evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net
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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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@MiaMarkTwo HELLO! You are back! We missed you 
(hope your world is well)
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a tip if you ever lose a close internet friend: find and backup everything you can find of them. physically print out photos of them. memorialize them in whatever format makes the most sense. internet identities only persist by the labour of the person living in them. when that person dies, their online presence slowly deflates, turns to dust, and blows away. I've seen it happen too many times. websites die all the time, and only the living migrate to new platforms.
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I’m imagining a rented, non-deterministic dishwasher that only gets some things clean some of the time, and occasionally makes things dirtier.
- You can rent three of them and once the first one is done you can move the dishes to the second one, and so on.
- You can then also buy two more sets of crockery/cutlery and use whichever comes out cleanest.
But as long as you keep renting them, washing up is dead!!
@ross Detergent-in-Depth
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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
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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
