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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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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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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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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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It looks like Perplexity has gotten better at math
Wednesday, 21-Aug-24 16:43:38 UTC from web-
@scribus I just tried it. It failed to compute the integral of f(x)=x^3+(1/3)*x^2-(1/5)*x+3 between -420 and 69. Wolfram Alpha and Perplexity had the same and correct stem function but they differ hugely in the computed value.
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@adiwan Huh. Well, it helped me calculate giant crops in Stardew Valley better than it helped me with the odds in a 52-card deck, at least. So there's still more room to grow.
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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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Got myself a nice dark brown leather jacket at the flea market for 15€. Cannot complain for that price and basically pristine condition. That would be probably 5 times new in store. It has a high collar with an integrated scarf and it has a removable insert for extra warmth during Winter. I'm not a fan of the collar but it's not that bad not to wear. I have leather jackets for warmer weather already, so I can slowly retire my really old black felt Winter coat.
Thursday, 08-Aug-24 16:09:34 UTC from web-
@adiwan And kilometers are 1.6 to the mile, but celcius is 9/5+32 and centimeters are 2.54 per inch, why can't there just be one conversion rate?! lol
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@scribus I'll invent my own measuring standard and my own temperature standard and my own money in order to make any other standard obsolete and make everyone struggle the same way.
I'll also change the calendar to make every month 30 days long with an extra super short bonus 5-6-day long month at the end of the year for the Christmas holidays and the occasionally leap year day.
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@adiwan Finally, we'll be able to convert money into temperature, and time into color or something!!
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not a fan of the toe cleavage these new Nike Dri-Fit socks give me
Sunday, 04-Aug-24 13:52:02 UTC from web-
@scribus if i wanted to play Danny DeVito's Penguin in a Batman origin story movie, sure
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I think there should be a SSN lottery to determine who gets to sit behind the president and tell them what a real citizen really thinks for a week. And probably some other positions, too. Let's draw a few dozen numbers a week and have them really give the buttheads a thorough job review. Speaker, veep, SCOTUS, all the bigwig secretaries. There should be enough positions that you have pretty good odds of being heard somewhere once an administration. I foresee no way in which this would go catastrophically awry, nor be an unmanageable behemoth of a bureau.
Saturday, 03-Aug-24 19:25:14 UTC from web -
for the first time ever my store ran out of Diet Mountain Dew and apparently it’s because JD Vance claimed the left wanted to get rid of it and schizophrenic Facebook boomers just believed him?
Thursday, 25-Jul-24 02:05:37 UTC from web -
Wow I didn't necessarily think that The Acolyte was worse than the Holiday Special, but I also haven't seen the Holiday Special and didn't see Acolyte past episode 2 https://youtu.be/CO4xVT-OksI
Tuesday, 23-Jul-24 20:18:05 UTC from web-
@scribus I've seen both. The Holiday Special is objectively atrocious. It's a boring train wreck in a bizarre way only that time period could produce with the ferocity of a coked-up Carrie Fischer. Acolyte has problems and tends to sets more things up than to resolve and the resolution feels lacking. Nothing insultingly bad but just... wishing for more.
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First victim a tomato fruit just fell after a very heavy rain. Still have lots.
Wednesday, 17-Jul-24 18:47:11 UTC from web-
@scribus Today's tomato count is 105. Spaghetti sauce will be guaranteed a thing I have to make. This week I bought a giant glass of pickles so I have a jar for all of that.
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Tuesday, 16-Jul-24 19:55:05 UTC from web
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Next time Trump is on stage he can ask the people to lend an ear.
Sunday, 14-Jul-24 16:44:51 UTC from web-
@scribus You can laugh at the source of my inspiration and feel better about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z59AnkxekfI
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Ah yes New York... It needs 1.6 million USD paid to McKinsey to determine that trash bins are effective. I could have done for half.
Friday, 12-Jul-24 06:21:08 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Similar to Berlin that is so broke that any official paperwork and permit takes an eternity and there is a high likelihood that offices are closed without any good reason, and most places are a cherryhole. I was only a few times there and it wasn't a pleasant experience.
