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@RL_Dane I'm doing the hokey pokey with partitions on an HDD tonight and I feel your pain, the system is completely bogged down under heavy I/O load.

Requirement is to grant an external host access to an HDD which holds various large files. It's fairly full at 8TB and the files are in the hundreds-of-megabytes range. Problem is, it's been formatted ext4 all its life and the external host speaks only NTFS and can't be taught anything else (pretty locked down system). So the workflow is:
Shrink the ext4 partition to leave as much free space as possible trailing it
Grow the NTFS partition to fill the free space
Copy as many files as will fit in the expanded partition
Verify copy integrity
Delete copied files from the ext4 partition to free up space
Repeat

"You put some NTFS in, you take some ext4 out, you copy some files over and you shake em all about"

Luckily my largest file is smaller than the available free space so it's *possible* at least, it just takes ages and makes everything run like molasses

@realcaseyrollins double the N, not T: Cin cin nati not cin ci natti

Just 'cause I don't think hashtagging a misspelling will get you very far ;)

@RL_Dane like blocks incoming stuff on the federated timeline, or just locally? We keep QOTO pretty clean locally, but the idea is for users to decide which instances they want to block. We've only blocked three domains at the instance level, and that for circumventing user-level measures. Sort of a good-neighbour policy: be conservative in what we send and liberal in what we accept.

17k users so seems to be about there you want it.

Nominally it's a science focussed instance but as long as you're not going crazy on flat earth, antivax, evolution denial, etc., it's pretty generalist in practice.

@peterdrake possibly dumb idea: label the answer candidates with colours instead of or in addition to letters and use an Uno deck, which would be enough for 25 students after removing the wild cards. Looks like they generally retail for about 6USD. There's a version called ColorADD in case some students are colourblind, but I think the shades are sufficiently different it shouldn't pose much of a barrier to accessibility if you just use a normal deck.

@peterdrake heartburn medicine? @freemo

@realcaseyrollins yeah, a rubber dome membrane one. Mildly interested in getting a mechanical one to see if I like it but never became enough of a priority to actually spend money on.

@Theraviranjankr I think your equations need proofreading

@worldsendless I think you need root to listen on ports less than 1024

@louiscouture *hand typing svg in notepad*

Krita looks neat, but (a) more of a competitor to GIMP than to Inkscape and (b) depends on three dozen KDE and Qt libraries I don't have installed, not gonna go that route unless I find my existing tools inadequate.

Inkscape is generally fine but the snap-to-align works really inconsistently. I find myself fighting it a fair bit to get the features I want correctly positioned. Then again, I use it to make vector diagrams and so on, not visual art, so those limitaitons might not be relevant to its target audience.

@louiscouture Welcome back! :)

@floatingpoint hey! count me in

Today I found out the hard way that trying to get a double-double at Starbucks results in three ounces of straight espresso (two ounce-and-a-half double shots).

Also if you ask for a hot tea with milk you have about a one-in-two chance, over the long run, of getting a chai latte instead.

In case anyone at the company happens upon this and would care to update the recipes, those drink orders are for (1) coffee with two measures each of cream and sugar, and (2) boiling water with a teabag and a measure of milk, respectively.

One of today's winners of QOTO's spam-to-ban prize had a bio which invited the reader to "[d]iscover the world of cats mating near you [...] ." I did a double and triple take on reading that, but that's exactly what it said.

@freeschool It's commonly used here, and not typically read as particularly condescending. A reasonable expansion might be, "Act as you see fit." It's used to politely excuse oneself from an argument than has reached impasse, without conceding on the merits.

For example, suppose Alice thinks some financial asset is likely to appreciate and advocates investing in it, while Bob thinks it is unlikely to be profitable and considers it a poor investment. They each attempt to convince the other of their respective positions, but are unsuccessful. Alice loses hope that Bob will accept her arguments, but still considers his own reasoning unpersuasive. She eventually tells Bob, "You do you," to excuse herself from the discussion instead of wasting further time as she expects no further progress to come of it. The implication is that Bob may make an unwise decision, if Alice is correct and he fails to invest profitably, but Alice will accept his choice without further attempting to influence him.

However, it might be seen as condescending or rude if a person uses it prematurely. Since he's excusing himself from the argument, it can, as you note, serve as a tactic to preempt a rebuttal and retain the last word. To imply that you have no hope of your interlocutor changing his mind but that neither can he persuade you of his correctness, before he's fully laid out his claims and responded to your own, does not suggest that you have a great deal of respect for his ability to reason and arrive at a defensible conclusion. Roughly speaking, subjects of greater importance should merit more effort to break the impasse before withdrawing from debate in this way, while more trivial ones can be ended sooner.

It's also sometimes inappropriate to use with a social superior - if you're expected to do what a particular person tells you, telling him that *he* can act as he sees fit might be construed as a declaration that *you* will not be acting as he sees fit and seen as an act of insubordination.

@Sheilaniriain

@Amikke that was a good enough recommendation for me to start researching it - so far I'm reasonably happy with Mint but you are absolutely correct that installing up-to-date packages can be a real pain. It looks like NixOS has its own specific package system though. Can you share how you've found that to work? I've found that most of the little bespoke distros that don't just inherit a major distro's repositories leave out software I want.

@fisunov QOTO has this feature too! You'll find a button labelled "Add New Hashtag Follow" in Settings > Follows and Subscriptions > Following Hashtags.