The sun is the same in a relative way
    but you're older      <- Time, Pink Floyd

A friend of mine is a musician. About a decade or two ago I went over to his house and he said that he had to get a new fan to fix his computer. I asked him what was going on, so he turned it on and I heard that tick-tick-tick of the read head. I had to let him know it was his hard drive. He had a lot backed up, but not everything, and not the stuff he’d been working on the past couple weeks. Just a bummer. But he did set up a backup program after that.

Then came Ronald Reagan and the dark times.

That about sums up the situation.

I configured the newsboat rss reader for my youtube subscriptions, but you may want to configure another reader that allows you to download/watch videos. An alternative to @cow@lemmy.world’s javascript code, you can go onto the homepage of a youtube channel, open up the page source and search for “rssurl”. That will give you the rss feed for the channel.

A lot of readers can do this automatically. It really is nice to watch videos without any of the suggestions or ads. Also, if you use mpv to watch the videos, you can install a sponsorblock script that does away with the paid promotions in the video.

pdfimages is what you want, I believe. It’s in the poppler-utils package in Debian.

That just brings me back to starting the compile, getting something to eat, doing chores, and whatever else. Then when it was finally done, booting it up only for it to not boot because I forgot some checkbox. Repeat a couple of times. Nights getting the thing working. And then on the next kernel release, trying to make sure I remembered all the checks because it didn’t let you export the current config back then.

Bitch about the DNC suppressing just about all truly progressive candidates who would be more likely to get out the younger vote. It’s not like voting takes place (or doesn’t take place as it may be) in a vacuum.

There’s a lot to bitch about as far as Biden goes, which makes it even more weird when people make up fake shit to be outraged about. I felt the same about Clinton.

Both statements are true.

Going back to the most famous code comment in Unix history You are not expected to understand this.

I was so hoping that crap like this, FAFO, and the other weak sauce bullshit wouldn’t make it over here. I was stupid for even hoping that.

Naw, it was a Bolt.

~sorry. I’l leave now~

Lived through it myself.

People are so weird. Their online presence means so much to so many. I want to reply to all of them, just switch instances. As important as they feel, nobody is going to bat an eye when they move, yet they feel that they are really losing something if they do.

Damn, you are one quick googler!!

I don’t know if it was time/place. This was early '80s and I was about 11 years old. I just thought it was pretty funny.

Did you mean pedantic?

The first time I was at St Marks Square some Euro dude stripped to his underwear and started sunbathing. Police showed up and told him to put clothes on.

Are there even downvotes on this site? I kind of miss them for the trolls and what not.

Several decades ago I read Don Quixote. It’s a well known book. A man searching the land for the glory of a time that has passed. The yearning for how things used to be, but not recognizing that time has gone by and it’s not possible to put the toothpaste back in the tube.

Hawai’i sovereignty people are modern day Don Quixotes. An almost bittersweet inability to accept the reality in front of their faces.