DietPi (debian) on all my ARM servers, Fedora-CoreOS on all the x86-64 servers, a pi400 as my desktop running fedora, SteamOS on the steam deck.

Just started My Little Pony: Tails of Equestria with my wife and 7yo daughter - it’s a blast!

proficient at some point in the last 20 years:

• C
• ladder logic (for PLCs - dont take this from me)
• Verilog
• VHDL
• C#
• C++
• PHP
• Go (this is my daily driver)

I would hate to count JavaScript and friends.

Not cross country but northeast corridor is fantastic - DC to Boston, ezpz. Faster than flight with the BS you need to do on both sides. Also the stations are in the hearts of the city of DC, Philly, NYC, and Boston - get off the train and walk to your hotel or whatever - it’s just the best.

American Pie by Don McLean

I would listen to it on repeat for what seems like an entire era of my life. Could sing the whole thing at some point!

beautifully done buddy

I noticed fedora comes with OOTB X11 DEs for gnome shell and legacy - it’s just not the first choice in the list.

But flight data is available - this guy just labels her N number and filters the data in a creepy way. I get that it’s probably causing her danger to have stalkers waiting at the destination for her - but those stalkers always had access to this flight data.

Seems like a workaround for Taylor would be to not own a plane and charter a different one every time. (Or do something actually environmentally minded :/)

Can confirm, will destroy the rubber/plastic bits in your toilet.

That being said, I still use them all the time and replace the toilet innerds after a few years. I just would rather clean the toilet every few months and replace toilet parts every few years than clean the toilet all the damn time and have old working toilet parts :shrug:

Appa

We don’t have issues with unleashed dogs, or even with people not cleaning up dog crap, it’s just too much dog pee causes dead grass.

So it’s not directed at members for the states of their lawns (they are maintained by a common landscape company) it’s directed at people who have dogs who urinate - which is all of them.

It seems like all the retired people in the neighborhood have a excellent reason to be on the board but with a full time job and a kid I just don’t have the time to put towards good faith governance of the neighborhood. Maybe that’s the idea though - to get on the board and reduce their scope to paying the lawn care guys and collecting dues to pay the lawn care guys.

In an additional effort to refocus this thread to ground cover, has anyone here in the northeast US gone with a clover ground cover, rather than grass?

Interesting perspective. Other than being mad that dogs exist and inconsistent grass color I can’t imagine other slights dog owners are applying to the neighborhood. Maybe barking? But that has never really been a issue here, to my knowledge.

Paved alley, then other garages

something like this seems doable in theory but without describing the community let’s just say there is no spot to put this or any other ‘dedicated dog spot’, other than existing house’s lawns or the one 40’x40’ area which is the community green - and that totally is not going to happen.

Oh wow I read a functional ban on dogs as extreme rather than agreeable - that’s interesting.

The HOA is taking the ‘our responsibility is to keep a consistent curb-appeal’ stance so I think seemingly random houses not having grass at all may not be acceptable - though maybe that’s appropriate for the strip between the sidewalk and road.

I actually don’t know if a landlord has to do anything to keep a renter happy these days? Or if there is enough demand that they would not care? Not sure, perhaps I am approaching that question pessimistically.

A complicating factor: I would say ~50% of the houses are rented and only the homeowners have a say in HOA matters. So, assuming any owners without dogs (including the whole board) and any landlord would logically vote to ban all use of the grass, while all dog-owning homeowners would vote to allow dogs near the grass.

Obviously that’s generalizing what the votes would be - even though the majority of the houses have dogs, I would say the minority are homeowners with dogs.

The reason I bring this up is a petition-style response may be dismissed as “well those dog owners have no say as they are not homeowners”

I was just thinking about it actually - I feel like it’s going to be the sheer amount of caffeine we ingest, or caffeine at all.

which reminds me, I need a coffee!