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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Oof, that sounds rough. Are these the kids got hit hardest by the pandemic lockdowns? If so, maybe there's a glimmer of hope that this is an aberration and next year will be a bit more 'normal ', if you can get through this year with your sanity intact. It's got to be rough on the kids too, the ones who aren't causing trouble must still be struggling to deal with itm and the ones who are just sound desperate.

I enjoy teaching, or at least, transferring knowledge and experience, I'll do it to pretty much anyone who sits still long enough, and I've been told I'm good at it, but you couldn't pay me enough to teach a classroom full of kids all day, so you have my respect for that.

Good luck, and I hope things get better for the kids and teachers everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I enjoy reading dead tree books as much as anyone, and whilest the publisher/distributor can't take it away, there are plenty of ways you can lose access to them. Fire and flood being the two obvious ones, whereas digital books can be backed up offsite. It's also easier to carry many books when they're digital compared to physical.

For books I care about I try to get both a physical and a (drm free) digital copy for the best of both world.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You can also bake an entire lemon, peel, pith and all and it comes out sweet and tender. Wrap it tightly in foil so none of the juice escapes then bake until the whole thing is soft. It cooks well on the side of a BBQ too. Goes well with ice-cream.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He just wants to be wanted by somebody. He was wanted for stealing a vehicle, so logically he stole another one so they would want him even more.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

You tried to bite the cable, and the cable bit back?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Then I guess I'm one of today's luck 10k, it's the first time I've seen it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Do you swing them to and fro?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

You really can't beat Lidl when your shopping list is something like:

  • Bread
  • Cheese
  • Milk
  • Eggs
  • Kayak
  • Plasma cutter

The staff all seem pretty relaxed too, the cashiers have seats and chat to pretty much everyone, but especially the older regulars. I know they squeeze their supply chain hard, but from the customer perspective it's a pretty good experience.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Tsk, everyone knows you shouldn't use magnets to hold floppy disks. Just staple them into your lever arch file.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

It depends what you want to do with it. If it's just for storing files/backups then encrypt them before uploading and make sure the key never goes anywhere near the VPS. If it's for serving up something like a simple website, you probably care more about data integrity than exfiltration, so make sure you have the security, including selinux or equivalent, locked down, and regularly run integrity checks. If it's for running something interactive, or where data will be generated or downloaded to the machine, you're out of luck, there's no even theoretical way of securing that against an adversary with that much access.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe it's just a different viewpoint, but I find the sarcasm of that headline vastly more damning than just saying 'Trump lies again'. It basically saying that his brain is so fried that he's unable or unwilling to engage with the reality the rest of us experience.

 

I've noticed that recently comnents on posts no longer have the long colored bars next to them showing their depth into the reply chain. Was this deliberately changed, and is there a way to bring it back?

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