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The Best Way to Ease into Linux in 2026
Why: Linux is a good way to get more out of your hardware. It runs less “spyware” like monitoring. ItΚ»s a little less automated. You donΚ»t need to log into Microsoft or Apple to do things. How: create an external SSD disk connected over USB-3 to boot the machine. This way, you can reboot into…
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Fixing Broken Linux MINT Boot
Symptoms: rebooting immediately goes into the grub command line. The easiest way to fix this is to use a USB boot, and run tools to fix the boot. This page explains how to fix it from the command line. The following commands are how I fixed it. grub> set root=/dev/sda2grub> linux /boot/vmlinuz.old root=/dev/sda2grub> initrd /boot/initrd.img.oldgrub>…
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show notes for riceball.com video
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LLMs and Subversive Drones Against Surveillance
I had an obvious idea to deal with the Flock security cameras: an anonymous drone that would fly to the camera, and then spray paint the lens, rendering the camera useless. a small autonomous drone that will fly to surveillance cameras and spray paint the lens Grok won: The image on the right is pretty…
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How to Use Craigslist and Facebook to Get Rid of Stuff for Free
Once the rainy seasons is past, you can take a lot of stuff out and give it away or sell it. Here’s a photo of some stuff I’ve given away. This is a small fraction of what I’ve donated to the junk pickers. It’ll soon be time to purge again. In the winter time, I…
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This War Does Not Exist
https://websim.com/@certaincoin/this-war-does-not-exist These scenarios did not happen. They were made up by an LLM. The first set of scenarios were set up by me, in a single paragraph. The LLM wrote the stories. Japanese Civil War The Japanese Civil War (1951-1957) was a major internal conflict in Japan that emerged from the social, economic, and political…
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Draft: The Disinformation Landscape, MRAsians, and the Left Avoiding Discussions of Some Issues of Interest
(This was written in 2022.) A recent report came out about disinformation in the Asian media sphere, and it was weird to me. It mentioned Asians With Attitudes as one of the disinformation sources. r/aznidentity was also mentioned. These were under the umbrella of “MRAsians”. The MRAsians thing happened back around 2018, but got a…
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Big Disk of Pu Erh Tea
I got this $9 disk of tea, and it’s pretty good. I don’t recall the name, but it’s at a couple of the local Chinese/Viet markets. To make it, you break off a chunk that’s a couple tablespoons. Then you break and crumble that into smaller pieces. To brew pu erh, it’s Chinese style. The…
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How to Make Japanese Style Curry Roux
This is a super basic roux-based “curry”. The three ingredients are fat, flour, and curry powder. You can optionally add salt and soy sauce, but I never do. Over low heat, heat half a cup of fat in a frying pan. You can use anything, but lard seems to be the one used in the…
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Repairing Earpad on M98 Headset
Symptoms: The earpad came off. The rubber peeled off, and a lot of facial oil was in the earpiece. The foam part slipped off, and underneath, there was a lock ring, which holds the earpad onto the earpiece. Explanation: the plastic band that held the foam part onto the lock ring, by making the edge…