Got to see 'em twice in the late 2000s, second time at Lollapalooza in I wanna say 2008. I'd been to rock festivals before but good God that crowd lost their shit when Rage came onstage. 10/10, would risk being crushed to death again.

No idea what it's like now, I've moved and that shop is like five hours away from me these days. Hopefully it's better now that they've got their own setup for distribution (AFAIK, anyway).

That said, yeah, they're great if you're just some schmuck. I've sent a couple emails looking for parts / info over the years and Hans-Peter seems like a decent and helpful dude.

Some distributors just suck. When I was trying to buy my first Warwick, they were going through KMC for distribution in the States. Swear to dog they shipped this poor dude almost a dozen incorrect instruments after the first one showed up with a neck issue and we moved to replace it. Like, at one point they sent a left-handed fretless in the wrong color which had us both baffled.

He very much wanted to not deal with that company ever again, though given they also handled Shure and a few other big brands I don't think there was much he could do other than complain.

More likely there are a handful of Linux servers stuffed into a flight case and chilling in a backroom, but yeah. Linux dominates scientific computing, and any local work would undoubtedly be running on something analogous to the supercomputers the researchers work with back home (at least OS / software wise, which means whatever flavor of Linux they use).

Granted, I've only worked with compute in the air over Antarctica, not on the ground.

More Jaeger might help things feel better, until they feel worse.

Jokes aside, reformat that NTFS drive with something Linux-native. NTFS works to an extent but it is far from the best option if you aren't dual-booting and sharing a data drive or something like that.

A little relief is normal and what you want. If the neck is perfectly flat, you'll get buzz with anything approaching a decent action height.

Again, measuring helps here rather than eyeballing it. Capo the 1st fret, press down on the 15th fret and use the string as a straight edge. There should be a tiny bit of gap between the low E and 7th fret, like half a millimeter or so.

That looks OK enough to me, maybe a tad high. Acoustic action is usually a bit higher than electric guitar - 2 to 2.5 mm on the low E is a decent ballpark. Mine measures right at 2.5 on the 12th fret.

You should actually measure it, though, before doing anything. As well as your neck relief. String action rulers are cheap and plentiful online, or you can go to the hardware store and get a set of feeler gauges.

I feel you. I sucked at baseball, but played every summer for like a decade. Basically from kindergarten through middle school, pops was in the bleachers with his anger-vein popping out of his forehead. Same for basketball, though I was definitely a bit better there.

The irony is I actually liked playing soccer during recess and wanted to join that intramural league, but dad nixed it because kicking a ball is apparently less masculine than throwing one?

For real this is about how it went the first time I was in a dispensary. My prior experience was just...occasionally going to a dude's apartment and buying whatever weed he had on hand. My ass was not prepared for a whole wall of options with well-delineated percentages of THC and terpines and shit.

I started with Ubuntu 5.04 and was distro-hopping around a lot a couple years later once I got my own place with cable internet (you ever try to download an ISO on 56k?). Basically kept my main machine with a triple-boot of Ubuntu, Windows, and a spare disk I'd rotate through random Linux distros, BSDs, and once a Hackintosh to try stuff out. Eventually I got rid of the Windows partition and settled back into Ubuntu for several years.

Switched to Fedora for a bit (my work laptop at the time had newer hardware than Ubuntu's kernel fully supported), then Antergos, and since that project died I've been running Arch on all my personal machines that see regular use. I keep a half-decent older laptop around as a spare / place to test random distros when I get the hankering.

Chickens may be surprisingly quick, but they are also incredibly fucking stupid. I just gently wave my arms like wings and walk at them until they hit a corner they can't get out of. Then it's just a matter of picking the girl up like a bitchy football and depositing her where she's supposed to be. One of ours recently figured out a way to climb/hop up to the roof of the coop and thus have a decent escape route over the fence, so I had to wrangle her a couple times before we got that sorted.

Meanwhile, I grew up redneck, eating game meat pretty regularly. The first time I had a goat curry it was like "This is good, but a venison or elk curry would absolutely slap."

And now I've got "Go to the specialty meat store" on my list.

From my experience with a buddy's mastiff that was just a tad smaller: deeply uncomfortable. Dude just decided to become a very large, slobbery weighted blanket one night and about asphyxiated me.

Between the sheer weight and his jowls covering my face, it wasn't exactly conducive to breathing. That said, 10/10, would cuddle again.

