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[–] absGeekNZ 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Nope.

Weetbix is a dry brick of wheat.

Bix

[–] absGeekNZ 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Marmite on Weetbix.

Ingredients:

  • 1 Weetbix
  • butter (lots)
  • Marmite (lots)

Method:
Select a choice looking compressed wheat brick, apply a thick layer of butter, spread the Marmite across the layer of butter.

This was a common school snack when I was growing up.

[–] absGeekNZ 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Remember, that bell curve. For every reasonably smart person (115+) there exists an incredibly stupid person (85-).

Ok, that's not really how it works. But you get my drift, assuming your level of knowledge is the same as others knowledge, isn't really reasonable.

[–] absGeekNZ 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Great to see the drop in CPU usage, what beefy server are you running?

[–] absGeekNZ 3 points 1 week ago

I have 3 boys.

Sleeping through the night has only just started for my last one, he was 3 in August. It has been nearly 10 years of broken sleep.

In saying that, it gets easier.

Have a bedtime routine, do it at the same time every night. e.g bath at 6:15, pajamas and stories at 6:45, bed and lights out by 7:15.

My first boy wouldn't sleep, I had to sit by his cot when he was 8 months old, he would be jumping around being silly, I just sat there reading a book. Sometimes for 2 hrs, not taking to him or telling him to settle, but just being there. DON'T use your phone, it glows and is a point of interest, books are much better for this quiet time. Eventually he would tire. If he got distressed I'd pick him up and calm him, then put him back down.

[–] absGeekNZ 2 points 1 week ago

Well it can't be worse than ours.....so you have that going for you.

[–] absGeekNZ 4 points 1 week ago

TOP have been trying since 2016, so three elections....

I voted for them each time. Evidence based policy, it really is what we need.

[–] absGeekNZ 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Hybrid is best.

I use the GUI quite a lot.

But some things are just easier in CLI, especially if you have to do that thing often.

The other reason to use the command line is automation, it is very easy to write a bash script and run it as often as needed, if every day at midday you want to update something CLI is much easier.

e.g everyday at 2am, my rsync script runs to backup my important files.
e.g 2, I have a small script to combine all the pdf's in the current directory into a single file using pdftk. It is so much faster than any graphical way.

[–] absGeekNZ 1 points 2 weeks ago

They are the admins of their devices, not you. And as admins they should have full control over the security policy, not you.

I can't agree with you there, a few years ago I installed Mint on my mum's old desktop. It was either that or pay for a new Windows license to "upgrade" to Win10. She doesn't have admin, doesn't even know what admin is and would be unwilling to learn if she did know.

Not all users need to be admins, in fact most don't want it.

Me, however, I get pissy if the machine stops me doing what I want to do.

[–] absGeekNZ 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

New pipe for YouTube...no ads

[–] absGeekNZ 1 points 2 weeks ago

Around 5 hrs to fully metabolise caffeine. Physically you would be fine in a day.

The habit, however would take longer to get over. That depends on your psychology, I know I can't just replace my morning coffee with tea, because it doesn't feel right.

I usually have my last coffee at around 2pm, so by the time I get up in the morning, there is no caffeine in my system. The feeling of drinking coffee and tea is different for me, it's not just about the taste.

[–] absGeekNZ 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Lefty: picks up right handed scissors. SNIP.
Lefty: well there goes my femoral artery, I guess I'll just bleed out then.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/12540146

 

Not sure if this is a good thing or not.

HTP's may help stop smoking, or just as likely (in my opinion) increase the rate of people starting.

Seems like a win for the tobacco industry either way.

 

Dawn aerospace looking good

 

She should be removed from parliament, now that the investigation has concluded and she was found to be corrupt....get rid of her.

 

Pretty cool interview with Sir Peter

 

Wow

 

Luxon with foot-in-mouth disease again

 

Super cool. I was excited to see Frankie Adams in the cast, loved her in the expanse. But was even more excited to see Rena Owen as Gramma Tala....perfect casting.

 

When can we get this?

 

This fast track to corruption bill, is more worrying than the budget...

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