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33/MInterested in self-hosting, decentralization, and learning more about the fediverse.

I also do photography, but with digital cameras from the 90's.

  • If you're debating the quality of probiotic supplements based on how many billion CFUs it takes to survive stomach acid; you're putting them in the wrong end.

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  • John Harvey Kellogg is that you?

    ___The result, Kellogg claimed, was nothing short of medical revolution. By pumping yogurt cultures into the rectums of America's well to do, Kellogg claimed that he had managed to cure "cancer of the stomach, ulcers, diabetes, schizophrenia, manic depressives, acne, anemia ... asthenia, migraine and premature old age." There was nothing a clean bowel couldn't handle.

  • Nobody has ever lit a cigarette because of happiness. Smoking is a anxiety-coping mechanism.

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  • I leave for Paris tomorrow and while I've been planning the trip I had the strangest urge to smoke a cigarette at a streetside cafe sipping some coffee... and I have never smoked in my life. Feels like a real deep cultural meme has gripped me.

  • Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site

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  • I feel this.I have had the same 4GB Kingston USB2.0 stick hanging off my keyring for what feels like the last 15 years or so, and it just continues to work perfectly fine... But yet every single modern USB stick I have feels like it wants to die at any moment. I bought a 5 pack of 16GB sandisk cruzr glides at a thrift shop for $5 last year, you know the ones, black housing, red slider to pop the USB part out... Only 2 of them still work. I've gone through about 5 32GB microcenter sticks in the last couple years, and had one 128GB microcenter stick go bad just recently. I also have a 1GB Lexar USB2.0 stick that I got in 2006 and it also still works perfectly fine despite looking like it got run over by a truck. It's been the 3d printer usb stick for like 5 years now, no signs of quitting.

    I am constantly on the edge of just dropping big bucks on a 64 or 128GB stick from someplace with a warranty like Cactus Tech or something and hopefully just never worrying about it again.

  • KIDPIX

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  • I "programmed" a massive choose-your-own adventure game in powerpoint by using slide links on buttons, and I really wish I could recover that, too... I distinctly remember there being a path where you could be eaten by a banjo.

    It'd be one thing if I could maybe go scrounging through my parents basement to find my old PC and image the hdd, but I was such a notorious tinkerer, I was swapping PC parts around constantly and installing a new flavor of linux like every 2 months, so everything is well and clearly wiped many times over.

    Even now that I have gotten into photography, looking back, my parents got me a crappy little digital camera in like 2001, and I really wish I could look back at those photos. They never got uploaded anywhere and who knows where they went.

  • KIDPIX

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  • I wish that I could have had the foresight to practice proper data hygiene and backup procedures when I was like 8 so that my brother and I could look at all our old creations.

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    Being a 22-year-old virgin or being 22 and never having been in a relationship is something to be shameful about.

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  • I don't usually pay attention to usernames, but I just laughed out loud when I checked their post history. Very rarely do I see a truly shit take on here, but most of the recent posts I remember being real stinkers are all from this same user.

    Also the recent obsession with age is very strange.

  • Is a Dumb Phones paired with Smartphone possible?

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  • Can you talk with the IT team?I was able to switch my MFA to a Yubikey.They rolled out the MFA policy quite recently and I immediately sent an email like "Hello. I do not have a smartphone. What are my options?"They also had the option for SMS verification, but I had been looking at getting a Yubikey for myself anyway so might as well get work to pay for it.

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    America could have avoided all of this with a functional justice system

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  • I'm currently reading a book (A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge) where 2 voyages get stranded at the same faraway star system, one is a totalitarian autocracy and the other is a free trading culture. The totalitarian regime gets the upper hand, takes over via manipulation and sabotage, and tries to stifle and outlaw all money and trade. They end up spying on the underground black market trade that pops up and manipulates people into trading and doing work for the regimes benefit without their knowledge... If not money, then goods and services, or any other analog for such. Certain people will always try to accumulate "wealth", whatever that wealth may be, it doesn't necessarily have to be legal tender.

    The book feels extremely relevant to current events, as the autocratic regime employs a ubiquitous police state and uses an even less ethical analog for AI to control it all. It was published in 1999.

  • Never let downvotes discourage you from posting

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  • I was looking for someone else to mention this.

    The karma system on Reddit trapped me hard and the constant validation seeking was really a drag on my mental health. Getting one negative score comment would ruin my day, I really just want to be understood. I realize how unhealthy that is, but I'm not really sure what to do about it besides just not interacting with that place anymore. I don't have as much of a problem with being wrong in real life, it's more the fact that online I have the opportunity to take my time, be meticulous, edit my post to make sure it's perfect and I have said exactly what I wanted to in the exact way I wanted to...

    Coming here and being able to disable the counts has been an absolute dream.

  • I've been alive for the entire narrative of the internet and it's crazy to think any of the newer generations will be able to sort it all out for themselves.

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  • Still doin' their thing, they released a new album last year! They went on a small new-album tour and that's when I was able to catch their show.

    I found the source of the quote on the bookmark, and it was a quote by Plato out of Phaedrus so it definitely is real lol. It's somewhat different on the bookmark, but depending on what translation you look at the quote will probably be slightly different anyway. It's sections 274e to 275b

    But when he came to writing, Theuth said, “This branch of learning, O King, will make the Egyptians wiser and give them better memories, for I have discovered an elixir of both memory and wisdom.” The king replied, “Oh most ingenious Theuth, one man is able to invent these skills, but a different person is capable of judging their benefit or harm to those who will use them. And you, as the father of writing, on account of your positive attitude, are now saying that it does the opposite of what it is able to do. This subject will engender forgetfulness in the souls of those who learn it, for they will not make use of memory. Because of their faith in writing, they will be reminded externally by means of unfamiliar marks, and not from within themselves by means of themselves. So, you have discovered an elixir not of memory but of reminding. You will provide the students with a semblance of wisdom, not true wisdom. For having heard a great deal without any teaching they will seem to be extremely knowledgeable, when for the most part they are ignorant, and are difficult people to be with because they have attained a seeming wisdom without being wise.”

