qupada

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[–] qupada@fedia.io 17 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Two minds on this one.

You wanna buy an overpriced, terrible vehicle that's the brainchild of the mastermind who was too weird even for Jeffrey Epstein. Knock yourself out buddy.

That I have to share the road with these chucklefucks, having seen how feverish they are to let the clankers take over driving said giant piece of shit vehicle? I would be lying if I said I didn't have concerns.

The indifference ends at the point where I'm unable to opt out of participation in their bullshit.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

While some people would insist on a strict difference in the usage between en and em dash, like so many things the lines have become blurred.

Though to some this is "incorrect" usage, I like the space-endash-space visually as a replacement for (bracketed) text, especially when dealing with a longer "aside" within a larger block of text.

As however those exact same people would almost certainly tell me that "language evolves" and to stop being a "prescriptivist" when insisting that you can't just use words incorrectly and insist that the reader keep up with your new meaning, they can get bent.

I like the way it looks, and it reads well for the overwhelming majority of people.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 5 points 2 weeks ago

Even what is called "1 standard drink" isn't standardised across countries though.

For you, and also us in NZ it's 10g of ethanol (approximately 12ml), in the UK it's 8g. The US does in fact have a standard measure too, but 14g (and I don't know enough to know how widely it's actually used).

So as well as the standard drinks per bottle, the rule-of-thumb has to differ between countries too.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 7 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I've been trying to walk a lot more too, as I've found it's better for my mental as well as physical health.

Have gravitated toward "trail" shoes, for a nice mix of padding and being able to feel the ground.

Current pair are these: https://www.newbalance.com/pd/dynasoft-nitrel-v6-gore-tex-/MTNTRGV6-47467.html

I also hate buying shoes (which is its own whole thing), but have found the people in the sports stores also seem to be monumentally less interested in bugging you compared to a shoe store, so can be left in peace to try some things.

Best of luck on the hunt!

(also if I did my maths right, 5 days * 4.5 miles between Jan 2 and today is damn near 1000km / 600mi, so congrats on that!)

[–] qupada@fedia.io 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I've done some truly horrible things with it.

Whenever we have big construction projects at work, I export footage from our CCTV system and time-lapse it.

But then one time I wanted to put two videos side by side. Difficulty that they were both variable frame rate (a quirk of the NVR, but meant that played at constant rate they wouldn't line up).

It ended up with 5 copies of ffmpeg running at once. Because the most efficient way to create this monstrosity was 2 copies that stretched their input videos to 25fps (by duplicating frames), piped into two that ran the time lapsing, and both outputs into a 5th that assembled the video into one frame and encoded it.

I think you'd struggle to represent that level of kerfuckery in a GUI, to be honest.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 3 points 3 weeks ago

I'd have been pretty happy to be able to update it to fix the dishwasher that came with our house.

It could not, no matter what you did, resume a cycle. If it was paused for any reason, the only way out was to power it off and start a new wash.

The drain pump also sounded like shaking a soup can full of nuts and bolts, which contributed more to it being replaced than did the shonky electronics.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

System Collapse is almost a one-and-done move on any enemy, at least at the iconic level. Considering the RAM it consumes you'd bloody well hope so.

But with Blood Pump, Biomonitor and Overclock you can happily take down half a dozen (or more) before you've even poked your head out from cover.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 53 points 4 weeks ago

I can guarantee this will be a hilarious shitstorm of false positives wasting IT departments' time, because their detection of it is massively flawed.

At least once a month my - completely stock, and un-rooted - phone tells me I can't use Outlook/Teams because of root. Every time, a reboot is required to resolve this. One one occasion, TWO reboots.

Ignoring whatever reason Microsoft think they're blocking this for, it's going to regularly block regular users, who are not going to stand for it.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 7 points 1 month ago

And yet somehow despite the lack of horses (I mean I presume) this one manages to pack in 400% more horseshit.

Incredible how that works sometimes.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

Well it's that or Beavis... which I like because it means that Butt-Head bat must be out there somewhere.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

After the certification training my colleague referred to this as the "forklift snuff film".

[–] qupada@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

Far Cry New Dawn has motorbikes with sidecars, but no straight motorbikes.

Both it, and Far Cry 5 that it is a sequel to also have quad bikes.

Potentially neither of these quite count, for the purpose you're asking the question?

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