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Cake day: April 14th, 2025

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  • Step 4 is in my opinion the most clever and important part… Basically if you remove your home drive and boot, you get a vanilla computer. If you put it back, you get your computer back…ie, if you fuck up your Linux or windows install you just remove your home, reinstall blind and put your home back in…like you never left!!! Plus if your drive for the os dies, you can just make another! Or you can even take your home folder with you from one Linux box to a new one in the blink of an eye…a very slow blink… Hold on, I’m still pulling the drive…open slowly… Done! See? Easy!




  • Best setup ever:

    1)install Linux on one drive.
    2)install Windows on a second drive.
    3)boot from grub on the first drive and add an entry to boot Windows.
    4)on a 3rd drive format it ext3 or optionally dos. Mount this puppy at /home or even /home/user.
    5)don’t let windows touch you Linux home drive ever. Fuck windows and Microsoft. Both can suck my entire ass. If you ever need to share files between these systems use a pen drive. Microsoft doesn’t deserve you. Just use it as a last resort, do your thing and GTFO ASAP.





  • Because those who dedicate themselves to finding the best information would have the best AI specific to that information. I would want my question routed to Joe’s shop and not jiffy lubes shop.

    Maybe your question is about photography or maybe specific to photography chemistry or maybe to the mechanisms of a shutter or maybe you want to known how to setup a second curtain flash or maybe you want to known what specific wavelengths your first doublet filters for or what wavefront shape the light beam reflecting off the camera’s sensor will have or what sort of material can absorb it best so it doesn’t reflect back as a haze. Who knows! Well the very best people who do that sort of thing know, and they got all the books about it! So why not share that information if the books are just sitting there every day just collecting dust.

    Sure something like this hasn’t been done yet. But its not because it can’t be done. Its because it’s difficult to do. But all the pieces are already there. We just need a few good puzzle masters to put it all together.



  • I heard about an evaporative cooler that might work if you can get lots of cheap water. Basically you spray salt water at the top of a pipe or brick chimney. The water partially evaporates and land on a cold water recirculating loop. That loop goes into the house and you blow air past it to cool the air.