What is the reason you bother with powder? I just lather some bar soap onto my noggin. Never thought of powdering my soap.

You misspelled KeepAss.

My email provider shut down, so I had to migrate off of it. Every account I had allowed changing emails, although I had to contact customer support about some.

I tried to run some software on my router. It kind of works, if it fits. Storage was the limiting factor. There’s an option to expand the FS to include a USB stick, but somehow it made something overheat, and the router froze every now and then.

The question on my mind is - was that a Tesla?

Amanita virosa. You die in horrible pain.

I love my walks (2× 30 minutes a day, usually). So does my perambulated pooch.

I’m using EFISTUB instead of a boot loader (on the PC running Arch, anyway) and Windows hasn’t figured out how to break that, yet.

Somehow it hasn’t figured out how to ruin my systemd-boot bootloader on EFI, (NixOS, this time) either. Perhaps it just has better support for EFI than BIOS?

When they got home, they were so hungry that they actually consented to eating soup!

By the way, it’s totally possible to ride on level ice, if careful, but some trails have this compacted ridge in the middle which makes them convex.

A bit late to the party, but I took my kids out for a bicycle ride (into the nearest bog, so we walked part of the way). The bits where the ground was still covered with ice were the most fun.

Play video games - Cataclysm:DDA or Dwarf Fortress (tho I stayed on the pre-Steam version as it’s lighter on the CPU).

Learn a new programming language at https://exercism.org

Read a book - tons of free ones around the interwebs, legally or not, as you desire.

Install a new operating system. Try Haiku or OpenBSD. See if your phone is compatible with PostmarketOS. If not, Termux + SSH + port forwarding in your WiFi box, set up a webserver and publish something. Host a Gemini pod.

Learn a craft. Repair something that another person would toss. Start a sourdough culture - it takes a week to mature (read up on how to do this right), then bake a bread. Homemade bread is approx 16× tastier than run-of-the-mill commercial stuff.

Take a walk somewhere you haven’t walked before. Find the nearest forest lake and arrange a picnic. Take someone with you on the 2nd trip.

In general, I support your stance. The devil is in the details, though, so to speak. You can only get so much evidece first-hand, and need to believe others about the rest. How do you distinguish fraudsters from honest bet mistaken people from people knowing the truth?

Fundamental logic skills also imply that atheism is a belief “God doesn’t exist!”

As an upgrade, try agnosticism: “Do we have good evidence that God exists?” So far, the only argument in favor of atheism I know of is the Occam’s Razor (those manifestations of God could also be explained in other, possibly simpler ways).

I’m running my email server on a POCO F1 ex-Android phone (running PostmarketOS now).

I wish I could get NixOS running on it, then I’d move other things also there.

I’m using VNC over an SSH tunnel. TigerVNC’s vncviewer even has the -via parameter you can use to make creating the tunnel seamless.

I can drive my manual and eat at the same time just fine, thankyouverymuch :) I think I once submitted a pull request while on the road…

Most of modern music sounds horrible. Elevators and shopping malls would be better off silent than blasting this noisome garbage.

There are exceptions - there totally are modern composers creating quality stuff. It’s just not played anywhere in public places, for some reason.

Not saying my practice is the best one, but here’s what I do:

• EFI system partition is mounted on /boot
  • kernel is held here. In case of distros like NixOS etc that keep around old kernels, a small ESP might run out of space. I make mine at least 1GB.
• the rest of the disk is one luks2 volume
• inside the encrypted volume, there’s a BTRFS volume
• there’s a subvolume for /home
• and a subvolume for every distro I have (which is usually 1, but sometimes I tinker or switch)
• Kernel command line parameters specify the btrfs subvol with the right distro to boot.
• for NixOS, you need a bootloader (to choose the right kernel). Systemd-boot works well, and its configuration is easily readable. I never figured out how to work with GRUB2, its configuration is just too confusing.
• or if you like Arch, dispense with bootloaders and just use EFISTUB. You can put kernel cmdline params into EFI bootloader options with efibootmgr.

Simple yet complete. Efficient, and extensible - for example, now that everything is a subvolume, I can easily snapshot it, then create backups with rsync off the snapshot, to avoid inconsistent state between backed-up files.

So it’ll take you 10 minutes, instead of 5, to download a DVD rip of a movie… This limitation would have next to no practical impact on being able to communicate with the free world.