  • I've been alive for the entire narrative of the internet and it's crazy to think any of the newer generations will be able to sort it all out for themselves.

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  • I have my font set to Atkinson Hyperlegible, so the lowercase L has a little tail to differentiate it from the capital i, which has its serifs... but in the quote block, the font isn't enforced for some reason so I had to copy/paste it into this textbox to even see what letter that was.

    Interesting stuff that I would have never noticed or thought about otherwise...

  • I've been alive for the entire narrative of the internet and it's crazy to think any of the newer generations will be able to sort it all out for themselves.

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  • I have a bookmark made by the band Sleepytime Gorilla Museum that was sneakily tucked into my merch haul last time I saw them live, and it has a quote on it that I will need to wait until I get home to properly remember, and I also want to do more diligence to figure out if it is an actual quote. At the top it says "A WARNING ABOUT READING", and the quote says something like:

    Beware the written language, man was never destined to record their every thought. How will we continue to remember ourselves when we are now able to cast our essence into this new medium, to remove the memories from ourselves so that we are wrought into perpetual forgetfulness?-Allegedly some ancient guy from the dawn of books

  • TIL there's a species of fish called Boops boops.

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  • The "Boops Boops in a bucket" photo used to be the main article image on Wikipedia and it tickled me in just the right way, I screenshotted it in 2021.

    I went to check on it a couple years later after telling someone about it, and the photo was completely gone from the article! I was so sad. But I still had my screenshot.

    Looking now, the bucket photo has returned further down the page!

    Looking at the Wikipedia history for this page is funny, there are so many edits for one page for a small little goofy fish. Really shows how much work goes into maintaining that encyclopedia! And looking at the little spats about such things as the color of the bucket, and whether or not it is appropriate to mention such in the caption... Fascinating. EDIT: I keep going deeper. The caption for this exact image has been HOTLY contested. Also it has been said that the bucket is blue, and also that the bucket is turquoise. Also it can't be decided on if "Boops boops in a bucket" is an appropriate caption because it is literally correct, or if it is "roflcopter nonsense" simply because the name of the fish happens to be silly...

  • Qualcomm unveil the Snapdragon X2 Elite and Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, the fastest and most efficient processors for Windows PCs

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  • I have a Dell XPS 13 9315, which is roughly the same size as the 11" air (actually slightly smaller), and I absolutely adore it. I didn't get the highest-end because I didn't need it, but it's available with some decent processors and up to 32Gb RAM. It just sucks that everything is soldered to the board and non-upgradeable, and it has only 2 USB C ports, but that's the price you pay for the size. The battery life is actually astounding, too, I am constantly amazed how long it lasts. The new XPS13 has the weird square flat keys and no border around the touchpad, I'm really glad I got the model I did because the new ones look like a pain to actually use.

    Like I can actually do a little bit of light Solidworks on it if I'm not near my desktop, which blew me away. It plays the indie games I like, too, so it basically just does everything I need.

    My winter project is to install Linux on it and get it all working the way I want.

  • Magic is real, we just know how it works and call it technology

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  • Ontarrible Canada, what bug is this?

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  • I think it looks like some kind of parasitic wasp, based on the long rear tubule thing (used for injecting eggs into the host, called an ovipositor) and the generally wasp-like body shape.

    Don't worry, it doesn't sting or parasitize humans.Very beneficial as they are pollinators, feeding on nectar, and also pest control, as depending on their host, is a major population control mechanism in some pest insect species. The reason Spotted Lantern Flies are so invasive in the Eastern USA is that in their home range, they are controlled by 2 species of parasitic wasp that control their spread, but these wasps haven't yet made the jump to or adapted to the region yet.

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    "Pro-life" and "pro-choice" aren't actually opposite positions

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  • Frozen Nutty Buddy wafer bars were my dad's favorite growing up... Unfortunately the cheap chocolate that coats them loses the tenuous temper it once had and becomes a liquid sludge at exactly 1 degree below room temperature so it melts all over the place and makes an absolute mess.

    My brother and I got good at eating them straight out of the plastic wrapper without touching them.

  • Samsung brings ads to US fridges: Samsung’s ‘screens everywhere’ initiative is morphing into ads everywhere.

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  • But haven't you heard!?! It's a REVOLUTION!

    I will simply turn 360 degrees and walk away.

    Are you even a real connected-appliance enthusiatst when you didn't even link the R180 connect PLUS https://revcook.com/products/r180-connect-plus-smart-toaster Which is $100 more and seems to be exactly the same, with the addition of 22 more useless "bread profiles"

    I remember seeing this thing a while ago and scoffing, but actually reading it now, it's even more absurd. "Our most customizable toasting experience"... Ugh.

  • Samsung brings ads to US fridges: Samsung’s ‘screens everywhere’ initiative is morphing into ads everywhere.

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  • I will hand-mine books of mica and wrap nichrome wire around them and plug it directly into the wall like my forefathers did before I install a toaster with a screen in my home.

    Actually, though probably physically dangerous, a thriving DIY appliance community to bypass the "screen in everything" future might be kinda fun.

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