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Once again I borrowed my neighbor's riding lawnmower. It's so fun. I'm almost beginning to like the smell of cut grass. It was much more fun this time since I brought earplugs. Hopefully next year I'll have my own riding mower!
Also - every retired guy I've ever met is usually super lame, or incredibly cool - no middle ground. Both my neighbor and father-in-law are retired and they're very much in the "incredibly cool" category. I'm fortunate to know them.
Anyway, the night's second discovery is about polkit.
polkit is a nice-to-have on desktop systems. It's nice to have an authentication agent that can handle GUI programs, as well as handle requests for things like udisks without making you enter your password all the time. I like using polkit on my Fedora desktop but alpine/postmarketOS are different since they don't use systemd, and my sxmo device doesn't have full-fat GNOME on it. I did basically what the wiki page says:
And now I get polkit. Awesome! Almost as cool as a riding lawn mower.