I have actually found valid reasons to own a motorcycle:
any trip on the bike is 60 % less gas than by car
my occasional commute from rural to city: car needs to be put in a garage for 25 € / 8 hrs. Bike rides up the elevator to the office, free.
riding saves up the car for the winter, when it’s most needed.
bike maintenance is cheap and diy-able.
the pleasure of riding: priceless.
Frankly - my kids in front of the tv is pure Beavis and Butt-head :D
Take a look at the Finnish folk instrument, the Kantele. They tend to have a hollow body but otherwise pretty angelic stuff :D
Looking for ‘zither’ will probably yield more like this.
The free version of Maxmind’s db should be available on your distro. The name is going to be ‘geoip’ with something extra hanging on :)
I do audio and quite enjoy Arch with its ‘pro-audio’ meta package that installs basically everything. Desktop and laptop both have that, so they have the same plugins and applications -> projects open on both machines just the same.
Sure, but then I’d be downloading every single source ‘package’ and compiling for both x86 and ARM - not exactly feasible. Keeping just the sources might be an option though. The point is to have the whole repo, not just the packages I use, so that in the SHTF scenario I can help others install Arch and any software they may need on their machines. Muhahaha, Arch will prevail 👻
I quit on day two with two takeaways:
– Hardware must be well supported in fully-libre-land - I was trying to install on a Mac Mini and had to go nonguix pretty much right away. That kind of spoiled the whole effort.
– Profound meditation and enlightenment on the essence of Scheme is a must. I had one of those ‘no, this is where you don’t want a closing brace’ moments and my zen was blown out of the water.
I would have soldiered on, but personally I like Arch first and foremost because I can (and do) have a local repo by rsyncing a rotation of mirrors couple of times a week. Just in case the Internet dies one day, you know. I realised Guix was not really suitable for the apocalypse use case, so after that brace episode I decided to stick with what my spine already knows.
After all that is said – I really hope you fare better :D
There are big expensive mosquito magnets that take a propane tank and electricity to run (these are environmentally ok) and the Thermacell device (somewhat dubious but very effective). Source: Finland, the land of mosquitos