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Walking the dogs with the youngest...

Him: Daaaaaad, I've been reading a book in school about how babies are born.

Me (inner monologue): Shit shit shit shit shit shit.

Him: Did you know that a baby comes out of a ladies private parts and the hole is this big (holds fingers up in a very small circle). But a baby is this big (holds hands up about 2 feet apart).

Me: Yep. That's pretty much it, mate.

Him: .........................................I'm glad I'm not a girl.
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8 February 2025 at 12:148 February 2025 at 12:14 | Kev Quirk
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One thing I like about Mastodon (of the many) it actually feels like social media in the early days. You can interact, and make mistakes without pile ons. No one is trying to get you with a zinger and most folks are willing to give you the benefit of the doubt.

I missed that. Over the years I got very leery of replying to people on twitter because they either didn't engage or would zing you to their followers if you said the wrong thing. It was so fraught that engaging wasn't worth it.

Debian minimal with nothing but Miniflux on it (no GUI) requires somewhere between 256 and 512 MB of RAM to start (kernel panic on 256 MB, too lazy to check the exact minimum required). 30 years ago my main machine was 2 MB and it was a monster. Just saying.

Discovered Proxmox recently. Best thing since the discovery of sliced bread. Been playing around with it for the last couple of days and I must say, it's a blue pill for my mental hard-on. So exciting!