rbos
@rbos@lemmy.ca
Canadian, sysadmin, trans rights are human rights, puncha-the-nazis, cats are pretty great, GNU Terry Pratchett.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 1 day ago:
The building next door, with 4 units of 1100sqft each (spread over three floors, ughhhh) is $1.6 million CAD per unit.
- Comment on Your Kindle Can Finally Be Jailbroken Again. [22:00] 1 day ago:
Calibre can handle a directly plugged in Kindle. I deDRMd them, then was able to just plug in my Kobo and copy all my books to the new device.
- Comment on Your Kindle Can Finally Be Jailbroken Again. [22:00] 1 day ago:
Switched to Kobo as part of my general “screw the USA” policy. Threatening Canadian sovereignty will not fly.
- Comment on Virginia Giuffre thought she might 'die a sex slave' at hands of Epstein and his circle, memoir reveals 1 week ago:
Im thinking bot, or at least human with a very specific style.
Has amassed an impressive collection of downvoted posts for being three hours old.
What time is it in Russia three hours ago… ah yes, noonish.
- Comment on similar to the word of mouth post, what game did you not expect much from but loved it? 1 week ago:
Space Engineers. Little space ship building game, why not.
1500 hours later…
- Comment on NASA will say goodbye to the International Space Station in 2030 − and welcome in the age of commercial space stations 1 week ago:
The ISS is rickety, showing its age. It should be retired soon. Decades of structural flexing and delay has taken its toll and it’s going to be cheaper to replace than repair.
Unfortunately they will likely do neither. :/
- Comment on Any advice for me a guy turning 18 yo old?? 2 weeks ago:
Buy quality things that will last a long time.
Paraphrasing Terry Pratchett, the man who buys a good pair of boots will have dry feet for ten years, and the man who buys a pair of cheap shoes every year will spend more and still have wet feet.
- Comment on Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator 5 weeks ago:
The people spending money on parts definitely are.
- Comment on Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator 5 weeks ago:
An expensive motor that breaks, or decides to close on you when you’re looking inside, or…
- Comment on Remember beans? 1 month ago:
I remember watching that P4A a few years ago. The bean thing was hilarious. And then Lemmy did a version of it… talk about meme synchronicity. Pretty great.
- Comment on Truck-Kun. (by Nhim) 1 month ago:
There’s one where a guy gets reincarnated as a vending machine. Actually pretty good. Fun satire.
- Comment on Good news. :) 1 month ago:
Sure. How much weight does that have when Sacramento decides to run a water pipeline from Capilano to eastern Washington or whatever?
- Comment on Good news. :) 1 month ago:
God we have trouble enough with Toronto thinking it’s the centre of the world and ignoring BC. We’d have zero influence in Cascadia.
- Comment on House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias 1 month ago:
So what if it was?
- Comment on Years ago while drunk and high I sent my sister a syphilis plushy. 2 months ago:
I have syphilis on my shaft. The shaft of my torchiere lamp.
Also covid-19 hanging out on our projector screen. ^_^
- Comment on Beyond Beef? Impossible Beef? I Can't Believe It's Not Beef? 2 months ago:
I quite like both Impossible and Beyond burgers. Honestly, better than a lot of the shitty fast food Styrofoam “meat” they try to pass off.
- Comment on GitHub will be folded into Microsoft proper as CEO steps down 2 months ago:
Hand to the gods, I thought MS owned gitlab. Good to know.
- Comment on GitHub will be folded into Microsoft proper as CEO steps down 2 months ago:
I guess we should start thinking about replacing Gitlab at work. Vendor lockin will be a serious problem else.
- Comment on When you realize your laptop hasn't been plugged in for the last 4 hours you've been working... 2 months ago:
I can’t dive into tvtropes right now, but I’ve got dollar on someone having coined a term already.
- Comment on BE NOT AFRAID, MORTAL 2 months ago:
No visible mold. I’d pour off the hooch, put it through a couple feeding cycles, and see how it smells.
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 2 months ago:
ActiveCoPilot XP 2025 Professional Edition
- Comment on "I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint 2 months ago:
Consider, though, the value you received in non-monetary terms. How much would you have had to pay?
- Comment on "I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint 2 months ago:
How about, if we must have military drones, they should be open source.
- Comment on Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots) 2 months ago:
The Long Dark. Nothing will change. Death is only a matter of time.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 2 months ago:
A raid6 array across a collection of separate disks might do it.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 2 months ago:
Not difficult, or even expensive, to find a working 20 year old machine with a 3.5" FDD. Also I work at a library and we keep a couple of well bagged USB floppy drives around for profs who occasionally need data retrieval. Hasn’t happened in a couple years though. We also have an old Dell for 5.25".
- Comment on YSK: US Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem publically bragged about killing her puppy 2 months ago:
But what about the children?
- Comment on Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments 2 months ago:
Gotta hire a robopsychologist. Dr. Susan Calvin may be available?
- Comment on Yeasty 2 months ago:
If you let it fully ferment it’ll turn into a flat goo
- Comment on Welcome to the new world of risk: Microsoft cuts off services to energy company without notice 2 months ago:
You’d think russian assets would work harder not to be dependent on US clouds.