@mk30
wastewater specialist in training (back in school), art doodler, plant person, aspiring forest hag, living off-grid on hawai'i island. aloha 'aina!
plant/garden alt: @mk30
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@nprofile1q... **cries**. Even compared with a state school? **Cries some more**
@nprofile1q... I imagine that private universities that aren't top of the line are probably big losers in the current situation. Parents might still pay premium to send a child to a top-tier school, but with ROI this poor overall, it just doesn't make sense to send a child to an expensive school that doesn't also carry significant prestige.
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the things that are just now dawning on these guys 🙄
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@nprofile1q... hehe, I know Paul. Rather, I met him a couple times back when I lived in the bay. Is he a dev on bluesky?
hey linux friends:
i have to do a hardware repair on my laptop and would like to do a backup in case something goes wrong. i have an external hard drive, but i've never done a full system backup before.
i run lubuntu 24.04 and if possible, would like to take a snapshot of the current file system (apologies if this isn't the correct terminology).
do you have any recommendations for how i should do this?
thanks!
#linux #lubuntu
i have to do a hardware repair on my laptop and would like to do a backup in case something goes wrong. i have an external hard drive, but i've never done a full system backup before.
i run lubuntu 24.04 and if possible, would like to take a snapshot of the current file system (apologies if this isn't the correct terminology).
do you have any recommendations for how i should do this?
thanks!
#linux #lubuntu
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This one made me laugh for real.
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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... I knew the replies on this would be filled with nerd quarrelling over which axis should be up 🤣
"We have reached the point where we no longer have confidence that Azure OpenAI usage can be independently monitored, reconciled, or safely budgeted.
We are preparing to move our Azure OpenAI integra...
@nprofile1q... can you imagine how much hassle they'd save if they just wrote their dang code themselves?
The crazy thing to me is like...software and services are already so complicated and convoluted and these companies are just adding more and more layers of convolution...
The crazy thing to me is like...software and services are already so complicated and convoluted and these companies are just adding more and more layers of convolution...
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it's cool that all kinds of shit just randomly doesn't work now.
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@nprofile1q... I was helping my mom with some stuff on her FB account, and at one point, the "reset password" button went to a modal that had no fields to fill in...
If you're in Hilo this Sat. July 11th, come visit me at the Zine Scene Fest 2026 at EHCC!
In the years I've been living here, this is the first zine fest I've known about. I'll be selling my zines + my mega-zine "Keep Dreaming of Structured Settings", which is about the twin dreams of living in space and living underwater.
I'm soooooo excited to meet people and see what everyone else brings ^-^
Event details: https://ehcc.org/content/zine-scene-fest-2026
#zines #hilo #hawaii #art
In the years I've been living here, this is the first zine fest I've known about. I'll be selling my zines + my mega-zine "Keep Dreaming of Structured Settings", which is about the twin dreams of living in space and living underwater.
I'm soooooo excited to meet people and see what everyone else brings ^-^
Event details: https://ehcc.org/content/zine-scene-fest-2026
#zines #hilo #hawaii #art
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqj309e9mvq2wx8qz7dk0tzwkry4fa9yuw7ct5zj26nkg0xv02lchqx7hfgl Yeah, they're called 'slaves'. Thanks for your point of view. The difference that you'...
@nprofile1q... my folks are continually surprised that I am completely fine living in a shack in the countryside, because they see our family as city people. But that's only for a couple generations. Everyone before that was on the land or sometimes servants for wealthy landowners.
Lucky for me, I come from a long line of eastern European peasants (briefly disrupted by the relative "middle-class" urban stability of the USSR that my parents grew up in), so I think that genealogically-speaking, I should be well-adapted to peasant life. The fact that I feel completely fine living in a shack in the woods just feels like further evidence.
I suspect a lot of people have peasantry starting just a few generations back. The real slap in the face of people today who are being pushed out of the middle class and into poverty is that they are being made to be LANDLESS peasants. peasants with some land can live ok if the land has water and can support life (and if they're free from say, narcos, militias, bombings, and other sources of violent chaos and displacement! 😭), but landless peasants are really really screwed 😞.
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