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ryan, to linux in Could 2024 be the year of the diagonal linux desktop?

It's amazing how something so innocuous can provoke such a viscerally disgusted reaction in me.

Technology was a mistake. It's time to return to the wilderness.

ryan, to memes in how'd I do

The 5 is a little taller than the 2, but it's clear and easy to read so I'll give you a 9.5/10, which should be added to your UNO score sheet under the "Draw Evaluation" section.

As I'm sure you know based on the official UNO rulebook, your Draw Evaluation scores will be averaged at the end of the game and then Average Draw Evaluation (or ADE) will be added to your other overall metrics such as ACH ("Average Cards in Hand") and SAC ("Summed Attack Cards", generally defined as attack cards you have played on others minus attack cards played on you, but some house rules assign different point values to different attack cards).

The metrics you choose to play with in any given game is of course something to be discussed with all players beforehand, but competitive UNO will of course utilize all standard metrics.

Did you know: the "Card Color Multiplier" metric isn't a standard metric? It's basically the Free Parking of UNO - very popular but not officially recognized.

ryan, to asklemmy in What makes a smartphone useful to you?

It's nice to be able to stay connected while out and about. Having features like maps helps when lost somewhere. You can keep store cards and such in your phone to scan instead of having to physically carry everything. I went to a conference for work a week ago that required use of an app in order to register for labs.

ryan, to asklemmy in What's your weird physical habit?

slaps roof of towel this bad boy can fit so many hair in it

ryan, to memes in 30's wheel of pain

Oh, thank you, I'll see whether I can get an appointment scheduled.

ryan, to memes in 30's wheel of pain

I woke up shortly after turning 31 and my shoulders hurt. Then they froze and I couldn't lift them. Then that sorted itself out over the course of six months or so, but now they're in pain every time I lie down any way other than flat on my back, and my hands occasionally go numb while lying in bed.

Of course, I've seen doctors and they just ¯⁠\⁠⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠⁠/⁠¯ "looks fine to us, you're still young lol"

I've been able to mitigate the other pain issues like my back and stuff with stretches and basic exercises. Seriously, fellow "no longer young adults", I cannot stress enough the importance of stretching and basic exercise, doesn't even have to be serious exercise, just take a brisk walk or play some VR while standing up, get your body moving, don't let it calcify.

ryan, to piracy in The New York Times tried to block the Internet Archive: another reason to value the latter

While I agree in theory, it's hard practically to give the ability to make private wording and typo edits without giving the ability to make more insidious changes - like pushing a certain narrative and then quietly changing words here and there to erase evidence of that after most people have read it, etc.

If news websites kept their own visible audit trail, much like Wikipedia, I could see the argument that Internet Archive doesn't need to capture these articles immediately, maybe it should be time bound to a year after publication or somesuch, and therefore recent news could retain its paywall by the NYT without being sidestepped by Internet Archive. (While it's annoying that articles are paywalled, news sites do need to make money and pay for actual news reporters.)

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