OldFartPhil

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[–] OldFartPhil@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm assuming open houses aren't a thing in Belgium? In the US, it's no big deal to walk in to an open house and just tell the agent that you live in the neighborhood, like the house and have always wanted to see the inside. They're usually pretty chill about that.

[–] OldFartPhil@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

46 at present. Furry porn sites that weren't tagged NSFW, memes, shitposting, a number of communities from the h... server (you know the one), tankie communities.

I'm subscribed to a lot of communities, too, but I still use the all feed for discovery.

[–] OldFartPhil@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Doing my bit to support the open web. Plus, while it's probably just familiarity, I've always felt that Firefox works with me while Chrome works against me.

[–] OldFartPhil@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Sure, why not? Everyone has their own reasons for moving and climate contributes to an area's quality of life.

When I moved from Southern California to the Pacific Northwest, the benign climate here was a factor. Didn't want to live somewhere where it was blazing hot every day for months, where it was a steam bath all summer or where I had to shovel snow every winter.

[–] OldFartPhil@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

See, this is the beauty of running Debian stable as your daily driver. I'll be on Gnome 43 for two more years, so by the time I upgrade to Gnome 45+ extensions should be compatible. Only half-joking, I really do avoid a lot of early adopter regressions and breakage.

[–] OldFartPhil@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I still miss PSA. When I was growing up, if you were flying between Southern and Northern California you flew PSA. They were an institution.

And now that upstart Texas airline dominates inter-California routes.

[–] OldFartPhil@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Continental Airlines, way back in the 1960's.

[–] OldFartPhil@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mid 60's in the US. I've always driven manual transmission cars. Fairly common for folks my age to know how to drive manual transmissions, since most of us had economy cars in the 70's and 80's. At that time, automatic transmissions were an expensive option and had a negative impact on acceleration and mileage.

My daughter is 29 and doesn't know how to drive a manual transmission and I don't think most of her peers can, either.

EDIT: Accidentally a manual.

[–] OldFartPhil@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That is true, but vowels are rarely included in published or written Hebrew. Readers determine the correct word through context, familiarity and grammar rules that can hint at the missing vowel.

[–] OldFartPhil@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This really has very little to do with consumers and everything to do with a tug of war between processors, banks and businesses. I'm skeptical that any potential savings to businesses is going to be passed on to consumers.

From a personal perspective, I'll miss rewards cards if they go away. I make all my purchases with plastic and pay off the balances in full every month. In 2022, I received $711 in cash back.

[–] OldFartPhil@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I knew someone was going to ask that and I'm going to give you the lame answer that I don't remember for sure. It's been a while since I used my Chromebook, but it was a fairly mainstream application that wasn't compiled for ARM. I ended up using the Flatpak version, which worked fine but was a resource hog on an ARM Chromebook with only 4GB of RAM.

[–] OldFartPhil@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The S330 has an ARM processor, so definitely avoid that one (and any other Chromebook with an ARM processor). To be honest, I would buy a cheap Windows laptop and install Linux on that rather than fiddling with trying to get it to run on a Chromebook.

Or, as others have said, leave ChromeOS on the machine and run Linux in Crostini. If you have a reasonably speced machine it runs pretty well. Although again, I would avoid ARM as some Debian applications aren't available for ARM Chromebooks.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/4693864

Southern Pacific #4449 at Portland Union Station. The locomotive will depart with an excursion train the following morning.

Photographed in Portland Oregon, September 2006.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/4208955

Spokane, Portland and Seattle #700 on the turntable at Union Pacific's Brooklyn Yard in Portland. When this photograph was taken in September 2006, both SP&S 700 and SP 4449 were housed in the Brooklyn roundhouse. Neither the roundhouse nor the turntable remain, but 700 and 4449 now reside in the publicly accessible Oregon Rail Heritage Center.

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EMD SD9E #4433 (photos.smugmug.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/4061448

Another locomotive from Portland & Western's collection of first generation diesels, this SD9 still shows its unmistakable Southern Pacific heritage. Built in April 1955, this loco was celebrating its 51st birthday when this photo was shot in April 2006 at the St. Helens yard.

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UP 3985 Challenger [OC] (photos.smugmug.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by OldFartPhil@lemm.ee to c/trains@lemmy.ml
 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/3141578

At the time of this photo, Union Pacific 3985, a Challenger class 4-6-6-4, was the largest operating steam locomotive in existence. This locomotive was donated by Union Pacific to a museum and has been replaced in excursion service by an even larger 4-8-8-4 Big Boy locomotive.

Photographed in September 2005 at the UP Albina Yard. Portland, Oregon.

 

I occasionally come across content in my feed that I think would be of interest to one of the small communities that I participate in. Think photo or article, not something personal. Is it appropriate for me to crosspost the content? Without asking the OP? What about if I ask but the OP never responds?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

 

No official announcement yet, but today's point release has gone live. I just updated 112 packages.

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