Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitating it, trying to be amusing and informative.
Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.
Was on kbin.social (dying/dead) and kbin.run (mysteriously vanished). Now here on fedia.io.
Really hoping he hasn’t brought the jinx with him.
Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish
There’s a place I used to pass frequently that has an automated car wash at one side of the road and a manual car wash at the other. In the sense that they have staff there who do all the washing, cleaning and even detailing if you’re willing to pay for it.
As far as I know they’re not owned by the same people.
I’m surprised those signs don’t include sinistralité. Those left-handed f–kers are up to something even worse than the gays, I’m sure of it.
(/s is for satire and that’s good enough for me)
My own external 1TB HDD is old enough that it only has USB2 connectivity. It transfers at around 40MB/s. Maybe you’re in the same situation?
I only transfer files of a few gigabytes to it every month or so, which I find bearable, but I’d be less happy if I was trying to move hundreds of gigabytes or the full drive contents on a regular basis. That would literally take hours.
Interesting. And yet it’s still incomplete. F6 and Alt+D both do the same thing (focus the address bar), so there’s at least one line missing and definitely at least one column.
This must seriously be messing with the heads of people high up in insurance companies. On the one hand AI is something that no C-level can resist, but on the other, that’s an expensive way to say “no” to every request for money.
I saw a documentary about this. I think they called it Caprica.
“Don’t be silly, they can’t do that. That’d be antisemitic.” – Bibi Utteryahoo
Usenet then Slashdot and a forum on a website that no longer exists.
Once I got Internet at home, there were a few online chatrooms that were web based, but were basically IRC. It looks like one of those sites still exists, but if it’s the same one I used (and Yahoo used as a proxy) it’s not at the URL I used it at. Also either I’ve forgotten my details or I’ve been deleted (or it’s a knock-off).
Then Digg, Reddit, Twitter and now the Fediverse.
Oh and throw Discord in there too somewhere towards the latter end.
Dishonourable mentions: MyYearbook and Tagged.com. The former was a bit like old-school MySpace, but it became a soulless dating site called MeetMe with none of the fun Flash games and chat. Tagged was basically a (surprisingly smut-free) user avatar trading site. Attractive people’s pictures (usually women) could end up worth ridiculous sums of fake money. Like vigintillions of dollars kinds of ridiculous.
Now it seems that both are part of the same company, at least based on how the websites for MeetMe and Tagged look. Very glad I’m out of there.
One thing is certain: Your distro’s repository’s version of yt-dlp - even on bleeding edge distros - is likely out of date, and you’ll have to find and run the appimage version from the devs.
I’m not OP, but yes I hoard. For most of the non-sentimental stuff, any third party coming in would result in me saying “OK” and throwing it all out because wanting to get that third party out of my safe space as soon as possible and not have to think about it would trump the need to keep those things.
And I’d deal with the regret later. Both that I didn’t have the stuff any more and the cynical belief that the need for it is bound to be hastened precisely because I got rid of it.
For the sentimental stuff, that third party is going to quickly become an enemy, whether either of us likes it or not.
Stuff that’s in the middle ground, for example, old computer parts, maybe that third party might be able to help reason about it, but it’s going come down to one of the two above results pretty quick.
FWIW, I had a partial clear out about a decade ago and I still have regrets.
“Might be useful one day” is a real problem for hoarders.
If you find a use for one of those things you’re keeping, you won’t have another because you would have already used it, so you keep two. But if you keep two and use one, then you’ll find yourself in the situation where you only have one, so better have three just to be safe. Now multiply that for several different kinds of things and you have a house full of stuff.
And this doesn’t even begin to touch on the stuff that might have a sentimental attachment.
I have nothing against China as in the landmass, nor most of the people that live there. They have an ancient history, a fascinating set of languages, interesting culture, wildlife, natural beauty, but beyond that, the Chinese are just people, trying to get by, like everyone everywhere else.
What I don’t like is the way the country is run. Especially the fact that I’d be unwise to go there for espousing such an opinion.
I could say much the same of Russia, for that matter.
And my own government and the other parties who stand a chance of becoming a future government here all seem to be headed in a similar direction and I don’t like that either.
So now they’ll dump it in a warehouse somewhere and raise prices to pay rent on that warehouse like all good scam recycling companies do.
And they’ll tell the EU that they’re waiting for an opportunity to sell it but that hasn’t arisen yet. And thus, by and large, they won’t change how they operate.
Dodge v. Ford Motor Company, 1919.
This case found and entrenched in US law that the primary purpose of a corporation is to operate in the interests of its shareholders.
Therefore OpenAI, based in California, would be under threat of lawsuit if they didn’t do that.
This goose is already cooked.
Freedom to kiss Putin’s ring? What more could you want?
The DDR4 sticks I got 18 months ago now cost 300-400% the price they were, so it’s not just DDR5.
… and I just realised the title doesn’t actually mean “DDR5 prices”, but that was an easy misinterpretation on my part, so I guess I’ll post this anyway.
That’s why you have that in a different wallet elsewhere on your person.
In my case, the card wallet goes inside my jacket, and the cash wallet goes in my back trouser pocket. And in the front pocket if I think pickpockets are likely.
Don’t put an official government ID in there. A separate card wallet is always a good plan. Put any card IDs in there instead.
Do put a card in there with your name and contact details along with name and contact details of next of kin. If your wallet didn’t come with such a card, any old bit of cardboard or folded paper will do, so long as it doesn’t look like a joke.
Doing that saved my bacon once or twice, or at least I assume that’s how the people who found me knew who to contact.
As for what money to put in there, amounts and so on, it’s going to depend on how often you pay cash, how much you pay when you do, and how much you’d be OK with losing if you lost your wallet (or worse).
Did you miss the part where I said “It’s not there as an alternative.” or are you being deliberately obtuse?
This whole thing is in violation of Rule 3.
But if you really want the speculation of an unqualified guy on the Internet. Here be pain. You have been warned.
Depending on the country, the era, the hospital and the prevailing mentality and procedures followed by the medical staff there, it is a possibility your twin was not viable ex utero. The doctors might have hidden it away and then spun the tale that the twin had been absorbed to save your family the anguish and pain.
Why not let a newly-blessed family go home with their one happy, healthy child and none of the pain?
The alternative is that your twin is was viable but was stolen away to be raised by someone else. But that sort of thing usually only happens in TV melodramas.