8 is Clean Code by Robert C Martin (Uncle Bob)

19 is Introduction to Algorithms (commonly referred to as CLRS,)

They may do best there, but I think there is wiggle room, at least for small scale cultivation.

My dad used to grow them in 9a and they grew pretty well. But they need to be covered up or brought in overnight if it’s going to get too cold.

You might want to reconsider the first part. While you don’t want parm to be the primary cheese, a little parm added to homemade Mac and cheese really steps it up.

About the time they got rid of the hard plastic cashew jars and switched to the bags, they also started selling a (more expensive) glass jar of cashews.

So for me, it does cut down on the plastic, since now I just refill the glass jar with the bagged cashews, rather than needing to buy (and dispose of) the plastic jar every time.

I might feel differently if I was actually reusing the plastic jars for something but I really wasn’t (not after the first few, anyway).

If you don’t have an Intel CPU, then you shouldn’t need it. At least, I think it’s only for CPUs and not for other intel-based devices (NIC, graphics, whatever).

It’s prompting for upgrade because it’s already installed. It’s recommended (but not required) by initramfs-tools, so that’s probably why it’s installed (recommended packages are installed by default). oops, read that wrong. Intel-microcode recommends initramfs-tools.

You may want to run

apt-rdepends intel-microcode 

to see what pulled it in.

But you should be able to uninstall it, and then it won’t prompt you any more.

This is what happens Larry, when you find a stranger in the alps.

This pic made me smile.

I haven’t been to DebConf since before COVID, but I definitely recognize a few people in that pic.

I’ve been using Debian since 2000 (potato).

I’ve occasionally had to use other distros for work (Red Hat or Ubuntu, typically), or to verify/troubleshoot bugs reports in upstream packages.

But my preference is Debian all the way, for servers or workstations.

It’s stable, and it has a great community. Also ideologically speaking, it has the Debian Social Contract and Debian Free Software Guidelines.

Ah, ok. I guess I misunderstood.

I’m afraid I don’t have any other suggestions that haven’t already been made elsewhere in the thread.

Best of luck, and I hope you get it figured out.

Shot in the dark here…

You said that blacklisting the module brought back your device, but not the sound. Is it possible that pulse is selecting the dummy as the default interface?

Before reloading alsa and restarting pulse - If you go into pavucontrol and change the input/output devices to your sound card, does the sound start working?

If that’s the case, then you should be able to edit your pulse config to force your audio device to be default, regardless of whether or not the dummy is present.

(No idea about the dummy device, sorry)

I have an Anova, and I like it, but I wouldn’t consider it BIFL. After a few years, the manual controls are getting dodgy and it’s getting difficult to use without the app, which they’ve started charging for:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/smart-sous-vide-cooker-to-start-charging-2-month-for-10-year-old-companion-app/

But I think you’re spot on with your other general recommendations.

Then you’ll love this new product that’s guaranteed* to reduce the amount of advertising you’re exposed to!

*Warning: may cause blindness, loss of hearing, and inability to leave your room.

But in all seriousness… I hate it, too. It’s fucking everywhere.

Back in the 90s, Windows NT had a POSIX compatibility layer that you could enable (it wasn’t enabled by default).

I have sort of had enough of copy and pasting commands I find on the internet without having a good understanding of how they actually work.

One thing you could do is start trying to understand those commands.

Read the man pages or the documentation to figure out what the commands are actually doing. Once you have the “what” , you can dig deeper to get to the “why” if it isn’t obvious by that point.

After enough of that, you’ll go to copy/paste and already understand what it’s doing without needing to look it up again.

Then from there, it’s a matter of building the instinct to be able to say “I need to do X, so I’ll use commands Y and Z.”

At least they don’t have herpes.

The Call of Cthulhu TTRPG.

Look up some of the Japanese lore about Tanuki (the Japanese name for the raccoon dog). It involves magic, giant scrotums, and all sorts of delightful stuff.

If you like anime, Studio Ghibli (famous for a lot of classics including Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, and others) did a movie called Pom Poko, which is about tanuki. If you don’t care for subtitles, the English dub is pretty good, and the voice cast stars a lot of well known (for the time) American actors.

100%. They’ve just guaranteed that the sous vide unit that I have now is the last Anova product I will ever buy.

Interesting bee fact -

In a hive that has been queenless for a period of time (long enough that there’s no way they can raise a replacement queen), one or more workers may develop the ability to lay unfertilized eggs.

Due to how honeybee genetics work, those unfertilized eggs can hatch into drones (males), which may then have the opportunity to mate with queens from nearby colonies.

I guess this is sort of a last ditch effort to propagate the hive’s genetic material before it fizzles out and dies. Which I think is fascinating.