Thought we'd come up with a life hack to keep the dishes from piling up: just buy the minimum necessary, forcing them to be washed regularly.
This works until you accidentally break a dish. ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
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In my day we had buttons.
We had switches! Sliders!
And what do we have now? Glass rounded rectangles of various sizes.
"We can make it do haptic feedback."
No just put me out of my misery. Send me to the farm upstate. Your haptic feedback is a mockery of the elegance of the latching switches and potentiometers I have known.
Robotics is hard. Mechanical engineering is hard. The glass rounded rectangles are magical, yes, and lovely, but they also prisons for the imagination.
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yeah lol i'd absolutely eat nectarines before i'd peel a peach
Unless I'm going to a farmers market where they have the good shit I end up buying nectarines more than peaches anyway just because supermarkets tend to have dogshit peaches but okay nectarines.
my university has converted our office telephones to Microsoft Teams. when i grumbled about this to a favourite sysadmin, this is how they responded ๐ฅ
โMicrosoft has actually brilliantly leveraged the lousy security landscape -- for which they are in no small part responsible -- to capture even larger market-share, as we now need commercial entities to produce the software required to protect us from their failures, and therefore need a more uniform environment to achieve the necessary scale. The uniformity then guarantees an ever greater scale for the inevitable conflagration. Monocultures guarantee one big fire instead of a bunch of small survivable ones. We really have no interest in learning from evolution, in no small part because it would produce fewer billionaires.
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So I think that when I took off after Benny when he got loose I got into some poison ivy/oak. I'm normally careful about such things, but I had to be quick to catch him.
I washed my arms immediately after and slathered them with afterbite (which I figured was the most useful thing we had on hand) but there was some itchiness/rash shortly thereafter. Fortunately Benny seems to have been unaffected.
Could've been a lot worse.
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In Afghanistan, the Taliban's Minister of Education has announced that girls' schools are likely to remain closed permanently.
As a Muslim let me be explicitly clear. This is apartheid, vile, & inexcusable.
Prophet Muhammad(sa) declared, "It is incumbent upon every Muslim male & every Muslim female to attain education." His wife Ayesha was a leading scholar & jurist. His final words were "women are your committed partners." Not servantsโPARTNERS.
Taliban terrorists are a stain on humanity.
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@่ฒ ใใใญใคใณ โญ๏ธ๐ฐ๐บ๐ธ ๐ต๐ญ These were cheapo dollar store batteries too.
Mind you, it's a simple enough device where "off" actually means off, not some low-power standby mode.
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It should come as no surprise to anyone who's been paying attention that I've grown disillusioned with capitalism over the past several years. What's interesting to me though is that any time I express this publicly, there are no shortage of capitalists who falsely assert that I am claiming that communism is the ultimate solution to everything. This is a false dichotomy.
I am not saying I have the answers to the world's problems. I just have eyes to see that the emperor has no clothes.
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6 lines free for anyone that wants to play on this PDP-11/70 running Version 7 UNIX.
ssh misspiggy@tty.livingcomputers.org
Drop in "com" to have messages displayed on the terminals.
#retrocomputing #unix #vintage
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Hey #Unix folks recommend me your favorite games that can run in the terminal that aren't:
1) the most basic boring arcade stuff like snake or missile command
2) roguelikes/dungeon crawlers (love em but there's no lack of those)
3) chess, backgammon, etc., more meaty board games sure but there's already a million easy to find ways to play chess in a terminal
edit: 4) IF, I know where to find plenty of that, forgot this one
This is for my machine with no gui so when I say terminal I mean terminal not just like "text based and looks like it'd be in a terminal maybe".
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are you certain? It could last I checked!
[PRINT_MODE:TEXT] in data/init/init.txt
@via unreachable I didn't have an init folder under data. I added it and got the following when I launched it, I got the following error:
Display not found and PRINT_MODE not set to TEXT, aborting.
@me it looks like Debian moved stuff around; try editing /usr/share/games/dwarf-fortress/gamedata/data/init/init.txt
Change [PRINT_MODE:2D] to [PRINT_MODE:TEXT], and you should get curses output.
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •after posting this brain.worm.pink/notice/AlVXRJZโฆ it occurred to me how aliens/successors looking through our layers of e-waste (somehow in chronological order? maybe they're deep chthonians digging their way up) would find all these buttons and gizmos of dazzling variety of aesthetics and ergonomics
then a flood of nothing but little black rectangles
i can't imagine them *not* panicking and sealing off the cave entrance thinking that our civilization had been wiped out by some kind of grey goo disaster
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •Press and hold to turn on, press and hold longer to pair bluetooth, press once for play/pause, press long to turn off... Oh, you pressed it too long and now it's gone from on straight into BT pairing, or maybe off, I'm not sure.
Just press and hold till something happens again.
aburka ๐ซฃ
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