Are there any art or maker groups in your area? If you can get to one (or more) of those, there are going to be people who will fall over themselves to talk to you if you just ask them about what they’ve made.

People love when someone shows an interest. You don’t need to know anything (or pretend to know anything) beforehand, and the same few questions/prompts can be reused: from a vague "tell me about [the thing you made], to “what was the hardest part?”, “how did you do this bit?”, “did you learn anything cool along the way?”, “what do you think you’ll make next?” So long as your interest is genuine and you actually listen to what they say, you can’t really mess things up.

And if you want to make anything yourself, regardless of your current abilities, such groups tend to be quite nurturing, where someone will show an interest in you too. Art in particular is an expressive pursuit that attracts lefty weirdos. The desire to connect with people is right there for you to be a part of.

After getting the lightning-strike timing wrong, Marty McFly has waited decades to finally prove that the “kids are going to love it”.

Their physiology is barely diverged so their intellects are likely to remain similar. Espionage is frequently the theme of Romulan encounters, which would help keep them up to date. And if they procreate more frequently than every seven years, they might have a much larger population even with greater murderousness, with more people being advantageous for tech development.

It’s a Klingon moon that’s doing just fine.

I remember having to pause the video after that second bit. The piled-on criticisms, so matter-of-factly delivered, needed some recovery time. Your assessment is spot on.

What I know mostly comes from the Folding Ideas video about him.

Anyone who would judge you for that isn’t worth pretending for. Look stupid. It’s fine.

It’s bad enough when student ‘conservatives’ play this “I am the master debater” game (with the most bad-faith approach, and without any understanding of real debate) but, when they’re in their thirties, it’s even more pathetic.

They forgot the far-left-wing academics in that line.

It’s a line of countries. Is this idiot saying we should get a homeland of our own? Who do we get to kick out of their homes?

It’s so generous of you to come to us. We can meet at 85 Albert Embankment, Vauxhall, London. Say you’ve got an appointment with “Richard”.

The output here lets us know that systemd is running the service file and starting the script just fine. The echoed GPU temperature is making it to the journal, but the gpuTemp variable isn’t being updated (staying at 0) because of a problem executing nvidia-settings. Specifically, it wants a display: “The control display is undefined”.

You could add a line to the service file:—

Environment = DISPLAY=:0

Although if echo DISPLAY in your terminal gives you a different value, use that. There’s a possibility that that will just push one error further down the line, but it’s something to try.

Alternatively/additionally, you could try changing the User= line to your own username to see if it picks up the environment your manual executions work with.

You aren’t the only one to run into problems trying to automate nvidia-settings. You might end up needing to track down an Xauthority file or use the display manager’s initialisation options.

If you had a book which had on its Contents page:

Chapter 1 . . . . . . . . . . page 1

and you crossed it out, then wrote:

Chapter 1 . . . . . . . . . . page 1

Chapter 2 . . . . . . . . . . page 50

someone looking for Chapter 1 is still going to find all the text in the right place (as long as it was less than 50 pages).

Changing the partitition table is like changing the Contents page; it doesn’t mess with the rest of the data. And if the new table points to the same place it did before, the data can still be found.

That said, if the filesystem still thinks it’s 1TB, you may end up with future problems unless you resize it to fit the reduced partition.

If it works when run manually, but fails via systemd, then you should post your service file.

Take a look at Engineering Mathematics by KA Stroud. It has a step-by-step approach with worked examples that might be useful to you. Even if you don’t like the structure, it’ll at least give you a comprehensive list of topics.

The colony leaders claim that those who disagree with their new system are either “too outmoded to comprehend the visionary” or “too visionary to accept what can reasonably be achieved today”.

Great! A colony of centrists.

there have been protests against their binary doctrines

With centrist matriarchs, there’s a reading here that they’re terfs.

Fuck it Im gonna subject my friends to the Its alive trilogy

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This is one of the ways that America is completely alien to me. I could cycle to the supermarket and get a variety 24-pack for the equivalent of $4.09. Buying through Amazon would cost far more.

Why are people buying mountains of food so large that they can’t consume them all before a particular date in the first place?

I’m not trying to make any kind of Zionism-related argument here. My question was more of an oblique way of saying that it’s setting off my :hitler-detector: without being accusational. Because the particular phrasing of the question is also reminiscent of the one regularly directed at anyone assumed to be an immigrant: “But where are you really from?”

This occupying line of thinking also heads off in the direction of “No reparations; that was centuries ago”, “Australia is a white country now”, and even “it’s been Israel for 75 years”. And talk that moves from “the systemic mistreatment of Palestinians is apartheid” to “Jews don’t really belong here” is a degradation into antisemitism, so careful phrasing matters.

Since this is a sensitive topic, I want to make it clear that I’m not interpreting either of your comments that way, just trying to clarify my original response.

If it ain’t broke…

You have regular backups already. Unless you want to add fault tolerance with something like RAID, I don’t see why you need to buy anything right now.