Is it by smashing stuff together until they break something fundamental, and the universe goes dark?

“Gonna manifest me some pork in the shower for my wife”

One of my friends once called me pedantic, and I got to correct his pronunciation of it - he stressed the first syllable. One of the high points of my life.

No worries, there’s going to be a wealth of stuff I have to request myself with, it’s just another thing on the list. Thanks for pointing it out!

Nice one. It’s been a hot minute (or a warm couple of decades at least) since I’ve used Linux, but I had a play a short while back, and remembered more than I expected, so I’m going to turn an old Mac mini that I have spare into a media server

So it’ll go into suspension if I don’t deal with that at install, and I can’t turn it off later easily? That’s a dick, thanks for the warning

Can you recommend a distro for being a media server? I too have been complacent about my media habits, and the time has come to sort it out.

Wait, are we supposed to think of influencers as humans?

Mine is a Casio I’ve had for about 30 years, I’m pretty sure it’s mine by now

I’ve got a digital watch

I have the Flint, I think I paid about $80 for an open box one, it’s easy for a pleb like me to set up. Running Mullvad on it is definitely quicker than on my devices

Apparently it’s tricky. I’ve seen a cracked version of Lightroom too, though it was too much of a fuckabout for me. Turns out that there’s decent FOSS alternatives that I’d rather use and support

So we can watch the world go to shit in real time as as we open new oil and gas wells in the North Sea. Great.

Anyone who thinks that these things could or would be anything other than a colossal waste of time and resources should watch Adam Something’s recent video on them. Such a pointless way to solve inner-city transport

Here in the uk we stopped subsidising private green energy a while ago, and it’s still worthwhile to install solar - we pay our energy supplier (one of a few privatised options) for the connection and infrastructure, and any power we use, and they pay us for the power we put back into the grid. Essentially, a portion of the money we earn from our power is kept by the utility company to cover infrastructure maintenance, and we still make money. I very much doubt that the base power generation or infrastructure costs in the us are so much higher as to stop it making money for homeowners without subsidies, unless (as I’d imagine) the local power generation is a monopoly, and they’re just trying to protect their profits. Solar became cheap enough to be genuinely profitable without subsidies here a few years back.

The Nikon siteis less of a cookie nightmare, and arguably more interesting, but thanks for bringing this to my attention, the photos are stunning!

It’s really pleasing seeing the seconds all change in unison!

Thanks for the reply. It’s a router designed specifically to handle the loads of vpn usage with a fairly quick dual-core processor, and looking a various people’s speed tests, they seed to be miffed if they lose 25-40% of their bandwidth. I’m loosing about 90%, so I doubt it’s the router’s hardware’s fault. None of the tests I could find were seeing speeds of less than 100mbps, from a 275mbps connection for instance. Most were showing up to 800mbps with a vpn running on Wireguard from a gigabit connection.

I’ll have a look at the MTU value when I’m at home, and see if that gets me anywhere.

Go and live in a remote cave somewhere maybe? Oh no, wait, that’s fucked too

Microplastic a found in FUCKING CLOUDS!! That nonsense is absolutely everywhere, and will be there forever. And wherever you go, it’s going to follow you. Rubbish