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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.
Sunday, 01-Sep-24 21:20:00 UTC from web- Someone Probably likes this.
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@adiwan Extremely agree. It feels as though smart phones and tablets have become ever more restrictive. I do value the constant connectivity, but my phone could never possibly replace my computer.
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@elli I have a friend who is a teacher and they have children who have never touched a Windows PC. Those children are in a majority. THAT is scary.
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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.
Sunday, 01-Sep-24 16:57:13 UTC from web-
@scribus The laptop is dead. Long live the new used laptop. Just ordered a ThinkPad P52 with a NVidia Quando P2000. Not the greatest but it will do. I wanted to get away from puny Intel graphics. Good thing I didn't buy a new smartphone. I almost pulled the trigger on that.
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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.
Saturday, 31-Aug-24 13:58:56 UTC from web -
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Saturday, 31-Aug-24 08:45:23 UTC from web -
I need a job that'll pay the rent on a residence with access to enough space for a pumpkin patch
Friday, 30-Aug-24 23:03:56 UTC from web -
Finally got my figures of Kiryu and Majima. I'm missing Ichiban. I could order directly from Japan but I'm not in the mood to deal with import duties.
Friday, 30-Aug-24 12:41:48 UTC from web -
Me during my vacation: :)
Me paying my credit cards off after the vacation: >:(Friday, 30-Aug-24 02:16:13 UTC from web -
My most favorite function is the sigmoid function. It has a nice ease-in and ease-out.
Thursday, 29-Aug-24 20:45:22 UTC from web -
it’s too bad the Persona 3 Remake didn’t change the setting to the modern day so we could hear Aigis say “sigma”
Thursday, 29-Aug-24 19:06:16 UTC from web -
The new Beetlejuice Fanta has like the most sugar I’ve ever seen in a 16oz bottle of soda, they’re trying to send people to meet the guy himself I guess
Wednesday, 28-Aug-24 16:17:00 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I really want to have anything with sugar and high caloric food to be taxed. I cannot wait until Germany does the same as the UK and Poland and many others.
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I'm low-key considering buying a car seat instead of a new office chair. I rather build a platform for the car seat than waste yet again over 200 bucks for a sub-par "ergonomic" office chair with worse butt comfort. I just looked-up car seats in my local listings and a whole set of two front seats and the backseat row can be bought for 100.
Wednesday, 28-Aug-24 04:40:05 UTC from web-
@adiwan My high school girlfriend's dad did exactly that for their family's computer chairs, it can actually work out *incredibly* well, totally a good project idea. I've even been thinking about it as my desk chair starts wearing out....
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@scribus I think we live on a planet similar to Frogstar from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Frogstar_World_B Instead of shoes it's office chairs. I've never had an office chair that was of sufficient quality. Even my current one had the problem that its cushioning was almost nonexistent after half a year.
Before I buy a car seat I try to repair the cushions by stuffing a gel or silicone pillow into, anything that survives long butt-to-cushion interactions. I already have a silicone pillow that I put on top but it tends to slide off more times I can tolerate.
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Tasted the first Jalapeno from my garden. I could barely endure the pain. I never thought it would be this hot, especially with these growing conditions.
Wednesday, 28-Aug-24 09:24:41 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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plenty of candidates have debated well and then lost anyway - Mitt Romney immediately comes to mind - but considering how Trump was polling in June and how he's polling now, i think there's ample room to argue that he'd probably be better off now if Joe Biden WASN'T asleep the entire debate
Monday, 26-Aug-24 22:18:59 UTC from web -
very real chance that 2024 goes down in history as the first time that winning a debate caused a candidate to lose an election
Monday, 26-Aug-24 22:14:49 UTC from web -
i just wanna sue somebody man i was really proud of slipping that background gag in and NOBODY noticed it, i didn't even get ONE comment about it
Monday, 26-Aug-24 21:31:50 UTC from web -
wait do i sue Larry David for writing the op-ed about post-birth abortions or do i sue Donald Trump for insisting they're a thing or do i sue Ralph Northam, 73rd Governor of Virginia, for giving that weird interview that put the idea in everyone's head to begin with and causing me to inadvertently appear in the background on an NBC News report covering protests against him that one time when he did that other thing
Monday, 26-Aug-24 21:26:11 UTC from web -
suing Larry David for writing a Washington Post op-ed with the same premise as a joke that I have been telling for almost ten years now
Monday, 26-Aug-24 21:09:41 UTC from web -
Factoid: There is a colloquial word in German for beating and fighting called "kloppen".
Sunday, 25-Aug-24 12:52:26 UTC from web -
It was called clopping, dad... and everypony did it...
Saturday, 24-Aug-24 22:15:35 UTC from web- RDN's Lucifer likes this.
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@thelastgherkin king of the hill s14e01
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@thelastgherkin "Is it the thing with the coconut from Monty Python's Holy Grail?"
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So, uh.
Hai.
I exist again. Sorta. That is all.Sunday, 25-Aug-24 02:50:29 UTC from web -
The latest Futurama season is... very meh. It's not downright bad but meh. The first episode was about blockchain and NFT. It feels more dated than any 90s Simpson episode (combined). The last one with the temp worker on the other hand was weirdly malicious and worked against the spirit of Futurama. Other than that not a bad episode when seen in a vacuum.
Thursday, 22-Aug-24 19:53:02 UTC from web-
@adiwan I didn't realize it started. Thought the articles talking about episodes were previews for September
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@citrusrain I also got it by accident by browsing on Disney+ here in Germany (it's in their *STAR* tab that contains mostly more international and mature content).
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I think it's probably time to be honest about this: I have neither the time, nor the motivation to work on this place anymore. There's stuff going on in my personal life I'd rather not get into, so in short: I'm probably going to finally turn this place off in the next few months. If you're interested in taking ownership, let me know, but know that I'd only be comfortable handing it off to someone I know and trust, rather than any rando that shows up.
Wednesday, 14-Aug-24 16:56:54 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark Thanks for all the memories, this site was a core part of my adolescence. Found it early in high school right as I was becoming my own self and still think fondly of it even if I haven't regularly used it in a decade. It's always been nice to pop in and see familiar names. If anyone wants to keep up post RDN my Steam and FB links are in my profile. I wish everyone the best in life!
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@ceruleanspark Thanks for all the hard work over the years. This was a fun place to hang out when I was but a friendless kiddo dealing with middle school angst- don't know how I could have stood it without. Hope all will be well; if not now, then in the future.
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@ceruleanspark Thanks for keeping it up for so long. I don't post often, but I check in now and then. Made all my first fedifriends over here and I'm thankful it has lasted this long. Gonna miss everypony.
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