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I need to figure out what happened and then file a bug report for blueman >.<

Anyone have an issue where the default bluetooth controller is powered off, but there's a secondary controller, and so when the open blueman-manager the window closes immediately because the controller is disabled?

I had a currywurst at a pub last summer, and I've thought about it on and off since. Went back to the pub a week ago, and now I made my own.

Currywurst is fucking amazing

"I wont help, but I will hinder" - @Becky trying to explain her oath in Wednesday night Burning Wheel
@Becky

fuck, I vaguely cut a biscuit recipe in half and just guessed and made the fluffiest lightest biscuit I've ever soon

they're probably tasty for about an hour but who cares

Aw fucking shit!

@Titan Up the Defense posted a fucking episode! I know it's a different show now but it doesn't matter! Fuck yeah!

I should make a neocities for this as well! To rival the amazing titanupthedefense.neocities.org

@Titan Up the Defense

My mother-in-law still wont look at me, talk to me, or be in the same room as me, its been almost 6 months since I told her she couldn't blame my son for being bullied (and explicitly she couldn't tell him it's his fault). Apparently she just wants an apology.

Parenting sucks,

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@Erin the hard part is that it's his cousin bullying him and my wife and sister in law are super close, making it very hard to avoid.

I'm just mostly so upset how much non-parents think they are entitled to parent kids. And I know my mom is super bad about it to, we just have way more experience fighting with each other.

And yeah, trying to be better parents than your parents is the eternal struggle ain't it.

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@Erin thanks and good luck with your own parenting! I know it's not easy, but I hope you find it as rewarding as I do!
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I just found out about the Nexus Q which is literally just a sphere computer. My desire for it grows infinitely, but the ebay listings around all over $100 and that's enough to stop myself from being a dumbass.
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Would you keep it as a music device or do something else with it?
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@Morgan McMillian So there's a valid cyanogenmod for it (no, not lineageOS), so you can shove fdroid on it. So it'd likely spend most of its time as a small terminal PC and a music player, since it has good music interfaces on it and basically nothing else.
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Boardgamers say they hate Monopoly and then buy from Asmodee

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My son has decided he only wants @Alasdair Beckett-King 's books at bedtime. All other books can pound sand.
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@Alasdair Beckett-King your publisher's supply chain to Canada is horrendous, and so now I've got to figure out how to convince a UK publisher to send a book overseas again!
@Alasdair Beckett-King

I am on my second cup of coffee today. I am dreaming already of my third.

I went off coffee for 3 months for reasons of "I try to force myself to not get too addicted", but fuck, I am so happy I am back on coffee

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I’ve always hated coffee, but I quit caffeine by accident, and then felt like my heart was going to explode when trying it again after a few months.
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@Lester Ward I am pretty light on the effect of caffeine, hence my ability to spring from nothing to 6 cups in a day. But I also go off coffee for three months every 5 years to make it nearly impossible for me to get badly addicted, hence the cause of all this.
@Lester Ward

It doesn't matter if Firefox's AI is good, it doesn't matter. Firefox is doing this to advertise, and the people thinking of switching wont switch to firefox if it's touting AI.

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@silverwizard It's one thing if you choose to use it. I haven't been able to figure out how to turn it off though. Actually, I did by switching browsers (LibreWolf).
@silverwizard

What ever happened to that weird mess of uzbl, xombrero, surf and so on. I've heard so little about weird minimal browsers. Might be that I'm out of university - but I thought the Fediverse was filling that hole.

I never got into uzbl or surf - I was a Xombrero user due to the OpenBSD package being easy - I wonder how stable those are? Kinda the inverse of LibreWolf.

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@silverwizard: i used to be partial to luakit if "as minimal a browser as humanly possible" is a goal. Maybe still good?
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Fuckin' Drata rolled out a support AI and now their support doesn't appear to look at tickets. Who the fuck.

And to think it was called 386BD

So I redid my phone homescreens to avoid having application links, and replaced everything with widgets.

For years I've felt like desktop widgets are mostly a gimmick and pointless, and basically after a day this way I've completely reversed my decision on them. I basically got annoyed at the way that the shortcut model leads to just a soup of icons and I usually just go to the display of all and then use the link from there, and I completely reversed my decision. Feels very weird.

