Their green lineup is fine. But as someone who used to go through multiple drill batteries every day at work, I’ve learned to appreciate the 18V stuff. So when I needed to replace my cheap drill at home, it was a simple choice. And I later bought a circular saw, and it’s nice to have interchangeable batteries and only one charger: All of my tools have their own battery, and I always have one extra in the charger that is good to go when needed.

And bosch

Not at all in itself. But the blue bosch (professional grade, as opposed to the consumer grade green) is generally pretty high quality, so I stick with that lineup for tools that I need beyond the stage where any cheap brand will do.

I was about to indulge in pedantry on the basis that some of the languages mentioned are from countries that aren’t EU members. But TIL that the EU flag was originally the European flag (which was later adopted by the EU), so I’ll allow it.

Spring. No more shoveling snow, and before summer makes it too hot. And it doesn’t come with the sideways rain if autumn.

Do they also shave off dead skin? I could use some of that.

The Offspring - She’s Got Issues

That song is embedded in my mind with the associated memory of Americana having released not long before, and we were playing Waveracer on N64 with a friend who has since passed.

No, just one. You set up one device/server as a VPN gateway (often called VPN concentrator), and you will have access to anything the concentrator has access to on your home network.

Either you use your VPN concentrator as your jump box, or you set up routing and firewalls to be able to access them directly.

I have no experience with OMV specifically, but generally making things accessible from outside your house means exposing it ti the internet.

However, what you can do is to only expose an openvpn port, so that to gain access as if you were at home you could connect via o0envpn first.

rsync if it’s a from/to I don’t need very often

More common transfer locations are done via NFS

Irish cranberries are also a thing. They were pretty popular in the 90’s.

I like it. It involves a varied combination of servers, network, robotics, travel, and ships.

I wouldn’t consider myself an audiophile, but I lean more in that direction than the average. I’ve had the pleasure of working in a sound studio, and as such I learned to appreciate the quality that comes with the gear.

In general, professional hardware is miles beyond consumer hardware. And enthusiast hardware is more akin to consumer hardware with extra fluff.

Nah. I live in the middle of nowhere, so it’d just be an annoyance with no benefit.

I haven’t locked my front door or car in years.

I was never into furry stuff, but I hung out with an online furry community way back in 2006. Furries are cool. Furryism is just not for me.

“Just be yourself” without clarification.

There’s something to it, but too often it is interpreted as “no need for introspection or improvement”

IT related to ships and geophysical surveys.

For larger projects, as long as the heavy duty work is out of the way, grabbing a beer or two with the meal is pretty common.

Related story:
We were mobilizing for a project, and I had a real headscratcher of a problem. Work day was over, and we all headed back to the hotel for the evening. We all met at dinner, and I called it “a night” early as I excused myself after a few beers to head back ip to my room.

Project manager, who knew of the issues I was having with the system said something along the lines of the issues being serious when it caused me to be the first to leave the bar. “Nah, I’m gonna VPN in and try something I just thought of”

Yup, turns out it was abgood idea: Misconfigured soanning tree was the root cause, and the fix took 5 minutes. It was fun rejoining the others and Announce that the system would be ready the next day after some cleanup, and all that was missing was a few beers. The Ballmer Peak is real.

My job is pretty chill, so I only have a todo.txt on my desktop

Servers: it doesn’t have to be built for the purpose. In a pinch, any PC will do.

Chess: Fried liver attack doesn’t work above 700 ELO and is easily countered with a possibility for a smothered mate.

Guitar: Playing 5 minutes every day is better than playing an hour once a week.

42069 was never funny and never will be for those of us aged 16 or older.