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The countries and hurricanes this jet has flown through
  • Penetrated. Tee hee hee

  • Nomination by Mattias Adolfsson
  • Kermit the frog, space invaders, ereader, a heart, liver, democracy, an atari style joystick, and a traffic light. There is so much packed in here.

  • Where there's smork...
  • Feye'a, fagidaboudit!

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  • To expand on this Have you considered Matrix? It's like IRC but encrypted AND includes a bridge to IRC so you can have the best of both worlds. https://matrix.org/ The most popular client here https://element.io/ though there are many others.

  • NTFS turns 30 years old today! I hear it's still in use by some crufty old legacy operating systems 😁
  • I think they mean the full path length. As in you can't nest folders too deep or the total path length hits a limit. Not individual folder name limits.

  • LG's New Instant Coffee Machine Mixes Two Pods, Generates Twice the Trash, and its Nasa-inspired design looks like the Apollo lunar lander is relieving itself in your coffee cup.
  • I hate typing this because it gives Nestle the slightest shred of credit. Their pods are aluminum and recyclable. Keurig k-cups started off as non-recyclable plastic but have now switched to some kind of, apparently, recyclable plastic...supposedly. Doesn't make the use of pods much better but it's not nothing.

  • First cellphone
  • Not sure this is exactly what you meant but...available right now. https://store.planetcom.co.uk/products/astro-slide

  • Ubisoft thinks it's okay to delete your games library now apparently
  • Valve, is a platform. They have little reason to remove games themselves. But they do work with, and comply with, video game corpos doing this horse crap (not to be confused with horse armor which is also still crap). So they're at least complicit. See OP.

    The core issue is that "buying" on any of the platforms (except GOG) is not buying but leasing for a one time payment. While Gaben is pretty altruistic it's only a matter of time until someone less so is in charge and decides X isn't wanted anymore and then poof because the EULA (also subject to change at any moment) allows it.

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  • Me running around Walmart

  • Elon Musk says Twitter logo to change, birds to be gradually abandoned
  • Bets on this happening because he's bought into "birds aren't real"?

  • Pilots get distracted on a plane and leave it flying unattended for over an hour, overshooting the destination airport.
  • Suspiciously during the same hour there was no drink service either. The mile high club is alive and well.

  • He'll be back with the milk someday but till then:
  • This seems to apply to most of the upper midwest. Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio etc.

    From Iowa, can confirm.

  • New NATO bioweapon just dropped
  • Where do I get this COD DLC?

  • Reuters: It's official— VanMoof, high-end bicycle manufacturer, has declared bankruptcy
  • Standardized doesn't mean open source. But you know maybe you're right let's throw out the SAE and CENELEC and the standards for all the other stuff we use and see how that goes.

  • Bone Apple Tea
  • I use messaging apps exclusively with my Android using friends and family. Can't get my Apple using friends and family to use them. iMessage or the highway. Can't take away the one wee thing that feeds their ego. Fuck everybody else right!? Maddening.

  • Besides speed, what would actually suck about surfing the internet back in the day compared to now?
  • Siblings or parents picking up the phone causing a disconnect.

  • When you don't possess the ability to get a room
  • Whaaaat kind of parks were you going to!?

  • Why is Linux so frustrating for some people?
  • Nearly everyone forgets how hard windows was to learn initially.

    I spent the better part of a child hood and the first 10 years of an IT career learning it. Does that sound like a simple or easy system? Conversely I've spent slightly less time but an equal 10 years of an IT career learning and supporting Linux. I've only recently in the last 3 or so years started to feel like I truly grasp Linux and started using it as a daily driver on personal machines.

    I now find Windows absolutely horrible to work with. All the nonsense MS foists on it's users. The inflexibility. The weird choices. The licensing nonsense.

    The bottom line is not that Linux is harder. It's that Linux is different and different is scary and uncomfortable. Different is hard, not linux. People are lazy and creatures of habit. We like familiar. Few of us actually enjoy the work of learning something new that isn't easy. If we did more of us would probably be pilots or engineers or whatever hard thing to learn you want to choose.

    If you're into computers and you still find it hard or constraining keep at it. The Ah, ha! moment is coming. There's a paradigm shift in thinking you'll hit and suddenly you'll get it. When you do you'll find it's magnificent and powerful and freeing.

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