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Can’t speak for OP, but I was hoping there was a straightforward front end out there to play with variations on a theme - my own use case would be plotting the next 5-25 years. Something like “How many miles do I strictly need to move to have a reasonable chance of temps <= 80 F on all but the most brutal handful of August days?”

Basically, I figure that at this point in life I’ve got 1-2 more short/medium-term moves in me at most, and zero desire to ever do it again after I retire (assuming that I can/do). For the lay crowd, there’s not really a way to flip through projections.

Not averse to trying to come up with a way to do it in QGIS, just don’t want to reinvent the wheel if there’s a straightforward site out there already doing it.

Ente Photos is now open source end to end, both server and app.

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Pre-Invasion, I worked closely with a number of Russians.

One of them came over here (US) for a few weeks to get a better handle on the software we were developing, and he was a stand-up guy. IF I had run into him in a bar without context, I’d have made a friend. The invasion shot that all to shit, of course. Helluva guy, and a helluva developer. Ticking those two boxes was all I expected.

Born 1981. Daniels and Todds abound.

Lots of Kylies, and the like, along with plenty of the traditional Sarahs and the like.

My “adopted” family (in-laws) and I have been heading in that direction and sending trial balloons for years.

This year, snacks, a pair of socks, and a couple bucks.

We got them gift cards for a restaurant we all adore.

We all are doing just fine, in our respective worlds. We’ve managed to stay geographically close, ish, and do holidays etc together at somebody’s house. That’s the important part.

Took me more years than it should have to realize that, but let’s say my wife’s family has taught me quite a bit over the years and largely changed my perspective on many things - this included.

Don’t fucking fly.

Not bc climate change, but bc no human has ever gotten off a commercial flight. and been in the best possible condition to face whatever they were flying to.

People are miserable, and concentrated in a small space they’re doubly so. Add to that convincing security theatre puppets that my CPAP is actually medical equipment, and that no, the meds that make sleep possible are not prohibited (liquid max be damned)… Hell with that.

I can get from my driveway to Chicago Union Station in two hours or less from my driveway. The LSL can have me in Albany ~12h later. Given that I was forced to make that trip quarterly in a past life, trying to fly WN would have forced me to go via BWI or ATL and taken the same damn amount of time all considered, with lots more stress.

Train gave me a decent sleeper car for less than plane fare for the two of us, even on WN. I arrived ready to get to work, versus a lil jet lagged and angry at people in general. Yeah, train was a no brainer.

Obviously not an option on all routes, but worked well for me.

• A Long December (Counting Crows)

• Soul Asylum’s cover of Rhinestone Cowboy.

The former is ever relevant, the latter is somehow both a total reimagining of the song and true to the original.

Yeah, I date myself with both of those. Yeah, I was probs in HS for both of them.

That, and Good Riddance / Time of your Life (Greenday). I understand it was supposed to be a sarcastic dig at a woman. But that’s not how audiences largely heard it, and it became the legit, totally unironic anthem of a certain generation that I am abs not a part of.

Also… There’s a completely random punk band no one but me has ever heard of (Ruth Ruth), and their album Laughing Gallery has been by my side at some of my lowest points over the years. Wish I could let 'em know the impact they had in making sure I pushed through some of the worst periods.

Oh, so instead of snoozing, the only option becomes “turn off”? That won’t end well.

Don’t mean to jump on you, and I’m sure that would work for some. But for those who are past that point… Less so.

If binaries aren’t pre-built, compiling it yourself is not particularly difficult (assuming it’s a decent repo that’s well-maintained).

• Readme often has a list of dependencies and basic instructions. On linux, build steps might look something like make && sudo make install, possibly with a ./configure thrown in beforehand. You can, of course, run configure where present with a help flag to see all available options, and change them as you like, but many programs ‘just work’ with the default options on a variety of platforms.

• Before that, you have to install the dependencies. Often, it’s a copy/paste command in the readme, and on Debian might look like sudo apt install libsomething libsomethingelse libsomethingelse - the overwhelming majority of the time, that gives you the correct versions (may be part of package name)

• Otherwise, you can make several times, and if you read the errors, it will often tell you what’s missing and you can iterate through the deps that way.

• I don’t suggest building the dependencies initially. It might be necessary (If memory serves, you still need to drop the PCRE library source in a specific place for Nginx to find, for instance, but the build process also builds that). It’s usually not necessary, and if you delve too far down it can be a frustrating experience.

I’m not in the habit of building for windows, as the only computer I run it on is my work computer, but there may be instructions for that in readme as well. If the dependency installs fail, you’ll have to search your distro’s package manager to find the correct name of the package on your distro, but once it’s present you should be able to proceed from there without problems (in well-maintained projects)

If it doesn’t build, you can always open an issue on the GitHub - there are no stupid questions, particularly if you search issues/closed issues first for keywords in the errors you see. The vast majority of projects are run by decent people who respond reasonably and/or some community member will jump in with an answer.

For some languages, the build steps look very different - Maven projects in Java come to mind. I don’t love that tool, but it’s less evil than some of the alternatives. OTOH, if it’s rust, the build steps are very quick and painless - including installing Rust in the first place.

You’re 100% correct on principle. The problem is that given our electoral system, third parties end up taking votes from viable candidates, and we end up with terrifying people running things.

We can’t change the electoral system, because we’ve never actually had an Article V convention (Constitutional Convention) so we don’t know what would happen there. We’d get an entirely new constitution, and it would not be a better one. You’ve probably seen how dysfunctional our republicans are, I’m not about to let them tear up e.g., my right to free speech or a fair trial.

Given the current makeup of the Supreme Court, what would come out of that convention would be provide zero protections for anything.

But yes, we need third parties. I just don’t see a plausible way to get them without taking on an amount of risk that most people aren’t willing to take.

Seconded - I spent maybe $30 on the journal (might be a knockoff, but it works) and intentionally got one with card slots as well. No carrying a wallet required, self-contained, and when I think of something to do/search/etc it goes in there immediately.

I started with Midori notebooks in A5, and realized I love the paper, but the binding just didn’t work for the way I write. Switched to Rhodia spiral bound 80gsm and haven’t looked back. Wouldn’t call myself “organized” per se, but far more than I ever have been and I no longer lose the random things I think of. or end up with 500 notes on my phone and no idea what’s in each.

I’m sorry you were in that position, and I hope you’re doing much better now?