Notices by adiwan (adiwan), page 21

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I like LaTeX to an extend. I like to define my documents by a description language. HOWEVER it has the stupidest idiosyncrasies.

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Oh boy Majima. I'm on board https://i.redd.it/0n6ai670vxpd1.png

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This week's Futurama episode is so far the first one of the season that feels like one of the older seasons. The Beany-Baby craze is somewhat relatable as it is more approachable and universal in theme than Bitcoin and NFTs. It was still a bit off in a few places. Not a banger episode but solid.

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I feel forced to download any decent picture I come across as I won't be able to find it by any means anymore over the Internet. I have a huge folder of portrait pictures organized by D&D race. I do the same with battle maps as they aren't conveniently searchable.

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Do I have too high expectations? No. I got those kind of images easily a couple of years ago without getting the urge to stab my eyes out.

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Google image search and Bing image search, and consequently any other image search, is getting more useless by the minute. I was searching for some portrait images for an upcoming D&D adventure. For example I wanted a few different Kobold images, like a rich snobby type, a miner, cultist-like in a hood. All I got were cartoony, furry AF, overly sexualized, AI-generated, or pure eye cancer in all regards of taste, artistic or image quality.

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Futurama continues to be bordering to be meh. The Fyre parody would have been old even a week after the incident. Probably the better ones is the fast fashion moth. The coffee aliens episode is very forgettable despite

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Crazy idea: A bed that is basically a bean bag, except the outer layer is airtight. When laying on the bed the body sinks in and with an applied vacuum to the bean bag the sleeping position gets fixed. I don't know how comfortable or uncomfortable this might be but at least it prevents contorting oneself into a painful position. I cannot count how many times I slept in a way that made my back hurt or pinched a nerve or even restricted blood flow to my arms.

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Sometimes it's good to just unsubscribe high frequency posters. On tumblr I followed someone who once posted quality stuff but over half a year it got more unhinged by the day to the point of being annoying. Shocker, I know it's tumblr we're speaking of, but the post per minute and information entropy became so high that any passive interaction turned to being a waste of energy, both in reading and trying to getting past the stuff.

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I think it's relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb3Din9gSRs

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Aw man. A site I used to use to watch cartoons vanished.

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Once again I was reminded that buying flat bread is a gamble in Summer. Just after a day the flat bread I bought had moldy spots. I ate half on the first day, the other went into the trash. Monetary loss of about 50 cents.

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I also say that Milka and Kinder chocolate is also trash.

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Cannot escape the Internet. A store I frequent has Mr Beast chocolate bars on display. I won't buy this milk chocolate trash. 70%-80% cocoa or bust. Anything else is chocolate flavored sweetened cheese.

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I've installed the 2TB SSD in my new laptop and installed Debian. Copying the old data from my HDD took a while over USB3, however it went kind of smoothly. I've lost only marginal data. Nothing of importance, only a few PDFs of old university slides and a compiled program.
It is eye-opening how fast the new laptop is. About 9 years of difference between the two devices isn't nothing to scoff at. Still wish that my old one worked. I hope I can use its components for anything else, especially the keyboard and then the display. I think I have a bigger success with the display tho.

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My Lenovo Thinkpad P52 arrived but I have still to wait for my m.2 SSD so I can install Linux on that. Thankfully the laptop has 2 m.2 slots, so I can keep the 500gb that is already installed, and install Linux on the other. If I'm really desperate I can add a normal laptop 2.5'' SATA.

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Ah yes. Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory promoting shady medicine.

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Anyone claiming a smartphone or tablet can replace a regular computer is a delusional fool who has not tasted the power and freedom that a computer offers. I tried catching up on my tablet and it made me realize once again how limiting and cumbersome touchscreens are and how android is not making it easy navigating anything and its ecology is not geared to power users. Autocorrect and predictive text blocks are mere crutches and poor imitations of the feats one can do when mastering touch typing on a physical keyboard. I coould learn doing that on a screen keyboard but doing so blindly is verging on the impossible.

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Aw man. My Thinkpad X201 died. It only blinks the Wifi LED wildly and has a spinning fan on startup. I bought it used 10 years ago. Gonna need a new used.

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Modeled and 3d-printed myself some magnetic cable ties https://i.imgur.com/UFqgqBa.jpeg I want to use them to manage my cables under my desk. My go-to one will be the one on the left that can be attached around the corner of a square metal tube. The ones on my desk are very slim so the flat one has barely any surface to hang to.