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SnailMagnitude

@ SnailMagnitude @mander.xyz

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  • Dualboot is evil, use only linux

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  • I think that's why peeps install stuff like gnu/linux and then slap Nvidia & Steam on them for lolz, they often can't live without pretending they are a wizard or a soldier in some novel machine generated propitiatary hallucinations from an app store no matter the cost, Gabe needs better yachts.

  • The land before time

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  • When I worked for Royal Maii the logical structure of delivery was governed by how a postman could end the round at the precise moment the off-licence opened.

  • The land before time

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  • I'm reading a 3 A4 pages from my 12yr old at the moment, the mid point of his current post-apocalyptic world building wants feedback.

    It's 95%+ early years test compliant script, but cool to see the words come alive on occasion and become art that goes beyond what fonts can manage.

    UTF-8 O not really a drop in replacement for the Ensō

  • What's something you no longer buy due to intrusive, insidious technology being added into it?

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  • Software, but full disclosure: I did go wild and spend £5 on Symfonium a few years back which I don't grudge.

  • The land before time

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  • Mum was moaning about this last night reminiscing about the good old days when the act of writing actually involved writing instead of whatever the kids duct taping emotes, memes & comic sans to some predictive text via a spellcheck on the socials for points clusterfuck is going on these days.

    A friend had had the gall to send a birthday card that had rather clearly been ordered online and shat out of a production line with fake handwriting...the ultimate insult.

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    is milking a cow sexual harassment?

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  • Yeah, the whole farming industry is based upon non-comsensual interfering and eugenics type stuff.

    Thr line with rice and potatoes seems more blurry, are they farming us?

  • Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint Eye Age Verification Amid California Law Backlash

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  • I have a few Ubuntu boxen as it makes life easy, but suspect my gentoo box won't be infected anytime soon...the real pita with be if they end up forcing us to build web browsers from source to avoid the cluterfuck.

  • Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops

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  • Nice to see this pop up as Apple announce their 5yr plan to flood the world's landfills & scrap yards with 8gb fused ram Neo's.

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  • Cool, I just tend to run one liners or little shell scripts but nice to see more of this stuff appearing.

    Worth considering the backend too imo, as I imagine I'm not the only one here trying to leverage the most out of potatoes with not a lot of storage.

    On my little n100 boxen for example having a building ffmpeg for the cpu/igpu to use hardware decoding gives ~5x the encode speed for a slightly larger filesize for hevc.

  • An identification key

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  • Afaiu it was them that passed it to humans just prior to the deluge.

    Thankfully Noah invented wine to balance things out.

  • I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age

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  • Personally I've found online banking, medical and travel services rather hard to resist.

    Those new mobile phone things the kids are using also have biometrics and internets and look pretty handy to have around.

  • On contrarian history – Going Medieval

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  • It's dark age Europe, because of the chuch.

    Aquinas apologetics in there too, yay.

    Fortunately no one owns the period or phrase and we are free to call dark age Europe dark age Europe if we wish, and I couldn't give a fuck if someone with a sticker thinks otherwise.

    Academia as everything else runs on trends, fashions and the needs of the masses, even those that don't go to masses anymore.

  • Nightmare

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  • 😂