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Business discard pile is my favorite pile!

It broke some things (horrifically) for me because headers didn’t get updated, modules didn’t get rebuilt.

To make it worse, I didn’t set it up. That shit is disabled now. Defunct. Toast. Never again to run.

I think it means we like to be able to make full use…

Whether its a couple of servers with 4416+'s with 128GB ram and a pair of rtx 6000s or an 11yr old thinkpad w/8GB ram, its not the OS getting in my way.

Debian primarily, though I also have arch running on another box. But I basically only run Debian across the board. Almost all stable, with some Trixie and Sid for testing. I also won’t touch Gnome unless I’m forced to, so keep in mind I’m opinionated and hold grudges when you see my recommendations.

Linux is a good way forward if you want to try it and keep the fireface. Ubuntu is not my favorite base, but Ubuntu Studio (I’d suggest the LTS if you don’t need the latest and greatest all the time) is nicely set up, but I’d make one change from their preinstalled and I’d use Reaper over Ardour, but thats me.

Your biggest headache will be plugins if you’ve got a ton of vst’s, not all will work on linux.

PCI + BoB is what I had

I still have my FireWire card as I mentioned, but its only for that VHS + minidv deck (well and my old canon camcorder which does better with some of my minidvs. This process is going to take me years, I have so many to get through…)

That doesn’t have a Firewire interface, does it? I thought I had one of those.

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Oh, I’m thinking of the 1010LT, not the 1010. That lives on a PCI card.

No I’m talking about the PCI card, just commenting on the longevity of some devices. I know two people still using FireWire for their interfaces in spare kit (RME fire faces), which got me thinking of some of my old kit I’ve replaced like the delta1010.

These days I’m mostly pushing dante around

I have a feeling its mostly due to some audio and video hardware that has some real longevity. I’ve got a VHS+minidv player that I am transferring old videos from using FireWire (well, for the minidv. VHS is s-video capture).

I’m just passing a FireWire PCI card through to a VM though. Though with how old the box is, it doesnt really need to be a VM. Thats a whole different discussion though.

I had some FireWire audio interfaces too, 8ch and 16ch, but I got rid of those a while back. I’m sure someone’s making use of it though! Probably the m-audio delta 1010 I sold too, I think they are still going for a few hundred each despite being so long in the tooth.

Got it, yeah went right over my head

West Wing I think?

He also is married to Megan Mullally, who makes an appearance as his ex wife in Parks & Rec. Highly recommended show. Feel free to skip season 1 though.

And many of those who haven’t been in the military but want to be cops fetishize the military, and then go get tattoos like the veterans they wish they were.

They can be highly responsive to their owners. You start showing any signs of tension, they will put themselves between you and whatever is bothering you.

When we watch my sisters dog, my wife has to use a vibrating collar for the dog. He reacts to everything as a potential threat to her, and that ramps up with my kids being there.

If its just me walking him, he tends to just be a roaming doofus. If I add in our (little and much older) dog, he’s fine until the moment our dog reacts.

Its actually extremely wild to me just how responsive they are to those around them.

Edit: Forgot to mention, he’s a mutt - consisting of like 7 different herding breeds common to the southern US. He’s also well over a hundred lbs, and the goodest boy (of the lovable idiot variety).

He also has zero response to my kids, they can lay next to him, on him, whatever, his only interest is looking out for them. And treats.

Its possible, sure.

But I’d also point out those aren’t the only three names in this new set of documents. Bill Gates is in there, another with Rich Kahn (Epstein accountant, who just last year along with Darren Indyke, espteins lawyer, tried to prevent themselves from being named in suits by victims), researchers like Joscha Bach, his lead attorney Reid Weingarten, etc.

This is only evidence of association, and not of crimes. There are quite a few names in these ledgers, Thiel, Musk, and Bannon are notable because its new information and well known names.

Edit: I’d add two other items - fully unredacted would just mean the victims will get targeted again, and that republicans are more than welcome to vote to release more details. They constantly keep blocking it.

Probably because of things like this:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/21/2339592/-Republican-Sexual-Predators-Abusers-and-Enablers-Pt-57

Which is now up to part 57. I’ve yet to see a similar list of democrats, but considering the religious right, I do say its far more likely to see a lot of republicans with Epstein and committing crimes than democrats. So we’ll probably see a few more democrats at some point, but I think the numbers will lean heavily republican because they are just more likely.

Redacting the names of victims is entirely appropriate and right.

I meant its branding, not Amazon owned, I should clear that up though it is misleading as written.

(Pedantry incoming)

Paperwhite is actually Amazon branding. E-Ink is a brand as well, owned by the E Ink Corporation. The generic name would be electronic paper or e-paper.

Edit: Clarity.

No, you’ve got that wrong.

There will be plenty “originating” (at least on paper) from Israel, just not arriving (or not getting to anyone who needs it at least).

This is about boosting the economy.

This was the best I could find without people in it when it first went up:

Snaps made me personally stop using Ubuntu.

I just went back to Debian and I’m happy.