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What do you guys do when you want to run unmaintained programs? (lemmy.world)

I recently wanted to run tegaki, and my experience is pretty much summed up by the meme. I consider myself fairly tech-savvy, but I just couldn’t figure out how to compile it. So I just gave up, downloaded the .exe and put it into a fresh wine prefix. After installing CJK fonts, everything ran fine. Now I’m trying to get...

OpenStars,
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I like how you pointed out: backwards compatibility is a choice.

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Close - they meow for their cat mothers too in the wild, it’s just that humans keep cats in a permanently juvenile state when we keep them as pets. Also, our patting them mimics their mother’s tongue action, which causes them to purr, which is also an entirely natural sound for them to signal the mother that they are alive and content. We did not change them so much as co-opt what was already there, using it for the benefit of both human & cat:-). From there, some things like level of aggression and body size were bred to suit our mutual partnership better.

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Throw in the washer, tumble dry low.

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You can use it as toilet paper.

Mind you, it’s not very effective.

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I… don’t think we really want to know?

Possibly similar to the guy on the far right.

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Don’t forget, you can always go to the booty store. To confirm: NSFW.

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Nobody can EVER be TOO sil… ahem, nvm, carry on then.

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Oooh, Salmon is tasty too, alright you have convinced me. I will start smoking today! :-P

spoilerAnd see if it turns me into a Salmon, I guess?

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Tomorrow literally never comes.

Today is almost literally all that we ever have - the rest is a hope/prayer/wish/thought/fantasy that will only ever become another Today just like now.

Seasons still exist though.

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I see your rizz and raise you a skibidi. (probably b/c I like the way that word sounds in my head… sk-i-bi-di do dah day 🎵 🎶 )

Also, rizz means “the ability to attract a romantic or sexual partner” so… now I have to think about GWB strutting his stuff, thanks for that:-P (that’s surely what made me think of my own word… gotta flush it out somehow?)

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I like this explanation the best: therefore this is now permanently etched into my brain! :-P

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Last name Man. I’m looking for a Handsy Man here, will a Handsy Man please come grab this thing?

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And that the reason they do not contact us is that we are simply not worth it:-). (so this being a hint to get our act together first if we want to open up additional communications in the future, I suppose)

Or it could just be a prank, from a billionaire with their own private space force :-P. Nowadays the likelihood of the latter has risen to become higher than the former.

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No more than the more common types of viruses and other steadily-evolving microbes though, plus humans have not changed genetically all that much from chimps even from 6+ million years ago, so most of this is clickbait hype.

We do need to maintain science funding around the world though - the next pandemic could strike at any time, without warning (as the last one showed us), and gee it sure would be good if we could be ready, with modern tools to meet whatever challenge comes our way.

Otherwise it is all too easy to fall for bait traps such as what happened with GISAID, which said the words that people wanted to hear but then were not skeptical enough to look at the source behind who was saying them. So now that’s a treasure trove of data lost to the public as a result.:-(

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No the best part is getting to find out firsthand:-).

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With enough alcohol you can at least pass out

I hope you find your path. [Insert funny & witty meme that is somehow highly relevant to the OP] Oh shit, I actually found one:

I will give you rest maddafucka!” (Exodus 33:14)

rest

If you have to be awake, I hope you at least enjoy this thought:-D.

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Quoth the birb, “Not bad!”

Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as “Never again”. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

For tomorrow, we arm for our own type of war.

– modified heavily from obvious; also TIL that “nevermore” can also be interpreted as “never again”

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