Not lost. Many have old database replicas for offline queries, including me.

Yeah we don’t relate to that asshole.

Maybe Butcher. He has his own issues, of course, but then so do we.

Yeah the car person here sounds like a “car enthusiast” to me, since preludes are still desirable for import racing and 7 is low, but no one who works on cars and knows how much work a car like that can be would ever recommend it to their less knowledgeable friend.

The body language and facial expression conveys exasperation/stress and exhaustion/burnout.

The long shot with the subject’s back against a wall implies escapism, a momentary reprieve.

The voyeurism suggested by the telephoto zoom on an isolated subject implies you are witnessing a secret, internal feeling that they keep from others.

The cigarette as a prop strengthens these interpretations, since it once was a more popular drug for relieving those symptoms and retains the symbolic value in spite of the stigma.

Edit: split to paragraphs

sleep well for a week

Do I look like a magician?

Great tip! Might save someone some time troubleshooting that issue.

Ah, I didn’t know about the incomplete timeline / mesh propagation issue. Sounds like a notable incentive.

Why do people tend to pile onto the same instance? Is there some benefit I’m missing?

Nice! Hadn’t heard of this project. The old chromebooks are easy to find in e-waste lots, mostly from schools. Hardware’s not ancient. Presumably optimized for web services. Just a lot of broken screens and keyboards.

But if you stack ‘em like server blades in a beowulf cluster you might have a decently power-efficient and scalable host for microservices, web apps, lemmy instances, whatever. With UPS for each node lol. Basically free.

I dunno, could be a fun class project for the kids to learn on with a minimal budget?

It’s like he tried to generate a color palette from the scuff marks on his banged up iron ranger boots.

No capes!

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Our telegrams are dictated, not read, and the messengers really can’t be trusted with punctuation. Get with the times old man.

I have 3 kids and no money. Why can’t I have no kids and 3 money? - Sir Homer Simpson

As my partner says:

“Heterosexual or homosexual?”

“Just sexual.”

Love pears. They’re a bit more temperamental though. Apples can stay good for weeks or months due, I think, to an especially robust skin. Pears might taste better but I wouldn’t risk throwing a ripened one in a backpack, for example.

IME it’s mostly culturally ingrained behavior, and usually an inverse relationship; i.e., people who will defend you when you’re not around often clown on you while you’re in the room, and the people who cut you down in your absence are often your strongest ally in person.

Your English is excellent. I think intransparent works, though it might have the tendency to sound somewhat delicate, as if you needed to avoid saying a simpler antonym, which has the funny side-effect of making you sound like an intellectual or a similar type of advanced speaker.

Oh got it. Sorry thought you were a Windows user and wanted to help where you were at.

And agreed. Every time I’m forced to use that OS I experience less and less nostalgia and more incredulous disgust.

If you don’t like command line interfaces, you could try UniGetUI (formerly WingetUI) which is an open source aggregator for multiple package management ecosystems.

Last I checked it included winget, chocolatey, direct-from-GitHub releases, and a lot of developer-oriented solutions like NuGet, pip, pyenv, nvm, npm, rvm, and the like.

If you must use Windows for something, at least you can avoid using Microsoft Store and Edge. And if you have the inclination, you can use that list of installations with an AME Wizard playbook to rapidly provision a Windows machine (virtual or otherwise) which makes the all but inevitable “format-and-reinstall” task painless.

TLDR: you can just use it as an automated installer, kind of like Ninite from back in the day, but it can do a lot more than that. Actually kind of jealous this sort of universal aggregator doesn’t exist in unix systems yet.