My first house was in a town where the hall of records burned down in 1920. Which means that no one still around knows when anything older was actually built, butofficially everything older was built in 1920.

They really should have included that storyline in Power Rangers, TBH.

He was.

I remember only because at the time they were advertising that the green power ranger would be getting a power upgrade and I said to my older brother that I bet he would become the white power ranger (not being aware of the connotations at the time, nor anything else other than the kid’s show).

He said that wasn’t possible. How would they display the trademark white diamonds, he asked? It still boggles my mind that that was his only reasoning.

In Ross’ video, IIRC, he said 110% was good, 120% was pretty safe, and 140% was very safe.

edit: Correct autocorrect.

Hey, just be happy you’re not in ICQ.

That guy doesn’t look like the dinosaur guy. Not yet, anyway.

My parents used to feel the same way.

I’ve never seen evidence for either of these claims. How do you know they’re true?

On Thursday I attended a company-wide meeting wherein several coworkers tried (with mixed results) to persuade the rest of the company to start using AI. The primary way they did so was by listing incidents in which they’d found it useful.

One of the examples was (mildly paraphrased) “our other coworker is old, so he knows things like Tom Sawyer. He said he thought I was pulling a Tom Sawyer, trying to convince him to paint the fence.”

I respect the person who was giving that speech, they seem very knowledgeable, but hearing that they had to ask AI what that meant was just upsetting.

That said, I guess one use for AI is deciphering idioms?

One time I introduced someone to Linux then left them to their own devices.

I returned to them hours later to find out they had gotten annoyed with permissions errors and run chown -R ${THEIRUSER}: /.

The results were not what they wanted.

If you’re competent enough to use Lemmy, you’re absolutely competent enough to run Linux for most purposes.

Honestly, it’s a bit more of a stretch, but if you’re competent enough to plug in a USB drive you’re probably competent enough to install Linux. And most of Lemmy would be here to help you!

When I worked in cell phone repair, someone brought in a cell phone in similar condition and asked a similar question, all while seeming quite sincere.

At least they were honest; they explained it had fallen out of their pocket while mowing and gotten entangled in the mower blades. Not sure how they expected us to affect repairs, though. We declined as politely as we could and directed them to where they could buy a replacement.

I was going to mention DOS, but I looked it up in the hopes of not sounding like an idiot and it turns out the history is more complicated than I knew.

Fair though, thank you for the information.

I thought shin splints were pretty universal. TIL.

Is that … Not the case?

https://youtu.be/QionFrgMH4w

A bold take, let’s see how it goes!

Did the front fall off?