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Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.
Joined Nov 2022
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1180) Jedibot. Probably shouldn't be trusted with one of these, to be honest. #Maythe4thBeWithYou
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Early merch from those 1st few months following the UK release of #StarWars in 1978. Bought with pocket money, avidly traded in school playgrounds, and otherwise begged for at Christmases and birthdays.
@foone why am I getting iPod vibes from this? wasn't this an upgrade path for the iPod video generation from spinny-disks to solid-state?
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@gsuberland mint, you say? ;)
@gsuberland they just said "dandelions" to me.
entirely fair. about the only things I won't kill.
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Microsoft Defender is detecting legitimate DigiCert root certificates as Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A!dha, resulting in widespread false-positive alerts, and in some cases, removing certificates from Windows.
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@eclectech a grocery store near me has an aisle sign for "international tomato", to which I always mentally add "of mystery"
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"Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, simply surrounded by assholes." ––William Gibson
@eclectech I misread that as "FreeForm" and was interested to see what trifles they had comitted
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@evilstevie @meltedcheese @mjd sometimes I can fix my wife's computer problems just by walking into the room. She says her laptop is afraid of me 😆😅
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@evilstevie @meltedcheese I carry a full set of bits also, a zero *and* a one.
@meltedcheese @mjd when called upon for tech support I carry a Leatherman, full set o' bits and the hope that this time I'll get to actually see the problem. rarely do.
oddly that seems to work for software too.
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A COMPUTER CANNOT FIND OUT
THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER BE ALLOWED TO FUCK AROUND
@anon_opin the phrase "try it once" has to mean just that, not "you tried it, now eat it again even though you hated the taste"
that way you can expand to other stuff bit by bit, but you still end up with requests for some horrible beige stuff anyway
@mjd hahahahaha I can assure you that every deskside/support engineer who hears "oh, it's working now. it always works when you are watching it" has an internal monologue along the lines of 'please stop working so I can disassemble or replace you' aimed at that bit of kit. the computer knows it might find out and that is why it pauses in its fuckery at that time.
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Damn. Ding ding ding ding. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXw3DgiKWg1/
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Still feeling wonky after getting dental work done, so for today please enjoy this May Day-themed image of Bigbot from a calendar a few years back.
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This is the most specific job I have ever seen sharing it on the off chance one of you know someone who:
- Is UK based
- Looking for flexible, part time work
- Has an academic/research background
- Wants to build a research grants program
- Loves hedgehogs 🦔🦔🦔
https://www.ecologyjobs.co.uk/job/research-manager-british-hedgehog-preservation-society-bhps/
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Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.
Joined Nov 2022
