Oh man, that just reminded me that PB Crisps existed. Fuckin loved those things.

For android it’s power+volume up to bring up the power options menu (shutdown, restart, etc) and there is a “lock down” option that disables biometric unlock.

Wish I could do it with one hand, but good to know it’s there.

Linus was ahead of the game on this one. Nvidia should start building data centers next to public pools. Cool the systems and warm the pools.

The southern chapter of the Kool Kids Klub does not appreciate your suspicion.

Oh man, that reminds me of the time that I was trying to record a demo for my friends band. They had a PA system, and apparently the 1/4 cable that went from the main speaker to the other carried power. I didn’t know this. I plugged it into the sound card on my PC. I’m super lucky that all it did was fry my sound card. It died so fast.

Sigh…

When I was in the 3rd grade, our class had to do reports on countries around the world and we were all assigned a country. I got Egypt. Coincidentally, some friends of my parents had recently gotten back from a trip to Egypt. My parents asked their friends if there was anything I could bring in to use for my presentation. They let me borrow this little statue they got. It was an eagle with a hat, I think it was a depiction of Horus. It was carved out of some really nice white stone, maybe marble or something? I brought it into school, put it on my desk, and waited patiently to stand up and do my report. When I stood up, I bumped my desk, and the statue fell to the ground and broke in half.

Now monetarily this may not have been the most “expensive” thing, but it was the souvineer that this family brought back from Egypt that they had on their mantle to always remember the trip. It was priceless.

Why the fuck would you let a 7 year old bring your breakable souvineer to school for a class project?

Anyway, those people stopped being friends with my parents after that, so I have a feeling it was either expensive or meant a lot.

This hurts me to think about. Why did you have to ask this question?

“helps me want to eat breakfast”

So my brother used to wake up and slam down like 20oz of water in the morning. He noticed it gave him a huge appetite for breakfast and all throughout the day. Ends up that this is an exersize that competitive eaters do. From my understanding, It stretches your stomach out, and the water drains out pretty quickly leaving it empty and ready for a big meal.

Yup. Just how cable TV started as “you pay extra for it, but you don’t get any ads!” and then when they realized they had everybody hooked, they started showing ads.

Same thing with streaming services. Pay money for a service with no Ads. Oh what’s that? Now that they realize they are your primary source of content, they are going to turn ads on unless you pay extra? Boom, gottem.

I put “Chaotic Neutral Technomancer” as my title at work and HR said I had to change it.

People keep asking about storage and that’s a valid concern. I remember a while ago Linus made a video about a crypto that can be mined with storage. So he made a huge raid of old drives. I wonder if something like this could or would be practical for a decentralized storage solution. Like… Encourage people to set up NAS’s that can be used sort of like torrent seeding for a decentralized video platform and reward them with crypto.

I dunno… Just thinking out loud.

Edit: Jeez hit a nerve with the crypto thing, huh? Then what’s the solution? Storage costs money. So ads? Subscription cost?

This just triggered a deep memory from within me. My brother used to say “half past” when I asked him the time, and when I would say “half past what?” the response was always “Half past the monkeys ass, a quarter to his balls”

I still don’t know what it means or where it came from, but when I was 8 years old, it was hilarious.

If you ever want a fast track to the no-fly list, play Space Team on a airplane!

Jokes aside, I forgot about this game and it’s great fun. I need to remember it next time I am in a room with a few friends.

My Irish cousin-in-law recently had a daughter and named her Blathnaid. I was very surprised to learn it is pronounced Bla-nid

Don’t forget your soapy wooder

A girl in my chemistry class learned that the hard way. I have never seen a burn blister form so fast.

Real Player.

Nobody had enough bandwidth to actually stream anything. I guess some people had IDSN, and maybe even fewer cable internet, but the majority of the world was still on dial up. You can’t stream video on dial up.

It also comes with YouTube music which rivals spotify. Kind of the better option if you are paying for a premium service.

Congratulations on being part of the problem.

I worked my way up in IT from the help desk all the way up to a Senior Systems Engineer with no degree, certificate, etc. It was all self taught through YouTube and by learning on the job. My first help desk position I was able to get because I “was good with computers”.

I was able to move up through the industry by getting an entry job, learning on the job and asking for more to do and learning new things until I felt I plateaued, then used LinkedIn to talk to recruiters and got my next job which was more advanced stuff I had never done but felt capable of doing - did a lot of learning on the job, lots of Google and YouTube, asked for more to do and learned new things until I got a promotion, got good at the next position until I plateaued, and then back to LinkedIn for more talking with recruiters. Rinse and repeat…

It’s been a long journey, but I’ve seen people start with less experience succeed just as well.

Ahhh… Looks like that guide is for the Intel versions of the Terra masters only, and minimum required 2gb ram. I have one with an Arm chip and only 1gb. 😔

I’m getting a bonus in February, so I think I might build a micro ITX system with more modern parts. This will help with transcoding as well.