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November’s Noyous Sausage – Michael W Lucas

Mezzo has recovered from surgery. He still thinks he can see from the eye he no longer has, however, and becomes affronted when you suddenly come into view on his other side. #rats #petRats

The SATADOM in my FreeNAS mini XL died. If I need to replace that, I might as well investigate alternate BSD-based NAS software. I know a few folks tried to build #FreeBSD-based successors to #freenas Did any of them get traction? #sysadmin

Philip K Dick was born on this date in 1928. I feel I need to plan some sort of centennial recognition of the only man who truly understood that the entire world is fake.

If you've ever had the urge to sleep on the Enterprise: I suspect this might help @npub1gzvs...9e6w get a good nap.