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Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast

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Do you know how much it costs to annual a Cessna 172? You could build 3 of these rigs a year for what the aviation equivalent of a 1988 Toyota Camry costs to maintain and fuel.

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What a bizarre experience.

When I was in school…I’m pretty sure the state history cirriculum was designed to be America centric, and pro-America. Any nation a boomer would remember being at war with? Not in the history books, or they appear out of nowhere, do something pro-America, and then disappear again, like Russia did from 1939 to 1945. And both World and US history classes end at 1950 because 1. to the limp dicks that actually make the policy, “The fifties are practically now” and 2. we haven’t done much “being the good guys” since the jitterbug fell out of fashion.

So I’m not used to seeing something in a history textbook that isn’t from at least two of my lifetimes ago.

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The Linux Kernel version is at 6 point something, I think they’re working on version 7. That’s not the OS though, the current Ubuntu version under LTS is 22.04. That’s more than twice as much as Windows.

Note I had to get this information from Wikipedia because Ubuntu’s website is currently unusable corporate garbagepuke.

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Computer components will get a bit more expensive except motherboards for some reason.

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Now everything is a black rectangle with bullshit software and almost two HDMI ports in the back, except one has the sound bar plugged into it, and the labels are stamped into the black plastic and not painted on, and with the shadows behind the television you can’t read them. And it doesn’t work when plugged in anyway. Its easier to just not have friends so that you never have to plug other electronics in. Stare at your phones alone.

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I miss the silver plastic era of AV equipment. Like in the mid-to-late 2000s when every TV was made of silver plastic, and it had that set of composite jacks under a flap on the front, so you could temporarily plug things in, like when your buddy brought his PS2 over. There was a button near the channel and volume buttons that switched between inputs, and it didn’t take a digital act of congress to figure out which setting would get it to display on the TV.

What is Something Scientific that you just don't believe in at all?

EDIT: Let’s cool it with the downvotes, dudes. We’re not out to cut funding to your black hole detection chamber or revoke the degrees of chiropractors just because a couple of us don’t believe in it, okay? Chill out, participate with the prompt and continue with having a nice day. I’m sure almost everybody has something...

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In my head, “dark matter” and “dark energy” are the names we’ve given to the limits of our understanding. At some point in the future the news is going to break that an Einstein or a Feynman or a Hawking will publish a paper titled “So we figured out what’s causing the thing we’ve been calling dark matter this whole time.”

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This is old, like about a decade old. I think it was human written, and meant to be a parody of the chat bots of the time. Notice the use of the word “bot” rather than “AI” which would be used now.

Ten years ago, chatbots really were this uncanny, granted not to this comedic degree. Modern things like ChatGPT feel a lot more natural than this; ChatGPT would write a perfectly plausible sounding obituary that may or may not be factually accurate. “Brenda is survived by a husband and three children.” Brenda is a widow with two children. That sort of thing.

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That’s a powerline cut.

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If I had the power to stop time, my morals would suddenly become enforced.

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Let’s use the example of a bike theft. We enter into evidence a 4-hour security cam video that shows the thief with the bike.

Scenario A: The camera can directly see the bike rack, and the bike in question is visible at the beginning of the video, and not visible at the end. Somewhere in this 4-hour video, someone walks up to the bike and takes it out of the bike rack. You can use a binary search to find the moment that happens in this video because you can pick a frame and say “Ah, this was before the theft; the bike is still there” or “ah, this was after the theft; the bike is gone.”

Scenario B: The camera can’t directly see the bike rack, but can see the doorway you have to walk through to get to the bike rack. So somewhere in 4 hours of doorway footage, someone walks through the door, then a short time later walks back through the door with the bike. A binary search won’t help here because the door looks the same at the beginning or end of the video. A simple binary search won’t work here because the door looks the same before and after.

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(this is an outsider’s understanding; I have not played the game myself)

There are two perks you can get in the game: “Lady Killer”, which grants a charisma buff (or something like that) when talking to female characters, and also allows you to do +10% damage to female characters. “Black Widow” grants the same charisma (or whatever) when talking to male characters, and the same +10% damage to male characters. It’s possible to get both of these perks at the same time.

It is my understanding that the previous game, Fallout 3, prevented anything but heteronormative interactions ie to romance a female NPC the player had to choose a male character, etc. To quote hbomberguy, “It implies that Bethesda doesn’t think gay people exist.” By contrast, New Vegas allows any character to take either of the above perks, or both at the same time, allowing one to roleplay as a gay or bisexual character to an admittedly tiny degree.

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Unlike Windows and MacOS, the Linux ecosystem is a lot more modular. For example, graphical user interfaces. There are a few types, ranging from ruthlessly simple tiling window managers to more complex desktop environments that more closely resemble the Windows or MacOS experience.

Linux users may take their pick between about a dozen desktop environments (DEs), including Gnome, Cinnamon, Mate, xfce and LXQT.

KDE (once standing for Kool Desktop Environment, now merely KDE) is a community/organization that produces open source software. They made Krita, a raster art program, KDENLIVE, a video editor, and many other such utilities. They also make the Plasma desktop environment, which is often referred to simply as “KDE” by distro maintainers. For example, you might download Fedora GNOME or Fedora KDE.

KDE Neon is an operating system maintained by KDE which features the Plasma desktop.

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They’re easy for an average gaming computer from 2006 to render.

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I’m personally a devotee of the Invisible Pink Unicorn. May her holy hooves never be shod.

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That was how it was marketed. Explain to me how there’s not a class action lawsuit there. I remember a woman in a pantsuit with a university lanyard around her neck coming into a high school class to give a presentation about how many millions more dollars a college graduate makes. There are people in this world whose death I would celebrate with a prolonged dance involving a significant amount of hip thrusting. Hers is one of them, if I knew who she was.

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One of us! One of us! One of us!

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Another reason why I miss my full keyboard: I could tell autocorrect to bend over, snap it’s spine and fuck itself with it’s own spinal cord.

Abandoned golf courses are being reclaimed by nature (www.cnn.com)

Golf courses, despite occupying large green spaces, are not necessarily good for the environment. Land is often cleared to make way for a fairway and maintaining the pristine turf often requires a lot of water, regular mowing and the spraying of fertilizers and pesticides – none of which is good for biodiversity....

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I say this as a man born in Pinehurst, North Carolina: Let that goddamn retarded sport die a pathetic unmourned death.

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I think porn gets it more right than Hollywood does. People in porn at least successfully take their pants off.

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Well according to Hollywood, sex is either life alteringly amazing, life alteringly traumatic, or interrupted by a phone call.

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Look, it’s the standard American recipe, as dictated by George Washington himself. Every American is born knowing this recipe, like how we all know how to make a s’more.

You take a pig (probably from the natives) and you cut off its ass. Throw the rest away because efficiency is for the goddamn communists. Puree this ass for about 90 minutes. Add high fructose corn syrup because lobbying. Extrude (squirt) it into a plastic forever chemical tube then microwave on high for 17:76. Serve 10 of these with 8 buns, because certain people just don’t deserve bread.

…apple pie and Chevrolet.

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It’s 4 AM. I’ve almost finished a bottle of wine. And now I want hot dogs. Not licorice ones, you fucking failures. But normal pig ass flavored ones.

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This is why I drive a small pickup truck, I’m compensating for my quite large penis.

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