Ah ok. whoosh I guess. I’m used to hearing “just write the drivers yourself” and the like.

You’re thinking like a developer. “I can just add or remove this or that.” I have to think like an IT guy. I’m working on dozens or hundreds of machines that are not mine and that I can’t change. So I need to get comfy with the tools that are most likely to be there by default.

Vi/Vim. Is it intuitive? No. Is it user friendly? Heck no! What it is is everywhere. $20 Chinese travel routers? Yup. Wireless access points? It’s there. If it has a shell you can log into, it almost certainly has it.

What’s the vertical distance between stories?

I don’t have an external floor to floor height, but the indoor distance from floor to ceiling is usually around 6 feet. If a yinrih is standing on his hind legs with his forepaws in the air, his claws will just about brush 6 feet.

If someone drops something into an underlay can they just climb down and grab it?

It depends. There are safe paths between where you get off a vehicle (often a light rail) and the entrance to the building, which is a ladder leading through an opening to the first level. There are also maintenance areas, dumpsters, etc, so it’s not entirely devoid of people on foot. You’re just not expected to linger. If you drop something in a vehicle right of way it’s probably gone, but if you drop something down the entrance hole to a building you can climb down and get it no problem.

I think we have the same UPS

There’s a frog with the species name niputidea from Spanish Ni puta idea.

Also, obligatory mention of my conlang:

rCFqKqmg “Egg eater”, far more weighty when you’re oviparous. Calling someone this at work is a resume generating event.

slmqNLg “Cloaca butter”, BS or nonsense.

Naively I assumed that anything in the last decade or so with a battery already has some sort of battery management system that regulates this stuff to help prolong battery lifespan, but maybe I’m wrong.

I also have a 2015 MBP lying fallow in my closet. Do you have any suggestions for turning it into a server? Are you using MacOS still or have you installed something else?

If you’re curious what I’m running on here, it’s mostly containers plus one VM for Docker. (I’ve made my dislike for Docker as a distribution platform known elsewhere on here and this is why).

Most are various wikis that I’m testing, MediaWiki, Bookstack, DokuWiki, PmWiki, An Otter Wiki, DocMost.

It’s weird but “long U” is pronounced /ju/ so even though it’s a vowel letter it starts with a semivowel.

Cool. My conworld deeply reflects my interests and fears, and I don’t expect or intend it to be broadly appealing. I am both the author and the only audience member worth pleasing. One of the reasons I love amateur speculative fiction is that I’m seeing the author’s raw imagination unfiltered by editors or focus groups. The prose is rough at the best of times but rarely is the setting or concept uninteresting.

That being said, I love drawing but I’m not good at it, which is why I attempt writing. I’d love to make this into a web comic, since I always have little scenarios or character interactions in my head that would work best in that format.

CF-53

I bought it used from Amazon about 5 years ago, so it hasn’t been in my possession the whole time. It was likely used enterprise/industrial stock. Judging by how one of the modifier keys is stuck it was well-used. The seller replaced the original hard drive with an SSD and the battery may have been replaced as well.

Prior to becoming my home lab it was my ham shack computer running win 10.

Why do you say that?

I never said anything about humans.

I have attempted some fiction in my conworld but the stories serve to build the world further rather than the world existing as a backdrop for the stories. Also, I’ve migrated from Obsidian to DokuWiki. I want version history and an easy way to share what I write. I used Obsidian in my post because I figured people would know it better.

No. My bedroom is for sleeping and only for sleeping. No computer, no TV, etc. That’s not to say I don’t scroll on my phone in bed, but in general I try to make my brain associate it with sleep.

Also, it’s amazing how much easier it is to clean my room now that I’m an adult and don’t have to keep every possession I own in that room.

This is probably too late but, I just make up my own universe. Make yourself an Obsidian vault and start writing notes. What are the planet(s) like? What sapient races are there and what are they like? What animals and plants exist? Languages? Religions? Countries? History? etc etc. Worldbuilding doesn’t have to be attached to a piece of media, you can construct your own world.

I never stopped playing pretend, I just started documenting things as I got older.

Yes. I meant “big” as in influential. Lazy typing on phone.

Every country has problems. America is so big that its problems become everyone else’s problems too. If America sneezes the world catches a cold.

Well then having opposable big toes would make that even easier.