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early_riser

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  • Does anyone else get phrases stuck in their head the same way songs do?

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  • Pretty sure H*R has irrevocably altered the vocabulary of millions of people. I’ll say “” there’s two of them” whenever there are unexpectedly two of something. I sometimes say “hellot” or “haldo” instead of hello to people I know. I could go on.

    Miss the wiki too.

  • Does anyone else get phrases stuck in their head the same way songs do?

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  • Hey I do that too. For me it’s “I don’t like food anymore!”, originally from Homestar Runner.

    Also old memes like imma firin mah lazer and variants like I’m a farmer in Malaysia

  • How do you argue against "I have nothing to hide" in relation to privacy and security?

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  • I call it the bathroom analogy. When you're dropping a deuce, you're not doing anything illegal or immoral, indeed you're not doing anything anyone else isn't also doing, but I'd wager you probably don't want people watching you do it.

  • How would you spell the sound Transformers make when they transform?

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  • The Transformers wiki is perfect.

    As perfect as the Homestar Runner Wiki (possible RIP)?

  • Archology floating in the atmosphere of a gas giant

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  • A fair point I suppose.

  • Stewart Cheifet, PBS host of Computer Chronicles who broadcast the PC revolution, dies at 87

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  • I think he brought an interesting perspective to the table as a "BestBuy geek" as I think he put it somewhere, someone who isn't a technical expert but is interested in the field.

    I never watched the show when it aired but I binged it on YouTube about 10 years ago now, and it's a common source of quasi ASMR background noise while I'm at work (gotta love the chunky CLACK-CLACK of those old Model-M keyboards)

    At least the YT channel I found the archive on goes from 1983 to I think around 2001 or 2002. One of the last episodes I remember seeing introduced the original xbox. One of the more surreal things you can do is shuffle a playlist of all the episodes. In one they'll be gushing about some new tech fad, and the next episode will be from two years later after the fad has run its course. I learned from this show there was an AI fad back in the mid-80s and a VR craze in the late 90s. Interesting to see history repeats.

    Speaking of repeating history, you can see that Nintendo was all about FOMO and artificial scarcity even back then. There's an interview with some random mom complaining that she can't find a SNES.

    It's also interesting to see how the format of the show changed over time. It started out as an educational program but gradually morphed into a tech review show as the audience went from "what's a computer?" to "what's the latest gadget?"

    I got way off topic here.

  • Archology floating in the atmosphere of a gas giant

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  • hmmm I could have sworn I saw a banned tag next to your username. Eh it's not there now if it was before.

    I think to some extent radicalism of whatever sort is inevitable on niche platforms like this. Just making an account on the fediverse is making an ideological statement that you reject the centralized social media platforms that the fediverse seeks to replace. But the right thing to do is vote with your feet. Block and defederate. That's the strength of the fediverse. People who support that stuff have their corner and those of us who just want to look at cool pictures and talk about their weird OC's can hang out somewhere else away from the nonsense.

  • Archology floating in the atmosphere of a gas giant

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  • That's weird, the account that cross-posts here was banned. It always happened so quickly I thought they were a bot.

  • Mosaics are analog pixel art

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  • Six of one, half a dozen of the other.

  • All Games Are Going Somewhere or Cleaning Something

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  • All I am doing is being a slave of the factory

    The factory must grow.

  • All Games Are Going Somewhere or Cleaning Something

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  • Can't say I've heard this opinion. I have heard "It's not for me" and the like. I bought and played Stardew Valley and it didn't really click with me. That doesn't mean I have bad taste or it's a bad game. It means I game for different reasons.

    FWIW most online content about Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley that I have come across was made by dudes.

  • Is there any hope for accessibility on Linux?

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  • Addendum to my previous reply. I've installed Pop!_OS on bare metal. The magnifier is marginally better. Scrolling to zoom doesn't also pass the input to the current application causing a page to scroll at the same time. That's good. Invert colors is present, but there's no obvious quick way to switch between normal and inverted. There's no options to change the size or color of the cursor, though I did find a config file /etc/environment with a cursor size setting. Unfortunately the cursor size depends on the currently focused app, so if the cursor is over the desktop or a component of the DE like the settings app, its size will reflect the setting in /etc/environment but if you move it over a Firefox window, for example, it will shrink.

    Orca is as bad as ever, perhaps worse since there's no obvious way in the GUI to change screen reader settings like verbosity and rate.

    UPDATE:

    Much of the documentation references options that are no longer present, I assume referring to GNOME rather than Cosmic. Docs on Github, for example, mention typing and pointing & clicking as options in the accessibility settings menu, but these are not present in Cosmic.

    So I'm not much better off.

  • Vulpithecus fidelis (finished) and some other stuff

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  • Thanks :D

    They started out more humanoid but I wanted them to be more unique, so I "devolved" the anthropomorphic characteristics, or if you will, "returned them to monke"

  • Vulpithecus fidelis (finished) and some other stuff

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  • ¿Qué?

  • Vulpithecus fidelis (finished) and some other stuff

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  • Why are programmers so rude to beginners?

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  • It’s true that searching on Google usually solves the problem, but the biggest issue is that it’s hard to know the exact word you need to use.

    I tell people 90% of IT (and development I assume) is knowing what questions to ask, where to ask those questions, and how to interpret the answers. It's like the search for the ultimate question in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

    As for Google, I think it's getting less useful, so the days of saying "just google it" are gone.

  • Why are programmers so rude to beginners?

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  • Am IT guy can confirm. We tend to be misanthropic loners. Bad “bedside manner” is an industry-wide problem. That’s why the A+ certification has a section on customer service skills.

  • How do you feel that forums/social media have changed over the period of time that you've used them?

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  • Upvoted for adding image descriptions

  • How do you feel that forums/social media have changed over the period of time that you've used them?

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  • I tried asking a question on Blender Guru’s (the donut guy) discord and it just got swept away like a barrel over Niagara Falls, never to be seen again.