flatpandisk

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[–] flatpandisk@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There is a first time learning curve to climb and there is a project that good chance will never complete. This is really looking like the later than the former. Don’t forget how much money already sunk in. This was back in ‘22, project started in 2008.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/29/california-high-speed-rail-bullet-train

Meanwhile we have been “figuring it out” and Mexico, you know what the US considers nothing but Cancun, cartels, beans, and needs a wall has learned, funded, built and opened first service in Dec and almost fully running today and way bigger, about 5x in track length. Total project cost around 30bil and few years to build. MX is even manufacturing the trains in Mexico.

https://apnews.com/article/mexico-maya-train-tourist-rail-yucatan-81d827ff51589fe43ed608ffb309be4a

The only good success on how to do rail, even if not bullet speeds, in the US is Brightline. They have plans to expand even further but at least is doing something today vs another 100bil and 1-2 decades.

By all metrics the CA project is a money pit.

[–] flatpandisk@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

40down, 6up, 50USD/mo go USA! Only other option is Starlink which already had and was too unreliable.

[–] flatpandisk@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

It is awesome

[–] flatpandisk@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago

Thanks for the fantastic write up. It has been about 5ish years since I used VBox. Back then extensions were still needed for USB to work so this is good news.

VBox was always a great software, Oracle getting it really sucked

[–] flatpandisk@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Dumb question: why would anyone improve VBox?

I have heard of Oracle looking at IP addresses and if they notice a trend they try to collect a license off it. Same crap they do with Java. Do people use VBox and not concerned of Oracle looking over them?

I loved VBox back then, it worked great.

[–] flatpandisk@lemm.ee 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This shows up as a virtual device and uses the Spotify client to play into a virtual device. Works great and downloaded many things.

https://github.com/jwallet/spy-spotify

[–] flatpandisk@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Great minds think alike!

[–] flatpandisk@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Hours, max 12

And yes I take two showers a day. Got to keep all the bits clean.

[–] flatpandisk@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago

Yes you do have someone to share the news, the IRS :). (Assuming you are in the USA)

Seriously though congrats!

[–] flatpandisk@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

I had a similar issue too. Tailscale messed up my resolv.conf and I rebuilt it to get basic dns working.

What I would do is look for a basic dns tutorial for Ubuntu to ensure either the local or remote dns server is working. Before you do that verify the internet is working by pinging something like 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 just as a sanity test. If that works then DNS is the last thing to get going.

[–] flatpandisk@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

This is the way. This way you use way less TP and get the good stuff.

[–] flatpandisk@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Came to same conclusion too

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