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The Picard Maneuver

@ The_Picard_Maneuver @piefed.world

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  • You wouldn't want Premium for free, would you?

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  • You wouldn't want Premium for free, would you?

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  • -__

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  • The Top 12 States to Live in

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  • They know what they did.

  • When your interests are too incompatible

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  • I really enjoy reading stuff like this: random thought experiments or heuristics (I'm trying to think of a more encompassing term) that seem like something I want to remember.

    If this interests you too, you might enjoy the most recent one I learned: "Chesterton's Fence", which is the principle of not breaking something without fully understanding why it was in place. e.g. Don't touch the legacy code, don't tear down load-bearing walls, don't remove the red tape about building in 100 year flood zones, etc.

  • Weird Al's advice to a fan

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  • Thank you.

  • Weird Al's advice to a fan

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  • Sorry, forgot about the public figure rule.

  • Same is true of the bathroom door.

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  • Yep. He'll remember it forever. I don't think I can untrain anything now.

  • Be sure to use the superior GPT

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  • Strange. I can still see it.

  • Same is true of the bathroom door.

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  • What do you do if your cat tries wake you up by biting paper, turning on lights, and opening/closing cabinets?

    Asking for myself. It's been 15 years without a good solution...

  • I found Picards cups at the local thrift store!

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  • Amazing

  • Introducing: PatrickGPT - A Chatbot from Admiral Patrick

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  • This will become my new daily driver instead of chatgpt or the others.

  • Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going?

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  • That's awesome! I've also had pretty good luck with gaming. The one thing I haven't figured out how to fix yet is streaming to discord. If a game is running through the proton layer, discord doesn't identify the game (I think the application gets called steamapp+random numbers), and I'm not sure how to direct it to it. Other than that, just some minor tweaking here or there.

  • Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going?

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  • I don't know yet either. I'm only at the "idea" phase for that one and not quite ready to move on it yet. It seems like such a common need that there must be a few open source projects out there, I assume.

    I've briefly considered putting videos in their own category in Jellyfin, just for simplicity's sake. Not sure if it handles photos too or if I would even want to try that though.

  • Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going?

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  • I started with PopOS in September (?), ultimately replacing Windows on every PC in the house. It's been going well. I've had to troubleshoot a few things, the biggest of which being a boot failure, but that turned out to be hardware related, not Linux's fault. Feeling like I own my computer again is great.

    Since then, I've gotten into self-hosting and now have a NAS, a Debian Jellyfin server, and a ton of storage space. Right now I'm just backing up basic stuff for the family, as well as streaming movies/shows/music within the house. I've ripped so many old DVDs and CDs in the past few months...

    Next steps will probably be: books, audiobooks, and archiving family photos/videos in a way that is easier to browse than just files on a hard drive. I will likely de-google eventually.

    In short, I'm having fun and should've done this a long time ago.

  • About a decade too late.

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  • I feel like I was still seeing hipsters up until the mid 2010s.

  • What do you call this kind of business decision?

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  • Reminds me of this headline from last year:

  • The original had a SNES in your room too.

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  • Ah, I guess I've been out of the game for a while then...

  • Teaching seems like a frustrating job

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  • Assuming this is anything above pre-k, I'd be hoping that the parents would respond with "Sorry we've spoken with him about this unacceptable behavior / we're connecting with a children's counselor to address anger issues / etc."

    If it's at the point that I'm getting punched in the face at work, I might also be annoyed at their response being