noughtnaut 2w ago • 100%
Could I trouble someone to give an ELI5 for this?
I don't understand any of it so I'm curious what makes it so desirable.
noughtnaut 2w ago • 100%
Well yeah it's mandarin, but in the show Mandarin is pretty exclusively used for very creative swear phrases, such as "The explosive diarrhea of an elephant". Things that might be fun to learn to say...
noughtnaut 2w ago • 100%
I'm just running a pain Linux with the MATE desktop, with increased sizes of mouse cursor and UI elements.
The big thing is using VLC with a wireless keyboard, and using a white sharpie on the keycaps to show the quite customised VLC shortcuts.
It's been years since I tried Kodi et al, and I always found the actual media playback to be lacking some customisation (eg. audio or subtitle timing offsets).
In lieu of a media database, I simply mark the movie folders with file emblems when I've watched a movie or episode (VLC keeps track of partial viewings, resuming where it left off).
noughtnaut 2w ago • 100%
I haven't seen Our Groceries listed yet. I don't know Grocy so I don't know how this one compares, bells-wise, but it's pretty straightforward, you can share a list with any number of users, and manage/add/edit/remove lists and items via a web app or mobile app.
I've sent the devs more than one feature suggestion / bug report, and they were impressively responsive and forthcoming.
noughtnaut 2w ago • 100%
Man, the SE, ImageWriter, and LaserWriter really were peak industrial design. Ain't nobody gonna convince me otherwise.
noughtnaut 2w ago • 100%
I'm not an artist, I just need the occasional hack job or screenshot annotation.
I loved the simple programs (this love stems from all the way back to MacPaint v1.0) and MS Paint has largely been ok for me apart from its lack of png support and only 90° rotations.
On Linux, Pinta has been fantastic but these last few years it got increasingly more crashy, to the point where it will now consistently crash within 10 seconds or two clicks, regardless of Linux distro / laptop/pc / version of Pinta. (insert "whyyyyy" meme here)
I've tried Krita, but it's simply too much. Don't even want to try installing Gimp. I am sad.
noughtnaut 2w ago • 100%
Thank you for that information.
One might also say, with the dire current state of browser competition, it won't make much of a difference.
I'm just privately hopping that Firefox won't lose its last few percent market share and go the way of the dodo. 🤞🥹
noughtnaut 2w ago • 100%
The pictured kings of turbine works very well with wind from any direction. I'd be more concerned about having low friction bearings so cost to sea water.
noughtnaut 2w ago • 100%
Yes, I'm really confused about this article - isn't what you describe still in effect? Why on earth not? (I haven't used Windows in ages so I personally have never seen that.)
noughtnaut 2w ago • 100%
Judging by YouTube, reddit, and other video clip sources, two is clearly too many pedals for a portion of the population. Astounding.
noughtnaut 2w ago • 100%
Zoe: swears in Chinese
Subtitle: "[SPEAKS GALACTIC LANGUAGE]"
FU, everyone knows that that's a real language and probably a very juicy phrase that would be absolute golden to know for some other occasion!
^(PSA there exists a site with every phrase translated and explained)
noughtnaut 2w ago • 100%
And it's working.
noughtnaut 2w ago • 100%
So many people believe that Covid was a way to scare us all indoors, so they could change batteries in all the birds.
That's preposterous.
Birds use rechargeables, that's why they're always sitting on the power lines. Like, duh, wake up sheeple.
noughtnaut 2w ago • 100%
I once read a beautifully indisputable piece on how Jar Jar Binks is a highly skilled Sith Lord. It's all a front!
noughtnaut 3w ago • 100%
Really?? In Scandinavia such well equipped camp sites are all over the place.
noughtnaut 3w ago • 100%
I went directly from a dot matrix (ImageWriter II ftw!) to a laser. Except for photo prints, I find it immensely practical to be able to print stuff at home.
noughtnaut 3w ago • 100%
Good for you! Seriously!
For the rest of us, a few notes on how you accomplished this would be sha-weet! I think sketch up is the most approachable 3d program, but all my "post Windows" attempts have resulted in crashes and freezes. 😥
noughtnaut 3w ago • 100%
Plus, the 17th Poland was "made room for" by removing New Zealand, a mapping error so common there's a dedicated sub for it.
noughtnaut 3w ago • 100%
Emoji passwords made me think of the Lotus Notes password prompt with their little images that changed as I typed (which never really made sense to me).
Yes, I'm old...
noughtnaut 4w ago • 100%
It's been a while since I saw good old 4281 referenced. 👍
This is likely a very niche request, but perhaps there's a genius here with the answer - or can point me to a better place to ask. If I want it to look like a web page is loading an interlaced gif over an old modem connection, would there exist some tool to convert a given static image to an animated gif (preferably downsampled to 256 colours)? You know, the one where it starts off as one giant coloured block which then gets progressively segmented into thinner lines with more detail as each interlaced line is received...
From my understanding, (a) the brain has no nerves, which is why you can talk to people *while doing brain surgery on them*; and (b) headache is caused by blood vessels constricting. Now, I am unsure whether migraines are *also* caused by blood vessels constricting, but in any case - what is it that is doing the sensing of this pain? Or is it a(nother) case of the brain just making shit up because it hates me?