that’s still impressive!

gigabit!? what amazing country does this library exist in!?

wtf i wish i had known about this way earlier that looks SO much easier

https://www.ventoy.net/

tyfys 🫡

i actually did not know that. now i have an excuse for never verifying pfffffff

downloaded a lubuntu iso the other day, ty 🫡

it’s only half based cuz it was running on Windows (was too lazy to set up existing Debian box to use as the support PC)

i tell people* it’s because torrents are faster**
but it’s really because they’re cooler

*i made that up i’ve never gotten that far into a conversation about distro downloads

**in my experience it is actually a bit faster

affirmative

I used to do Python coding lessons and practice on a 10" ThinkPad tablet on the subway.

It was slow as fuck but so is my brain when trying to learn code :'D

can confirm. every time i get a gift card I’m as annoyed that I can’t use it for rent as I am excited to be “forced” to get myself a goddamn fancy coffee or whatever

that being said when I was truly desperate in college I did used to sell them online using various exchanges. i usually got $0.70 on the dollar which wasn’t terrible

me using kde because i cannot for the fuck of me get LXDE or LXQT to play nice with my video card: 🫩

i still see people help others with heavy/unwieldy loads up the subway stairs though. especially if they’re in the way lol

the overlap is staggering

i have become practically incapable of doing nothing. i will start fiddling with things in the room if not given social permission to doomscroll phone

What I’ve been doing is shuffling the debt between new 0% APR intro-period cards every time the 0% of the previous card is going to expire, and just eating the cost of the balance transfer (usually 3–5%) which is still significantly lower than if the balance were to start getting hit by typical card APR (~25%)

I have considered doing bankruptcy but yeah I’m worried about wage garnishment. Also I had wanted to maybe buy a houseboat within the next 7 years but at this point that’s almost certainly off the table so it may actually be worth just looking into bankruptcy at this point.

Right now I’m more focused on getting a full time job since my freelance stuff has been too slow to pay all the bills…

Being a grownup is so boring I hate this

About 2 years’ worth of rent (I live in NYC, to give an idea) in credit cards and a similarly large chunk in student loans

I was someone who paid off my balance in full at the end of every month for about 10 years, then bam, COVID, more fuck shit, rent needing to be paid via credit card several months (even more expensive as they take a usually 5% or more fee), and here we are

Depends how they’re designed. Some only sound an audible alert once a set exposure rate or total exposure is reached (this is how the clicking in Fallout works IIRC)

The ones we worked with were set to make a chirp for every nuclear decay they detected, as audible feedback that they were powered on and functioning. (Cosmic background radiation produces a few chirps a minute even with no radioactive material present).

Spending money. Thorough a combination of a lot of bad luck and a few bad choices, I’m stuck playing credit card musical chairs to keep enough cash for rent and bills. “Ability to buy groceries/toiletries/medical copays/etc.” is functionally a subscription for me. Few years of rice and beans in my future until I can dig myself out… good thing I like beans I guess

The worst I can imagine (aside from housing…) would be the others in Maslow’s pyramid base: air, water, food, clothing.

• Air would be some straight up cyberpunk shit.
• Water/food would also be horrifying. We currently see meal subscriptions as a luxury, but for those without access to a kitchen and/or with disabilities that prevent them from reliably using one… ah fuck that’s dismal.
• Clothing would be fuckin weird. Because such a ridiculous volume of it exists due to fast fashion, I can’t see this happening on Earth in the near future, thankfully.

you can be the mouse fixer of the friend group. trade fixed mice for casseroles and rides to the airport

i used to work long hours in a lab full of geiger counters all making various different pitch and tone beeps and chirps at various intervals. didn’t love it, but it was fine

but if there is ONE screaming/crying baby/child near me, that’s it, I’m donezo, fetal position time, i have no say in the matter :[