A while back at a SLUG (Siouxland Linux Users Group) meeting, an attendee had some Lenovo ThinkCentre small form factor computers to sell at very reasonable prices. They were surplus that I believe a school used as thin clients. It turned out that one of them would not boot and I thought that … Blooming tree in Rock Rapids, IA
A bit of a brain dump for this month, as there have been a couple of major things on my mind over the last month.
Calling / Vocation / Gift The idea of calling or vocation has been on my mind for a long time. I’ve taken several personality assessments, completed … I’ve been using the construct sudo run-parts /etc/update-motd.d/ to determine if recent system updates required a reboot.
Today I learned I can simply check for the existence of the file /var/run/reboot-required.
Determining if a reboot is required on Linux was originally published 4 May 2026 … I was recently building something that was taking date input from an HTML form field, and casting it to a PHP DateTimeImmutable. I was then comparing that to another date, and got thrown off during testing when I compared the resulting instance to new DateTimeImmutable('today'); the instances were … Information about Language Server Protocols (LSPs) for Copilot.