mindbleach

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mindbleach,

There’s definitely points where things get worse.

9/11 is one of them.

mindbleach,

and there would be few if any consequences.

Meted out by human beings who had to read the thread in aggravatingly linear order - so they were more likely to say ‘you were being kind of a butthead’ instead of ‘how dare you call anyone a butthead.’

mindbleach,

The cost to try it is time. Take a laptop you can afford to wipe, install Linux Mint Cinnamon, and just see how you like it.

But in your specific use-case, I do not expect this is a good idea. You are not going to save money on any scale that matters to a law firm. You can run LibreOffice on Windows just fine, and if it doesn’t work out, you can rent Office 365 (Dollars A Year). You’re not in a profession where FOSS tools like Blender and GIMP might displace obscenely-expensive industry standards.

What free-as-in-speech software might mean to you is control. Windows 10 does some dumb shit. Windows 11 is even worse and getting worse… er. Even more worse? Even dumber. Linux distros and open-source programs are made by the kind of ultranerds who said “absolutely not” and are limited to problems entirely of our own creation.

Black Friday (files.mastodon.online)

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mindbleach,

New items can’t be “on sale.” It is that simple. The price is the price.

mindbleach,

Come on, you know Risa is carrying this service.

Time to ditch #duckduckgo (lemmy.world)

In the last couple of months I have noticed an increasing trend of supplying me search results that are completely unrelated to the current query and tie back to my location or previous searches. I can say this with a high degree of certainty this is without a doubt beyond the 100th instance this has happened....

mindbleach,

I’d bet that’s more bug than feature. Like they’re trying to avoid SEO providing any consistent ordering to be gamed.

Still a pain in the ass either way. Vindication for being a complete tab whore.

mindbleach,

Mandalore: “I would believe a hippo has boss phases in real life.”

mindbleach,

D-FENS changing lanes.

mindbleach,

Opening theme replaced with The Eagle’s “Journey Of The Sorcerer,” confusing some British sci-fi fans.

The Klingons do an admirable version of Iron Horse’s Pickin’ On Modest Mouse.

tlqlI’-- nongqu’! / bogh nIjtaH mIllogh chenmoH’mo.
ghoplI’ bIrlaw’ / puS torDu’ bIr puS QemjIq’Daq Saq.
HurDaq, SIStaH, SudmoH ‘ej wov / bIrmo’ wovmoHwI’ tlhapqa’ maSvo’.
puv ron qa’Hom SoHvetlh / qawTah maH mohpu’ cha’ qa’meH wej.

mindbleach,

as though they knew him from his brief period as a vorlon or whatever.

You are really crossing the streams on this one. But fuck, it was a missed opportunity not to have John de Lancie as a cameo in that diner.

Oh, and I really hope Jellico is visiting the station.

“O’Neill - you punched an admiral?”

“I mistook him for someone else. A real sonofabitch.”

“Who’s he a mirror of in your timeline?”

“The vice president.”

mindbleach,

They’d presumably talk us into favoring zats (and those red stun rounds that only showed up in a few episodes) over lethal force that’s only equally effective.

We’d make exceptions for replicators. They’d understand. They fight the Borg on the regular.

mindbleach,

“Why does btrfs get a huge perf hit with background IO work?”

mindbleach, (edited )

I blame explanatory headlines. If you searched “why does [blank] happen?” you’d get articles like “why [blank] happens.” ESL speakers (and under-educated native speakers) bungle the difference. (They’re already trying to solve some technical crap. Their [blank] stopped working.) As this spreads, reddit and Stack Overflow start displacing tech-support blogs, and suddenly the headlines themselves are wrong.

mindbleach,

Profiting from creative energy alone? That’s a paddlin’.

mindbleach,

The same! It’s the “CPU” in the View-Master Interactive Vision. They shipped with a poorly-labeled AMD-manufactured chip that could only be an 8051 or compatible, based on its pinouts. There’s also a 9918-ish video chip, like the ColecoVision, MSX1, or TI-99/4A. The only other big chip is some kind of gate array. I’m almost certain that chip shoves code into 256 bytes of PRG-RAM for the Harvard-architecture MCU… so that Mickey Mouse can fight ghosts with a shotgun.

mindbleach,

The meta-analysis on Lobsters is also an interesting read.

Oh thank god, Lobsters is the name of the website. I was not prepared for a rabbit-hole where crustaceans were somehow relevant to a dead-end Intel ISA. I already know too much about MCS-51 because of VHS.

mindbleach,

See: Fish That Suck, with Ze Frank.

mindbleach,

“Yeah… it’s 'cuz we’re in space, Einstein.”

mindbleach, (edited )

Ships launch other craft.

Otherwise it’s a boat.

mindbleach,

Remembered the Elmer Fudd, though.

mindbleach,

Guess we need /r/UselessNobody cloned as well.

mindbleach,

I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it.

mindbleach,

God, his witness.

mindbleach,

Totsugeki!

mindbleach,

Unpublishing is the opposite of what copyright is for.

If he doesn’t want to host the old stuff - that doesn’t mean he can make it go away.

Rehost everything anywhere you can. Information wants to be free.

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