Maybe look into Bazzite if you get impatient waiting for SteamOS to become more widely available.

They’re huge. I got a Luna moth tangled in my hair while pitching a night softball game as a teenager. Had to call a time out to get it untangled, lol.

TIL Owl City is from Owatonna

Assuming you’re thinking of the Mars Climate Orbiter, it crashed into Mars.

Of course it’s possible there’s been more than one metric/imperial issue.

I’ve thought about asking the folks at the local Free Geek about getting a laptop or two like this that I can mess around with. I had an old HP Stream 11 and I’m still disappointed that it died.

I think you’re right about creating demand for more consumer like support, someone in in another comment chain on this post mentioned several Danish municipalities doing something similar with their schools…

Is there a relevant cert to do this kind of work yet? I think it would be interesting to do Linux tech support. Maybe just find a junk laptop and work my way through the Arch wiki breaking and fixing stuff (since my main Linux distro has been incredibly hands off so far)?

Crazy frog just has his tiny dong hanging out and nobody has ever questioned if it’s safe for work or whatever, lol.

Groverhaus is a vibe coder built house. Load bearing drywall.

I bought a nook simple touch a couple of weeks ago for $20, look into the Phoenix Project for those.

Most leases don’t have size restrictions for cats, but I think this might be a bit excessive.

Oh is that where all the gay nerds are? 👀

I’ve read Consider Phlebas, due to either your or another lemmings’ recommendation and it’s very ‘80s sci fi in writing style. I felt it required a bit too much attention for a good audio book at work, but wasn’t really interesting enough to pick up the physical book. Player of Games is supposed to be very different, is it worth giving it a shot or is Iain Banks’ writing just not to my taste?

Even better, the equivalent irl cultures. Most cities have groups advocating for better bike and pedestrian infrastructure and better public transit.

That’s not really weird for American road sizes. If I had to guess that’s more of a stroad with speeds around 64 km/h (40 mph), possibly officially 48 km/h (30 mph) with everyone doing 10 mph over the speed limit because the roads aren’t designed to slow traffic to safe city speeds. Most of our roads are like this, and it’s a contributor to our abhorrent pedestrian fatality rate.

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I’ve got one of me that was fun and not actually insulting, I worked at Disney across from a caricature art booth and one of the artists world draw nearby Cast Members when it was slow. Although I’m not sure where it is at the moment because it’s not actually hung on the wall.

A less bizarre one of a couple could be cute.

Funny enough, the biggest Indigo Girls fan I’ve ever met was assigned male at birth (they came out as non-binary several years ago but is still very traditionally masc presenting for reasons).

I’m glad it’s not a thing here because as a “positive” incentive I feel like it drives some users to vapid karma farming over actually interesting and new content. That said, I occasionally miss it when there’s some unpleasant commenter douchenozzeling all over a thread and it’s an easy way to see if someone is always an unpleasant ass or if they’re having a bad day and otherwise make valuable contributions to Lemmy.

I’m not the person you’re replying to, but I don’t think it’s paranoid to think the three letter agencies have this tech. Back in 2013 NSA could do it, seemingly through a virus. Now? It’s probably more trivial on certain phones. Apparently the “find my iPhone” feature works on the most recent generations of iPhones even when they’ve powered off, and some phones will ring a set alarm when when off (I’ll get back to you with an edit if my older smartphone has that feature).

If you’re being specifically targeted by three letter agencies it might be a concern. Everyone else I don’t know.

I wonder if Chrome started charging a monthly fee if that would be enough for them to start hemorrhaging users?