Senior Chief Petty Officer. Starfleet is in my blood, and I’ve spent my entire adult life in service to boldly going.
Keiko and Molly are my favorite humans, but Transporter Room 3 will always be my favorite.
Just don’t ask who what’s in the pattern buffer.
don’t lick the platters
No joke, as a teenager I temporarily considered using one as a pizza cutter but ultimately decided to use a pair of scissors just because I didn’t want the shiny platter to be greasy.
I really want a thin metal disc to spin now… Maybe see if I can get it to spin with my arduino…
Yeah, I had been holding on to one last one after selling the rest (I made a whopping $13 yaaaaaaaaay)
Selling that shit the moment I can get to my laptop.
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“could be ousted”
Uhhhhhh no.
Nobody in their right mind would listen to this.
The Russian Puppet never intended to allow support to continue and is making shit up to try and justify halting aid without serious backlash.
Musketrump and the MAGAts can get fucked. Unless they’re willing to go to war to enforce it, there’s 0 chance of it happening. And if they go to war for that, they’re going to have a hell of a lot of internal conflict that will absolutely result in blood. Militarily and civilian.
That would be great, but unfortunately for me I have too many programs that depend on windows, don’t have Linux options, and if I’m being honest with myself I really just don’t want to learn an entirely new ecosystem. I will if forced, but the moment this laptop shits itself or they discontinue support for the OS, I’m getting a crash course.
I’d love to turn an old tablet or somethinf into a Linux device in the meantime so I can at least start something. Too bad my parent’s old kindles won’t work, there’s enough of them laying around their house…
Oh fuck yeah gimme that customization and personalization options
I used to use a program on one of my computers called rainmeter I think, and it allowed me to customize my desktop to look like the Animus menus from Assassin’s creed 2. Then decided to go with hexagons everywhere, with the replacement start menu dead center screen and other buttons areayed out from there.
Haven’t used it in many years, but I’d love that level of customization* on a pc nowadays. It seems like no matter where I go, every UI looks the same. Good for familiarity, not so much for “oh this is neat, they made it their own” factor.
*without learning entire programming languages, I hyperfixate on things but programming has never been something I’ve been able to get into
The fact that anyone can see this and think “yes, this is a clear sign we must invest MORE in oil consumption” is wild to me.
If ONE country is shelling out as much for renewable as the rest of the world spends on fossil fuels, then MAYBE, just MAYBE there might be something to renewables, especially given all the things we see daily about how much more efficient renewables are, how much money is in the entire industry, how quickly people are switching to renewables…
It’s mind boggling that anyone thinks fossil fuels are the future, or at least can convince other people that it’s the future all while caring about just the money.
I’d love to have a power wall and a wind/solar setup for all my energy needs.
Violent protest? Prison.
No violent protest? Straight to Prison.
Talking online about possibly organizing a non violent protest? Believe it or not… Also prison.
Gee, when it’s prison no matter what, I wonder what people will do? Hmm.
HMMMMMMMMMMM
I just bought a laptop last year (portability and space constraints, I’d love to build a pc when I have the space for it) and it was supposed to come with windows 10.
I got a windows 11 model shipped to me. I didn’t ask for this. And I have to say… I fucking hate it. Why does the start menu need to change locations…
My next computer will absolutely be Linux, and it’s Microsoft’s own stupid fault. Windows 10 WAS supposed to be my last windows OS…
My dad was convinced the fridge magnet he “wiped the hard drive with” was sufficient to destroy the data inside.
I plugged it in to the new computer and whattaya kno’, booted up just fine.
At the time, I assume he just didn’t know fridge magnets weren’t powerful enough to do anything past the sheet metal exterior.
Now I’m convinced he physically wiped the fridge magnet all over the outside, thinking that literally you had to wipe the physical drive with any old magnet, and has absolutely no idea how hard drives stored data or why/how magnets work to disrupt it.
A subtle, but important difference.
I never part with my hard drives, once all the important data has been transferred and the entire hard rive has been backed up vie external storage, I disassemble it and cannibalize anything I need, and keep the actual disc assembly intact. I like spinning them by hand.
The problem is not the price.
The problem is Ai “art” is inherently stealing the work of other people, and not in a way that a painter can say they were influenced by some other painter.
I support this wholeheartedly.
I mean, even if that is the case, so what?
Are other countries not allowed to have militaries anymore?
Space should not be militarized, in my opinion, but if the US is going to do it, then we don’t get to finger wag at other countries for doing the same thing.
Why does Sony always feel like you could replace anything they say with “You should consider yourself lucky we allow you to play our games.”
Old people and overreacting to normal things because new ideas are scary and confusing
Name a more iconic duo
“the best city builder of 2024”
I mean, I like what they have so far but uh… It’s a pretty low bar, it’ll be hard to trip over…
Fun for what they have, but after maybe 10 hours you’ve played every aspect of the game. Each new game feels exactly like the game you just left. There isn’t much “design tweaking” you can do, and there isn’t much you can unlock that changes any gameplay.
Still, I have it with game pass and I keep it just in case something updates. It is fun to play. And you can disable the weird competitive features. This is a city builder, not call of duty. I don’t care to play against an opponent.
“When you are of working age and you have no more days off this week”
FTFY
No need for pointless generational divides, we’re all exhausted from this hell life.
Her logic IS undeniable.
I’ve started directly questioning the intelligence of people who can’t understand how ocean and air currents work to stabilize polar vortices and disruption of those currents causes disruption of super cold air.
And I have started getting a bit condescending while saying this as if any third grader should understand it so a fully grown adult not understanding it clearly shows some sort of mental deficiency that didn’t get caught earlier in life.
It probably means I’m a bad person but I feel a little satisfaction at their increased anger over just refuting with facts. Because you’re explaining in what sounds like it should be simple ways why they are dumb and the usually slightly narcissistic minds I deal with like this simply cannot handle that.
My mother in law’s rebuttal, after a few days and in text form, was “I DO KNOW all about the science I just don’t believe it’s happening”
And at that point, she has admitted she no longer believes reality.
You can say “I don’t believe it’s raining” all you want, but that water hitting your face won’t be any less wet.
They stated they didn’t break piracy laws because they downloaded a shitload of books for their LLM and didn’t seed any.
Torrents are downloaded by “leeches” and put out for download by “seeders”
A proper ratio of what you downloaded to what you allow others to download should be 1:1 if you’re not a dick. (1gb downloaded means you need to upload 1gb to other users for 1:1) but if you don’t seed at ALL or if you only seed bare minimum to keep downloading things, you’re called a Leech, and derogatorily. Because you didn’t seed.
So they’re stating “we didn’t break the law, we’re just leeches!”