Scene: storeroom, deep beneath Hyrule castle.

Link: bumps into a ceramic pot, knocking it to the floor, shattering everywhere. Mixed in with the shards of pottery are several rupies.

Zelda: look of shock at what Link did.

Link: looks at pot, scared, then slowly looks up to Zelda.

Zelda: her gaze changes to a mischievous ear-to-ear grin.

Scene: pottery breaking music montage - everything in the storeroom is laid to waste.

If it doesn’t work it’s harmless. If it does work, you’re out a little water, a few minutes for a ceremony, and might just save untold weekend and evening hours for everyone.

I trust that they’ll be complete push-overs when it comes to law enforcement and agency data requests without a warrant.

Outside of moving data overseas, away from 5/9-eyes, I’m having a bad time figuring out how to obtain cryptographic control over my data within existing services. This leaves me to just upload crypto blobs everywhere with no real services to support it, or buying my own hardware and co-locating it myself.

After watching a few episodes of Dropping Names, I’m convinced that Frakes would tell this joke if the opportunity presented itself.

That man is a menace.

I had a dusty laptop running a homelab for you, and figured I should show something nice on the screen. Then, I typed in my password like an idiot. Not gonna put that online. :(

https://youtu.be/6ztxYDaxyd8?t=52

I think I know what you’re talking about. Personally, I’ve always chalked it up to Japanese media as an outlet for people that have to live in a restrictive culture. I think every culture does this to a degree: fantasies are sold for the consumer to live vicariously. Everyone just has different unmet psychological needs, where trends vary culturally. IMO, American media is just as fucked up in completely different ways.

It’s just what I see in some art I enjoy, and then we see some FloridaMan type crimes like Dude Emerges From Ceiling And Throws Log and we Really Wonder.

Sometimes it’s mental illness, other times it’s when all the manga and video games just aren’t enough.

like handing the consumer a live wire.

Honestly, that’s practically all of computerized information technology right now. Hackers, spammers, bots, foreign-state actors, trolls, viruses, government spying, manufacturer spying, information brokers, intrusive advertising, it’s all just just teeming with bad stuff that requires education to navigate successfully.

I really expected that to go the other way. A bite from an unkempt mouth on an older person just sounds like a great way to get sepsis.

Still, I didn’t have it as bad as one 41-year-old woman living in Fukuoka City. Late in the afternoon of Saturday December 2, the woman (whose name has been withheld) contacted the police after the man who lived in the unit above her suddenly smashed through his floor/her ceiling and hurled a large piece of wood into her living space.

Sweet jebus. I’ve heard that the walls in those apartment are rather thin. Still, this (and the other stories on here) is pretty unhinged.

Yup. When cheap PC clones came around, everyone had that one Com, LPT, or VGA port with the missing screw terminal. Fortunately you need zero of those for the port to actually work.

What’s kind of amusing is that all those old ports with the screw-in fasteners were moving around anywhere from 3v to 12v at about 45mA on the high-side. Meanwhile, USB-C can move 240W and has nothing to prevent disconnecting while sending enough power to run a power tool.

And to monetize the display of video. Licensing of that port’s supporting technology is holding everyone back.

Though Entrop is right that it’s mostly just a power-user worry.

Not entirely. I’ve had a few snaps become useless when it comes down to providing configuration data. How an individual snap integrates into the filesystem depends on the author/packaging, and quality varies. Ultimately, it’s a PITA since the mapped filesystem paths are not in the stock/standard locations the product docs say they are. I chalk this up to packaging software that existed pre-Snap, or the original authors did not do the Snap packaging. It’ll probably get better as the ecosystem matures, but right now, it’s not a great experience unless the Snap-ed package can run as-is.

Seconded. Everyone shits on Ubuntu, but it’s solid, well-supported, and is low-friction both for install and daily use.

It also has decent Nvidia support and Steam runs well on it, so (most) mainstream gaming is a real possibility here.

Corporate+Niche quadrant could be populated with dead systems that only hobbyists use. Amusingly, there’s too many to fit onto this chart.

Hah! No back issues, thankfully. Knees and neck on the other hand… Advil for joint and sinus inflammation, Aleve for muscle aches and cramps.

A few examples off the top of my head:

• Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
• Velvet Acid Christ - Twisted Thought Generator
• Depeche Mode - Violator
• Stabbing Westward - Whither Blister Burn and Peel

(why yes I’m of a certain age, why do you ask?)

Hilarious to have that for what is practically a monochrome dot-matrix printout.