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https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/03/texas-data-center-pr... "Abbott is asking the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to ensure dat…

Not trying to be rude or mean here but it should be, "a YouTuber" since YouTuber starts with a consonant sound.

Java CRUD devs have been getting into Linux a lot more in recent years since learning more about how DevOps does their work is important and integrated in with our projects, like t…

The high contrast dark theme made my eyes squint and I started getting a headache within 60 seconds of trying to read the page. The war on light themes needs to end.

They state that here and it's been stated there in the several years I've run Always Free VM's there: https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier... Some people sa…

Agreed, the article you linked is a great example of clear, understandable, detailed technical writing.

> At glance this looks reasonable but how do you enforce that kids connection always goes through the parents control? YouTube doesn't, the parent does. > no anonymous connections …

Agreed, I've done the same. Unfortunately Linux sometimes isn't a solution if the vendors we trust cross a line. Like recently when Google Chrome started adding its own local 4GB A…

I just checked my email server's IP and it is still listed at https://substrate.office.com/ip-domain-management-snds/SNDS/... And I can Remove or Renew Access, or those links are s…

I use postfix and the recipient_access file to control email to my domains which use little email, so the domains are able to process standard email: admin@example.com OK postmaste…

My domain is very low traffic but, I just looked through my admin email account and opendmarc has rejected 18 attempts by spammers just this past week. More were rejected by my dom…

git reflog can only help if the reflog history hasn't expired and been removed by a maintenance run.

We (wife and I) just received emails from Gmail stating effective 45 days from now, "all data included in your Android device backups will begin counting toward your Google Account…

Same, also bought an LG TV to replace our aging 2 decade old TV. Nothing says you have to run the TV's setup. Use an external device for streaming, preferably running Linux and you…

We have a smart TV on the way. We do not plan to run the setup, it won't have Internet access. We plan to do what we've done for over a decade now, connect our Kubuntu laptop in th…

That's what my wife and I sleep for, 7 hours. 8 and we wake up with a headache.

Retired software developer and my wife suggested the same and it worked. As a veteran I also believe it mostly fixed my sleep apnea episodes that I never sought formal diagnosis fo…

If AI is generating better code than you can, that does say a lot. I've tried various AI's available and outside of being a better Google or a fast reference for Stack Overflow; LL…

> So we should treat it the same way we treat high school which is taxpayer funded to ensure as many people as possible get one There are no college graduates I've interviewed in t…

> The purpose of a college degree is NOT a job I agree, I think the purpose of college is supposed to teach students how to learn and the importance of commitment to lifelong self-…

> Self study can only go so far I retired last year after a career as a software engineer for several decades, 99.99% self-taught. I'm not unique. I've known many others who did th…