sramder

joined 2 years ago
[–] sramder@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

I’ll second Zenni, been ordering from them for 10+ years.

[–] sramder@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Fucking savage 😂

[–] sramder@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

oxygen thief.

I’ve died laughing 🤣 😵

[–] sramder@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Great name though :-)

[–] sramder@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

So my train of thought was something like: tofu bacon… no, still kinda wrong… hey how come no weird edgy vegan brand is marketing “long pig.”

[–] sramder@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

That’s great, I didn’t even know that was a service you could get. I remember being really disappointed when I realized that a SIMM would not actually fit in one of my 386s ISA slots 😅

[–] sramder@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It was such a cool time for CPUs. Going up a generation was like getting a supercomputer. And Intel had those cartridge CPUs…

[–] sramder@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly it still feels like home. Because I was kind of a moron and figured it would mean less to figure out, I registered darkstar.org (the default domain Slackware came set up with).

I few years later I actually emailed Patrick Volkerding about something and he mentioned it… I felt this strange mix of pride and shame ;-)

[–] sramder@lemmy.world 59 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (12 children)

Welcome to Lemmy stranger.

Slackware back in the early 90s on a Compaq 386/SX20 💾

[–] sramder@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Watching something compiling is kinda like the reward for getting it to compile in the first place…

[–] sramder@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I still use an old 6x8 wireless Wacom tablet. It’s my 3rd Wacom tablet… it takes a bit of tweaking all the settings, but their software is great.

I didn’t discover that there are about 10 different nibs stored inside the pen cup for years.

I love Affinity Designer for vector work. The rope stabilizer and line editing tools are great.

 

Fine work you’re doing here… really hope I can hand a lend someday.

 

Anyone notice siri no longer recognizes common foreign idoms anymore? Either in TTS or Ask Siri… The only concrete example I have is recognizing “Croque Monsieur” since my love for hot ham sandwiches has spanned the ages… but I feel like there’s something more nefarious at work here.

It feels like used to be able to ask for a info about random foreign words and it would at least trigger a web search for something phonetically similar, which would often get me the translation I was after. But lately* the TTS engine is militantly transforming everything into English. Obviously this is more subtle and open to other interpretations, but for example I just asked her what “hikikomori” were which got interpreted as “Hickam Morty,” with top hits for the show Rick and Morty.

 

Not sure if I just haven’t noticed the standard disclaimer before or if it’s a new “feature” 😬

 

Okay, it probably doesn’t really qualify because it’s; new, high-budget, directed by Zac Snyder, etc. But hear me out. This hot mess starts with space-nazis vs space-vikings, takes a turn through Star Wars, Oceans Eleven, space-Rome, and a few tropes that defy easy space-hyphenation.

To say the plot makes almost no sense would be generous. I’m loathed to spoil the greater arc here, but the plot does hinge on a village on the edge of space being forced to harvest grain in order to feed a passing army… there’s probably a Kurosawa reference here somewhere, but good movies just aren’t my jamb so I wouldn’t know ;-)

As I stare at the frozen credits at the end of part two and contemplate my life I have to note that there must actually have been footage cut from this movie (you’ll understand if you watch it) because they credit a Snake Wrangler!

So, if you have 4-5 hours of free time this weekend, a Netflix account you haven’t already cancelled, and are allergic to nice weather, I humbly submit, for your consideration: Rebel Moon parts I & II.

………. (All the periods I probably should have used)

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