noughtnaut

noughtnaut, 9 days ago

Seriously, how do you even get the data to make such graphs?

On another note, I don’t have much sympathy for people who clearly “swipe right on everyone”. I am aware that it’s a numbers game, but have since standards, man.

noughtnaut, 15 days ago

On a similar note, back when I was playing a lot of shooters I would catch myself strafing around hallway corners at work 😅

noughtnaut, 20 days ago

ℹ️ “looking or sounding sad or dismal”

noughtnaut, 20 days ago

“optimal frustration” (one single word in several languages that aren’t English)

Something is too easy? Easily bored.

Something is altogether too difficult? Feels hopeless.

Optimal frustration is where the magic happens, be it in education or a computer game.

noughtnaut, 20 days ago

ℹ️ “bitter and abusive”, as in a comment or other way of communicating

noughtnaut, 20 days ago

ℹ️ “lacking enthusiasm and determination; carelessly lazy”

noughtnaut, 20 days ago

ℹ️ “exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical”

noughtnaut, 20 days ago

Link (nicely obfuscated so as to not spoil the surprise)

noughtnaut, 26 days ago

Oh that is hilarious! Just on my first listen but I don’t quite get the lyrics - am deeply disappointed that the video doesn’t have subs. 🤭

Found it on Spotify. It’s so much worse with lyrics. Thank you for sharing a version without them! 🙏

noughtnaut, 1 month ago

I invite you to look up the town of Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassau and surrounding area. I would love to describe the area as “on the Dutch/Belgian border”, except there isn’t really much “on” going on there. Seriously, have a look and tell me I’m wrong.

Linked because I haven’t yet learnt to put screen shots in comments.

noughtnaut, 1 month ago

Thank you for this. You are eloquently and (hopefully) non-threateningly (is that even a word?) stating a message that really, really needs to be said again and again until everyone friggin’ gets it.

noughtnaut, 1 month ago

Read it again. This self-proclaimed man uses ‘women’ to describe some people, and also uses ‘females’ for how some other people describe them.

noughtnaut, 1 month ago

I do believe this is the most ironing boards I’ve seen in one picture (that doesn’t have to do with ironing boards).

I was unaware they are apparently sought after for cover?

noughtnaut, 1 month ago

Be warned: not everybody gets this.

Myself, I’ve tried 5-6 different meds and have had nothing in the ways of the described. Might as well have been taking vitamins.

Just so you don’t get too disappointed…

noughtnaut, 2 months ago

Seconded.

I’ve read most of folklore.org and do not recall any such story. In fact, how do you even “drag the computer to the waste basket” as the first/only icon would be the System floppy and afaik they’ve never had / still don’t have a “computer icon”. 🤔

noughtnaut, 2 months ago (edited 1 month ago)

Dragging a floppy to the bin would simply eject it… 🤷 Well all right, maybe the story is from before the intro of the “Insert disk Foo”.

noughtnaut, 2 months ago

Well there was also gobo Linux, which would let you play Tetris while the installation did its thing.

noughtnaut, 2 months ago (edited 1 month ago)

How the hell do I set up my NAS (Synology) and laptop so that I have certain shares mapped when I’m on my home network - AND NOT freeze up the entire machine when I’m not???

For years I’ve been un/commenting a couple of lines in my fstab but it’s just not okay to do it that way.

noughtnaut, 2 months ago

Aha, interesting, thank you. So setting nofail and a time out of, say, 5s should work… but what then when I try to access the share, will it attempt to remount it?

noughtnaut, 2 months ago

What I would love is a bot that takes yt links and posts the corresponding title and description of the video.

noughtnaut, 2 months ago

Hey just a tip to make it a bit less of a hassle for you: you can smuggle things around toll booths, it’s easier.

noughtnaut, 2 months ago

So awesome of them to help af subtitles to a million hours of YouTube videos.

Because they did return the value to the creators, right?

…right?

noughtnaut, 2 months ago

Funny, not an hour ago I bought a 10 Pro - my OP5 (cheeseburger) is still going strong and rocking Android 14 - but because it’s rooted there are critical apps I can no longer run 😭

That is to say: I’m definitely sticking with OnePlus.

noughtnaut, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

The article describes this as"prop money", but doesn’t give further details.

If you’re curious, Adam Savage has a number of videos from Hays Press explaining actual prop money.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=drLzVcgnBfI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfYcSqxh1GU
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlrX1btOH7Q

noughtnaut, 2 months ago

It is working!!!

xkcd.com/810/