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Big corporations use their power to suppress everything that can threaten their business. Microsoft famously adopts free and open standards and alter them such that they are dominating them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
Friday, 17-Jun-22 19:05:47 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Apple loves to Stockholm-syndrome their customers. Upgrading the hardware or even repair? No way! Soldered storage? Sure! Using slightly different chips and software-locking hardware components! Of course! Installing unauthorized software on the iPhone? HELL NO. No filthy hands, hardware or software should taint it.
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@adiwan "Have you used certain hardware and software ever since you bought the machine? Well, not anymore! Every update takes power from you! It's not a bug, it's a fee-chur!"
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So now I have a set of folders synced between my iPad and my computer so animation I do on the go just appears on my desktop when I get home. Pretty convenient. For some reason I thought Apple was anti-convenience.
Friday, 17-Jun-22 16:33:11 UTC from web-
@scribus yes, and also because iMessage doesn’t work on Windows PCs. Kinda just thought they were trying to keep that ecosystem as closed as possible.
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Going to finally see Bob’s Burgers today after being delayed by relatable setbacks such as my co-worker getting COVID, me having to work 70 hours, and then me and my entire family getting COVID
Wednesday, 15-Jun-22 18:06:25 UTC from web -
I'm debating with myself if I should buy and play TUNIC https://store.steampowered.com/app/553420/TUNIC/ . And if I do, should I buy it from GOG or Steam?
Saturday, 11-Jun-22 17:59:18 UTC from web-
@scribus There is a sideloadable program "Heroic Game Launcher" that is a layer for the GOG and Epic store that allows to install their games with convenience.
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Bob's Burgers was a good movie (:
Friday, 10-Jun-22 06:13:41 UTC from web-
@scribus Kinda funny it was PG13 when it had no blood, Hitler, or fairy sex workers... but Bakshi's "Wizards" was only a PG.
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@scribus Pre-Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom? You’re taking your kids to that borderline R-rated cartoon.
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@zeldatra Hell even post-Indy, my parents taped it off our yuppie cousins' cable and showed it to middle-school me, haha
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Hi all! Does anyone still use this site?
Thursday, 09-Jun-22 16:06:50 UTC from web -
This morning I startled the woman at the baker's shop. It was a few minutes after opening and nobody was lining up. The woman was preparing the coffee machine and I walked to the counter. I wasn't particularly sneaky. I mean I wasn't quiet on purpose. When I said "hello" she jumped up as if I wanted to rob this place. Not that extreme but it was a big reaction.
Wednesday, 08-Jun-22 15:50:12 UTC from web-
@adiwan I'm just gonna pretend that this is why my joints all pop, not because I've been falling apart for 3 decades, but out of courtesy for people I may accidentally sneak up on otherwise
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@scribus Occasionally my knees pop loudly as well. Not today, but there were days when walking up the stairs made of stone sound like they are wooden.
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Hearing Kingdom Hearts IV’s theme song will be an Eminem feature to try and appeal to people who liked that period in the early 2010s where every pop album had Eminem on it
Tuesday, 07-Jun-22 23:13:33 UTC from web-
@scribus only slightly related, but Em DID sample Kingdom Hearts on his Kamikaze album. I hate that I know that.
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My D&D group adopted a Xorn, a gem-eating monster, and named it Ruby. We bought some Xorns to smuggle them to a mine in order to sell them there but we kept one, as my character was good enough in animal handling that it got tamed.
Sunday, 05-Jun-22 10:19:23 UTC from web-
@scribus He did not do that much of research and neglected eating enough mushrooms (doesn't like them much) and neglected using supplements.
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buying a gun to protect myself from the gun owners who bought a gun to protect themself from the gun owners who bought a gun to protect themself from the gun owners who bought
Thursday, 02-Jun-22 21:19:23 UTC from web-
@scribus I was thinking more like a cane with a shotgun barrel at the tip so I can trick people into thinking I’m frail and an easy target
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Nothing quite so uniquely sucks as waking up with the same headache with which one went to bed
Monday, 30-May-22 15:36:29 UTC from web-
@scribus (straight male boomer comedian voice) Sounds like my wife!!!!
