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Mine is called “MacGyver Me This”.
You’re given 3 things. What can you do with them?
My favorite was the dozen chihuahua powered redwood raft. (Giant redwood, 12 chihuahuas, rope)
Any ambiguity is up to your discretion. For example, no mention on the amount of rope, so you’ve got a much as you want/need.
That’s 14 things at minimum though, I feel like that should disqualify it.
Man this sounds therapeutic after today.
Every time someone refers to mobile data as “wifi” I die a little inside. I understand that the difference is unnoticeable for most people, but it pains me.
Same with Wi-Fi being used to refer to Internet access in general. I basically lived on the phone with our ISP’s tech support for two days and one tech person even told me they needed to “reset our modem so they could get the WiFi flowing to our house again”. I died a little inside.
Would’ve been real hard for me to not hang up the phone. And I’m not as tech literate as half the nerds on Lemmy, but I know enough to know when they’re giving me wrong answers. Shit is frustrating.
I guess they could have been trying to dumb it down to make it easier for the customer to understand.
Well it’s not like Big They made it particularly clear with the naming scheme.
“Wi-Fi” is an entirely non-descriptive name, it’s supposed to be “like Hi-Fi, but with a W for Wireless.” It doesn’t indicate what it does at all. The typical unwashed mass just wants to know what button to push in iOS to make it get on Instagram. Wi-Fi is synonymous with internet access in their minds; iPhones and iPads don’t have Ethernet sockets, and they’ve got no use for local traffic because their Apple products are thousand dollar Tiktok appliances.
So yeah, “Wi-Fi” means “internet access” to more people than it means “IEEE 802.11”
technical terms mean what they mean rather than being defined by the average usage like average terms because without this we can’t have useful discussions
It’s wireless fireless, duhhhhh.
Last time they said something like this to me, I pointed out that I had WiFi disabled other piece of crap router.
I knew what he meant but had no problem being literal. Tech stuff s definitely an area where details matter
I’ve never heard someone say that and I hope I never will
Adam Carolla used to do a bit called “what can’t Adam complain about” that was essentially this—deliberately making the topic (typically suggested by a fan) something people/he is known to like (e.g. free parking) was the best, imo.
When my wife and I were dating, she told me about a road trip game.
When you see a car, you put the word “anal” in front of it. That’s it. That’s the whole game.
Anal Expedition: sounds fun!
Anal Odyssey: sounds harrowing!
Anal Golf: I wonder how that’s played?
I’ve heard of solar and lunar, but what’s an Anal Eclipse?
Anal Sonata: I can hear it in my head right now.
That’s not even scratching the surface. The possibilities are endless.
This isn’t a game in my house. It’s just bringing up the current news.
I can only imagine playing that with David Mitchell.
Holy shit, he would be the Hendrix of this game.
And I’ll tell you another thing!
That’s easily half of the Unbelievable Truth anyways
I play this game with myself every single day on my drive home from work. Someday I’m going to die, and someone is going to pull the SD card out of my dash cam and hear me ranting about how Reki’s attempt to earn salvation was inherently selfish as she was only going it to stop being sinbound, but in the end that selfishness didn’t matter because she was actually helping people. Even if she only helped Rakka cope with her sinboundedness in an attempt to save herself, she still helped Rakka. And ultimately that did lead to her salvation, as Rakka was only able to help save Reki because Reki helped save Rakka—oh hey, I’m home
I think people make livings by recording their in-car rants and posting them to socials. Maybe side gig?
It really helps if you’re either super hot, or have an exotic accent; ideally both. Not sure about OP’s standing on this.
Every OP is exotic to someone. Yah gotta choose your audience
Members of an uncontacted African tribe?
Sure, you can be the first streamer targeting them. Your viewer count might be a little low ……
I think that works for everything gestures to marketing.
oh yeah we play that constantly, but it isn’t fun to anyone.
Lemmy plays it every day. It’s about Windows or Trump, and that’s it.
You what really pisses me off, when certain people in the Linux community talk about “optimization” and “bloat”.
No you’re not gonna notice the twenty extra megabytes in ram usage by using another init system, no you’re gonna notice the 3% improvement for certain games that custom kernel might theoretically bring, no by using hyprland you’re not even saving that much resources, none of that really makes a difference.
Tbh you could probably gain more performance by setting the ram speeds higher in the bios, experimenting with overclocking (if theres enough thermal headroom), or upgrading some component (like an older ssd or ram). Or alternatively changing settings in the games you play. Or even a step further (this idea will shock some people), maybe don’t focus on numbers and just enjoy what you have. If its good enough than its good enough, if its not than tweaking it won’t make it good enough.
Mucking about with your ram speed and overclocking can decrease both stability, stability under load, and longevity when people are keeping computers longer than ever. It’s poor advice. Insofar as using a different init, distro, window manager, kernel. Some of that is an aesthetic choice and some a function of workflow. To some degree people just enjoy fiddling with stuff and understanding it.