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Be the TV news. Report on "priceless" baseball card theft. Roll footage of baseball cards, each and every one sporting a prominent PRICE TAG. Lack any sense of responsibility, irony, etc. Be the TV news.
Wednesday, 10-Jul-24 15:43:57 UTC from web-
@scribus The lucky ones are who own priceless baseball cards so they can be cashed in for horrendous prices by selling them to the most gullible people on earth, next to NFT-bros and crypto-bros. Of course the reports are basically promoting more card theft because the cards have become more profitable and hyped.
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I have 3 access points (same model) and they all died within a short time span, even the one that wasn't plugged in for over half a year. It's super strange.
Tuesday, 09-Jul-24 11:07:56 UTC from web-
@adiwan one of three is working again. Somehow one fixed itself. The other two are good enough as project boxes for my micro controllers.
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Hahaha... If I had a decent and recent GPU I wouldn't sell. My PC is about 9 years old. At this point my PC would be in 3rd or 4th grade in Elementary School.
Saturday, 06-Jul-24 17:39:55 UTC from web-
@scribus I think I have some 386/486 PC parts laying around in storage. I think at this point they are best Millenial material
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so I guess going through four heads of state in five years isn’t a winning strategy
Friday, 05-Jul-24 01:17:22 UTC from web -
HELP. I bought more tomato seeds for next year. I bought "Ananas Noire", "Purple Sunrise", "Osu Blue" and some other. They look visually appealing. "Purple Sunrise" is dark pruple on top and yellow on the bottom. Wanna taste the sunrise.
Thursday, 04-Jul-24 14:06:54 UTC from web -
Yay, I live practically in the geographic armpit of the two deadliest roads in my state
Wednesday, 03-Jul-24 00:28:52 UTC from web -
And today I found out that evidently English speakers once called pinecones pineapples and the name got moved to the fruit
Thursday, 27-Jun-24 19:40:18 UTC from web- Macpony55 likes this.
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Ananas-lime lemonade is not good. I like them both individually but combined it tastes very off.
Thursday, 27-Jun-24 09:08:56 UTC from web -
just started watching my little pony this week. looking through all of the old forums is like looking through a museum of ancient artifacts (/j)
all of the abandoned accounts, all of the creations made with such love, never to be updated on. it makes me wonder where they all are now.
but you guys are still here sorta! what have you guys been doing? (keep it sfw please, im a minor)Wednesday, 26-Jun-24 00:54:57 UTC from web-
@grim People like new things. People get bored. People go on. People's lives change unexpectedly. The MLP G4 hype is over for a long time and the stories of Maretime Bay (G5?) don't grab as much attention. The media landscape has also changed as the general audience's taste. I've been in many forums that just fizzle out and essentially die due to inactivity. Sometimes there is a hard core of people that keep things going.
I read the MLP comics and watch the new stuff. I have stopped engaging by seeking out discussions and creating fan art. I ain't time for that anymore.
I'm here just to hang out and rant about my life.
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I have now lost $250 due to one incompetent phlebotomist
Friday, 21-Jun-24 19:25:27 UTC from web-
@adiwan I am broke and donating plasma for occasional money, but the last time I ended up bruised so I can't donate. Truck needs an oil change, we just passed Father's Day, my birthday is in about a week, and they were offering bonuses this month so it all sounded great. But it isn't.
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helo skye
Friday, 21-Jun-24 17:52:05 UTC from web -
For example, look at the humble Cone: https://youtu.be/Mkn3PzdaByY?feature=shared
Thursday, 20-Jun-24 19:09:51 UTC from web-
@scribus I'm often stumped by the simple cross-section of a circle. Every time I saw off a thick branch or root I think that isn't that bad until I reach the middle, where it's suddenly harder to move material.
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No matter how much earth I buy it gets used up faster than imagined. The earth of my raised beds settled and I wanted to top off.
Thursday, 20-Jun-24 18:20:27 UTC from web-
@scribus It's worse because when spreading out the earth it gets uncompressed and gains volume, giving the false impression it might be enough. The sacks I bought last time contained very coarse compost and over time everything sank down. This time This time I bought finer grained earth, special for tomatoes,
