I like this plan. The first half made me hate it, which is a pretty good sign it’s hitting the right key points of environmental destruction, profiteering, crypto, bad crypto and buying influence, but then brings it back right at the end.
You’re going to have to be careful not to touch anything at the dinner before shaking hands, you wouldn’t want to give the game away too early.
Raspberry PIs are great little machines, but they’re ARM based rather than x86, which can potentially limit your software choices. Once you’ve bought the PI, a decent PSU, some storage, and maybe a case the cost can also start to go up quite quickly. Another option you might want to look at is something like a refurbishd EliteDesk. You can get a decent spec for a similar price to a PI and those extras, it’s x86, they run quietly, and they’re upgradable if you need more horsepower in future.
I’m sure you’ve already considered it, but from that description it sounds very much like make. That compares the input files’ timestamps to the output files’ timestamps, so it might be different to your plan though.
You’ll have permission if you go $HOME.
I’m assuming you have a lovely, caring partner there otherwise that sounds wrong.
Cat: Wow this snow is cold! Ahhhh, this is SO COLD!!!
It does have that slightly preoccupied look that suggests it wishes it had more insulation in certain areas, but it’s determined to pose for the photo anyway.
It might already be packaged for whichever OS you’re running, and it comes with a utility to do the conversion. On Debian or Ubuntu it should be as simple as installing the pst-utils package and running something like readpst <path to .pst file> and it’ll leave an mbox file for you. It’s been a fair few years since I used it, so reading the documentation would probably be wise, but I remember it being pretty straightforward.
I don’t have a Redhat machine handy right now, but it looks like the package is called libpst there. On a Mac you’d need to follow the build instructions in the git repository, but it’s not python, the main library and utils are written in C. The tarball they refer to it just a tar of the source, that you can download form the releases page. I can’t help you if your running windows, I don’t have a machine running it, and haven’t used it in many years.
“So, these people are the ones keeping you from paying attention to me are they? I am not impressed.”
I’ve used libpst to be this in the past. On Debian it’s packaged as pst-utils. The readpst util will convert your PST to a variety of formats including MBOX.
We didn’t steal the balls, but where computers were back to back we’d swap the mice over. Cue much confusion for the next class when the pointer seemed to move on it’s own. Fun times.
Cute cat, but I think I can see the mental screen saver running in there. It’s the one where an image just gently bounces around the screen.
It’s not exactly what you’re talking about, but it looks like there is a way to do this over PCIe 5.0: CXL 1.1. The m.2 bus exposes up to 4 PCIe lanes, so it may be possible, with the right combination of motherboard that supports CXL, and a CXL module with an m.2 interface, to do what you want. I haven’t dug much deeper than that, but maybe it’ll be of some help.
trackballs, the arguably superior input method.
It’s not arguable, because it’s true! The mouse mafia are just trying to give everyone Carpal Tunnel Syndrone. We must overthrown the waggly input hegemony and bring peace to desktops everywhere!
Ok, I’ll settle down now.
The more seasoned commenters are used to this, everyone else just needs to ketchup.
I manage all my homelab infra stuff via ansible and run services via kubenetes. All the ansible playbooks are in git, so I can roll back if I screw something up, and I test it on a sacrificial VM first when I can. Running services in kubenetes means I can spin up new instances and test them before putting them live.
Working like that makes it all a lot more relaxing as I can be confident in my changes, and back them out if I still get it wrong.
How do such people program?
They don’t. They used to copy and paste stuff they found on the internet, then when it doesn’t work they made a barely coherent post on Stack Exchange, or maybe the issue tracker of one of the packages they think they’re using. I suppose that nowadays they copy and paste whatever they get out of the LLM de jour, then try to tell it that it didn’t work, copy and paste the answer and repeat until it either compiles or they finally give up and post to an issue tracker.
I’m not sure where you are, but typically even if you rent rather than owning you pay the normal taxes, either directy or via your landlord, so they have little to do with owning a property, and more to do with occupying one, as a proxy for the demands you put on communal services. In most places you would also not lose your home for not paying them, you’d get dragged through the courts, possibly jailed for some period, and the tax authority in question would just end up with a lien on the property, entutling them to recompense when you sold or refinanced it.
I’m not discounting the possibility you live sonewhere with different property tax laws, but you’ve been making extremely broad and general statements that don’t match reality in many places.
Thanks, this is a really handy tool. Kniwing the information was being withheld ‘just because’ was really rankling me. Now, could you just add a quick feature to read their minds and tell me why they down voted me? ;)