That’s such a popular one that there’s a misheard lyrics site named kissthisguy.com

What you thought it was a song about being popular with bridesmaids?

Like, oldfangled Trek though, where everyone is highly educated and extremely competent and people turn the lights on more often than not.

Except there’s a bullshit little delivery company in New New York calling down all manner of hell upon us on a weekly basis.

Correct. Doctor should have his head put through the wall. Use a stud finder so you don’t miss.

Actually no, just…more people on the road. Rush hour is rush most-of-the-day now, compound that by it’s impossible to grocery shop at 2AM now.

I do find it funny how much people hate our society’s fundamental rights and want to limit them as much as possible. AIN’T NO FUCKIN FREE SPEECH HERE. WE HATE THAT SHIT.

I answered why it’s still debatable. Debating is free speech.

It’s why you can’t stop the debate. It’s not illegal to be wrong.

But they are allowed to debate.

Something something first amendment.

Raspberry Pis have CEC support. I’ve used it with OSMC (formerly either LibreElec or RaspBMC, one of those? It’s Debian Kodi). It was much better without. So, if you turned the TV off with the TV’s power button, the Pi would turn the TV back on.

The Pi has a 3.5mm audio jack. I have a set of desktop PC speakers that are hell and gone better than anything built into a television in the last 20 years. Not only is it not straightforward to get it to control the Pi’s audio output level with the TV’s remote via CEC, OSMC absolutely did not want to do this. Not only would that setting get revered to HDMI audio out, it would disable the analog out option, and you’d have to SSH in and change a config file to re-enable that option in the first place. That would happen either during updates or even just power cycles. I swear the phraseology of the line you’d have to put in that config file would change; the same line I’d put in there would still be in there and not working.

The thing with open source software is, it’s always going to have the UX of a sinus infection, especially since the manufacturers of hardware gimp their devices to not work well outside of the walled garden.

Well how prominent will plumber’s putty or silly putty have the word Download on a page?

My town has a bulletin board posted adjacent to the sidewalk near the post office. It’s labeled “The Town Cryer” and fliers for local events, businesses etc. get posted there.

That is what I see the Twitter/microblog format as useful for. It’s for stand up comics and musical acts to post “come see us LIVE at the Somewhere Dome in Citytown This Saturday a 8/7c.” Or for ISPs to post “Service interruption in the Carolinas, repairs underway, expect service to resume at 9 pm.”

Other than that and it’s just All Old Men Yell At Cloud.

The peak was during the period you could say “If you search on Google for ___ you get ___.” Back when it was predictable. When they started personalizing results was the moment they sliced society’s brake lines.

I remember…I had a Windows 8.1 machine, I needed to SSH into a Raspberry Pi. No Powershell, no native SSH client, the easiest way to get one was to install PuTTY. So I googled “putty”. All lowercase, search engines sometimes get fucky when you start doing caps and punctuation, etc. I got an entire page of results for and about the TTY client, and nothing about drywall spackle or non-newtonian children’s toys. Because I often search for stuff like that, it made a bet and went all in.

The horrifying part of that is, that innocuous example makes it sound great. I didn’t have to overcome the “why did you name it that?” problem and refine the search by adding “tty client” or something like that. By getting to know me it took me to exactly what I wanted to find. When trying to find utility software, that’s okay. That’s not all people search the web for.

Now it’s hooked up to the “You’re right to call me out on that” machine, we’re sliding down the mountainside upside down on fire.

So they’re 2/3 of the way to being nudists like the Sphynx. I hope that thin layer of down keeps them warm enough, I always feel bad for Sphynxes having to wear sweaters and such.

I’ve never met a Cornish Rex, is their fur the same texture as a “normal” shorthair just shorter, or is it like wirey or something?

Izzy’s got purple beans!

What would be the function of bots posting to Ask Lemmy?

Very young kittens are definitely some work. Mama cats have their work cut out for them. You’ll have a ten pound best friend in no time.