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Im working hard to reduce power usage with all my hardware choices whenever possible. Its partly to save energy but also, the condo has only so much headroom with the electrical service so I have to be careful or Im popping breakers all the time.

Ive also used WPS and its quite good but not as easy to use as FreeOffice.

Chris Titus has a video out about XZ and it was made out top be a bigger deal than it really was. Both RPM and Deb were affected but to varying degrees. Red Hat derived distros were heavily affected but Suse for instance wasn't and a fix was out quite quickly, Debian stable was fine but the other ve...

LOL!! That was great.

Yes Ive seen the videos of gun restoration and they do use electrolysis quite a bit. Many also use the rust remove chemicals and put the guns into a bath of it and leave them for awhile.

What are you removing rust from? There are many alternatives to electrolysis.

Im glad this was caught though before widespread adoption occured, which would have been a nightmare.

I love checking out yard sales and estate auctions as well as pawn shops. There is so much unique hardware out there for cheap its a shame to see it wasted or thrown out.

I think the phone scams are funny and I like to toy with them a bit.

When it rains it pours. Out of the blue we kept seeing water on the floor in the kitchen. I looked around pulled out the panel under the dishwasher while it was running and boom! Leaking from the seal at the motor all over the floor. We just bought a new one that will be installed on Wednesday. Lowe...