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Watching a mutual ask for printer recs and receive a chorus of tired tech folk going "Just get a Brother, they're fine" and man

MAN

Like this is actually kinda fascinating honestly, Brother is now the best printer brand, the one that every Computer Person recommends, and is it because their printers are good? Their printers are fine, they print, whatever, no, it's because everybody else's printers have gotten Innovated out the wazoo, every innovation making them way worse, until it's gotten to the point where I wouldn't have one in the house even if it were free, and meanwhile Brother's have remained consistently Fine I Guess, which now makes them the best printer manufacturer simply by virtue of them opting out of the Who Can Get Crappiest Fastest race

Brother have gotten to where they are now, by NOT innovating

EDIT 2023-11-27 2130 UTC: I muted this thread a while back because wew lad this got too big. I won't see your reply but the lurkers (and commentors) of Hacker News might.

Not gonna lie, my leaf is facing Monday with significantly more enthusiasm than I am.

/goes to get more coffee

OK Monday. Let's do this.

#sillyScribbles #photography #leaf #frosty #silly #happy #drawing

In 2020, the emergence of COVID-19 gave us a stark, terrifying, but very valuable lesson in how thin our collective values are once push comes to shove. Within WEEKS after lockdowns started, the op-ed class repeatedly suggested that

- We should suspend child labor laws (they claimed, incorrectly, that children weren't harmed by COVID)

- The elderly have already lived long enough and should be willing to die now to help the economy.

- The weak and compromised should be regarded as expendable.

K, I apparently am late to the "sharks have been around for a ridiculously long time" thing. I mean, I know they're ancient, but I really did not have a clue just how ancient, relative to other "things that have been around forever".

The one that blew my mind is the age of sharks relative to the existence of the universe.

By our best understanding, the Big Bang happened about 13.8 billion years ago. Sharks have existed on Earth for about 450 million years. That means sharks have existed for approximately 3% of the entirety of the existence of the Universe.

Standard "some things that sharks are older than" list:

Saturn's rings (~100 million years old)
The Pleiades cluster (75-150 myo)
One galactic orbit of the sun (200-225 my)
North Star, aka Polaris (estimated at ~70 myo)
The Atlantic Ocean (~150 myo)
Pangea (formed ~335 million years ago)
Trees (390 myo)

I’m just an executive, standing in front of some small thing that brings you joy in this life, asking how I can completely ruin it for money

(The fun part is that if you click that "try out the new powered bing" button and say "you told me australia doesn't exist, are you sure" it will immediately start denying it ever said anything of the sort. Gaslighting As As Service.)

Totally misjudged timing of stuff today. Was going to do chores then reward myself with a sunny walk with the camera looking for Interesting Things.

Did chores, went for walk, and was greeted by the moon waving at me over the hill.

To be fair I did get distracted taking some snaps in the garden when I was putting the rubbish out earlier, which could explain why the moon was rising by the time I went out🤦‍♀️

The moon was looking nice though.

#sillyScribbles #photography #moon

"Project Q" no way I'm the only person thinking this.

#prgramming #python #windows #meme to be run in admin mode.

Took one of my Lomochrome Purple images from Holga Week and ran the file through a channel shifting Processing script written by 'Phil' on Datamoshing.com in 2016. This shifted red, green and blue pixels around the frame. Glitch, #GlitchArt, #DigitalArt, #GlitchAesthetic, #Datamoshing, #Abstract, #Trippy, #Holga, #ChannelShift,

@lowqualityfacts
True. And Tolkien used to live in a student share house with CS (aka 'Counter-Strike') Lewis that was right next-door to a coal mine, and so took inspiration from real-life for Dory and Nori and Groin and Borin and Thaw'in and Bambi and Himbo, etc. all being little beardy folk obsessed with mining, when he wrote the original script for Peter Jackson's 'Lord of the Hobbitses'.

@lowqualityfacts
Story checks out actual photo

Was completely offline for 4 days. Strong recommend.

Firefox is officially and directly fucking with Google and I am here for it!

Unbelievable Black Friday sale at my local library, any of the books I’ve been wanting to read for free and I can take it back for a new book when I’m done

Still waiting for my landlord to show me this year's Black Friday rent deals.