Consider whether you want just Chinese numerals, or also Arabic (normal) numerals in the corner.

Consider which style of mahjong it will be used for. Depending on the style, there are different numbers of total tiles included in the set.

The feel of the tiles might matter to you, but unfortunately that may be difficult to judge when buying online.

Yes. As far as I’ve seen, it never changes what gets sent to the server, which is why I’m able to get away with it.

We need protections limiting the length and level of effect of clickwrap agreements.

For now, I will continue using “inspect element” to change the text “agree” to “disagree”, and completely skip proprietary phone apps.

Sure. First you set up a RAID5/6 array in mdadm. This is a purely software thing, which is built into the Linux kernel. It doesn’t require any hardware RAID system. If you have 3-4 drives, RAID5 is probably best, and if you have 5+ drives RAID6 is probably best.

If your 3 blank drives are sdb1, sdc1, and sdd1, run this:

mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=5 -n 3 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1

This will create a block device called /dev/md0 that you can use as if it were a single large hard drive.

mkfs.btrfs /dev/md0

That will make the filesystem on the block device.

mkdir /mnt/bigraid
mount /dev/md0 /mnt/bigraid

This creates a mount point and mounts the filesystem.

To get it to mount every time you boot, add an entry for this filesystem in /etc/fstab

The man page at https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/mkfs.btrfs.html says:

RAID5/6 has known problems and should not be used in production.

So those profiles have unknown, unspecified problems.

But btrfs is safe on top of md-based raid1/5/6. It also has the advantage that you only need to encrypt one volume.

Just the things currently on my shopping list. A CPU fan, a network card, some exterior lights for my house… There are no items that I buy online repeatedly.

He can’t [legally] deport US citizens either, but he has promised to do so. Who’s going to stop him? Congress? The courts? Republicans will control both.

Pretty fucked, but not as fucked as Ukraine, Palestine, Lebanon, or Taiwan.

NATO will be fucked for a while if the US withdraws, but other NATO countries may ramp up military spending over time.

This situation is a worldwide danger. The US is/was a world power, it has/had the largest national economy in the world, it has the largest military in the world.

Previously, we could be concerned that democratic countries (including the US) weren’t putting enough pressure on authoritarian countries (like Russia, China, and North Korea) to improve. Now we have to worry that the US will actually become a fully authoritarian country, like Russia or China.

Any regular hex nut works just fine as a jam nut. Basically, a jam nut is when you jam two nuts together. (It is gay, because the nuts do touch.)

And note that those nylon inserts kinda only work once. The bolt carves a thread into the insert when you insert it, so it will be weaker the second time you insert it.

Honorable mention: cage nuts. A square nut, permanently attached to a fastener that can snap into a special square hole in a 19 inch server rack. When you tighten the bolt against the nut, it tightens against the fastener, so that the nut, bolt, and fastener are secure against the square hole.

Well, it’s no longer an illegal lottery. So that’s good.

It’s just a rigged lottery. Slightly different thing. Also illegal, but for slightly different reasons. More unethical and fraudulent than before.

So it makes things better, and then makes things way worse.

Plays the Menards “Save Big Money” Jingle

I’ll just go get my flamethrower.

English has its flaws, but I don’t agree that that is one of them.

If anyone was hoping for women priests, give up on that. The Roman Catholic church would first have to retract both papal infallibility and ecumenical infallibility.

They have made too many definitive statements that women can’t be priests, and they have made definitive statements that their definitive statements are infallible, and must be agreed to by anyone who calls themself Catholic. It’s not even up for debate (unless all of the infallibility stuff is also up for debate).

For example:

I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church’s faithful.

https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_letters/1994/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_19940522_ordinatio-sacerdotalis.html

They really painted themselves into a corner. While the rest of society moves forward with equal rights for historically marginalized groups, the Catholic church will be stuck with the effects of their early bad decisions (and some recent bad decisions) because they banned themselves from admitting when they are wrong.

Have you imported the tails-signing.key yet? Usually you can double-click on that to import it using whatever graphical gpg frontend is set up on your system. It may ask you how well you trust the owner of the key. You can answer that question however you want without affecting this verification process.

Next, it looks like you run the instructions from this page: https://tails.net/install/expert/index.en.html#verify

Some of those command line parameters look a little paranoid. The basic command you want to run is: gpg --verify somefile.sig somefile.img

Some yes, some no. I’ve had a lot of short relationships, and only one long one.

If you’re in a relationship with an abusive person, a person who is barely interested in you, or a person who always takes and rarely gives, then you have to break up. Unfortunately, many people will go through such relationships in their life.

Don’t throw away your own life to find love. If you are playing the game while desperate, you may get taken advantage of. It may be better not to play. It’s ok to be single.

I don’t know much about client certificates, because nobody ever used them. All I know is that they are decades older than passkeys, and “certificate” implies there is a public-private keypair, just like in a passkey.

What are the benefits of a passkey over a client certificate?

It’s not really an order. Think of it as more like a threat.

I eagerly await your writeup on whichever calendar you think I need to know more about.

Unfortunately this won’t happen until October 31st 2600. Starting on March 1st in the year 2600, the Julian calendar (popular in centuries past, and still used in a few places) will differ by 18 days from the Gregorian calendar (the current worldwide standard calendar).

It happens that October 31st in the year 2600 lands on a Friday, and so the Julian October 13th, which lands on that same day, is also a Friday.

There may be a sooner Friday the 13th that lands on Halloween, if you know of other obscure calendars like the Hebrew, Islamic, or Chinese calendars. I don’t know enough about those to check.