Hedges are a good investment because once it has matured a hedge provides food and shelter for many species of birds, animals and insects. There are government subsidies available for establishing and maintaining them. They also provide returns for people in the form of wood and in some cases edible fruit.

I think it’s because they are a setting where people are there for a separate purpose to meeting a partner, which allows for romance to be portrayed as spontaneous. Also, clothes (particularly underwear, pyjamas and towels) come into contact with the body and imply intimacy.

Fatbikes look cool but lose one of the main advantages of bicycles, which is that you can easily carry them, whether up stairs, onto a train or into a car. Electric fatbikes must be even worse for that. Its probably better thinking of them as motorbikes.

This is awesome news! Can’t wait to try it out in the morning!

That surprised me too.

The world has been changing fast and I think the safest advice in terms of always having work is to learn something to do with bedrock infrastructure, like plumbing or welding.

Vatican City.

I am drunk. I wish you hadn’t suggested that.

So anyway, what are the pros and cons?

Why did that happen?

New linux user goes online to find out how to list installed packages in the terminal. Starts removing the ones they don’t recognise.

Blobby Volley

Shit, I’ve done that!

bypassing the package manager (especially installing with curl | sudo sh

I’ll admit that I’ve done this with a few things that I wanted to install but weren’t in my repo…

It’s pretty amazing isn’t it?! There’s no way that I would have had the time and patience set up a server without it.

Check out Ardour for music production. You should be able to get older versions for free on most distributions or get the current version for a donation via their website.

Will I be OK updating from the Debian repo?

Recently at work I set up Windows to open spreadsheets and word documents in Libreoffice Calc and Writer instead of Excel and Word. Nobody seems to have noticed yet.

Either that or they don’t know how to change back again.

I tried a few out and found that Flowblade worked best for me. If you’re only trimming and combining video though, you MUST check out Lossless Cut. It’s ridiculously fast.

Do you know if hugo blogs can federate?

Is Coreboot not fully open source?