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legooolas

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    Comment #45981204

    I've not found this at all -- PXE "just works" on legacy boot or UEFI for me. I've used it for years to install hosts via Foreman ( https://theforeman.org/ ), as well as for person…

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    Comment #45981178

    You can also do things like boot with PXE (Legacy or UEFI PXE boot) to get a small image like iPXE, and then have iPXE do the http boot part. This means that you have an extra shim…

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    Comment #27378945

    I've had the same experience of looking up and finding an old answer from someone I knew, but one that I made _myself_ for the exact same problem I've just hit again years later...…

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    Comment #25372820

    Oracle Linux already builds from RHEL sources, so that could be an option. Edit: There's also Rocky Linux already : https://news.itsfoss.com/rocky-linux-announcement/

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    Comment #22746822

    Isn't that the point of such fixes? (And also why a lot of people thought that the Y2k but was over-hyped, when there was a lot of background work which fixed the problems so few p…

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    Comment #22663243

    "Better than Lotus Notes" is not a high bar.

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    Comment #22308443

    > I personally hate working from home, and will only do it if there are reasons I can't work somewhere else, such as needing to be home for a plumber or being sick. Why are you wor…

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    Comment #22168996

    > ...like an android phone. You might get OS updates or not but mostly whatever OS version it starts with will stay on it for life. Not all Android phones are like that -- what are…

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    Comment #22168963

    Be extremely careful if soldering Lithium-Ion batteries together, as getting them too hot (which isn't very hot compared to soldering!) can easily cause them to burst into flames o…

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    Comment #20886104

    > It's sad if different trusts have such varied support. Different trusts in the NHS have wildly differing support, policies, physio, mobile apps, leaflets and documentation, etc e…

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    Comment #20886051

    Or turn it off at the socket so it's not even on standby, using (a small amount of) power all the time?

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    Comment #20767832

    > Every new parent seems to report that they basically don't sleep for a year or two I'm a new parent, and I'm pleased to say that our 5-week-old is sleeping really, really well. I…

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    Comment #20212633

    But burning a lot of natural gas instead. Still fossil fuel! Current national grid status meters/graphs: http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/ CCGT == "Combined cycle gas turbine"

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    Comment #20181971

    > I wish they had an option to show open tabs list in a docked on the side. Vertical tabs extensions exist on Firefox, and are one of the major reasons I have stuck with Firefox fo…

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    Comment #20001187

    > e.g. Labor party imposing a death tax. This was advertised on Australian radio before the elections by other parties too, so it's not exclusive to Facebook. (Source : Started lis…

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    Comment #19939395

    I do something similar (ripping to FLAC, putting on a tiny fileserver, except mine is an Antec ISK-300 with a single 6TB disk and external backups), and then use Logitech Media Ser…

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    Comment #19917454

    Most places (especially where they have enough money to be buying Cisco Nexus 9k kit) will want some sort of change management, not the vendor to be making arbitrary changes to the…

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    Comment #19858409

    On Android recently I've been more tempted to just use "termux" and to run emacs and org-mode locally, using git to sync files back-and-forth. The main pain there is going to be th…

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    Comment #19858391

    If it's those sort of numbers then that would be fine - in everything I've read about this (which isn't a great deal) it's been very unclear as to how often such pulling back of po…

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    Comment #19858359

    Would be interesting to know if those tapes have Teletext info which can also be recovered, as well as the news video: https://github.com/ali1234/vhs-teletext/ (Not sure whether th…

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    Comment #19858317

    Goodreads requires all books/shelves are publically-visible, which you may not want.

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    Comment #19795622

    Disadvantage to the end user of the car: Cycling the batteries more to do this will shorten their useful life.

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    Comment #19643996

    Just grabbing it to elsewhere and searching there would be trivial, so I'd expect not.

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    Comment #19026080

    I use something similar but offlineimap/notmuch/emacs, and it's the happiest I've been with email too. I previously used elm, mutt, sup, and probably a few other clients, but none …

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    Comment #17714379

    The libraries you use with SBCL are likely to be source rather than binary, unless you mean via FFI to (likely) C libraries. Quicklisp[1] has made a massive difference to how easy …