Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

If only you could take this carbon capture tech, make it solar powered, shrink it so it fits it in your back yard, self-replicating so it could cover thousands of acres of land, and have it double as wildlife habitat, and you would have invented trees. https://gizmodo.com/the-world-s-biggest-plant-to-suck-carbon-dioxide-from-t-1847636362

@trregeagle Wow look at those!

@trregeagle Pity shipping would probably be cost prohibitive, because I'd be happy to take them off your hands...

@aral Must be a hardware-specific thing because my last two Librem laptops here (just tested with this Librem 14) continue to provide power over USB ports when suspended.

Who would have thought that a tech company would use a feature marketed as being for security to exert remote control on their customer's computers instead? https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/09/riot-games-anti-cheat-software-will-require-tpm-secure-boot-on-windows-11/

You may be laughing now, but after the zombie apocalypse wipes out the grid and you are calculating cryptocurrency with pencil and paper, I'll be laughing (and cranking) all the way to the (probably by then barter-based) bank!

I dusted off my limited Python skills and modified Nitrokey's "Qubes OEM" installer to add support in anaconda for changing your LUKS passphrase at first boot. With that in place, we can now offer Qubes as a preinstall option: https://puri.sm/posts/qubes-now-a-preinstall-option-for-librem-14-and-mini/

In addition to calculating dozens, the rightmost wheels were apparently primarily intended for adding/subtracting feet/inches/fractions of an inch.

New addition to the mechanical calculator collection! This Addometer by Reliable Typewriter and Adding Machine Co not only does basic arithmetic, the far right dial does simple fractions and the dial next to it that literally goes to eleven calculates by the dozen!

@terryenglish Yeah the wide range of supported standards on USB-C without any visual difference (maybe apart from cable thickness), and the challenge with being able to tell which cables support which standards makes it a bigger problem than I ever had with USB-A.

USB-C is annoying. I thought my laptop dock was failing--the screen blanked out whenever it moved on the hinge and it kept getting worse. I initially blamed a weak wire between the screen and base but on a whim replaced the USB-C cable with a new, higher quality version and all the instability went away instantly.

Aruba I make ya sudo gonna take ya to a root prompt I wanna own ya pretty momma. Key escrow I now know baby why don't we go. Oh I want to take you down to Ring0 we'll get there fast and then we'll take it slow. That's where we want to go way down to Ring0. https://threatpost.com/hpe-sudo-bug-aruba-platform/169038/

Another day where I found myself pointing someone to one of my old Linux Journal articles to help with a task. This time it was an article about VIM macros from 2014: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/return-mac

I know an old lady who swallowed dewormer for horse. She's dead of course.

She swallowed dewormer to chase the bleach, she swallowed the bleach to chase the bulb, she swallowed the bulb cuz it's UV, which everyone knows makes COVID flee.

She did all these things cuz talk radio said, but I don't know why she's not jabbed instead. I guess she's dead.

@elb I took mine apart this weekend to fix a stuck key (see my timeline for a picture) and was able to unstick things with a small screwdriver, a cotton swab and some oil.

@elb Yes this was a special Remington used to teach typing. The color-coded keys illustrate which fingers to use for which keys.

@elb You should take it apart and fix it! Or else give it to me since it doesn't work and all... ;)

My wife said this represents the two of us, so I think I found the spot for my calculator.

Now we turn the handle counterclockwise to subtract the divisor until we overflow and hear a bell. Then we turn the handle clockwise until we hear the bell again telling us we undid the overflow. We have our answer for the tens place.

Next we move the carriage one position to the left to point to the ones column and subtract until we overflow and hear the bell again, crank the handle clockwise until we undo the overflow and hear the bell, and we have our answer: 12 with a remainder of 1.