I'm in New Mexico too, there's some creeks I frequent that are considered "navigable waterways" and unless it's monsoon season, you barely get your ankles wet lol.
At my offgrid cabin I converted a $300 chest freezer to a fridge by using an external thermostat that toggles power off/on based on temp. I have it turn on at 37 degrees and turn off at 35. It uses such little power that it's not even a factor for my small solar setup.
Indeed. Not as easy to organize as one with a front facing door, but we keep stuff organized in milk crates and it's worked great for our family for many years now.
As an EFnet admin: EFnet ;-) IRCnet is still around too with some very active chat channels (e.g. #worldchat). The networks are much smaller nowadays though.
Want to talk about a FLOSS project? Libera.Chat, OFTC, GIMPNet.
Want to just chat? Snoonet, Slashnet, Quakenet.
Want to just chat but want it to be technology focused? Darkscience, 2600net.
This is a shortlist of public networks I can recommend to a new/returning user; there are many smaller networks out there that you might discover organically with time.
[0] Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
I love regular expressions and figuring out the syntax to solve problems I encounter where I can use regex. Such as searching code for calls with specific named params that may be in different order across the code base. But I always have this quote in the back of my mind if I'm thinking about using regex in code, especially areas that get hit a lot.
It's really subject-specific. What I usually see is a small problem easily solved by Regex, that a few months later down the line we need to expand the regex a little bit, but that's ok it's still readable... repeat this a bunch of times and now you have a critical regex line that nobody really understands how it works and nobody ever wants to touch without it being unit-tested to death.
I am a huge, huge fan of https://regexper.com/ - paste pretty much any regex, and it will generate a visualization of what it does. It's been invaluable even just as a sanity check, it just makes it so easy to trace the flow of what a pattern is doing.
Back when I used Windows, I had an app called Regex Buddy and you could paste in any regex and it would generate a comment block that broke down what was going on. Was super useful when you come back a few months later and need to understand a complex regex
I once asked my friend: "Is there anything Regex can't do?" He replied: "Work the first time?"
And that's how I always think of Regex now. It's an incredibly powerful tool that I pull out pretty often, but if I'm doing anything beyond the most basic pattern matching I know I'm about to lose a bit of time questioning my abilities and sanity.
Is THAT what was going on? You know the controversy about the "Tejas" album? It was released in 1976 on record with a human drummer. But at some point they replaced the drum track with a much more aggressive synth drum track and that's all that's been available unless you have the original vinyl.
I wonder if they were trying to retcon their style?
Mosh is awesome! I use it all the time to connect to servers over a slow and high latency satellite link. Highly recommend it for high latency connections.
I have the same issue with my ears in cold weather. They start to hurt pretty quick in cold temps, so I try to always either have some small wrap around ear muffs or a beanie. As long as I keep my ears warm and out of cold wind, I'm able to stay comfortable.
