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One place Linux could still use some work is I/O scheduling. By default it's quite possible for one task to crater your system because it's churning through a lot of data. You can fix this both ahead of time and while a task is running with ionice.

I finally got around to making suspend work correctly again on my Devuan Linux desktop. It is not very tricky, although it is slightly more complicated in my case because I use ZFS. These version numbers are probably not that important, but some people like it when you lead with them...

I've been doing background tinkering on a potential low cost 3d printed, remote controlled tracked vehicle project, and to be frank it hasn't been going spectacularly until today — when I finally got a working powertrain assembled. To be clear this so far includes literally none of the track equipment, but I can just borrow that from someone else's project if I want to, and I probably will. This covers the other half of the equation, how to make the thing go.

CNN claims that Dolly Parton remained neutral in culture wars. It's true she was smart enough not to declare a party affiliation, but she made it quite clear that she did that for strategic reasons.

This is one of those things that should be obvious and findable anywhere right? But I had to look at five different search results! WTF!? Here is the formula:

=((LEFT(G5, SEARCH(":", G5)-1)*60)+RIGHT(G5, SEARCH(":", G5)-1))/60

Obvs change G5 to the correctly referenced cell.