Biggles @Biggles@qoto.org

@darkuncle

Can't decline when you're asleep. Checkmate!

I usually reply with a lengthy explanation that I would have attended had they given sufficient notice, but I don't check my mail in my sleep.

If I'm feeling SAUCY I'll wait until 2am their time to send it. They won't notice, but it amuses me.

@darkuncle

6:30 am? *LUXURY*. I get 5am invites regularly.

The fun ones are the emails that arrive at 2am my time for a 6am meeting. Come on guys, the fact that I am a *machine* (flexes in a manly fashion) doesn't mean I never sleep - that's just a rumor!

@foone

Ha! I was working as a Student Aide for the Ventura County Waterworks in the mid 80's when a vendor tried to sell us a billing program written for PICK OS - and futzed around so long that I ended up writing one in-house in dBase IV that was used for many years past it's reasonable lifetime.

@darkuncle

It sounds like you really should be mad at Roku - they're the ones who implemented the ad-during-pause behavior. If the particular vendor you're upset with didn't advertise there - some other would have, maybe one you don't use at all, so wouldn't have the recourse of a ban. Point is banning that vendor still means you get ads during the pause, so doesn't really help. But throwing out the roku or complaining loudly to them might? Or might not - my AT&T DirecTV receiver does the same thing, albeit silently, so it's tolerable.

There's always options. Yarrr.

@darkuncle

While true - it's better than *not* doing anything. A partial win here is far superior to no win.

@darkuncle

One of the sad last vestiges of slavery. We can and should (and do, sometimes) make laws at the state level - but it remaining in the constitution is a black mark on our record.

@shanselman @tim

My exact question, because it looks sweet.

@cstross

One thing I never understood is why - given the number of different things we could use it for - a supposed future civilization would pick "run simulations of people who are now dead" as "the great task". It seems there's a classic mixup of model vs reality there - you don't learn much from a faulty model, and you have no real way to validate it. Nor do you learn much from going infinite monkeys on it. And trying to sim all variations on the assumption one must be "right". What's the goal?

@ThePlant

Honestly I take "Gaming on Linux" to mean games, on linux. Or games you got to work on linux. Or games you couldn't get to work on linux. Or games you'd like to see on linux. Or honestly whatever else you feel like talking about within very broad boundaries - if you started shilling NfTs I might consider bailing. Short of that - you're gold. You're human - not a robot.

@georgetakei

Absolutely boys too. Baker's Square used to have these beer-battered jack cheese sticks that were to die for. I still dream about them. Oh, and the old french fries back in the 80's before they demonized beef tallow.

@GossiTheDog

A prior employer of mine had a track record of the following:

1) zero day attack announced - management panics.
2) determine we're not vulnerable, as our stuff was wildly out-of-date.
3) strongly encourage we update anyway, as we're wildly out-of-date and there are known attacks - just not that particular zero-day
4) management has gone back to sleep, goto 1

@thorsheim

I kinda wanted it for the Beeb - and in the end, never bothered. (Serious addiction to British gameshows. Very sad. Send help.)

@bubbajet @SwiftOnSecurity @WiseWoman

This. It's never been the case that an internet search was guaranteed to come up with definitive info. Time to polish up research and critical thinking skills, and learn to track down primary/authoritative sources. The librarians miss us.

@grumpygamer

The perfect crime!

@foone

Super efficient standby mode. Maybe some environmental energy harvesting. I mean - from a power standpoint, the handheld laser gun is more outlandish.

@darkuncle

That "team lift" icon is on the box for a reason, hooligan.

@darkuncle

Yes, but a fully decked out 6u weighs more than you do. Substantially. Getting crushed by a computer is a silly way to die. I hope at least that if you *did* lose a finger to the rack spirits you'd have the commonsense to tell people it was sharkbite.

@Quinnypig @darkuncle

If you got injured, it was because you didn't have enough LorgeBoys. You know our motto: "we don't get injuries, we cause them!"