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@thelastgherkin Dang that was a good one
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Today we celebrate a day with towels because a funny author died on a treadmill.
Wednesday, 25-May-22 06:01:44 UTC from web -
OMG PowerShell scripts have the worst syntax
Tuesday, 24-May-22 13:29:28 UTC from web -
I genuinely believe we need a constitutional amendment securing the innate human right to kick the everloving goddamnit out of people who make -- or kowtow to implement -- moronic ass-backwards software design choices. Why in any god's holiest of names would the Keyboard Settings be ANYWHERE OTHER THAN SETTINGS > KEYBOARD??? The HELL I gotta go under papayaing "Time" for this you god damned useless batcaves!!? Who decided this, and have I missed out on the opportunity to skin the dumbass alive and roll them in rock salt?
Friday, 20-May-22 21:15:20 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Why does YouTube have two (or more, I've just found 2) ways to link the tv app and the mobile app, one numeric and the other alphabetic. No idea why there's not just one way, they couldn't pick one?
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talking kiwi on a Disney movie gets you ratio’d harder than saying something racist
Saturday, 14-May-22 00:40:37 UTC from web-
@scribus Out of nowhere I remembered the ""Injun"" song from Peter Pan for the first time in twenty years and on a rewatch, oh man. Oh man
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@thelastgherkin Well you inspired me to go back and take a look at it. I always wondered why people weren't more offended, but I still forgot half of how bad it is.
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I'm new here! I'm very excited :)
Thursday, 12-May-22 21:16:14 UTC from web -
My store was fully stocked on baby formula until the news started saying we were running out of baby formula. Now we’re running out of baby formula because people think we’re running out of baby formula and they’re coming in to buy as much as they can. Completely manufactured panic.
Thursday, 12-May-22 14:35:21 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Yo dawg I heard you're running out of (SUPPLY), so I'm hear doing a run on (SUPPLY) so you run out of more (SUPPLY) when (SUPPLY) is running out
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Avatar is the least-exciting hyped movie I can remember. Everybody praises the 3D viewing experience but I think the use of 3D is only so good because all other 3D movies did it wrong in a way or another. Story-wise it's a dud in my opinion. The plot is as transparent as the main protagonist is flat and uninteresting.
Tuesday, 10-May-22 04:44:44 UTC from web -
That’s what I remember
Monday, 09-May-22 16:56:08 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I remember the 3D being so good that I tried batting ash out of my vision during the climax. And did they drag Sigourney Weaver into it, too?
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Really think Adam Sandler shoulda been the next Doctor. Doctor Jew.
Sunday, 08-May-22 16:30:04 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I heard the BBC passed because the songs he tried out just didn't fit with their vision of the Doctor. I guess acoustic-guitar-backed manchild moans about "timey-wimey" just appeal to a very select audience.
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@scribus was really looking forward to hearing the doctor talk like an actor whose entire understanding of mental disability comes from very special episodes of the 1980s
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@zeldatra Were you looking for some kind of lost Sims 2 thing? https://simworld.neocities.org/frontpage.html
Saturday, 07-May-22 00:40:26 UTC from web-
@scribus this is an interesting read! Sims 2 fortunately though has a large modding community at modthesims.info (as well as elsewhere for people looking for more, ah, substantive content) so the lost media don’t bug me as much
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i go to watch Sonic 2 and when i get back i learn I've missed a prominent Republican Congressman getting his gay sex tape leaked, then him claiming that the gay sex in the gay sex tape was simply a prank and there was nothing gay or sexual about it.
Thursday, 05-May-22 00:42:28 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I guess we need to watch the whole thing to see whether or not a) the balls touched, or 2) they said "no homo" in time
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Really very strange that in England you’re required to take your pants off while security points and laughs at the grocery store. I get enough of that from American women.
