Flicks light switch off.

As of 2022 I use a Thinkpad x200 computer, which has a free initialization program (called Libreboot when it was installed, but now called GNU Boot) and a free operating system (Trisquel GNU/Linux). It was not sold that way by Lenovo, however; small businesses buy them used, recondition them, and install the free software. This is one of the computers endorsed by the FSF. I’ve used other Thinkpad models that similarly respect users’ freedom since the early 2010s.

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The murder. It calls to me.

If you were a movie script writer you’d have already done that in 1989. Low key premonition…

I think the wariness regarding faes, dwarves, goblins, trolls was more about culling the genetical outliers and uncanny foreigners from around your village. It’s just that AIs are now the uncanny foreigners surrounding our village…

Fair point…

You also can’t “squeeze into” a bus, ship or train, but you can into a car. It’s a matter of scale.

That cat is Vietnam.

Surrounded by powers that could technically nuke it to oblivion but in practice stand no chance against it in a conventional war…

You don’t have to like them. You just need to believe that there is someone that believes there’s someone that likes them. Simple.

This article is a bit strange. It reads like what I imagine a Jehovah’s Witness or Church Of Later-Day Saints manual would look like…

I’ve heard it joked that “everyone going into wrestling is either gay or about to become gay”. Because of all the body contact.

That said this is a rather poor comic. “Haha, different sexualities exist”… I guess we as a culture are in a transition phase. We have to get used to realizing there is a spectrum of sexual orientations without either giggling like teenagers or blowing up with rage.

People don’t think it be like that, but it do.

Jeffrey Venezuela, haven’t you heard?

Or “don’t answer when the magic trees ask things”. I suppose we all learned our own little life lessons today. 💯

Lots of international manufacturers skip model numbers 4 and 9 because of Asian superstitions. Silly, yes, but they affect sales and even birth rates.

At least in Japanese, 4 sounds like “death” and 9 sounds like “suffering”.

The current generation of AMD processors and motherboards have this “feature” where the first time you boot up, nothing shows on screen for about a minute, sometimes two. Because it’s calibrating the memory or something stupid like that. With nothing on the fucking screen.

It’s obviously some hurried fix for a problem they encountered late in the development process of the AM5 generation, but Jesus Christ is it horribly implemented. The most tense moment when building a PC and they thought making it act as if it’s broken for two minutes is good UX.

That’s interesting! I hadn’t heard of Anoto paper before… It can’t be that, but interesting tech nonetheless.

There’s a description under the image. Starts with “the patch is small”. I’m not sure if it’s visible, because others are commenting as if they haven’t seen it…

I’m not sure what else to add. Small paper packet of medicine, printed using two ink colors, only one used for this pattern. This is on one of the small underflaps at the end of the box.

Those eyes are amazing. 🎵

Frighten? Faze? Ftraumatize?