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Admiral Patrick

@ ptz @dubvee.org

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I learned to play the guitar growing up as a young rapscallion in Mississippi. But things didn't really take off until I moved to Memphis. There I met the Colonel and the hits just kept coming. Unfortunately, the fame went to my head, I gained a lot of weight, started wearing a white jumpsuit, and ate tranquilizers like they were trail mix. Then, in 1977, I died on the toilet.

Or did I?

I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

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  • My genuine hope is that this puts an end of the stupid "thinness wars" and we actually see innovation in devices again. I'm beyond sick of the "tall, skinny, razor-thin rectangle" form factor.

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  • Finally bought a bread machine

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  • I think it'll do the crispy crust, but depending on what you're making, it can only prepare the dough and you'll have to bake it in a regular oven. Its baking pan is kind of shaped like a small bucket, so everything bakes into that shape.

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  • It's got 18 different style recipes (or you can program your own). Right now, I've just made soft bread like I'd been making with the Kitchen Aid.

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  • My solution to this is:

    1. Use a UI or app that badges or otherwise indicates new accounts (or accounts newer than 30 days or so)
    2. Refuse to interact with those accounts in the various "ask" communities. Maybe even throw it a downvote if it seems like it's coming from the same person that keeps doing this.
    3. If no one engages with them, maybe they'll knock this "hit it and quit it" bullshit off.

    Sorry legit new accounts, but it's these selfish assholes that are ruining things for you and everyone else.

  • TIL: There is a demon named "Leonard". He's a three-horned goat in charge of orgies.

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  • No idea, sorry. This was just a random, amusing thing I learned today on QI that I verified / linked on Wikipedia.

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  • After I first started making bread at home, yeah, same reaction: spoilt and never looked back. Though I do keep a loaf of store bought whole wheat on hand occasionally.

    Store-bought white bread is just too sweet; like a really crappy, unfrosted cake.

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  • It's kind of like powdered milk. I'm not sure about getting it at the grocery store (never looked) but the stuff I have is marketed as survival food. Comes in a big can and you reconstitute it with water.

    It's great for baking and seasoning (put some in a salt shaker and go to town on your popcorn; so good), but it doesn't work like regular butter in all cases (e.g. it's not great for sauteing).

    I'm lactose intolerant, so I switched to buying powdered milk at the grocery store ages ago since the small cartons I'd buy for cooking always went bad before I used them up. Haven't had a problem with butter going bad, but figured for baking it'd be easier to just toss the powder in with the dry ingredients like I do with the milk. Seems to work well.

  • Lemmings with dumb phones, what do you miss most?

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  • Nothing, really, though it took a good bit of detox to get to that point. I'm only using a pseudo dumb phone, though (it runs Android 11 in a flip phone form factor).

    Last August, I did a 30 day challenge and used it like a true dumb phone. No email, no chat, just the same things a comparable KaiOS true dumb phone would do. That was...limiting but I quickly got used to it. After that, I decided to un-dumb it a bit and am still daily-driving it almost a year later.

    The only apps it runs now:

    • Thunderbird Mobile for email
    • Aegis for TOTP
    • Bank app (a necessary evil since I bank remotely and nearest branch is 50 miles away)
    • Organic Maps
    • SchildiChat (Matrix group chat)
    • Meshtastic
    • Fennec (though mostly only for looking up business phone numbers/addresses while I'm out)

    So it's not a true dumb phone now, but it's pretty bare bones. I think even true dumb phones have mobile browsers (KaiOS is basically Firefox OS, afterall) as well as some kind of mapping, email, and even TOTP apps. All the rest of the "smart" stuff it does is just annoying enough that I don't spend all day on it, but works well when I need it.

    I don't know if I could go to a Light Phone III since I need my bank app, but something like the Minimal Phone with its eink display and QWERTY keyboard is probably my upgrade path.

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  • I think I also recall some comments from somewhere from UK people saying Fahrenheit makes more sense for weather-related temperature.

    But yeah, definitely human inconsistency lol.

  • Trump’s justifications for the latest travel ban aren’t supported by the data on immigration and terrorism

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    Where do I install this nvme drive on my laptop?

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  • I worked at a Walmart in college, so...yes.

    I guess my favorite one (meaning it was more funny than aggravating) was this lady trying to return a Nintendo Wii. She said it was broken and wanted to exchange it (so far, so good). She said she lost the receipt (later claiming it was a gift), but for an exchange, that's usually not an issue (we record the serial numbers for things like video game consoles, computers, etc and those are tied to the transaction which lets us pull up the sale info).

    So, we scan the serial number, and it's not in our system. This could mean one of two things:

    1. It's stolen
    2. It didn't come from our store

    So, to rule out #1, we sent the serial number to the loss prevention people to see if it was on their report. (It wasn't.)

    But we didn't even have to wait for them to respond because I took a look at the box, and it clearly came from GameStop (had their stickers on the opposite side).

    So I tell her that this console wasn't purchased here, and she needs to take it back to Game Stop for service.

    She did not like that. At all.

    She demanded the manger, who, thankfully, was nearby. Manager took one look at her, got on the radio, and seconds later all three loss-prevention people came out of their little security room and escorted her out (with her yelling obscenities / threatening lawsuits the whole way).

    Apparently she was a frequent-flier who had already been banned from the store (and neighboring stores) for return fraud.

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  • Oi, that's a Bob Hope resource right there China plate!

    (Might need to work on my conjugation a bit, but that helps with the vocabulary lol)

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  • Well done!

    I still have tab open trying to teach myself enough cockney rhyming slang to do a "We're the Cockney Borg" meme.

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  • Yep. Not sure when that became common, but my late 90s and early 2000s vehicles were like that. My late-model domestic car is all metric, though, so at least Ford standardized.

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  • Hey, we use grams and kilos for...other things too.

    It is funny how we're schizophrenic about it, though. Things will go from grams to ounces and then to kilos...or, so I've heard.

    Edit: American cars are also kind of schizo like that, or at least they used to be. The engine and everything attached to it was metric and everything else was SAE. Fun times.

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    If you had an irl evil lair or HQ, what would the elevator or dungeon music be? ¡Explain urself!

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    Brandon remembers....

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  • I mean, it was only like 6 months ago lol

    Though it feels like 60 years.

  • It really does

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  • Yep!