https://www.localsearch.com.au/guides/landscape-supplies/what-is-blue-metal

“It’s called blue metal since it has a blue colour.”

That explains the blue, but not the metal…

Thanks, I ended up going with virt-manager and it was relatively easy

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/08/a-patch-microsoft-spent-2-years-preparing-is-making-a-mess-for-some-linux-users/

I haven’t booted into Windows since

What do you use to run the VM? I run Mint and have been meaning to get a Windows VM up but there are too many options

I think you’re right about the area

This page (google translated) suggests they are either mown fields, duck hunting areas, or areas disrupted and monitored for the effect on bees

Interestingly, I think the second photo from the carousel on your link shows one of these areas

From the article: “You literally already installed Alpine the normal way as a sub-procedure of this. Just do that. Please.”

Thanks, you did say to watch the video and I missed that, I’ll give it a watch

The website doesn’t really explain anything though, and even says that the laws should be amended

Why would the legal world take much longer and many more dollars to achieve what this guy can? Why wouldn’t everyone just sign a lease to their friend?

If the landlord is aware of the squatters and then enters into a lease intended to deprive them of possession, how is that not just an end run around the law?

Bet you $100 he is breaking the law almost every time

“Gentlemen, I put my pants on like you: one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on I make gold records.”

https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/beware-the-idle-kantian

“I’ve sold helicopters to New Brockton, Skipperville, and Sweet Gum Head, and by gum it put them on the map!”

I thought I was going to have to play geoguesser, but I googled ‘wbtc trolley’ and immediately found other vehicles in a similar livery

https://wbtc.co.in/

That really doesn’t seem like much money. If Reddit is worth $10B, that is 0.6% ROI

Only 90s cats will get this

Is this the base load power we keep hearing about?

Nothing I said was critical of anyone, any set of skills, any profession. I’m glad that you have specialist skills, everyone does because no-one can know everything

I was responding to a particular question about technology, and how non-techies approach it. I explained in another comment that this complexity in technology is fundamentally different from many other fields of everyday experience

If the industrial fan stops working, they call you, and somewhere between the power point and the air they want to move is the problem you can fix and diagnose

If someone can’t see their cat photos, it could be anywhere from their device to their network, their ISP to the server, the programs on that server, the other server that holds the photos… Like with the fan they know the power is generally ok because the lights didn’t go out, but from that point you actually need some conceptual model of the complexity to even know who to call

“It looks like the second cutting board has grown legs. Any ideas?”

The first sentence uses a sarcastic metaphor that indicates the correct placement is known but the item is not to be found there

The second sentence expresses an interest in knowing what others can tell the speaker about this situation - maybe not quite discontent, but definitely interest in it being located

I agree, but also computers break differently. Using a computer is just like other everyday activities like driving a car, until something goes wrong

Imagine if you broke down, but you didn’t know if it was ‘the car’ (call a mechanic), or the road, or the traffic lights…

Tech people presume that normal people think about how technology works

They don’t even try to conceptualise how something on their phone gets there from the internet or ‘the cloud’ - when things stop working they don’t think about the fact that their an app on their phone is using a network connection to a router, which distributes an internet service that connects them to a server, that is running a program, on which they have an authenticated account…

They wouldn’t even know where to begin with troubleshooting, it’s just ‘broken’ and they get frustrated