At least good to see somebody understood the reference. Thank you, person of culture!

Who’s going to be king of the brown hill?

… what a day to be literate. Enough internet for today.

🎵 I sense there’s something in the wind

That feels like tragedy’s at hand 🎵

RIP 😥

Well, it did help that they used a simple serial connection back then and didn’t require any advanced electronics. Just a bunch of resistors and basic stuff like that, all relatively large components that are easy to solder with what I had back then. I’m not sure how easy it would be these days with USB.

Reminds me of highschool math. At some point you needed a graphical calculator, you could upload programs onto them but that required hooking them up to a computer with a crazy expensive data cable. So I found a schematic, ordered the components for a fraction of that price and learned to solder. It looked ugly AF, but it worked. Next step I wrote a program containing the formula’s I needed, uploaded it and installed a program which hid your program menu until you pressed a certain key combination. It could even simulate a hard reset, as you could get spot-checked and asked to do just that.

I could also have just memorised the formula’s, but that wouldn’t have been fun. And unlike all those formula’s I still use my soldering and programming skills. 😋

KDE on Wayland has only very recently started to become workable for me, before that it was utter crap as I switch between home and office with my laptop, with varying display setups. In that case you got stuff like screen positions not being remembered and applications consistently starting off screen, requiring gymnastics to coax them onto a display.

And regularly it would crap out and not show output to one of the displays, if you opened up display manager you’d see the displays not touching and a big red error telling you that gaps betweens displays aren’t supported. Well here’s a brilliant idea, how about not automatically putting a gap between them in that case?

As I said, last few months it works better (although I still encounter some issues from time to time that I never had on X11). But the whole Wayland protocol had such a rough start, with issues encountered often being downplayed by parts of the community because “it’s better and we don’t want to hear otherwise”, that I simply cannot feel any love for it anymore. There was too much basic stuff that took too long to support, while people were shouting “but HDR!”, “better code!”. I don’t fucking care, I just want to be able to work and for too long that required X11.

Edit: some typo’s and improved readability.

There are warnings to not use a cellphone, but probably more to cover all bases or to prevent people from getting distracted. It’s mandatory to have hoses that catch any vapours and return them to the underground storage tanks, so it’s very unlikely the concentration in the open air will ever reach a point where ignition by cellphone is possible.

Also all nozzles here are designed to automatically switch off when your tank is full, even when you keep pressing the lever, so I’d say even the distraction part is pretty moot.

Take care of yourself and do what you think is right. Judging the other posts of the person your replied to they’re just there to spread division. Don’t feed the trolls, they’re probably getting fed enough on the Russian troll farm already.

That is why you vote for people that invest in a usable power grid which can store overproduced electricity in batteries (chemical, water storage lakes with pumps, pulling weight up/down etc.),

Yup, which I’ve been doing for the last two decades and keep on doing, even though financially right-wing would serve my interests better.

Or just make electricity prices variable so that you can expect a ROI investing in your own battery (like charge your battery cheap or by solar and discharge it for bigger returns by night/bad weather)

We have variable pricing available here, the problem is that having ADHD I need structure in my day and week. Guess I lack the courage, but having to plan chores around when prices are expected to be low sounds like a complete disaster scenario for me.

For a lot of homes simply putting solar panels on the roof is enough to generate a lot of power for the home itself and an electrical car.

Unfortunately panels don’t generate a lot, if anything at all, when the electric car is at home, often in the evening/night. You could add a home battery as storage, but that is, at least in my country, quite expensive and doesn’t have the capacity to bridge that gap in an economically feasible way.

Then there’s the problem with having your own driveway: that’s not the standard here, so depending on the distance to the nearest parking spot it’s often also not very feasible to hook up your car to your own grid.

Of course there’s also the late autumn and winter period where your panels will not produce enough for the average home, especially if you are heating with an heat pump. Which is rapidly becoming the standard here.

And as the cherry on top: our power grid has a hard time handling the strain of solar panels dumping their excess power during daytime. For this reason here you pay a fee for generated power returned to the net. Currently you still receive a compensation which is usually higher than the fee, but people are fearing that in the next few years solar panels might start costing money. This heavily impacts the return on investment, which unfortunately needs to be a consideration for a lot of people as their wallet has a limit.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for moving to renewables and I do not have anything against solar power. But it is definitely not a magical solution and comes with its own set of problems that need to be tackled.

It was in a poor / underdeveloped country.

Damn, I would have thought even the US would have holsters with a basic retention mechanism by now.

Come over and you can add STD to the list of three letter words you have!

I suspect this is some kind of console error? I’ve only owned a SNES before becoming part of the PC master race, so just like the kids of today this early millennial has no idea what he’s looking at exactly.

Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and saviour unattended-upgrades?

Well, it beats seeing Harry Kim pretending to play the clarinet. I wish I could say his technique needs work, but that would imply he has an inkling of an idea of what he’s doing.

His mug just screams “I’m a white supremacist nazi piece of shit”. Too bad you guys fought, bled and died here to rid us of that filth, only to have it infect your own society now.

I agree, don’t forget the “it’s Israel” narrative fits snuggly in the story provided by the Iranian regime.

Don’t worry, he is going to ACE the eye test. It’s going to be the BEST eye test RESULT the optician has ever seen in his life and they’ll be left in tears because of the glorious results.

And don’t forget those tests can be HARD! You’ve got A’s and B’s and lots of little lines and blobs that are hippo’s and giraffe and lions. And you have to know all these animals and recognise them to be a good president.

Less if you were sensible and included an error correction scheme to combat the unreadable sectors that were bound to pop up after a while. I can be quite nostalgic, but if there is one thing I don’t miss it’s the ‘reliability’ of floppies.