I do. Currently I use it mostly for personal stuff as part of my time spent on production support. Importing data from queries, exporting spreadsheets, reading complex json data and extracting needed info, etc. In the past when I was on DevOps used it with Jenkins and various automation processes, and I’ve used it as a developer to create test environments and test data.

As a long-time bash, awk and sed scripter who knows he’ll probably get downvoted into oblivion for this my recommendation: learn PowerShell

It’s open-source and completely cross-platform - I use it on Macs, Linux and Windows machines - and you don’t know what you’re missing until you try a fully objected-oriented scripting language and shell. No more parsing text, built-in support for scalars, arrays, hash maps/associative arrays, and more complex types like version numbers, IP addresses, synchronized dictionaries and basically anything available in .Net. Read and write csv, json and xml natively and simply. Built-in support for regular expressions throughout, web service calls, remote script execution, and parallel and asynchronous jobs and lots and lots of libraries for all kinds of things.

Seriously, I know its popular and often-deserved to hate on Microsoft but PowerShell is a kick-ass, cross-platform, open-source, modern shell done right, even if it does have a dumb name imo. Once you start learning it you won’t want to go back to any other.

My understanding is DST did still save appreciable energy until we replaced incandescent lights with fluorescent and leds. Longer daylight in the evening when people are awake and less in the early morning when people are asleep means lights aren’t being used as much. The average light bulb used to consume 60 watts or more and also let off significant undesirable heat, so with a house full of lights DST really did cut back energy usage. Now though with led lights low consumption and virtually no heat, it’s not nearly as significant.

If you drive safe then you have nothing to hide… wait, this sounds familiar, right?

The 7 Countries Study, upon which the hypothesis that saturated fat causes heart disease was based, has been proven to be highly flawed and misleading. Ancel Keys intentionally left out the data from many countries that contradicted his claims. During the last 20 years many studies have come out showing there’s no correlation between saturated fat and heart disease, and pretty weak association between high LDL and heart disease. Obesity, insulin resistance and systemic inflamation are much higher predictors. And there’s a lot of information to suggest seed oils - canola and soy bean oils especially - are quite harmful.

You lost the ability to enjoy it forever, and that’s what the language at time of sale said you’d have.

That’s not steroids… that guy literally injected oil - synthol - into his muscles to make them look ridiculously large. It’s not performance enhancing in any way.

As long as you mean “get caught up on some good streaming series’”

Nothing I said suggests they should be relegated there. I do not believe they should be driven out when they have no place else to go. Too many places want to break up their camps without giving them any alternatives… making them miserable so they’ll go elsewhere. I’m all for providing shelters and raising taxes to do it. As I said, I’ve volunteered working with the homeless many times when I used to work in and live near a downtown area. I hope to do more in the future though at the moment live a long ways away from an urban area to do so.

Can you read? Of course I don’t want people to be homeless, nor did I say anything to suggest that.

No, quite the opposite. Your choice of words…

that do nothing but attract homeless camps

…comes across as disgusted, as if we can’t have the homeless out here visible. I’m all for helping them and have volunteered and donated accordingly, though I could do more.

A green, shaded spot to camp is a lot better than many homeless have it I’m afraid. Better than a freeway underpass if I had to choose personally.

The homeless don’t think those “green spaces” are worthless. Without them, where do you think they go? Just disappear??

My guess is these became common with the telegraph. Since messages were expensive and the sender paid by the letter, abbreviations where commonly used to keep messages short.

User wants his browser history thrown out with “garbage”… gone forever. Google says “nah, I’m gonna look through that and take notes, thanks”

And part of his problem might be who he's chosing to date. Bad partner choices aren't necessarily going to give you helpful feedback.

I have an unusually low heart rate, mid-40s avg resting and it gets in the upper 30s at times when I lay down or am sleeping. Sets those darn alarms of anytime it goes into the 30s and I’ve had to get up and turn the beeping off just to get some rest.

Thanks for the heads up regarding fx_cast. Casting is about the only thing I use Chrome for and now hopefully I can stop doing that too.

Legal immigrants have rights and must be paid legal wages. Illegal immigrants will work for less, have no rights and won’t sue you.

Not to ask a possibly silly question but I haven’t seen these questions asked and I don’t know your network experience. You’ve supplied the actual network address of your pihole machine and not the 192.168.1.250 address shown, right? And you’ve set your pihole server up to have a static ip address as well, correct? You don’t want it assigned dynamically and therefore randomly everytime it renews its lease.

If the ip address is statically assigned - either hard-coded as static on the machine or at least being statically assigned on your router via its mac address - then setting the dns server on your router should work. I would however assign 2nd and 3rd dns servers as Google dns or cloud flare ip addresses in case your pihole server is ever down. (1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8 or some of the others). If that’s all confirmed and your machines are not receiving your configured dns settings from the router, it’s possible (seems unlikely) the spectrum supplied router is ignoring the settings and assigning their dns servers. If so, buy your own router and put it between your home network and the spectrum hardware. Then you have control and it doesn’t matter what their hardware does. You’ll just set yours up on a different subnet - 192.168.x where x doesn’t match the same value as the spectrum network - and you should be good to go.

Good luck!

I would greatly prefer a subscription versus ads or investors. $20-$30 annually for a fun community is very little in the overall scheme of things.

There’s no reason you can’t have both, at least in terms of ads vs subscription. As long as the price is reasonable I think there would be many that would subscribe to avoid ads, and many that would be fine with ads as long as it’s free.