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reay

@reay@mastodon.social

Dad. Writer. Amateur photographer. Dabbler in tabletop game design. Fan of books, tabletop/video games, comics, music and movies. Neutral Good. He/him.
Thoughts and opinions are my own.
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https://www.reayjespersen.com/

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robsonfletcher, to microsoft
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So ... any suggestions on getting started with a Linux machine?

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/windows/windows-ai-feature-takes-screenshots-of-your-desktop-every-few-seconds-and-i-cant-imagine-wanting-that/

reay,
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@robsonfletcher Sincerely, how helpful will this be to how few people vs how many it’ll rile and turn off?

yogthos, to random
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A fleet of airplanes has been found to have a potential electrical flaw near a fuel tank that aviation regulators fear could cause an explosion.

Boeing 777 liners are at risk of “electrostatic discharge” near its center-wing fuel tank, which could possibly cause it to catch fire and explode, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/boeing-planes-fuel-tank-explosion-b2550223.html

reay,
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@yogthos One wonders how long any major plane manufacturer could have made so many planes for so long with so many flaws.

GottaLaff, to Arizona
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Gift link

“Arraignments of & 10 other allies of were underway on Tues in criminal case that charges them with trying to keep Trump in power after he lost pres election.

A total of 50 people — incl Trump — now face charges related to election interference in four states. A number of Trump allies have already pleaded guilty or reached cooperation agreements in cases in Georgia and Michigan.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/us/giuliani-trump-arizona-fake-electors.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tk0.mfKZ.5ZqeJX9wXmh4&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

reay,
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@GottaLaff @lisamelton Long past due that all of these pricks were punished for high crimes.

evacide, to random
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When I talk about digital privacy, there is always some smug genius who shrugs and tells me, "Who cares? We all know we don't have any privacy anyway." Nothing could be more wrong. Convincing you that the fight is already over to the way people in power get you to stop resisting.

reay,
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@evacide @michellemoldofsky Be curious if those same people would be cool with showering or pooping out in the open or sharing their bank card PIN in their bio info.

Oh, what’s that? Those are private things?
HUH.

reay, to HashtagGames
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“No Shit"
– Sherlock Holmes

fatsam, to random
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Neil Gaiman wrote: "Everything good that happened in my writing career happened because someone, normally another writer, helped me. Suggested me for something, put in a good word, and so on. The idea was always that you help others and they help others in their turn. It's not a win or lose game."

I'm not Gaiman, and probably neither are you (unless you are, in which case hi, Neil.)

But this is true for me and true for most of us.

reay,
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@fatsam Just one more reason he’s my favourite writer. 🙂

reay, to random
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MAC PEOPLE, HEAR ME NOW.

I have an old iMac from a friend that had a dead harddrive that I was able to replace pretty cheaply and has worked fine ever since, though it's topped out at an old OS.

I got another iMac from a neighbour suspecting it may be a harddrive issue as well, which could be an easy fix.

BUT, with both of these stopping at much older OS's that don't get updates any longer and won't run more modern programs, the question came up today...

1/2

reay,
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@feld That’s rough.

I’m just trying to figure out a workaround for having another Mac that works flawlessly — it’s outlasted a number of Windows laptops we’ve had — but which has of course been designed to be obsolete years ago. I don’t think that first one that was brought back to life with a new harddrive will even run Garage Band, as crazy as that sounds.

Really good computers are still WAY less useful when they can’t run certain remotely recent software.

reay,
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Is jailbreaking a Mac a thing?

Would there be any upside to doing so? Could a newer OS be installed and used, for instance?

The thinking was if the OS's aren't updated or security patching anyway, there's no difference if we jailbreak the computers and they then don't update or security patch as a result.

But is that even a thing? If so, any drawbacks I'm not seeing to doing this (or more to the point, having someone who knows what they're doing do it)?


reay,
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@feld Thanks for that angle to it.

reay,
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@dap6000 Thanks for all this.

reay, to random
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On the one hand, I don’t get the boycott of Loblaws because groceries being so expensive is a much wider problem than with just Loblaws alone.

On the other hand, for Loblaws to say they’re trying to keep prices down for customers and blame shipping and other issues of their control holds zero water when they netted profits of nearly $500 million this quarter.

You CANNOT be trying to keep prices down while also being a publicly traded company with happy shareholders. Pick a lane, Loblaws.

reay,
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On that note, are NGO grocery stores a thing? You’d think it would be a no-brainer to get food to people for not a cent more than the food cost to get and stock.

That would also push the organization to use more local options to keep prices as low as possible instead of, say, shipping in pineapples all year.

frauenfelder, to random
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Noem constantly whines about "fake news." Unsurprisingly, as soon as she gets caught writing fake news, she refuses to be held accountable. Perhaps she should stick to recounting stories that she has experience with, like slaying animals that displease her.

https://boingboing.net/2024/05/06/no-going-back-author-kristi-noem-already-going-back-on-her-made-up-encounter-with-kim-jong-un.html

reay,
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@frauenfelder No Going Back.

… except to take out the ridiculous lies people actually paid attention to and called into question.

And THEN?
THEN, No Going Back.

reay, to random
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What are the oldest sounding names of old people you've ever known?

In my childhood house, my parents and I lived beside Bud and Ethel.

GO.

reay, to books
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I THINK I know where this chunk of Triptych by Karin Slaughter is going with this seeming huge detour from the main storyline.
Hoping I’m wrong, because if I’m right, it’s way not my thing.


reay, to random
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I totally get that online services need to sell ads and subscriptions to make money. No problem with that business model.

But on the flipside, it’s particularly irritating when the ads are by the same service you’re currently using, entirely to disrupt your experience, doing a song and dance about how, ‘Hey, if you want to avoid ads for ourself like this, just subscribe!’

reay, to random
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Tossing this out again in case it just got buried amid your timeline: I’m considering jumping to another instance.

Is there any way to take follows and posts (and general history) with me? Or is it basically starting from scratch?

reay, to HashtagGames
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The Notting Hills Have Eyes


reay, to HashtagGames
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Blade Mosier


reay, to random
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My wife, having finally chosen to follow me on Strava: “This is a weird bio pic of you. You look unhappy.”

Me: “That’s because I’m exercising.”

reay, to random
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Radar’s solution to wanting to lie in the sun when we have the curtains drawn to avoid the room heating up too much.

reay, to random
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“This is for eating, yes?”

  • Dogs at all times
reay, to random
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I’m torn on whether or not it’s a a good thing that to look at me, you wouldn’t know if I’d slept well or had precious little sleep because… oh, I don’t know… let’s say the dog was barking his fool head off at nothing discernible into the wee hours.

reay, to random
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Your dog loves you so much it’ll even give you kisses RIGHT after it licks its own butthole.
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