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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

When things go wrong in Windows at an app or third party software, stuff is often fixable. At worst you might need to reinstall the damn thing. But if the OS itself starts doing weird stuff, things often go to the headache territory really fast. Get a weird error, log says some OS component is going boom, no idea how to fix it, official instructions are along the lines of "Well if DISM and SFC are not going to fix it, looks like you need to reinstall the entire damn OS." Which usually wouldn't be a cause for anxiety, but blergh, muh preschus licence key, hope I won't screw that up.

Meanwhile, I ran one Debian install for over 20 years once. Stuff is usually very fixable indeed. There are good logs. It's rarely a complete mystery why some program is doing what it doing. At absolute worst you might need to look at the source code, which is actually rare.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I have a sports watch and the corresponding fitness app. I can confirm. "Sitting on one's ass at the restaurant" is not a fitness activity. HOWEVER. Some of my activities (e.g. walks) do terminate near fast food jonts. ...I dread what that kind of data analysis would yield on a major political figure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Well cron is "really easy" as long as your requirements are really easy too.

Run a task at specific hour or minute or weekday or whatever? Easy peasy.

Run a task at complex intervals? What the fuck is this syntax. How do I get it right even. Guess I'll come back next week and see if it ran correctly.

Actually have to look at the calendar to schedule this stuff? Oh lawd here come the hacks, they're so wide, they're coming

Run a task at, say, granularity of seconds? Of course it's not supported, who would ever need that, if you really need that just do an evil janky shellscript hack

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Well, systemd developers made one of the classic blunders a software developer can do: make a program that has to deal with time and dates. Every time I have to deal with timestamps I'm like "oh shit, here we go again".

Anyway, as I understood it the reason this is in systemd is because they wanted to replace cron, and it's fine by me because cron has it's own brain-hurt. (The cron syntax is something that always makes me squint real hard for a while.)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Good thing about having a 80s/90s station in the region is that they have to dramatically rebrand before they can branch out to more recent decades.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

But it would have been great for a Shakespearian minor joke character bit.

GUARD: "See, milord, how in this year's almanack the booba hath been veil'd, compared to last year's edition."

KING: "Greatly?"

GUARD: "Yes, greatly indeed! Two inches of cloth more!"

KING: "Thou art a nutter and I ought to throw thee in the madhouse."

GUARD: "But you wouldn't dare, sire? Tales of your treachery and oppression already circle widely."

KING: "Thou shouldst consider thee lucky that we have to get the Hell onward with our plot."

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Nah. ...Well, don't get me wrong, the rich absolutely should be taxed, sure, but that's a different debate.

We don't have a nationally mandated minimum wage in Finland. Because the unions set their own minimum wages (which they adjust frequently to market conditions) and the unions also have actual legitimate power.

Maybe they should try this stuff in America too. It's fucking awesome.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

"Because at this point, why the hell not"

—Elon Musk, probably

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Some of the things that helped me:

  • Regularity. I also have ADHD so actually getting me to catalog daily/weekly things that I need to do was hard enough. But now that I have like 5 todo lists things are looking up.
  • Cataloging things. I love photography and writing down interesting ideas. Someone looking through my photo collection might wonder why I take photos of random shit. Simple reason: Something managed to brighten my day and I just had to put it in on the record. I feel happier when I know that those moments won't ever disappear if I can at all manage it. Similarly, if I have cool ideas that made me happy for some reason, I write them down.
  • Crap social media is the worst. Be on the social media to fearlessly shout your cool ideas to the void if you have to. Don't be there to passively and silently afraid to speak up and stick around with people you barely know and watch them slowly turn nazi yes-men. (Yes. It has happened. Before Elon bought Twitter. Can't even imagine how shit things are nowdays over there.)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

We old people were raised well, dammit! We had wired earphones! Then Apple cocked up and tried to make expensive wireless earphones fashionable. And look where that lead us. That's right, kids not knowing what earphones even are. Fuck you technobros, you can't do anything right.

(Posted from my HMD Global Nokia 5.4, which does have a headphone jack, thank you very much) (Sorry if abrasive, mildly drunk)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Most recent time I was awestruck by a thunderstorm in a game? Forza Horizon 5. One of the early missions involved heading out in the jungle during a massive thunderstorm and it was just legendary. Visuals, audio, everything.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

I can imagine nothing more miserable than having a day out on a massive expensive yacht... on the Baltic Sea.

(Regular rich people might have some fun on the ferries, but billionaires probably don't, because this involves buying a ticket and sharing the ship with the rabble.)

One day, I wish I had a shitty old fishing boat and go slowly puttering through the rain and gloom. Living the real life.

 

As we said in the last millennum, "'Nuff said".

 

...or, a very brief 3 hour summary of all the not so fun things Facebook has done, in case you need a reminder.

 

Come on now, if this had been posted in the 1980s, it'd be peak cyberpunk. Actually, it holds up today! Synthwave dudes rock.

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Quick scanlation from Finnish comic book Pahkasika, issue 9, published in 1981.

Modern update: Flight AY286 + HSL's metropolitan P train will actually get you to Helsinki in 1h 55m. Ah ha! So the trains fix this shit! However, as a Northern witchy biaatch, I'm still flabbergasted by the fact that Jyväskylä is in the southern Finland and they don't even get a Pendolino link to Helsinki. We do, here in Oulu. Please do get better, scrubs.

* Edit: Fucked up the last line in the scanlation. Jyväskylä to Helsinki, obviously.

** Wait Lemmy let me also replace uploaded fuck-ups? This is the best platform ever

 
 

So, this will be a metal remix of a song from a game that not a lot of people even have heard about, but I swear it's worth watching.

See the incredibly blatant trademark violation dude (legally speaking it was OK because serial numbers were filed out) running around in one of the C64est of the C64 games ever made while awesome music plays even more awesomely than it did in the original, while 100% keeping with the spirit!

(Made by System 3, the same company which made The Last Ninja games, and you can tell. You can really tell.)

 

Yes. The 1990s demoscene song by Edge (Kalle Kaivola) of the demogroup EMF (Electromotive Force). The file was bundled with Future Crew's Scream Tracker 3 software, one of the most influential music software packages of the era.

A lot of demoscene songs just lend themselves perfectly to cyberpunk vibes, you know?

 

From Bing.

Nothing special about the prompt - I've been using variations of "kids petting giant tortoises" in image generators for a while now. Because I like turtles.

Anyway.

There are so many questions I have about this image. That's not a normal position for that turt! Why aren't the kids helpin the poor turt down from the tree stump? And what's up with the turts in the background? Or the hair of that person over there? It's all very confusing. I don't know.

 

Horse_eComics, 2012-09-13

Well that's sad. Clearly, the homemade dog is the one that was made with love. But that's just my personal commentary.

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