Brother Ricky took it upon himself to give me an absolutely horrifying talk while he was on leave from the Army one Christmas when I must have been 10 or 11. Later Mom caught wind of this and tried to paper over things by getting utterly smashed and going on for a while about how natural and beautiful sex was without offering further details or inviting questions. And that was that! @codinghorror https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/112589369138809768
I normally don't talk about my childhood in spaces like this but it's fresh in my mind because I did just see another boomer-jukebox musical with the in-laws, and it came up in later conversation how my own silent-generation parents were always at least slightly smashed, and so were all their friends, and so were probably many of my friends' parents, because I rather suspect that this was just how that whole demographic got by. 🥃
Ricky was probably drunk when he gave me the talk too. Anyway between all this and mom's cooking I thought sex, alcohol, and green vegetables were all disgusting horrors until well into my twenties, as I started to move away from my parents and make friends my own age who were able to deprogram me about all these. Separately.
@RL_Dane Two E560s here, one Windows, one Linux, both with SSDs bought off eBay and installed in place of the HDD. Still work fine! Keyboards and batteries are also cheap for these. Like the 1990s Toyota of laptop.
Keyb 1: Yes, I have weep holes, but that doesn't mean you can VIGOROUSLY wash me under the sink!
Keyb 2: THAT'S NOT HOW YOU REMOVE A KEYCAP!
Keyb 3: Ok, these things are getting harder to source. Better be gentle. 😆
Since I bought a beefy battery for my X260, I might see what the most advanced model it works on is and buy one of those as my general daily-driver Linux box
@evilcookies98 Depends on what I have going on. A small part of me hopes that this could be the year Apple gives VoiceOver the love it needs since they specifically mentioned it in their GAAD announcement, but given their track record with these things over the past few years I'm keeping my expectations pretty low.
Is there a medication that attenuates the metal on metal screeching of mangled machinery in my head when people refer to paddling as rowing, and/or paddles as oars?
I still receive the occasional Crypto email from the time I was interested in that a couple years ago, and really the only reason I haven't unsubscribed is because it is midly entertaining. These people will see signals in EVERYTHING indicating whatever coin might reach never-seen-before heights, only to then be proven completely wrong by some other random signal a few days later, from an entirely different source. Speculating is something I can get behind up to a point but this isn't even that, it's almost entirely guesswork, it almost reminds me of how binary options trading used to work, just on a larger scale.
" Big whale Danny says his grandma wore a pink dress to work today. This would be a bullish sign, because the last time his grandma wore that dress was in 2021 when Bitcoin flew through the roof" ... "It appears that a particularly brightly-colored duck flying over Montana today caused a bunch of people to sell, lowering Bitcoin by 5%. What? ...grandma? Forget about grandma man! Stick with it, we're talking ducks now!"
Watched two videos debunking "free energy" devices today and so now the YouTube algorithm is trying to show me videos advertising "free energy" devices
Yelling "CONTEXT COLLAPSE!" at the end of the post in the same tone as "THE ARISTOCRATS!"
@mcc there's a person at my school using chatGPT to do sentiment analysis. I want to ask them 'say have you heard about Google's AI returning all those satirical blog posts as serious advice?'
(Not that conventional sentiment analysis tools were ever that good. I've always considered it a very suspect metric but ad campaigns can live or die on it.)
So my cell provider has no good plan for roaming to Europe. So the last time I was in France, I got a local phone number and a SIM card so I could use Internet while I was there. It was a bit of a pain to get the SIM so I put it somewhere I'd be able to find it* when I next needed it.
Now I can't find it.
Can anyone think of a way to get a French cell phone SIM either without leaving Toronto, or without leaving Charles De Gaulle?
Probably in that one purse I threw away a few years ago.
@mcc If you have any other European SIMs (or SIMs from anywhere else for that matter) it might be worth checking if they support roaming to France? Some countries seem to offer great roaming as a standard thing, I was using a Singaporean eSIM in Japan earlier this year.
@mcc others have mentioned e-SIMs already so I'll just give you a specific reference: I've used Airalo to purchase and install e-SIMs for several countries over the past few years and it has worked well. (Belize, Germany, Iceland, Colombia).
@chikorita157 It looks brutal, in the worse possible way. Like a suppressive police state in a shitty sci fi movie.
As a side note, read that the DeLorean was meant to be painted, but they chose not to. Something that they sent it from the factory like they are known to look and were meant to be painted as part of the sale or something similar. Could be malarkey who knows.
I just know I’d rather own a DeLorean, and I actually don’t want one (they aren’t good).
@yon Not to mention, the Cybertruck harms everyone’s safety if it gets into a crash in a pedestrian or a sedan. It is a very self-fish car, just like the Hummers back in the day that ruin the environment.
Hydrogen cars might be better, but better mass transit would be a net positive compared to more cars and SUVs.