Oh, you haven’t updated in three days ↗️

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Fedora be like, you haven’t run “sudo dnf update” in three days, so here is a half a gigabyte of updates to your system. When I came back from vacation, with my laptop off for 10 days, there was 1.2 gigabytes of updates to download and install in background.
 
At least Fedora doesn’t require you to reboot your system or wait for staring at a blue screen while updating like that certain popular commercial operating system does. But it requires you to restart firefox.

Smoking

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Cities aren’t the same nowadays when cars don’t regularly backfire on streets, and buses and trucks don’t bletch out black smoke.

It’s only been 10 years since they switched over low-sulfur diesel on buses and trucks to dramatically reduce the black smoke, and era of streets filled with old cars running carburetor engines out of tune is only 15 years or so ago.

Then again, I’m too young to remember when most city buildings were covered with thick black soot from the smoking engines.

Towards Mt Morris

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Paddling across Horseshoe Lake. As you can see, the land around here is very flat, former timber country. In the distance is Mount Morris, near Tupper Lake.

Taken on Thursday August 12, 2010 at Horseshoe Lake.

Schenectady Interstate 890 Circle

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LEFT - Circa 2018 after the reconfiguration of the circle to reduce crashes
RIGHT - Circa 1996 with the old configuration of the interchange