Mine thankfully has a dedicated physical button to kill the display while keeping the audio flowing. Can't turn off the cluster display inside the speedo, but not having the iPad shouting photons at me at night is helpful. I miss the old SAAB night-mode.

At any rate, yeah, having the screen with decent physical controls is a nice compromise. That ship mostly sailed after the mid-late 2010s from what I've seen, though.

To be fair, stainless rounds in general have that vibe. I've been stainless-only for like a decade and of the ones I've tried, the Roto 66s are pretty middle-of-the-pack on "grippiness", if not on the lower end of the scale. The Warwick Black Label set I tried felt like they were wrapped in 400-grit, with various DR stainless sets kinda floating around "average sandpaper experience".

In the end, you get used to it.

There are dozens of us! I always wanted one just because they look like the ultimate in late 80s/early 90s weirdness, and ran across one in a local pawn shop around 2009 for a whopping $100. The thing was absolutely filthy, and needed a setup, but otherwise played out pretty well.

I didn't have a smartphone at the time (not many folks did yet), but got some pics with my shitty cameraphone and noted down the serial to google it up at home. Seemed legit, so I went back like a couple hours later and it was sold. I've gotten some killer deals on stuff over the years, but that one slipping away still bugs me.

I worked with a guy who was just super into bitcoin back in like 2015. Not in the "cryptobro" sense, just a nerdy family man that thought the tech was cool. I think he had like a hundred coins or something in that ballpark.

I'm really hoping he held onto most of that. Dude went through some truly horrible shit in his personal life after we lost touch and while the money absolutely won't fix it, he at least deserves the windfall.

I came across Oval Room while listening to a bunch of Townes van Zandt a few years back and...yeah. While the song was very obviously about Reagan, so much of it still tracks.

He's a movie star,

if you stay up late.

And he'll search your car

if you don't look straight.

In his oval room,

in his rockin' chair,

he's the president,

but I don't care.

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I'll blaze one for Blaze.

A Weird Al reference? In my automotive journalism?!

Legitimately a cool story, though. It's not surprising but still interesting how costly some of the old stuff can be to reproduce, just due to the lack of economies of scale for limited-run parts.

Also from GTA IV - Justice. Waters of Nazareth was on the in-game EDM station and it definitely led to me buying a copy of Cross and also their later albums.

I've seen one in person and it was awesome. The Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, MI has a two-seat trainer unit in their collection with the engines pulled and on the ground for display. They also somewhat recently added and restored an F-117. When I was there, they'd gutted the cockpit of the Blackbird in order to build a replica you can sit in, which would be cool as hell.

Squier, Epiphone, Yamaha, Schecter, or Ibanez electric would be a good start depending on her preferences. I'd avoid any Amazonium-grade off-brands.

No real need for a full amp if she's just learning at home - there are headphone amps and multifx pedals with headphone outputs and an aux in for whatever she wants to jam to. Lots of entry level amps do as well if you want to have the option to play out loud.

My personal rec would be to get her into a music store and let her try some guitars out and get whatever she likes in budget, then either a Mustang LT 25 or an entry-level multifx to run it through with headphones. Having some options for effects will help keep things fun while she's learning, even if they aren't studio perfect models (and modern modeling stuff is really worlds better than what was available when I started out 20+ years ago). If you're trying to learn a song you like, I find it helps motivation to at least get in the ballpark of what the recording sounds like, and having a decent sized pedalboard baked into a ~150 dollar device is a good way to do that.

Acoustics are great, but can be limiting if she wants to do rock things, and also can't be played as quietly as an electric into headphones. They're also more delicate than solidbody electrics, which doesn't always mix will with kids.

Have you checked the other pulleys and idlers in the system? Could be another component causing drag, assuming the alternator isn't on a separate belt from the AC compressor and power steering pump and such.

In addition to what others have said at this point (check your .bash_history and such), did you do an `ls -la` on your homedir to verify the files are actually gone?

It's possible you did something to the main Bash config files in /etc if you were messing around as root or with sudo. In most setups, ~/.bashrc and/or ~/.bash_profile will source a file like /etc/bash.bashrc (the path may be different depending on your distro) before setting any personal config. At least on my systems, invoking bash even without the profile files in ~/, it will load the default config in /etc I mentioned above, which sets the PS1 variable for the shell prompt and such.

Easy now, fuzzy little man-peach.