv9lr Yeah, AEC, that&#39;s not how you sort numbers… #AusPol<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.longlandclan.id.au/system/media_attachments/files/114/443/766/294/484/384/original/c240dec7081b2f06.png"> <br/> 2025-05-03T11:56:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0e7esn2lmr4eeuspjxp5mht859ycqd03h07u92e498qkuk3lj2xczyp2w3mxlyvawlaur72y5ad3eg0dcywxyg72kk8u9pgucns2m9y4k6kakhau In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0m80r65y652yvvt9xkess0mgtz47er8evfpy9sc320q52q6596cgjagyhf'>nevent1q…gyhf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I made one final purchase from Amazon as there was a product I literally could not get anywhere else. (Or it was &#34;available&#34; but the shipping was horrendous.)<br/><br/>Really, the EU/UK need to work on alternatives to these marketplaces. I don&#39;t think we should outsource this to China as they are equally as authoritarian as the US is becoming.<br/><br/>- Browsers: I think both major engines have significant US-based development, Is there a viable alternative to Webkit/Blink and Gecko? Servo is promising but not ready yet. Dillo&#39;s too primitive. (At least they&#39;re both open-source.)<br/>- Operating Systems: We can avoid commercial US operating systems (Apple MacOS X / iOS, Microsoft Windows, Oracle Solaris), in their place use open-source ones with international contributors (various Linux distributions and BSD flavours)<br/>- Cloud hosting: Avoid Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Engine, Microsoft Azure, Vultr for cloud hosting, consider smaller local players instead (e.g. BinaryLane in Australia)<br/>- Email providers: Avoid Gmail, either host yourself or consider local and non-US players. <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1n8zf75psg7x0k5dm30fztnysxwh89h0ktnz6lpv7nfz6w0t0jvhswyjgru" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Fastmail</span> (<span class="italic">npub1n8z…jgru</span>)</a></span> and <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1tk7jypnfgd60sraumszl3ptaqytlumxk2p2nkpl67n9m6y5guhns320m5c" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Tuta</span> (<span class="italic">npub1tk7…0m5c</span>)</a></span> could be worth looking at.<br/>- Travel: go local, most people don&#39;t explore their own back yards. 2025-04-02T21:18:46Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsq529smcf6eavq7557rjxshtr0a9338sdx0xxd5xek0kvkpnlvw0czyp2w3mxlyvawlaur72y5ad3eg0dcywxyg72kk8u9pgucns2m9y4k62f7s9c I see the insects of The Gap decided to put the ANT into ANTenna… talk about upping the ante… time for some AM I guess… ant modulation.<br/><br/>#CycloneAlfred #AmateurRadio<br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://mastodon.longlandclan.id.au/system/media_attachments/files/114/169/548/822/132/283/original/ca89a48a1e17c32b.mp4"></video><br/> 2025-03-16T01:40:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqst2gr30pqrv6sj6prdja0d94329ks7ug0p80fnxxpstal9kuf267qzyp2w3mxlyvawlaur72y5ad3eg0dcywxyg72kk8u9pgucns2m9y4k6ulk7cs <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-05/meta-blocked-facebook-searches-cyclone-alfred/105013014">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-05/meta-blocked-facebook-searches-cyclone-alfred/105013014</a><br/><br/>This is why we can no longer rely on centralised social media. #Meta #CycloneAlfred 2025-03-05T10:30:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdvl204fc899w9h7t8yf4xvw8kvuamc886cwkv0mdqq5rr7kvw5xgzyp2w3mxlyvawlaur72y5ad3eg0dcywxyg72kk8u9pgucns2m9y4k66sx3sz Pet peeve… when you&#39;re looking at something on a web page, you&#39;re about to click/tap on a UI element… just as your finger hits the sensor… the element moves because some DOM element has been inserted or changed size above the UI element.