It’s my emotional support vat of algae. I keep it in my bed.

The rehabilitation of Bill Gates’s image after he left MicroSoft was mind blowing. Like here’s the most capitalist capitalist in the world, the Elon Musk of the 90s/early 00s, and otherwise progressive people were fawning over him because he did a little philanthropy at the behest of his wife.

It’s like listening to gamers talk about Windows being an OS with such wide compatibility, when the only reason for that is market share forcing everyone else to bend to it and write Windows drivers for everything.

And I still wonder where we’d be in computing if MS hadn’t anointed Intel and their old-timey architecture as the winner of the CPU wars.

Just bought a used, but very well calibrated MK3S last month as my first foray into 3D printing. I love this thing so far.

And it doesn’t know my wifi network or password. I save files to an SD card, plug that into the printer, and print. No apps, no printer connecting to the internet to verify registration, no sending my files somewhere outside the home when printing.

Might run it through a MK3.5 hardware upgrade in not too long, which is another cool thing they do: give you an upgrade path for older models (like mine) to use newer equipment from newer models.

Remove Snowrunner, add KSP, and that’s me.

Let’s be honest, Mamdani would be banned from .ml, too. Modlog: “read more theory.”

“What, do you expect society to accommodate your special needs vehicle? You some kind of woke commie?”

All hail Duke, Duke is life

Zydrate comes in a little glass vial.

That’s why I like Shadowrun’s rolling system for skill checks better than d20s: It weights the rolls so that middle-of-the-road rolls are much more likely than the extremes on either side, which feels more true-to-life. It also makes upgrades to your dice pool more meaningful than a simple +n modifier with a D20.

Yeah, I hate that too, but db0 still works for me in literally every other facet.

But the pro gen-AI stance is really at odds with the otherwise anarchist-ish outlook of db0: replacing individual human creativity with something that by its very nature requires large corporations to even run, or just a TON of personal capital to run yourself.

I think the genie is out of the bag on this one.

Can’t close the barn door on the toothpaste

It’s hard to keep track of all the things I’m not supposed to download. That’s why I have a NAS. I get a sense of fulfillment from seeing those empty, empty drives that can’t be used by anyone else to download things they shouldn’t.

Stop advertising your name at the top of every comment.

Lol, did you really take a phone screenshot, and circle the link in the picture?

BTW, the link in the article that you’ve circled is broken, so not sure what you want people to derive from that.

Vitamin E acetate was found in grey market THC vapes as a thickener.

The 2019 panic was mostly caused by kids who got hospitalized, and didn’t want to admit they’d been using THC.

Pull my beads of love

If we’re going back to the 80s, do we at least get the company provided cocaine?

Exactly. If it’s displaying the line-in correctly, I don’t see what a firmware update would bring to the table.

It’s a display. Once it’s achieved being able to act like that, then you should be done for as long as the hardware lasts.

Silent gen: Makes all the music that defines half a century

Boomers: We made that