You know what I notice? My journal app takes almost a gigabyte because it’s based on Electron.
Solution: use vim and save everything to a txt file
You know what I notice? How little hardware I can get something to run on.
I tried using a pie zero as a PC for a little bit. Maybe it’ll be fun to try that again and really optimize it
Afaik that can bearly run Linux (just a stripped down version of the kernel, forget about running a WM)
The Pi Zero has about the same specs as a Pi 1A+ did, just on a smaller circuit board. It…can run Raspberry Pi’s Pixel desktop, though it was a bit more usable back when they just shipped LMDE. Last time I tried it took about 20 minutes to boot to a desktop.
I had to use a Pi 1B as my main desktop for a few months because Dell can’t fix a laptop to save their lives. “Can this run LibreOffice” is an amazing question to be forced to ask.
I was gonna ask if it can run neovim with lazyvim, I don’t expect it to run a desktop especially a modern desktop. Theoretically I suppose it might be able to run i3 but that might be pushing it.
I wonder if someone like Puppy Linux or Damn Small Linux could make it usable? I’ve seen both run usably on 1990s PC hardware.
That’s the fun part
I wonder if it can run doom :3
(It probably can)
I’ve only ever used my zero as a mail server, but the pi 3 did a bang up job of being my daily driver for a few years.
Oh really? Didn’t someone in the Linux community notice a backdoor in the code because it delayed the startup by something like 200ms?
It’s not surprising that when a tool that usually works immediately suddenly starts freezing for quarter of a second every time you use it, that you notice it.
There’s a big difference between caring about whether a given game runs at 130FPS or 140FPS and noticing a new quarter second delay in database queries on your test db ar work. That quarter second per queey delay is going to stack up very quickly across the thousands or even millions of queries made in a day in a production database
As an autistic person, this just sounds like being autistic.
It is crucial for both your mental and emotional wellbeing and mine that you absolutely refrain from getting me started
I can’t even begin to get started, that’s how don’t get me started I am
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Now do one on twinkies!
If this website is negatively impacting your quality of life you should stop using it.
That’s just your asperger’s flaring up.
I can’t believe people just go around making up games on the fly. Like who thought this was a good idea?! There’s no way you’ve possibly playtested the rules to ensure everything is balanced. Without corporate oversight and a solid profit motive there is no way some “friends” in a “car” could make a successful game. The premise is just absurd.
And then to think you could go around sharing your dumb “game” freely on the internet in forums and such?
Don’t even get me started…
All games are made up
And the points don’t matter 🥰
Made up? Sure. Made up on the fly? Absolutely not, learn some basic goddamn planning skills and actually figure your game out properly. People just going with the first idea that slobbers out of their malfunctioning brains and giving it no further thought is how we end up with money for landing on Free Parking in Monopoly and the very same people complaining that Monopoly takes too long. You put in a house rule that makes the game take longer. “Oh this food is too spicy for me. I don’t like it. Can you pass me the hot sauce so I can add some more please?”
Wooosh!
homes did it backwards.
That was the joke going over your head
Oh shit, what?
Best anti-woosh I’ve ever had the pleasure of witnessing
what a tremendous idea
@LadyButterfly This is basically just me every day with my students but they don’t seem to enjoy it nearly as much as I do. Weird.
Han solo didn’t “shoot first”, he was the only one who shot, period.
Greedo didn’t shoot the wall (and miss a 6ft target sitting 2ft away), that was added (poorly) many years later for a special edition.
They changed the movie because in the interim years, George Lucas was feeling like it made Han Solo look less “noble” and more scoundrel-like.
Han Solo is supposed to be a scoundrel, he’s a damn smuggler. The bar they meet him in is described as “a wretched hive of scum and villainy”.
George Lucas has an incredible talent for fucking up the intent of the author in a story that HE’S THE AUTHOR OF, it would be very funny if it weren’t so annoying.
And even taken all that aside, he shot someone that pointed a gun at him and basically said “I am going to shoot you now”. Clearly Han is in the right here for defending himself.
And the guy he worked for previously was described as a “vile gangster” two movies later.
TBF, Han was a smuggler around the time of ANH, but he got there by running drugs for Jabba’s auntie for years… Han Solo was a plug first, and don’t even get me started on the Chewie/Scooby thread.
If anything, Han shooting and being a “scoundrel” adds even gravitas to his change of heart near the end.
When I posted this I had no idea we’d get anything THIS controversial. Yowzers
Han Solo IS a scoundrel
The class in Galaxies based on him is literally called “Scoundrel”.
Rubberneck Han isn’t real. Rubberneck Han can’t hurt you.
Greedo was pointing a gun at him and talking about claiming his bounty. How exactly was he going to go about that without shooting Han?
So yes, Han shot first, as in, shot before Greedo could, which he was certainly intending to do.
