Bahnd Rollard

Sure is a good thing that florida doesn’t have forest fires… RIGHT?

Locking dumpsters is important in some areas so wild life dosen’t get into them. To quote the National Parks service,

“There is a significant overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest humans”.

For the longest time my white whale was a meme video that could not be found online. In 2010, at the summit of Mt. Washington, I was on a camping trip with a large summer camp group. There is a tourist trap/weather monitoring facility and at the time, in the basement, was a little history exibit about the place. There was a TV in the lobby that had a clip of a video made by the meteorologists called “The Breakfast of Champions”, and I wanted to see it. Only problem is that it cost 2$ to get in and teenage Bahnd had no cash.

The video consists of two of the people who worked at the facility and a very brave camera man, attempt to wait a table outside on the patio. For those who do not know, Mt Washington NH as some of the worst weather in the northern hemisphere, firstly because it is the highest mountian in eastern north america, and because they bother to write it down there. The video shows one person attemping to serve cereal+milk and toast to another guy attemping to hold down a card table & table cloth in ~140 mph winds. Footings are eventually lost and the table is blown down the mountian.

I returned to Mt. Washington, I want to say I went back in 2019, with a fresh 2$ bill (shut up, I can be weird) to finally see the video, only to find the building had been renovated and the exibit had been removed. I asked the staff and in 2017 it had been uploaded to the internet. Link to The Breakfast of Champions.

Now you all can see the meme that was almost lost to time, and I never saw until long after it was already moved online.

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Im addition to the other tools to dig your car out, fill a large sealable bag or jug with a mix of sand and road-salt and leave it in your trunk/boot. If you end up haveing trouble getting traction when you start the car on a hill or have to get up a small lip around your tires, throw the mix under the drive train tires to help get you out of the hole.

You would think they could add an induction charger and actually make it “magic”-ly charge.

US owner of an EU Fairphone 4. It is functionally locked to T-mobile due to AT&T not wanting unlocked devices on their network and the 5G bands dont always line up correctly so calls while driving are tricky. Beyond that, I love the device and can do that cool party trick where you can take out your battery and everyone stares in awe at my organic, free-range smart phone. (That part is a lie, I dont go to parties).

Joking asside, I like having an attempt at an ethically sourced phone, even though it is a finicky device. There is a US redistributor and they sell a model with region appropriate changes and a de-googled cloud backup service, but im not in the market for replacing this thing yet.

They used to be contained, every village has their idiot. Now that the internet is the global village, all the formerly isolated idiots have a place to chat.

[Internet High-Five] Yah, tony’s is great.

With Proton and SteamOS, that list is becoming much smaller. I mostly rag on Mac these days as they now get the least support. Due to Apple charging devs to publish on the platform, they get less support, fewer updates and inflexible hardware. For example, I have someone in a group BG3 playthrough that has build compatibility broken all the time when patches come out for windows/proton.

Thanks for the clairifcation on the EU ballot initiative thing, that clears that up pretty well. The US sorta just threw the baby out with the bathwater in terms of departmental regulation but thats an entirely other can of worms.

Your second point about DDOSing, Thor comes from a cyber security background and the legality isnt as much of a factor, nor is he stating stating that this would make it legal. Security people have to treat it like “defense against the dark arts”, if its possible to do someone will, therefore you have to be able to do it too to prevent it. He is stating that actors would DDOS things because they can, and potentially do so smartly to secretly ruin others enterprises by abusing the regulations if the get made poorly.

But your point clears that up a bit, the initiative has to be vague by design so that lawmakers/regulators can do their job should it pass its initial poll. I think Thor also has a point in that it if the final rulings are made poorly it opens the industry up to abuse. (see amazons patent issues as an example of companies and agencies not thinking things through)

A few days ago I saw a thing from Thor (Pirate Software) about how this initiative is pretty half baked. Has that chagned or other people with a horse in the race voiced their opinions? Ive only seen the two. (The initiatives sumbitters video and Thors)

Dumb american here, trying to wrap my head around this because it sounds good on paper, and if it suceedes it may be good to do on this side of the pond, but im still trying to form an imformed opinion.

Alpha Centauri is actually 13.6 feet from me, Ive got an old sid meyrs disk somehwere in the box of old tech stuff. Great game, used the same engine as Civ 2, think its on GOG these days.

My head-cannon from the lawyers going something like this.

“Thank you Mr. Musk for the lawsuit, we had a lot of fun reading it. Especially the parts you drew (I liked the blue dinosauar). Before we begin, we would like to let you know the legal fees for this case are coming directly from the portion of the advertising budget we allocated to the website formerly known as Twitter”

Probably more entertaining than the actual cases.

Its an old meme sir, but it checks out.

I expect the main event to be painful for all involved ( the audience, the studio, 45/46 egos ). They better put some effort into the comercials…

Then the Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell-in-the-Cell and he plumetted 15 ft. through the announcers table!

Nah, their right… For people that can see the matrix (If you pardon the analogy) its fine and preferable to a desktop. However, to most people if it can be done from the desktop or menus it may as well not exist. If you try and explain it their eyes glaze over, they dont eant to learn something new, they just want to stare at the ass of the woman in the red dress…

Im expirenced enough to live in a terminal because I host servers locally and Im a fairly recent convertee to full-time Linux desktop for gaming. Ive been shouting from the roof tops that its good enough now, to the people in my immediate meat space it falls of deaf ears, the privacy trainwreck that is windows and the evils of the modern internet are not a concern to them. So they dont feel any need to change things…

For W10 you can still do offline installs with the media creation tool and telling it you dont have an internet connection, for W11 even enterprise users are all tied into autopilot, Intune MDM, and/or a microsoft account. I do not believe there is a method to install W11 without an internet connection and account. If there some some way to get the install tools to do that, I dont know what it is, and I do IT for a job…

Honestly, making the switch to linux full time is not that bad. Every tool, utility and program other than the most niche propriatary applications have a FOSS variant, and it is starting to sound like a bad relationship when people wait for MS to make a policy, change or product that isnt comedicly evil…

Just break up… If you need to talk at the hivemind of the internet for advice, we got ya.

I hope that there is some actual jail time involved, but im expecting ‘You will write “I will not create fraudulant business records” on the chalk board 1000 times per count’…