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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Don’t minimize those strengths. Init.d scripts are something you can figure out just knowing a bit of shell script, or historical knowledge from before there was an internet. For something I rarely use, why do I need to learn something more complex to do the same thing - I either haven’t been sold on all the new functionality they piled in or do not need it. After all these years crowing about the Unix/linux way being many independent flexible tools that can work together, why do we now have this all-in-one monstrosity that might as well have come directly from Microsoft?





  • I was taught to always use all means for checking, to never assume the mirrors are correct and especially never assume you can see everywhere that way.

    Of course now that I have 360° cameras, that seems silly. At this point my car has a lot of features but my kids are new drivers so I feel like I Have to act as if some features are not there to set an example for them. Chances are very good they’ll have starter cars without 360° cameras and their habits need to be safe with that