electrafish

@electrafish@social.electrafish.tech

Husband/father/Catholic/engineer interested in technology, gaming, and faith. Kind of a geek.

#StarWars #Tolkien #homelab #pcgaming #powersystems #physics #linux #engineering #TrueNAS #Catholic #MNastodon

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electrafish, to movies

I watched the re-release that was in theatres over the weekend in anticipation of Dune Part 2 coming out soon. It really is a spectacular adaption!

I have loved the book for many years, and now I'm loving the movies. But I'm wondering how the movie comes across to anybody who hasn't read the book. It necessarily leaves a lot out, and I'm wondering if my brain is subconsciously filling in the gaps. Thoughts?

taylorlorenz, to random
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Can someone who understands activity pub fill me in on the whole Threads posting to Mastodon thing? Mosseri (IG CEO) said that soon Threads users would be able to post to Mastodon. Will I be able to cross post my Threads posts to this Mastodon profile? Or do I have to set up a second Mostodon profile for my Threads cross posts? I'm confused how this whole thing will work

electrafish,

@taylorlorenz I'm not particularly in the know, but I would assume it means people on Mastodon will soon be able to follow people on Threads. So if you post on Threads, both Threads and Mastodon followers will see your post.

electrafish, to gaming

I shifted my desktop #gaming computer to #Linux today, installing #Pop_OS on a second SSD. So far, it is doing everything I want it to. I play mostly #StarWars Battlefront 2 (2017), and I got that running pretty well (AMD graphics card seems key). The #SteamDeck has really made linux gaming viable! Everything else I do is standard (web sites, document management, backup, etc). Let's hope this sticks permanently! #FOSS

codinghorror, to random

A quality bidet is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend it. 🚽💦

electrafish,

@codinghorror Ok, Ferris Bueller

dancinyogi, to random
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Sitting on a train that has been delayed leaving with no clue when we’ll actually depart. Grrrrrrrr

electrafish,

@dancinyogi If it's in the US, especially for long distance trains the arrival/departure times are always a guessing game. Even the realtime website that estimates arrival is often inaccurate. They always claim the train will make up lost time, but it rarely does.

electrafish,

@dancinyogi Oh dang!

RickiTarr, to random
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What is a word that you had read, but after hearing it spoken aloud, you realized you were pronouncing completely wrong in your head?

Mine is pretty Embarrassing, and is just one of many!

MISLED! I'm not even sure how to type this out for it to make sense, but it was something like:

Myz-ulled

electrafish,

@RickiTarr
Biped

As a boy I pronounced it "bipe-d". It was an attribute in an RPG that I thought meant how muscular the animal-human mutant character was, rather than how well it walked on two legs!

kentindell, to random
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    electrafish,

    @kentindell Yeah, what is with that? At least I'm not the only one!

    sundogplanets, to random
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    Just finished marking astro 101 quizzes (while watching cooking videos, because it's Saturday night, so partayyyy).

    Average of 60% with a near-perfect bell curve distribution with sigma ~20%, which is about what I usually get for this class. At least I know there wasn't rampant cheating. (Or if there was, it didn't help...)

    electrafish,

    @sundogplanets Oof.

    electrafish, to til

    that in Legacy (a movie I just love), Kevin Flynn had been trapped for something like 1000 years or "cycles" from his point of view in the grid. WHAT?! That totally blew past me all the many times I've watched this movie!

    https://tron.fandom.com/wiki/Cycle

    electrafish, to Cats

    Play me a song, cello-man!

    electrafish, to Cats

    Why yes, I'd LOVE to relax on this random pile of stuff!

    kiwa, to random
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    i want a software kiosk with 5.25 and 3.5 floppy drives and a touch enabled crt

    electrafish,

    @kiwa The future is HERE!

    EposVox, to random
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    I'm like unironically in love with making my videos look like this, but people would complain so much

    electrafish,

    @EposVox I loved the throwback, but yeah, not every vid please.

    jens, (edited ) to Metal
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    Every once in a while, I have to pull out this video to show to people just how the Oboe^Wclarinet is.

    https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=50vL1uAXn7s

    electrafish,

    @jens That is a clarinet.

    ActionRetro, to random
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    Rate my battlestation

    electrafish,

    @ActionRetro A+

    HeavenlyPossum, (edited ) to random

    When I was a kid in the 80s and 90s, I watched Star Trek: The Next Generation. I soaked up the vibes of a high-tech, utopian future. I internalized the trajectory we were on was good, that we had reached the End of History. There might be a few bumps on the road, but the direction was inevitable and the destination was inexorable.

    It turns out that the fastest a human being has ever traveled was 39,897 kilometers per hour. That was the crew of the Apollo 10 mission returning to earth. That happened on 26 May, 1969.

    Fifty-four years ago. We peaked more than half a century ago.

    1/of several

    electrafish,

    @HeavenlyPossum Gene Roddenberry's view of human nature and the trajectory of society was deeply flawed.

    popey, to linux

    🚨 FRIDAY QUIZ TIME 🚨
    I have just provisioned a new dedicated server. It's been deployed running 22.04.3. I SSH'ed in as root, given the provided credentials. 🤓
    QUESTION: What's the very first command I typed after logging in? 🤔

    electrafish,

    @popey adduser admin

    electrafish,

    @popey apt remove --autoremove snapd

    bryanhansel, to Minnesota
    @bryanhansel@mstdn.social avatar

    After more than 50 years, iconic Minneapolis outdoor retailer Midwest Mountaineering will close

    https://m.startribune.com/after-50-years-iconic-midwest-mountaineering-outdoor-retailer-close-minneapolis-rei-scheels-dicks/600300855/

    electrafish,

    @bryanhansel Bummer!

    arstechnica, to random
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    We don’t understand how a freakishly heavy exoplanet could have formed

    Neptune-sized planet has a density similar to pure silver.

    https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/we-dont-understand-how-a-freakishly-heavy-exoplanet-could-have-formed/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    electrafish,

    @arstechnica That's no planet... It's a space station!

    nixCraft, to linux
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    It is too quiet around here ...

    electrafish,

    @nixCraft <deep breath!> ...

    ProPublica, to Wisconsin
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    Bullied By Her Own Party, a Election Official's Roots Mean Nothing in Volatile New Climate

    In the face of repeated calls to back Donald Trump's bogus claims that the 2020 was stolen, Marge Bostelmann of the Wisconsin Commission remains resolute: “I’m a who stands up for the truth and not for a lie.”

    https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-elections-commission-marge-bostelmann-republicans?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

    electrafish,

    @ProPublica While some may think that it was always the case, really just broke the party. He stripped away any hint that it stood for coherent values.

    I voted for many Republican candidates in several previous elections. But starting in 2016, and I am nearly unable to vote for any Republicans anymore at all.

    CraftComputing, to random
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    Rumors of my demise have been damn near accurate. I spent all day Wednesday and Thursday with my first cluster headache in over 5 years.

    Those who know....know.

    All that said, I'm finally at least back on my feet today, though only at ~30% my usual. I'm hoping to get a video out this weekend, and be back to my usual self next week.

    electrafish,

    @CraftComputing Sorry to hear it. Blessings, and get well soon!

    Alice, to random
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    It’s interesting how Dr. Pepper and Mr. Pibb both kind of taste like medicine, but only one of them went to school for it.

    electrafish,

    @Alice My mom grew up as a missionary kid in Madagascar. She maintains that Dr. Pepper tastes like the de-worming medicine they had to take!

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