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Let me at 'em!! in c/science_memes@mander.xyz

[–] allywilson@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean, this happened once: https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/meet-oklo-the-earths-two-billion-year-old-only-known-natural-nuclear-reactor

Platypuses in c/science_memes@mander.xyz

[–] allywilson@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

So it seems: https://www.livescience.com/41661-why-platypus-wont-regain-stomach.html

RustDesk: I Found This Open-Source TeamViewer Alternative Impressive! in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] allywilson@lemmy.ml 27 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Wasn't there some controversy about this that it wasn't entirely open-source?

Tennis Court Density of Europe in c/yurop@lemm.ee

[–] allywilson@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

South England has a lot of tennis courts for the population

Is it? Isn't it the most densely populated area in Europe?

What is the most duct-tape thing you've done to Linux? in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] allywilson@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

I had to upgrade some OL6 VMs to OL7 VMs running Oracle DBs and Apps (on OVMM no less). There was no appetite for buying additional storage, or restoring the environments with RMAN. Luckily, everything had been installed under /u01 which was on its own virtual disk.

So I built a new VM as OL7 (same hostname, etc.), installed the pre-req RPMs for Oracle DB, disconnected the virtual disk from the OL6 and attached it to the new OL7, synced users and home dirs - and it only bloody worked.

Asahi Cinnamon in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] allywilson@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

I don't want to be a pain, but it's not "basically Mint running on an M1 iMac." it's Asahi/Fedora running Cinnamon. Also, you've connected an external monitor for an M1 iMac? Do you mean it's an M1 Macbook instead?

this isn't about you in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[–] allywilson@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 months ago (14 children)

I'm out of the loop. What's going on?

GitLab is reportedly up for sale in c/programming@programming.dev

[–] allywilson@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I mean, I get it, but that's also not a thing of git, right? Just because GitHub does something doesn't mean every other hosting provider needs to. If your code review process is to comment upon specific commits, maybe it's the code review process that's wrong?

Today I'm grateful I'm using Linux - Global IT issues caused by Crowdstrike update causes BSOD on Windows in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] allywilson@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Feel you there. 4 hours here. All of them cloud instances whereby getting acces to the actual console isn't as easy as it should be, and trying to hit F8 to get the menu to get into safe mode can take a very long time.

Firefox search box jumps focus to address bar in c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

[–] allywilson@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 months ago

That's...Awesome! Thank you!

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Firefox search box jumps focus to address bar (imgur.com)

submitted 2 months ago by allywilson@lemmy.ml to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

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Firefox new tab has a box in the middle of the page for you to click in and enter text to search in your default search engine - and it immediately starts typing in the URL bar. IF I WANTED TO USE THE URL BAR I WOULD CLICK THERE.

Throws me off every time.

The Death of Decentralized Email in c/opensource@lemmy.ml

[–] allywilson@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

Same, seen the AI generation and was out.

Andrew just wants to open his files on Windows 10 in c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

[–] allywilson@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Sandboxed typically restricts a program from being able to read/write to various areas (think an app isn't allowed to use the network, or access USB devices, or it's only allowed access to a certain directory in the filesystem).

Containerised is a way of virtualising an app/apps so that they can be easily distributed to run once or thousands. They can and are also sandboxed to different degrees.