Friday, 22-Apr-22 20:32:01 UTC from web -
is anyone here around 14-17? i need new friends
Thursday, 31-Mar-22 21:11:36 UTC from web-
@vernandex You don't have the slightest idea with whom you are conversing
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@vernandex "Who is the two-bit," since you have demonstrated your inability to read, is turning YOUR insult against Matt back on you, when YOU stepped up and purported to know not only the ages of every user on this site, active or otherwise, but the age of the original enquirer back to their own face. I believe it is a form of irony, but nobody can agree on that one so /shrug
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@scribus idk what to respond with when you cant even reply to the correct post...
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Got today my first scammer on my company phone. They spoofed a local phone number (probably a SIP gate) and called probably from India, as the caller had an Indian accent and spoke English. They said they were from Microsoft and my computer had a "problem". I didn't hesitate very long and hung up. It'd be funny to waste their time but it's also my time too that would have been wasted.
Friday, 01-Apr-22 12:14:25 UTC from web-
@adiwan I've tried messing with a few scammers/spammers in the past, but I seem to be no good at it. They never reply to my responses, I must be too obvious.
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@scribus I’ve been known to subtly waste a phone scammer’s time at my place of work, to the point that some of them, if I pick up and they recognize my voice, they’ll immediately hang up.
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Now, I, fully vaccinated AND having caught the virus, personally am proceeding through life as I did prior to the pandemic, with the exception that I wear a mask to work and in crowded places still, but the idea that there should be zero precautions taken whatsoever and people just shouldn’t care about it anymore is frankly incredibly shortsighted.
Thursday, 31-Mar-22 17:02:34 UTC from web-
@scribus The blatantly-rude and incorrect comment "we can skip the “muh freedom” dog and pony show, we all know you don’t actually care about that" is incorrect for many reasons, but one in particular that can be proven here: This site runs on GNUSocial (previously known as statusnet), and I learned about this website through exploring GNU software that I do not usually use. I ise Free software and reccomend it to my peers because I very much do caer about freedoms and liberties, unlike the aforementioned. All of the aspects of my "rat" are perfectly comprehensible, but I would understand that you would be confused as the StatusNet link now directs to an unrelated website.
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@vernandex Right, but how does you using FOSS make HIM a troll?
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@vernandex sorry, we're talking about rats now???
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Just like Lindsay Graham is TOTALLY straight and TOTALLY doesn’t take cock like a champ.
Thursday, 31-Mar-22 22:01:50 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I wouldn't imagine he'd have "champ" status.... he just doesn't look lively enough, in general
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Microchips in the vaccines Morty
Thursday, 31-Mar-22 15:58:59 UTC from web -
Saying Covid is over is not the same as Covid being actually over. Ignoring facts doesn't help. It makes things worse. I'm disgusted.
Thursday, 31-Mar-22 07:26:25 UTC from web-
@vernandex I am fed up by people doing the thing that perpetuates the current situation. Instead of getting it under control it is getting worse. I want it to be over but doing the opposite is madness.
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@adiwan You know it's never going to "be" over, right? You can't exactly get rid of a respiratory disease that almost everyone has had alread, and the mindless proponents of the things that are supposed to stop the disease don't realize know what the law of diminishing returns are. People are over it, no one cares anymore; they'd rather get sick for a while instead of wearing masks and get forced medications than pretend like it'll one day go away entirely. The most you can do is stop holding things up by wearing masks all the time for no good reason and, maybe, getting sick once in a while, like normal.
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@vernandex I always wonder why the party who asks "Why do you care?" cares, y'know? This door swings both ways, as the Hermits say.
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going to BABScon. I havent bought my plane tix but I have my admission and a room mate that is available to bunk with me. Money's real tight due to university expenses, but I really want to make it work.
Wednesday, 30-Mar-22 08:47:07 UTC from web
