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It looks like systemd-nspawn is gaining rootless support, see https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/30239 Until then, I'm not sure if there is anything lightweight. If you don'…

The article describes middle games as "'middle game' should only take 1 to 9 months to create and can be profitable (or at least not a money sink) because it is expected to earn in…

I don't know if it'd really be hard (you could list them, or have various limits on users or total revenue among all related companies). You could broadly include all subsidiaries,…

Some unarchivers (especially ones which aren't Unix natives, like say rar) seem to love to do it. They're just buggy, of course. Beyond that, before the mid-2000s, it was common to…

Because then you have to transport the wood to the site, transport the ash (etc.) off the site, and build something useful to do with the produced energy. Most of that would be tru…

Here you probably want fanotify, not inotify. The later would require setting up a lot of inotify entries, recursing through the filesystem. https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/f…

It's easy enough to confirm. You can go to weather.gov and get current conditions anywhere in the US. https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?textField1=40.02&t... Currently 14% …

A lot of email clients support multiple email accounts, or at least sending addresses. Not just desktop ones like Thunderbird, but web ones like Gmail too. You can additionally set…

I think airplane mode is intended to comply with the rules for using the device on an airplane. That used to be no radios whatsoever (and device turned off during takeoff and landi…

For high school, the youngest of which are 14, probably closer to 15? That really doesn't seem like a requirement. Well, except when they have to get out the door before 6:15am...

Unfortunately, high beams also risk blinding oncoming traffic, potentially causing a collision. In addition, I wonder if the blinking would be distracting, calling attention away f…

If you make the horns quiet enough for the nearby pedestrians, they'll be too quiet for other drivers to hear (since they're further away and the car is blocking a lot of the sound…

A lot of these things do exist. Desktop/server Linux systems (used to at least) save some output from the PRNG to disk on shutdown and load it back on boot. But of course snapshots…

Thankfully, there is no need to speculate on what the trend might be, you can just look it up. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MTSDS133FMS That's one convenient way to get this …

Errr, we're off to a good start! > "The population under 16 (not working) and population over 65 (more likely to be retired) are roughly equivalent right now, which means our workf…

A quick warning: be wary of that computation because of how it's likely made, and it's worse than higher the vaccination rate gets. The sources section says: > Sources: California …

The amounts are in US dollars, so any local hyperinflation won't matter. Your local currency will be worth far fewer dollars. I didn't see if it says how to convert, as there are o…

If you look for canning / pickling salt, that should be free of both iodine and anti-caking agents.

The mail command has been around for a while, and was intended mainly for human use, not scripts. For example, just run mail alone with no arguments. It'll display the messages in …

For extra fun, there are (or at least were) multiple implementations of the mail command. The arguments were similar enough, but an old (and replaced) system at a previous employer…

Dehumidifiers are ACs, just with the condenser indoors and exhausting heat back into the cooled air stream (so heating the room overall). A particular dehumidifier can (of course) …

A couple spring to mind * most every fire department * many public school systems * as far as federal agencies, transportation, NASA, NSF, Medicare, to varying extents.

For it being essentially impossible, its sure been done a lot: Netflix, MindGeek (NSFW), and Amazon definitely have at least as large video streaming (especially with Amazon now ow…

When a database is just functioning as your (relatively monolithic) application's data store, validation on the app side works well. The app is the primary—maybe only—product. But …

Which means you burn more calories, so eat more food, which has to be grown — and farming uses fuel too (and transporting, storing, & selling that food, and cooking it, and...) Cal…