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I find VLC very useful mainly for the command line invocations. This way I can get a web and/or telnet interface to the server. E.g. I use /usr/bin/vlc --config=/home/chris1/internetradio/vlcrc.pulse --no-video --no-media-library --daemon --pidfile=/var/lock/vlc-music.pid --playlist-autostart --play...

+1 to that. c 1:30 until I wake up - anything between 9:00 and 11:30
I don't know where anyone got the idea that us oldies need less sleep. Apart from the overnight bit, I regularly get an hour or so late afternoon or early evening.
We're (UK) not on DST until 02:00 31st March.

I knew it. Another reason to be thankful I live alone - well since the cat died.

I first used UNIX (SCO) on an early 486 back in the start of time. Vi was the nearest thing to EDT on VAX/VMS. Hence, I use Vim (Vi Improved) now.

I took the bait. Downloaded (eventually, I had to use wget) and installed in a VM (VirtualBox). Got Conky and Vim installed as usual - why are these two "essential" progs not included in {X}ubuntu? Paint.net next. What a shambles. I don't think I'll be continuing with this spin. LMDE6 is g...

To an extent, it's the same the world over. After all, only one person makes money from the dead, and then only once. If you can keep people alive for longer, they can/will develop more diseases requiring more interventions. Lots of people make money here - doctors, drug companies, hospitals - and l...

A lump of coal is/was a common New Year / Hogmanay present in the UK especially Scotland - see First Footing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-foot

Bad news. Lucky ER was open NYD.
Hope it gets better soon.

Tom's Hardware has this article: Ubuntu runs 20% faster than Windows 11 on AMD's new 96-core Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX, demonstrating once more that Linux loves high core count CPUs
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ubunt ... pro-7995wx

Did you see this?
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/handb ... amd-nvidia