Trains are better than planes, because in the railroads, blowing a whistle is just a normal safety practice
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Wolves have a peculiar view of the passage of time and their relationship with other wolves of the pack. They think of were-wolves, are-wolves and will-be-wolves.
My personal headcanon: When no one is looking, Miriel tries to stregthen those useless legs by listening to some awesome inspiring music and just vibing along.
Back in the day, like 10 years ago, I used to have a Samsung tablet and a phone. Sometimes, when I took either of them out of the standby (and the devices would renegotiate their Wi-Fi), my router would just jam up horribly. No access to the admin interface. No logs. Nothing to do but reboot.
Now, the only Samsung device I have is my TV. Sometimes, thankfully very rarely, when I fire it up, it, um, my router just jams up horribly. No access to the admin interface. No logs. Nothing to do but reboot. And it's a different router from a completely different manufacturer. Also it's connected via ethernet.
Is Samsung just cursed?
I'm, like, oof? History repeating itself much?
There was this little RPG company, BioWare, that made this little known game called... uh... Baldur's Gate or something. Then they made Baldur's Gate II. And all was fine. And then they said "you know what, we should do something really cool and innovative and creative!" ...And they did! They made Neverwinter Nights. And Wizards of the Coast/Hasbro was a real drag in the process, wanting them so many compliance meetings regarding the content and canon and game mechanics. So Bioware was like "OK this is the absolute last time we work with this kind of nitpickers, we'll create our own fantasy RPG setting and system." ...and that's how Dragon Age came about.
WotC/Hasbro isn't any easier to work with these days, that's for sure. Except this time, even the tabletop fans know that.
Hopefully Larian gets to eventually make the epicest dream game they can and, uh, not get bought out by EA or something.
Slackware 3.0 in 1996
Then this new promising distro called Debian
Got my own PC, went with Slackware again for some God-forsaken reason
Debian again and that's where I've stayed for most part - I tried using Ubuntu as a desktop laptop distro for a while but at some point I realised I should have installed Debian to begin with so I went with that there too
(Webmail provider releases a bespoke desktop app)
(me, old fart, bumbles out from behind the cables and servers and muck)
You fools! Have any of you whippersnappers ever heard of IMAP? No? Thought so.
[I'm not that familiar with ProtonMail. Chances are they already support IMAP. In which case: ... ....why? Why this? Why in this day and age?]
Reminds me of of old Finnish meme that probably is hard to get unless you are familiar with the concept of diminutive suffixes:
The existence of hyttynen (mosquito) implies the existence of a larger, greater HYTTY
(And the rest is creepy images of giant mosquitoes, you know, to cheer up people enjoying our brief summers)
Over here, the only thing that has "resealable" plastic bags is... candy.
You know what they say - candy famously becomes completely inedible if you keep the bag open even one second too long.
Yeah, you can technically write object oriented code in C. Or any other language. Just that actual OOP languages provide a nicer syntax and compile time checks.
Rust is kind of a good example of this. It's technically not an object oriented language, but the trait system brings it close.
Oh, that makes much more sense.
My father had a Brother laser printer. It outlived him. (...Anyway. Have you ever had to do Windows tech support for family? Not always nice. Ever had to do Windows printer tech support? Hoo boy. Ever had to do Windows printer tech support when the printer is hooked through a Centronics-to-USB adapter? Uggh. ...though I was kind of surprised that Windows 10 still had built in drivers for the damn thing.)
Me, I bought a Canon laser which technically has Linux drivers but damn me if I ever got it to print more than the CUPS test page. ...actually I'd rather not talk about CUPS. I have too many bad memories about it. (You can't escape the Printer Madness just by using Linux, oh no.)