[-] StephenTallentyre@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago

Exactly. I use NixOS, btw.

[-] StephenTallentyre@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

"…or is this actually a thing now?"

Always has been.

I'll see myself out.

[-] StephenTallentyre@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

My grandpa talked about doing this back in the 1930s with his brothers, and by that I mean, they put their neighbor's cow on top of their barn, somehow. I think this is one of those things that, in one form or another, has always existed and always will.

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[-] StephenTallentyre@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

People are gonna pillory me for this, but flashlights.

First off, you want something that runs off two AAAs, regardless of price. If you can't walk into any gas station, or any grocery store, or what have you, and buy batteries for your flashlight when it dies, it's not gonna matter how bright it was before it died. You also don't want anything brighter than ~200 lumens at the very most, unless you actually need one brighter, for some reason; they drain batteries way faster. You want something thin enough that you're able to clip it inside your pocket and forget it's there. You also want one that has an end switch that toggles between two modes: "full power" and "turned off." If you have one that toggles between low and high settings, you will only use the high setting. If you have one that toggles between low and high settings, and strobe and SoS, you will only use the high setting. Every additional step in between "all the way off" and "all the way on" is just friction you don't need, that will do nothing but piss you off every time you use the damned thing.

The features that make big, fancy flashlights expensive, are anti-features.

[-] StephenTallentyre@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Imagine the male equivalent of the same exact ad: "My penis FINALLY smells healthy"…

[-] StephenTallentyre@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

You mean you've accepted that the cat is in charge and not the other way around, right? Because yeah, that is what usually happens.

[-] StephenTallentyre@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

[ Insert "I see this as an absolute win!" meme here ]

[-] StephenTallentyre@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Okay, fine. I have 192 GB of RAM.

[-] StephenTallentyre@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

This is amazing.

[-] StephenTallentyre@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

I hate having any more tabs open than I absolutely need. Right now, I have none. I'm probably gonna either fire up a YouTube video or find someone to watch on Twitch here in a minute, at which point I'll have one tab open. I'm not gonna say exactly how much RAM I have, but I have as much RAM as my motherboard will take, so I can definitely afford to open more than one tab. I just don't see any reason to, frankly, and it drives me up the wall.

[-] StephenTallentyre@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

My dad uses NixOS. My dad knows precisely nothing about computers; just ask him, he'll tell you. I figure, since he's gonna call me for free tech support no matter what operating system he has, anyway, I might as well make everything as reproducible as possible for my own sake. I tried putting Debian testing on his computer, and honestly, that was actually pretty good except that I had to update it for him at least once a week in order to keep everything running smoothly, lol.

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