<br/><br/>Consequence, you instead hit the UI element that has just been moved *under* the cursor (or your finger) now receives the click event. 2025-03-02T21:04:29Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqhm9lfcd5vcgpy3qsaeac3dnqaf32tudl3944j7ch9q7tz2ezf0czyp2w3mxlyvawlaur72y5ad3eg0dcywxyg72kk8u9pgucns2m9y4k67r55hu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsr8ywlh2w5a4zw9tjascwkeq59nqek56593ghuhh2ng74cnp670vgczv8r0'>nevent1q…v8r0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Well, BlueSky certainly is a good half-way point if they add @ap.brid.gy to their followers… doing that they become visible here too.<br/><br/><a href="https://fed.brid.gy/">https://fed.brid.gy/</a><br/><br/>We should encourage the federal government to set up an instance actually. If they&#39;re worried about electoral interference, running an ActivityPub server of some kind for all the government people would be a good way to side-step that. 2025-02-26T09:30:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstrd7ny7zwajjhztscwhjk5lgfewaurtxaeclfu3s2nskhurl6dtgzyp2w3mxlyvawlaur72y5ad3eg0dcywxyg72kk8u9pgucns2m9y4k6z0l355 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9f9z9q8tqrpx7gptga8q7xccxc4uql87ve9xhnnmyczsy5ggkupgzr7f3j'>nevent1q…7f3j</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>We do not need to co-operate with the facist regime that is the Trump government.<br/><br/>We need to throw sand in the gears of facism. We do not stop on the 11th of November every year just to wave the nazis through on parade. 2025-02-03T00:30:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsq0jmxe0cle7se87t602hxr8gug750k0juepy9px3h50prz9yfmxqzyp2w3mxlyvawlaur72y5ad3eg0dcywxyg72kk8u9pgucns2m9y4k6r42650 I know this was written nearly 21 years ago… and at the time it was referencing the #SCO vs #Linux case… but I can&#39;t help but see the parallels between that, and #AI scraping our shitposts for profit…<br/><br/><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2004/03/09/bofh_protecting_bodily_waste/">https://www.theregister.com/2004/03/09/bofh_protecting_bodily_waste/</a> 2025-01-16T02:25:52Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstzez0mjuevw3ap9a33mthp3f39ga008htzdcn9wxcu0uf4axlxpszyp2w3mxlyvawlaur72y5ad3eg0dcywxyg72kk8u9pgucns2m9y4k6kzn4js In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvweu0nxfujmyj3qmct0gt9e878mx4ddszv8guzla8v7q9lzjxfvcyrmrae'>nevent1q…mrae</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Does it bug you? 2025-01-15T22:08:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy27mr2y7f8h2p9jfmjmx0r09lg3ejgsz8zmwxt9lynqxxj32qchgzyp2w3mxlyvawlaur72y5ad3eg0dcywxyg72kk8u9pgucns2m9y4k6tclqru In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2frcn9x099af07m30f2xgn2g7m9529psyvc3g0tyyrygd6w2jh5gw2nvsq'>nevent1q…nvsq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>… and I just realised 2048 is a power of two…<br/><br/>```<br/>stuartl@rikishi ~ $ echo $(( 2 ** 11 ))<br/>2048<br/>``` 2024-12-02T22:12:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2frcn9x099af07m30f2xgn2g7m9529psyvc3g0tyyrygd6w2jh5gzyp2w3mxlyvawlaur72y5ad3eg0dcywxyg72kk8u9pgucns2m9y4k6jjag9w In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8l4xfnu49y82vvf42ye00k9zqw5nx4xpe0qaevne4vca37a7rqpqsf3r6s'>nevent1q…3r6s</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Apparently we&#39;ll see this again in 2031. A year before the Brisbane Olympics.<br/><br/>Now, 2020 and 2024 are both examples of this happening _on a leap year_. The next leap year that begins with WTF will be 2048.<br/><br/>The last leap year _before_ 2020 which began with WTF was 1992. 