TrackenDaKracken

For many years I used the same name. In spite of being short and pronounceable with no numbers it turned out to be quite unique. Even after all these years I can search that name and come up with some of my posts and comments. I stopped using it over ten years ago. As near as I can tell only one other person ever had it as a username.

Now I just pick something random when the question arises during registration. I only have three accounts so it’s not hard to remember. Passwords are handled by a password manager.

My current name is actually a different spelling of the first name I had on Lemmy. But, I made a dumb mistake and lost the password, so I made this account.

He never killed anyone who didn’t need killin’.

Mostly Nazis.

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(Interesting how some versions of this image crop out the swastika armband.)

1870s uniform

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Capitalism is slowly strangling any hope of this sort of thing. We need to rein in capitalism hard before we’ll get cool stuff like this again. If a case can’t be made for how a new expensive thing will make the rich richer, then it doesn’t happen.

Eh. We should pay a bit more attention to Historians, I suppose?

The thing about historic records is they were written by biased sources who can’t be vetted now. And, we’re constantly destroying records. Plus, the Historians themselves are biased.

All we can do now is pick an interpretation and either agree or disagree. The majority rules, but is not always right, as we know. You can learn history in classes, and the professor will profess. You can read the documents provided--those that are left, and translated to your language, and therein lies more issues--and come to your own conclusions, influenced by what your professor professed, of course. And, then you’ve Learned History, but what do you really know? And, so it goes with education. We can only learn from the past in the present. It’s not useless, of course, but it shouldn’t be made out to be more than it is. It’s not gospel, either.

Hell, we can’t even agree about things that happened in living memory, take the George Floyd situation.

Go ahead and downvote me.

This is why I only use fast-growing, purpose-harvested pine.

This, and the “costs money” part. You either have an entire lumber mill in your garage, or you buy the expensive, pre-milled stuff. There’s no way wood furniture is cheap. It’s like if they can’t sell us the finished furniture, they’re going to get their profit from the materials to build it.

Fuck Capitalism, and the billionaires who leech from us.

They’ve done better for us by just being trees than being turned into war ships, anyway.

Oi. I had mine in my hall closet, looks a lot like yours, including the Noctua cooler and stack of hard drives. In spite of adding a vent to the top of the closet door, and a big gap at the floor it still got too hot. I ended up moving it to the spare bedroom.

The one I have that looks like that is bluetooth.

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Zooming in to understand that clear, plastic paper guide, I feel like it’s a miracle it’s survived intact all these years.

Windows 8 with classic shell was fine, I thought.

But most people believed that every other Windows version was good, and hated Windows 8.

Skipping windows 9 is what did them in. Remember when they announced they were skipping 9 and going straight to 10? The writing was on the wall, and plenty of people mention it then.

Media Center was… extra

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