Half Life: Blue Shift already happened.

(I appreciate the Flintstones joke, though.)

Thanks, I had the same question.

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn’t want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.

“That’s some catch, that Catch-22,” he observed.

The mere phasing of it as them “letting” users do it shows that they fundamentally Do Not Get It and are still failing to respect device owners’ property rights.

I’ve been noticing several new or new-ish accounts acting similarly. I need to go find an admin/mod discussion about what I (as a mod of another community) should be doing about it.

Well, cool it anyway 'cause it makes people think you’re a bot.

Yep!

I hesitate to mention this because I don’t want the ebay seller to sell out before I decide if I want one, but…

Craft Computing has a recent video about a used Supermicro “Microcloud” server that holds 8 Intel socket R nodes in 3U and costs $400 (apparently including CPUs but not RAM). Seems like an excellent way to get cheap redundancy, albeit at the cost of probably not great power consumption because it’s so obsolete.

That’s because macroeconomics actually do work differently than microeconomics. The idea that a country should be run like a household is fallacy.

I don’t think that was Gabe “hating” Microsoft; I think it was him recognizing that the Windows Store/appx stuff that Windows 8 pushed was a threat to his business model.

I know Jeff does raspi stuff.

Then why’d you ask if he’s not a fan of ARM? Were you unaware that Raspberry Pis use ARM CPUs?

I’m not trying to defend the guy or dispute you, BTW; I’m just still confused about why you’d say that.

Everything in owner because I don’t understand the implications well enough to do otherwise (so thanks for the thread).

Oh, how gracious of them to allow device owners to exercise their property rights!

Fuck those megalomaniacal technofeudalists sideways with a rusty iron rake. It shouldn’t fucking matter what they want to “allow” because they shouldn’t have the power to impose their will in the first place!

Well, that’s unfortunate re: Jeff, but it’s still weird to me that the other commenter would be aware of that about him (which you mention having to dig through a decade of blog posts and old tweets to find), without at some point also finding out that he’s ‘the Raspberry Pi guy.’

It’s like knowing that Hitler was a vegetarian but somehow not knowing that he was the dictator of Germany who started WWII – it just doesn’t make sense for a fact to be that isolated from its context.

…wat.

I think you must be thinking of some other Jeff Geerling. The one I’m talking about is probably the #1 guy on Youtube for content about ARM stuff, and AFAIK isn’t a homophobe.

Your comment doesn’t make any sense because, even if you were talking about the right person and your accusation were accurate, why would you know some obscure thing about him while being unaware of the thing he’s famous for?

Jeff Geerling is probably having a fit right now.

Instead of having your online accounts registered directly to your @tuta.io address (or your gmail address, or any webmail address), buy a domain name and have the accounts registered to that and then set the DNS to forward all mail from that domain to your webmail account of choice. That way, if the webmail service fucks up, the worst-case scenario is that you change the forwarding again and you’ve only lost the contents of the previous emails sent, not access to receive future ones.

(Caveat: when you send an email it’ll by default be coming from your webmail provider address, not your custom domain address, and I’m not sure how to fix that – I’ve only recently started switching to the scheme myself – but if your main issue is receiving 2FA emails and such that’s not a big deal.)

Obviously, your next print is a replacement tension adjustment pulley thing, as is tradition.

They should make the sequel set in the modern day, with the plot being about the hyperloop scam distracting from California high-speed rail and Elon Musk as the villain.

(For those who didn’t notice, the plot of the original movie was basically the GM streetcar conspiracy, with Judge Doom wanting to demolish LA’s streetcar system, and Toon Town along with it, to build a freeway.)

“Would you like them in a store?
Would you let us build some more?”

“I would not like them in a store.
I will not let you build some more.
I don’t want you to track my van.
I do not like them, Sam-Alt-man!”