2024-12-02T22:10:22Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs82js5jdf5tpm0e4fnm6s8q2mdm06r0m8g428jjwhvf9w8k8xyklszyp2w3mxlyvawlaur72y5ad3eg0dcywxyg72kk8u9pgucns2m9y4k6nvm2gz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgjdye2pztcmlvh93cztvg9s8pfn6hctlp2zq6lzmxt8ecpqy2t3cxgp3xr'>nevent1q…p3xr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Actually, if you have a smart television or digital video recorder… I&#39;d almost put money on it being a Linux machine beneath the covers.<br/><br/>If you have a home Internet router, the vast majority of those are Linux based. Some did experiment with other OSes like VxWorks back in the day, but those experiments died out.<br/><br/>If you&#39;re using Android anywhere, that&#39;s the Linux kernel running the show. Very different user-space stack, but still Linux at the core.<br/><br/>It hides in a lot of places you may not even realise.<br/><br/>Largely because it&#39;s a blob of code that people have already spent the effort in writing, that can light up a large amount of hardware including embedded devices, and with a licensing cost which many can stomach.<br/><br/>To make an OS that runs even a basic home router would be prohibitively expensive in terms of software developer time. It&#39;s cheaper to just accept the license of whatever&#39;s &#34;on the shelf&#34; and build on that. 2024-12-02T07:03:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp767sz5lyljz5t0lf7jrtegn38f7ulpxhtzq65wnmmpc6g7xwacszyp2w3mxlyvawlaur72y5ad3eg0dcywxyg72kk8u9pgucns2m9y4k67cra5m In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgwaytdehew4lev3eklzh6xlwg80nu3u37gnk263yju50ejz65x5qjr2w28'>nevent1q…2w28</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I utterly hate RP-SMA.<br/><br/>Not to mention having to explain the difference to non-RF people.<br/><br/>&#34;No, that thing is not a &#39;spacer&#39;, that&#39;s an adaptor because if you look, the antenna you just screwed on there has no centre pin and nor does the shaft you screwed it on to.&#34;<br/><br/>Maybe you get lucky and the two &#34;sockets&#34; press against each-other, but more likely you&#39;ll leave a 1mm or so gap… that&#39;s not a connection, that&#39;s a capacitor! 2024-11-24T01:37:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz6zx7c6m37xzm2v2xt6a9egg642ygm5nejnl8p9765dduyg5da3gzyp2w3mxlyvawlaur72y5ad3eg0dcywxyg72kk8u9pgucns2m9y4k6nc9yrt In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswngwaa865v46g7x287sf5c8h0svw877csrx993eh2fvt40v4ukrctpv9nt'>nevent1q…v9nt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Not quite sure… I think momostr.pink might be a nostr relay? Don&#39;t know a lot about that system.<br/><br/>Looks like aus.social has not federated with that instance, so those replies aren&#39;t visible to you.<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.longlandclan.id.au/system/media_attachments/files/113/066/369/433/124/131/original/bab79517ede38dda.png"> <br/> 2024-09-02T05:47:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf559edt0rpp8rhyhaam7m67z2hf9r5m6ny30tsl3c4my8a4qxemgzyp2w3mxlyvawlaur72y5ad3eg0dcywxyg72kk8u9pgucns2m9y4k6hgzlpj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg2m7vfgd06elu0uw8fvfj5vwmtuea98mkvrrn6uetr6hme62g45gtdhawq'>nevent1q…hawq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Don&#39;t tempt me 🙂 <br/><br/>(actually, my *own* laptop that I bring to work, *does* run Gentoo.) 2024-09-02T03:33:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvxnwkrlyk88gapj3vy60atg67q06a7qpd8eq65ezrf7vtvq7d4pqzyp2w3mxlyvawlaur72y5ad3eg0dcywxyg72kk8u9pgucns2m9y4k6cfphs8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2jwwjesd3fjj2tjjy2n7lwz37nlmfjny8cmq2a399vvr8xc5s9uc7mrcf7'>nevent1q…rcf7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>To be honest, Ubuntu&#39;s standards have slipped here… it used to be a lot less of a struggle.