cosmic_slate

cosmic_slate, 6 months ago

This has been my favorite thermostat. I don’t have a C wire nor an easy to add one in, but it’s AA batteries last for several months and has been very reliable.

cosmic_slate, 6 months ago

I disagree that it’s rude and hateful. Incels are specifically referring to the type of lonely people who blame their loneliness on other people.

There is no way that’s a healthy mindset to be around for those who are lonely that want to improve their situation.

cosmic_slate, 6 months ago

If someone else buys the domain, then your instance likely won’t exist anymore and you’ll have to get a new domain.

Spend the $12/yr on a .com, it’s a lot less of a headache in the long-run.

cosmic_slate, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

I love how casual they approach time travel. It makes no sense, is incredibly inconsistent, and the more you think about it the more you’ll hate it. But it’s a fun series everyone must watch.

Spoilers:

The time travel mechanic literally makes Bill and Ted the only people that matter, ever, in the history of time. The world belongs to Bill and Ted and this is their playground. I love how the characters recognize this in the movies too, so the writers obviously knew their time travel dynamic was goofy.

At least in the first movie:

• Only people who can change their future actions that’ll have an impact on the future is Bill and Ted (time traveller who told them to pass a class influenced Bill and Ted to change their future actions)
• If someone other than Bill and Ted interacts with a different time, it has effectively zero impact on their future actions and society is largely unchanged (ie stealing Socrates and Napoleon into the present didn’t really affect modern society, and nobody found it weird a blue phone booth existed in the 1700s?!)
• Even though Bill and Ted are time traveling, any time they spend time traveling counts against an absolute timeline leading up to their presentation.

I think some of these dynamics changed in the second movie, and again in different ways in the third movie but don’t remember it’s plot enough to defend that claim.

cosmic_slate, 7 months ago

The only hope I’ve had near me is Microcenter. Only place I’ve seen in ages where I can walk out with at least some resistors and sensors but the selection can be…eh on some items.

cosmic_slate, 7 months ago

Never had the chance to see a Fry’s but yeah, a number of things that I’d desperately need on short notice are overly marked up.

Then again, I guess I’d take a markup than waiting a few days for shipping if I’m on the cusp of finishing a project.

cosmic_slate, 7 months ago

You could always run Linux in a full screen VM. I do this from a Mac so I get some flexibility.

Alternatively, run Windows in a VM on Linux.

cosmic_slate, 10 months ago

This author really needs to take a step back to reality.

The average person who’s already technically knowledgeable enough to download Ubuntu and burn a DVD or make a USB stick is already aware of the App Store on Mac and whatever the Windows App Store is called.

cosmic_slate, 11 months ago

Laptop by far, it’s not even close. There’s practically no advantage to a PC I’d be missing at all. I can quickly grab it and bring what I’m meddling with anywhere I go quickly, and the battery makes it so I can jump between my desk, couch, or down the street. If I need to run an external peripheral for some strange port, I have a Thunderbolt external PCIe enclosure at my desk.

That said, I wouldn’t consider a Chromebook a practical replacement. Not because it’s a laptop, but because a lot of what I fiddle with is just easier on a normal OS.