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  Proud Dad moment: I sent my daughter a mini-PC with a fresh Linux install. Two days later, she'd installed Proxmox, Home Assistant, Zigbee, and is now controlling house lighting. (And TIL I learned that some Ikea bulbs will turn on unadvertised Zigbee support if you power-cycle them 12 times.)

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  Hi to all of the fellow Dave's in the comments (which are worth reading, because this is a commonly misdiagnosed problem by management) https://www.reddit.com/r/managers/comments/1wpywgd/you_inherit_a_dave_what_do_you_do_with_him/

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  "With a bunch of generous assumptions, legitimate requests are only about 2% of git.kernel.org traffic — everything else are scrapers." Oof https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies

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  A good, "we used to know this, then forgot it, and are now re-inventing it but with different [ed: adversarial] incentives" presentation on alerts and notifications. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ira28fgSF7M

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  Re-sorted a bunch of cables to consign half to e-waste. Now have ziplock bags with labels "USB A", "USB micro", "USB mini", and "USB WTF?!?" That last bag scares me. In boxes here somewhere there are probably oddball devices that need one of those cables that's USB on one end and something decidedly not USB on the other. A sure way to discover which is to throw those cables away.

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  World of Wonders: Water Edition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-hsN9VIgEY

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  We have a whiteboard that's old enough that WIndex only moves the smudges around. Found a new (to me) cleaning method that uses toothpaste, isopropyl alcohol, and WD-40. And it works! Note the advice on using unscented toothpaste. I didn't, and a room here now smells MINTY FRESH! https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/how-to-restore-an-old-whiteboard/