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Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard This sounds absolutely dystopian to me, but I've been blessed with a kid who mostly follows rules, so I'm in no position to judge.
@silverwizard

So I gave up coffee until Lent back in November, and I've been chasing the dragon of something that tastes half as strong as coffee
A cup with a ginger teabag floating in it
The same cup with the tea bag, but also slices of raw ginger

So I spent all of the weekend with sick kids and then yesterday with a sick family. So, during this, I bought Mario+Rabbids - and holy crap - how did Nintendo let such shitty people control their brand?! So much misogyny and unkindness
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It's almost completely avoidable. But you'll be going along, and then suddenly it'll make a joke about Rabbid Peach being super vain because she takes selfies.It's like 3 hours of good gameplay and then one little 4 second joke that reminds you Ubisoft sucks

Honestly, with my startup job starting to fall apart, and my CISSP exam, and my kids sick, and me not really sure what the purpose of the economy is - I just

I feel like things are in chaos, and I need to figure out stability for the next little bit, somewhere to ride this out

some people's parents bring them computer problems

my parents message me with DeltaChat to tell me SSL is broken and I realize someone *else* deleted the nonprofit's DNS entry for their domain

tann.itch.io/slice-dice

an indie game that works perfectly in my brain is awesome. I want the devs to do more so pay them for me!


Slice & Dice by tann

Roguelike dice tactics game
itch.io

Fuck - I hate job hunting
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@jhx Luckily I have a job. I just had the meeting that was "Oh, oh no, this meeting's topic is that I need to job hunt"

So yeah - thanks

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Ah, gotcha.

Yeah... the day did not start quite so good.. meeting was rather annoying

Oh well, life can be fun sometimes 😂

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The amount that Absinthe tastes like a burny delicious liquorice all sort is probably bad for me

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@Patch Arcana That makes a lot of sense, my previous weakness was sambuca
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My Burning Wheel party failed a navigation roll and stumbled into the wrong magical ritual of demon summoning

I love this keyboard so fucking much

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That's a awesome keyboard

whats the switches and keycaps or is it custom from ground up?

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@m8ic621 it's just this maxkeyboard.com/max-nighthawk-… a very boring build, but I wrote some magic circle generating code and got glowing magic circles and I love it
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fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/where…

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My kids don't believe that being an Alumnus makes you garlicky
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@Becky 4 year degrees, three year degrees aren't strong enough
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ICMP application containing random images as payloads

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First post from a Unihertz Titan, the only phone I've ever thought was cool

Pokeball Casemod
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Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard This is unhinged, and likely if Pokemon was real. How would you know your catch chance is lower than you expect?
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@Hypolite Petovan Listen - I parent by playing Pokemon with a 4 year old. I had to name two pokemon "y67u" in order to make him happy. My mind wanders!

But yeah! You sold pokeballs painted as ultra balls, no one would know

@Hypolite Petovan

Microservices where every service is just different inputs into the same container, and if any of them fail, it's just a blank screen.

I love microservices, but we need to stop making that

Why have I been sick as hell since September when my first kid started school?!
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j_angliss
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oh man, that sucks too. Speedy recovery for all of you.

Important language question:
If a house cat is a felis cattus, what would a plush cat be? felis puppa? Felis pulis? Something else?

I found a band I love (thebeths.com/ - very much Love At First Note of Expert in a Dying Field! Check it out!), and now I need to wait to find out if there's gonna be any more Bandcamp Fridays :'(

I wonder what the hardware cost of Miro and Slack are in terms of companies who need to increase the RAM and CPU of their hardware orders due to knowing their employees will run Slack so can't just work from a raspi.
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I know that the only things I do at work that wouldn't run on the first computer I ever bought (in 2002) are:
1) use Slack
2) use Miro
3) use Kumospace (a video chat hellhole)

Everything else would have been just as easy on that old Pentium 3

I ended up grabbing a serial to USB adapter while sick to the point of sleeping 16+hours in a day

In order to call in sick to work

(My router just.... stopped and didn't come up, luckily before I got my energy together from panic, it came up)

I see so much bafflegab about how Mastodon DMs are readable by admins, do people not think that's true of Discord and Meta?
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@Nick | OneThingWell.dev @Ji Fu well, optional means both sides need encryption to be turned on to get a benefit, so sure, but use signal

As for DB dumps not revealing keys, how do you envision them stored. Cryptography doesn't exist without key management, and it's *hard*. And thus network isn't designed for it, so LARPing crypto is way.more dangerous

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@Nick | OneThingWell.dev @Ji Fu I... don't understand the value of this really - right? This feels like it strongly values an attack by an ephemeral attacker? I guess?
@Ji Fu @Nick | OneThingWell.dev

The problem with having 10+ highest priority items is that I just lock up and do nothing
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@silverwizard Then decide on whose opinion you care about the most. Or who you care about the most. Or pick a different issue that you do care about.
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Well, uh, I guess Dell just burned all of their good will.

They place a meeting in my calendar, and then when I rejected it, they did it again. Tried to claim we already had a business relationship.

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@Patch Arcana Yeah, but I don't think this sales person *wanted* that relationship.

And yeah - their email is /dev/nulled

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