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Hmm, maybe just use some variation of DIN connector? It’s a circle, but keyed to one position, and fairly effortless to plug in the right way without seeing. Also full size DIN connectors are robust as hell and can be easily replaced and rewired.

Hell, my Commodore 64 IEC bus cables still work after decades, and I can’t say the same about many USB cables these days.

You either use Debian, or Debian With Extra Steps, so I went with Debian

“systemd is the worst implementation of init, except all those other inits that have been tried from time to time” -Churchill, if he had been a nerd

I must apologize to Dahir Insaat for ever mocking their 18 wheeler drone airbase attack video

Didn’t Dahir Insaat try to pitch their stuff to Putin in a open letter video, and Putin notably didn’t respond, but was probably like “no, that’s too wacky”?

Look who’s doing wacky shit now! Putin is going to wish he had bought a Hell Bed

I use plenty of Linux on server side, just that I use Windows as my daily desktop OS for some godforsaken reason.

I actually got back to watching Star Trek recently!

I’ve seen Breaking Bad. This is just what the memes look like in Mexico.

“Proceedings from the Dog Turd”, Elsevier, annual subscription cost: several arms and legs

I agree. It’s quite unlikely the setup will finish in 33 minutes. Not really, anyway.

Long ago I was exploring some MUD, and it was the usual fantasy game experience. But one area was basically a weird dimension representing the server itself. Instead of monsters it had zombie processes you could kill. And child processes looking at you sadly. Trying to kill them was one of those “top 10 video game moments that made you feel like a total monster” things.

I once heard sex noises through the wall.

So I cranked up the volume and played the samples from Sinistar.

I HUNGER. RUN COWARD.

There was some old interview with Linus. He said that the first thing people usually notice about the setup is the standing desk (this was long ago, and he was a bit of a trendsetter). The second thing they notice is the wall colour. It’s used in mental hospitals. It has a calming effect on human mind.

I found a pencil holder I had in the 1990s. It has these little drawers for erasers and stuff. I was like “oh cool, I can fill the rest of these with my SD cards and USB sticks.”

So, while cleaning my desk looking for those, I found one of these. I was like “I’m pretty sure I had at least 2 of these.” …I found three.

Yup. In theory, it’s a program to gently kick the job applicants to apply for more jobs, which sounds like a good thing. In practice, it’s yet another way for the authorities to breathe down the neck of job applicants to document the busywork they’re already doing, and make sure they’re doing nothing productive besides sitting by their phones and waiting for calls (that probably never come because you just annoyed every potential employer by spamming them with applications).

Several years ago, Finnish authorities did another experiment. Universal basic income for a few lucky recipients! People who participated in this couldn’t believe how awesome it was to freely engage in a bunch of modern freelancing options that the unemployment benefits program just straight up banned. I hear it was awesome while it lasted. Now, they decided to do this mandatory application bullshit for the rest of the unemployed populace. I’m hoping they got all of the data on which of the options was more productive, because from my point of view, this hasn’t been it!

I’m unemployed. A few years ago, the Finnish government introduced a requirement that all job seekers must submit up to 4 applications per month. (This was stupid from both the applicant and recruitment perspective. They did this anyway. Oh, companies just get swamped by applications? :surprised_pikachu:)

Then I started hearing news that major companies are screening applications based on AI analysis. And then I attended one job applicant event where one of the sessions was literally “using ChatGPT to write a cover letter”.

I’m in software development. I don’t expect to be employed again anytime soon. (Unless I bullshit my way to some AI job using ChatGPT, but hey, I have a few vestiges of morality left.)

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In the late 1990s/early 2000s, there was some satire article about how to get most effective Linux support. Just write an angry news/blog article about how Linux sucks because it doesn’t (insert the thing you’re having problems with here). You bet someone will immediately respond how you’re an idiot and you should (insert detailed explanation of how to fix the thing here).

The red eye effect happens when flash reflects off the retina. Compact cameras (film and early digital) had flash very close to the lens, so there was a high chance of that happening.

Not much of a chance these days, when most people take photos with cell phones, the cellphone cameras have adequate low light performance so you don’t need flash to begin with, and the “flash” is just an LED that isn’t as luminous as a real flash bulb.

Debian girl here. We may not have updated anything in 5 years but boy howdy are things stable or what.

Me, I’m old, so I just keep using apt-get, because that’s all we had back in the day, and I never bothered to learn what’s the big deal about apt. It’s just a frontend, isn’t it?

I am definitely going to need my morning coffee. I see the word “Y’all” and I’m somehow thinking “shouldn’t it be Xall if we’re taking about X11? Wait what’s wrong with my brain”