I’m sure i read that some places prohibit treated timber going into ground if the chemicals might leech into water courses - New Zealand maybe??

Very oily wood like Cedar should last ok , but not forever.

Plywood, I’d be very skeptical about - generally the cheap stuff has no chance if it gets wet. Maybe there’s expensive magical stuff that i can’t afford.

PVC as suggested or stainless steel ground anchor or concrete fence posts would seem better.

You could consider trying to bury chicken wire if you need to keep out the burrowing creatures.

Yeah, I can see that from the photo.

When something like python tries to force readability into your code without your consent?

That’s why I always use a nonsensical class structure with stupid names; it’s my chastity belt.

Hey it’s just south of Orkney. Small world.

I was thinking about blendOS at some point - it seemed like a decent proposition the best way to stick with arch, but have the declarative and atomic bits, without going to a new nix thing that sound like a more extreme nerd cult.

But I never did, I’m still mainly on Arch+XFCE or arch+kde, or debian+kde, or debian+xfce in my house.

I think I didn’t do it because I’ve never really heard of BlendOS , no established track record. No one ever recommends it. So it might not still be there in 5 years, so I’d have to be sure it’d all still work if the project ended. Meh, too much bother to figure that out.

If this promised deluge of PCs comes along soon i’ll maybe try it on a spare machine.

I think most people will say go fedora due to track record - but i never liked it when i last used it - a long time ago.

Remember the 3-2-1 rule for backups of record breaking sessions.

Another option is to try melting a bit of wire mesh or even strands of wire wool into the plastic with a soldering iron, or maybe just melt in a few staples across the crack.

Le app core

https://youtu.be/EoMW8VYb_GE?t=60

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-building-with-signs-of-the-window-tax-st-johns-wood-london-15294634.html

I thought applet came first. Then “web apps” - but i think that’s a windows perspective.

This claims they came from NEXT which apple bought in the 90s. https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/when-did-programs-become-apps.136416/

The thread also refers to bitmap image files as bumps which I’d still do if I ever saw a bump again. So the thread is legitimate.

You’ve got to stop all those who put: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

That’s my password for most things, any hackers die of RSI before they get in.

I don’t see it as a paradox, but as rational. But there are people who I think do hold tolerance as some sort of moral compulsion, and get offended by the notion that it might just emerge from people figuring out how and why to cooperate, without any high and mighty guiding morality.

These people will also object to using rational models to understand/describe human behaviours, because they can point to many examples of people acting irrationally. Many of these examples are psychology lab “experiments” so are irrelevant to the real world. But plenty of real examples of things like loss aversion and risk (mis)percepion, sunk costs, time-inconsistent decisions and so on where individuals clearly do behave “irrationally”.

I often come across people who believe that this undermines anything any “rational model” has to say. And so I do try to use such reasoning with those people, or even challenge those observations with examples where collective rationality does seem to emerge as a social (not individual) phenomenon, then I’ll be derided as some sort of neo-conservative capitalist fascist or whatever.

So I find that it’s generally good practice to chuck in some insult about one type of political zealot or other every so often, so as to quickly establish where I stand. I’d rather be vague than waste my breath with zealots.

It’s a great argument for backups. I don’t think clod/DRM based services are the best backup - certainly they’re not a complete backup system.

If you have a local system and/or communication failure, or bandwidth limitation; how long to restore the backup?

A backup on a local storage should be possible to plug into another computer and access fairly easily.

Ideally your backup system will give some resilience against many types of risk scenario, especialy for the data you care most about or can’t go for a long time without. The fact that it’s harder to backup DRM stuff is a limitation - so I’d avoid DRM unless i don’t care about the thing.

Social contract not a moral imperative.

Or seen as a repeated prisoners dilemma, play tit-for-tat, or maybe (N*tit)-for-tat (where N gives a ‘punitive’ damages expectation for breching the accepted norms).

Quite a lot of lefties don’t like thinking about what is “rational” though because “people aren’t cognitively rational” so rationality based social equilibia can obviously never have any relevance.

Getting Embraced and Extended must feel nice.

Vital feature.

Just in case your game fogot to put in a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key

One of them will, and the others will ape it.

Repeat this process enough times and more and more of them will get a bit better.

It’s sort of like education; except the students are a bit better motivated.

Objectives of learning and fun?

You do not state noobliness, ease of setup or time to install, number of failures/retries or anything like that.

**EDIT: you did state noobliness later on in comments so . . . i’d go stock debian +lxqt. ****

or all that I’d recommend arch. Do not use archinstall script , that reduces both learning and fun. Resource? follow the archwiki and go through lots of linked pages at each step. If you do wuss out and install stock debian (+lxqt)

maybe partition off a spare 10-20GB so you can play around with an arch install after you realise how boring and uneducational the others are (joke)

I imagine patient records wouldn’t be encrypted either

If computerised, they freaking well should be.

In general they’d be in a database with it’s own accesss control to interfaces and the databases data store should be encrypted. In my country there are standards for all healthcare IT systems that would include encryption and secure message exchange between systems. If they breached those they’d be in trouble.

If your doctor has a paper file in a filing cabinet on premises, written in English, then yes. The security is only the physical locks, just like your hme pc.