<br/><br/>At least I was able to debug the hot mess I got into… if this had been Windows I&#39;d be doing a full re-install now. 2024-09-02T03:31:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp9rx0njwhuk4y9mdzllv2ut33ccd09ccnv9f9szalktf9lj5qy0szyp2w3mxlyvawlaur72y5ad3eg0dcywxyg72kk8u9pgucns2m9y4k6wpntdr So, today I thought… why not run `do-release-upgrade` on the work laptop? It was running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (no Windows install).<br/><br/>The machine is a HP Elitebook 640. A few quirks, but mostly seems to work fine.<br/><br/>- do-release-upgrade first refused because I had pinned Terraform to the last release under the old license (we&#39;re leery of the new license and aren&#39;t ready to jump to OpenTofu yet)… fine, comment out Hashicorp repo…<br/>- then the PPAs and third party repos were causing issues… fine, rename the `.list` files to `.off`…<br/>- eventually it installs, but then barfs right at the end<br/>- I reboot, and `libnettle` is broken, taking /usr/lib/apt/methods/http with it<br/>- Manually download libnettle .deb on another machine, `scp` it across, `dpkg -i` and I could finish up what `do-release-upgrade` had failed on (`apt-get dist-upgrade -y` mostly)<br/>- reboot again, this time things are a lot happier<br/>- run `apt-get autoremove` to clear out the old junk<br/>- update and re-instate my old third-party repos, substituting `jammy` with `noble`<br/>- `apt-get dist-upgrade -y` again<br/>- boot out the `snap` packages for Firefox, Chromium and Thunderbird which crept in unwanted.<br/><br/>3 hours later, I have my workstation back.<br/><br/>#Ubuntu 2024-09-02T03:11:52Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgdlyc54y8tq6dmyacr0cmq3ledrh2crjeskp3t9ytrw5qxczhrmgzyp2w3mxlyvawlaur72y5ad3eg0dcywxyg72kk8u9pgucns2m9y4k6zdt8z2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv72cw4fv0a8ztp4xp46y6y6gymevfflxumrzajkkjxmx8250f90g5mg657'>nevent1q…g657</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Are those both strings?<br/><br/>Not a C# expert by a long shot, but `x = y = value` is a pretty common way of setting x and y to the same value…<br/><br/>C# isn&#39;t a dynamically typed language, but it may support operator overloading… so maybe adding -1 to an empty string is some ham-fisted way to set both strings to &#34;-1&#34;? 2024-08-31T07:50:58Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvlp52ykrxgzn4a9c6np6lldmkj6ulcgcks52g57pfj6h7yjedgqszyp2w3mxlyvawlaur72y5ad3eg0dcywxyg72kk8u9pgucns2m9y4k6alsu2d In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw4eudnp5jtjq5kenp6pu8hdhwlv93wjnf2ppdgnk3ffgsslf6xxs5vsrh3'>nevent1q…srh3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Question is, who next would go on that list?<br/><br/>The Beatles? (Revolution)<br/>T. Rex / Marc Bolan&#39;s estate? (Children of the Revolution)<br/>Rose Tattoo (We Can&#39;t Be Beaten)<br/>Little River Band / John Farnham (Playing To Win)<br/>Hot Chocolate (Everyone&#39;s a winner, So you win again)<br/>Bee Gees (You Win Again)<br/><br/>Probably lots of other hits that concern these themes too.<br/><br/>I wonder if there was a way to make those artists aware and maybe get them to take preemptive action. 2024-08-30T05:57:35Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsv80yrvhsl6mut2s07df5q4nk4uf5xpqn69euwjqrxcnaanznutugzyp2w3mxlyvawlaur72y5ad3eg0dcywxyg72kk8u9pgucns2m9y4k6cf6tpf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswr9u8925j5gjg8lz4ltcs78g9x6vnyl3ft4j73yf5wp2gdl8akkg9esm0v'>nevent1q…sm0v</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Let him… when he realises the airline industry decides it&#39;s too legally risky to fly an aircraft in US airspace, they&#39;ll soon get sick of having to drive to Canada or Mexico to get a flight off the North American continent. 2024-08-27T06:17:37Z