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Ook the Librarian

@ ook_the_librarian @lemmy.world

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My namesake is a human librarian that was turned into an orangutan. All he says is "Ook" and can traverse the library stacks with great ease. He is happy.

I have a pretty strange knowledge set. I'm not super friendly, but I like to get high and link people to stuff. Just pretend I said only "ook"

  • Taylor Swift draws ire of conservatives after Chiefs win AFC championship, claim she's a 'psyop'

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  • We should consider it a faux pas for a news organization to report on the punditry of other news org that is "two steps below it".

    If nbcnews wants to cover something "conservatives" are saying, they shouldn't reach deep. They should consider the twitter account End Wokeness to be so far beneath it that reporting on it directly should feel dirty.

    Now if fox news or even newsmax picks it up, then maybe start attacking this nonsense. Right now it seems to the crazies that we are taking them seriously. Why else would NBC News cover it?

  • Describe your gender using only US states

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  • y? omg

    Is that a gender? It's almost a state.

  • I'm amazed at FreeCAD's abilities. It needs a better name. Thinking of it as simply "cad software" like calling a 2-GHz computer in your pocket a "phone".

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  • Actually that's a great place for some "I want to help but I don't know computers" people to jump in.

  • I'm amazed at FreeCAD's abilities. It needs a better name. Thinking of it as simply "cad software" like calling a 2-GHz computer in your pocket a "phone".

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  • That makes total sense. I was on my way to mechanical engineering when I was learning autocad and autodesk mechanical desktop if you remember that. Now it's just in autocad. (I guess that's an example of how things used to unshittify. I bet adobe would bring back MD as a separate product nowadays.)

    So if you try to enter woodworking after that experience, it feels right to model projects like that. I had learned a lot of coding by this point. So adding the code into parts for flexibility felt great.

    This is going to sound complicated. That's because I bet you can do this with one click. But I thought it was cool I model a compound mitre angle for a cut using numbers I calc'd on Octave (matlab-like foss). Since I'm just a tinkerer, I could only imagine how powerful that could be for pros. Lots of "where was this when I needed it" thoughts.

  • I'm amazed at FreeCAD's abilities. It needs a better name. Thinking of it as simply "cad software" like calling a 2-GHz computer in your pocket a "phone".

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  • I tried qcad around 2010 or so and found the UI horrible compared to autocad that I was used to. At this point in my life, drafting was pretty useless. So I had no reason to have cad unless it was free.

    I found OpenScad in Y2020 and was amazed at how far it had come. It felt much more like the commercial stuff, at least to me, who was behind the times anyway.

  • I'm amazed at FreeCAD's abilities. It needs a better name. Thinking of it as simply "cad software" like calling a 2-GHz computer in your pocket a "phone".

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  • I was disappointed not to see one. That's not a 'no', but I did look for one.

  • I'm amazed at FreeCAD's abilities. It needs a better name. Thinking of it as simply "cad software" like calling a 2-GHz computer in your pocket a "phone".

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  • I just thought in hindsight, my response to you plugging freecad is funny.

    It's like you took me into your workshop with all these benches, and I just point at the openscad bench like a caveman and grunt "scad".

  • What songs do you like that are in a language which you don't speak?

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  • In the early 200x, I was listening to an Argentinean punk rock group called Dos Minutos.

    None of the song names really stick out to me (of course), but here's a link to one.

  • What (free and open-source) applications do you use on a daily basis?

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  • Lmk

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  • And they write it all down and charge a reasonable price.

    Ok, I'm joking, but only kinda. Those things are pretty neat to thumb through. I don't know if the money goes to some wack-job. It's almost certain due to the invisible hand.

    inb4 woosh ...bah bah-dah ... bah dah pah dum

  • Lmk

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  • I got a good deal on a laptop and removed the hard drive with the preinstalled windows almost immediately. I say "almost" because I did actually set up a work space and installed software on in. It was a just-in-case system.

    My laptop has been running linux-only for a while. But my wife needs my lappy for a thing. And it's a windows-only thing. So I remove my hard drive. Put in the pre-installed one I had sitting on a shelf. And it didn't boot. I got a windows error screen saying I had better start rounding up boot recovery material. So fuck.

    Put my linux hard drive back in. BIOS can't find a bootable drive. Fuck.

    I was able to fix the problem. I kinda hate to admit that it was kinda fun to fix. (If you haven't chrooted, you haven't lived.) But I'm just pissed off at that whole #!

  • Zed is now open source

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  • Like they would open source Zed instead of locking it up in a museum and claiming their version is the best.

  • Is it dumb to connect yourself to a car's grounding point

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  • An electrical ground is reservoir into which you can dump charge with altering its potential difference. A car, in and of itself, is ground for the small shocks that occur from static. The earth is a bit overkill here.

    Edit: I am about to use the word "safe" on the internet. Normal "don't trust everyone on the internet" warnings apply.

    You are correct that connecting yourself to ground of the car is the same as connecting to the negative terminal. You should be safe doing so in a properly wired car.

    That is to say, unless you expect to be at different potential differences. When might that happen? In a lightning strike for example. You do NOT want to electrically connected to your car's ground in a lightning strike. (You should be perfectly safe inside the car, not touching the car's ground.) Your car is not a reservoir for that kind of charge.

    The earth can handle a lightning strike without a (measurable) change in potential difference. This is why fish are not cooked in lightning storms.

  • Removed

    How do Hue Bulbs do millions of different colors, what sorcery is this?

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  • I hate when the magic smokes leaks out. Never works right again.

  • So is the US slipping into Civil War?

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  • inb4 Brown v Board was wrongly decided.

    I want to say one of Trump's candidates for a judgeship hinted at that.

  • Trump says he’ll appeal ‘ridiculous’ E. Jean Carroll defamation ruling

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  • She can't spend $83 M. She just needs to call J.G. Wentworth. Let them hound him for the debt.

  • Trump says he’ll appeal ‘ridiculous’ E. Jean Carroll defamation ruling

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  • It's like she wished for a money printing machine from a monkey's paw.

  • Trump says he’ll appeal ‘ridiculous’ E. Jean Carroll defamation ruling

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  • Taylor Swift is living every woman’s AI porn nightmare — Deepfake nudes of the pop star are appearing all over social media. We all saw this coming.

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  • Humans are horrible, but a main-stream social media platform should not be a celebration of it. People need to demand change and then leave if ignored. I seem to hear people demanding change. The next step has more impetus.