bryndos

I dgaf about support. (i’m naturally perky).

Back in dos there was a systemic encouragement to users to at least learn something about a computer. Nowadays windows apologists seem to relish how much it dumbs down computers, (or any over supported system).

They won’t learn to ride the bike until someone removes the stabiliser brackets - and Gates is one of the cunts who figured out that he makes more cash by welding them on.

basic_task_list = ['copy and paste', 'install package', 'type', 'keyboard', 'read and write' ]

for basic_task in basic_task_list:
    print(f"""
        Newbies can't {basic_task}.
        They never {basic_task} in windows.
        Windows  has replaced {basic_task} with copilot, this is what linux needs to do to compete.

        How will linux ever hope to attract windows user if it still maintains this ancient hacker 1337xor tools like  {basic_task}?

        Users just want to turn on computer and watch it do computance - how does linux not get this?
    """)

I’ve had it with all these mkfs-ing windows on this mkfs-ing plane.

Thanks! You stopped me clinking the linked slop so i downvoted OP, but your comment made me look up the previous project and some of that made me feel slightly less bad about my own shitty ignorant failures with guitar effect circuits.

https://github.com/torvalds/GuitarPedal

If you actually know what you are doing, and you looked at the schematic and went “Linus is clearly way over his head, and that is just stupid”, whether it comes to parts choices or to just the circuit in general, please let me know.

In particular, don’t feel like it would be impolite to tell me I’m incompetent and doing stupid things. I absolutely know I’m not competent and would love to hear any criticism. Some of the best teaching moments have been when I haven’t understood something, and somebody piped up to tell me I should do Xyz.

I’m going to leave the link to the “Tremolo doubling as a metronome” issue from the 1590A pedal project, because that was a case of somebody (@gralco) coming in and very politely telling me I was doing stupid things.

Pushing me to do simulations in KiCad completely changed the game. So don’t be shy to tell me my circuits suck. Because that’s literally why I do this!

Yeah I’m surprised no one has dug up any obscure faerie or troll creature. So it does seem to be fairly original thing with maybe some medusa inspiration.

In the real world some of the drawings of beholders with toothy mouths make me think of angler fish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_one-eyed_creatures_in_mythology_and_fiction

There’s some cool things in this list, but i don’t see anything like it really similar enough.

Closest in appearance might be this listed as a 1973 comic, so close in time, but maybe too tentacleish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuma-Gorath

I can’t get past this one though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasa-obake

They are generally umbrellas with one eye and jump around with one leg . . .

That should have been in D&D

Long before the term intelligence was sullied by the prefix “artificial” the phrase “police intelligence” has long been a euphemism for a suspicion that they cannot back up with any evidence that would stand up in court.

I think coprolite seems like a perfect fit for their methods. They just need to train it to start off with solid evidence and fuck it up until it doesn’t stand up in court. Then it’ll be employee of the week. A bit like computer driven cars, it might be shite but that doesn’t mean it is necessarily worse than the typical human cop.

The real problem is if it’s harder to hold it to account.

A more easily if everyone who isn’t moving bulky things (like majority of commuters) is using public transport.

‘Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace’ (TV, 2000s) also had something similar in the “skipper the eyechild” episode. Nsfw if anyone searches it. I’d be quite surprised if they paid royalties for that.

I don’t know about supplies in rest of the world, but typically the rpi “kits” that include the book seem to be very limited and rarely in stock.

I think the book, at least older versions, can be found on ebay though. I think its just a basic into to python and GPIO so the earlier editions are probably fine.

Compare it to the likely alternative for the task/person, probably R or even MS excel in many cases i’d guess. The alternatives should ideally be based on empirical observation of the population. The marginal saving of choosing a higher efficiency than python might look a lot lower.

Go Go Gadget Eyes

Apparently even Tacitus said it was a made up name. It seems like it might have originally applied to lands west of the Rhine, or some tribe living there in Roman times. So it might have applied to as much of modern Netherlands and Belgium as to modern Deutschland.

Don’t forget the ‘Heiliges Römisches Reich’ though - that always seemed a bit contrived.

Sadly, it probably makes their lives easier too , for most of them - at least the ones traveling in the zone. They can afford it or the cab fare, and the journey is faster.

The ones holding oil stocks won’t even notice the immaterial difference unless it somehow fixes transit and housing density in the rest of the USA (Narrator: . . . ) .

The only real inconvenience would probably be for low income people who have to drive and can’t swap to subway or bus for some reason - I’d think probably not very many of those.

Maybe people owning car parking in manhatten suffer so that’s probably a win.

Holding down a b-17 flying fortress?

Anyways, I think several popular English dictionaries disagree.

Worse than correcting someone, is doing it wrongly, or where correct is ambiguous.

That’s why true audiophiles only listen on phonograph cylinders.

Min Plank

Surely there can’t be that many sheep on Soay to come up with such an estimate.

I suspect the scientist got a bit lonely out there doing the fieldwork, tried something that he’d normally get away with on a domestic ewe, got rebuffed, and wrote this paper to slander the whole species as revenge.

I’d say 2002 was peak, best since 1001.

I’d give it to 2007 if the 2 and 7 were written to have rotational symmetry and it were motorised to spin around the bridge.

8008 (with motorisation) will probably be the true peak though, and it’s the only compelling reason to suffer through and try to prevent collapse of this civilisation - or at least save this calendar system.

On debian, I never worry - most of my regular use computers are that. Maybe hesitant about a dist-upgrade, but i backup all my home and main edited config , and apt-list regularly anyway.

on my arch that i use regularly I never worry.

on steam deck never worry - kind of obviously.

On my arch system that i only use occasionally i just expect trouble whenever i go back to it after a too long (say 2 months i’d be edgy)…

I always run my backup procedure first - i have to anyway to sync my home folders.

update archlinux-keyring first as that’s the most common issue .

if any dependency issue emerges that cant be fixed by removing one or two packages or using pacman-static - i normally just go straight back to live usb and chroot, or be prepared to reformat and jump back to the pacstrap part of install process and reinstall base system.