BillStewart415

@Affekt@hachyderm.io @willowbl00@indieweb.social
I used to do Mac support for my department head, even though I didn't have a Mac and we had people who did know them. I knew how to plug and unplug all the parts of the printer system, which was the usual thing that went wrong, and was good at doing support for users who needed walking through things.

@LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social @mkellis@hachyderm.io @wendynather@infosec.exchange Does it have a caption? This only shows the picture.

@malwaretech@infosec.exchange On the other hand, subverting the trust and safety apparatchiks of several popular social networks during the last two elections did not prove to be difficult at all.
(In some twisted sense, Elon has made us slightly safer by making Twitter unusable, as well as making things worse for us by making Twitter unusable.)

Has anybody found a way to upgrade Ubuntu 23.04 to 23.10 or 23.10.x?
They had some griefer mess up a lot of the translations, and declare that a blocker bug and sort of withdrew the upgrade,
and I can download 23.10.1 directly, but I've got a bunch of 23.04 machines that need upgrades.
Any time I use the upgrade tool it shows me blank release notes.

All my Google-Fu finds is instructions from before that (which no longer work) or complaints from after.)

@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai Today's news is that Jimmy Carter's wife Rosalynn has joined him in hospice care. 96, and has Alzheimer's problems.

@grammargirl@zirk.us @jay_peper@chaos.social
Simone Giertz's hanger doesn't help so much if you're space constrained (hanging garments become double-thick if you have to fold it), but is really useful when you've got a closet that's just too narrow or wasn't designed for hanging garments well. I've especially run into this at hotels, but I'm sure small apartments have this kind of thing a lot, and trailers.

Apparently Apple had stopped advertising on Twitter, then started again, and now they're stopping again. Maybe it'll stick this time?

@karlauerbach@sfba.social @Popehat@mastodon.social Twitter's got beautiful plumage, but these days is pining for the fjords.

@coldwarsteve@mastodon.scot You can tell it's fake, because Junior is on the outside.

@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org When my VAX lab had a power hit (a common NJ summer event), after the power came back, the VAX would restart, but both HVAC units would sit there beeping to tell a human to come it the start button. (The VAX would either get to single user or fully booted, depending on which UNIX version we had.) If this happened while we were there, ok, but if overnight/weekend the VAX would keep generating heat. Eventually the temperature would reach 140℉ and the power controller would say "Oh, no! Might be a fire!" and turn off everything. Including the HVAC. So we'd have to open the doors and borrow desk fans until the lab cooled down enough to power on the HVAC.

@nparikh@federate.social @hu_logic@mastodon.social @reneestephen@mastodon.social @nobodyzhome@toad.social @rodhilton@mastodon.social There's stuff you let the chaos monkey turn off and on, and then there's Accounts Receivable and Advertisers (he turned off 50% of them one day) and Content Moderation.

@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange You also posted "Hey, we're holding PancakesCon online, date, details", which was a thing the community really needed early in the pandemic.