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@freemo @yarmo I always felt that recycling plastic was only partially effective but a cursory read suggests I was underestimating the problem. This conversation has been enlightening, if depressing! The problem for me is that the further upstream the solution lies, the less effective I think my small effort to address the issue will be and the less empowered I feel. npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/h

@Co I'm pretty sure mac users dont even know that their computer has hardware in it at all. They think the images wind up on the screem through fiber optic cables direct from mac HQ that is just fed by a projector displaying the screen on the other end.

@freemo @yarmo Jesus, that’s depressing. I’d hadn’t thought of it that way. So the current attempt to reduce plastic consumption at our house is ultimately pointless?

@freemo I love this paragraph you just typed.

@freemo I love how in the OS part of the shop page it says it plans on running kali....imagine your server getting trashed by a guy on that. Comedy of the century.

Philadelphian: Gona hit up ant knees fer some wooder ice.

Englis: I'm going to go to anthoney's for some water ice

This is now my screensaver.
After testing all "modes" in xlock, I found this one randomly, called the "lament" mode. I assume it's an easter egg as it isn't in the mode list in the manual (there are some other hints, though). I'm quite happy because I like Hellraiser a lot.

My new Cosmo Communicator arrived yesterday. It is designed to be linux compatible and android. So after following the official instructions I now have both Debian Linux and Android running on it.

KDE isnt well suited for a device with somewhat limited mouse capabilities (there is a trackpad like device on the back that acts as a second display), also it is KDE, ew. so first thing I did was install i3-gaps which is a primarily keyboard based tiling window manager. It works like a charm!

Everything so far has pretty much worked out of the box (though updating the firmware I did think I bricked it for a moment, thankfully it is fixed).

My i3 configuration is the same as on my desktop, im happy!

Just a reminder.. Biden has, so far, spent significantly more time on vacation than Trump did.

Biden has spent 74 days so far on vacation, in that same amount of time Trump only spent 42 days on vacation.

Remember all those cries about Trump golfing... now ask yourself why they are silent when Biden is spending so much **more** time doing the same?

Its almost like there might be a double standard or something... no way!

Just did a rather intense repair job on 80 some year old fountain pen with adjustable nib. I can probably get close to 1k now for this thing if i ever wanted to sell.

I figured soldering the little tabs on might work better than glue... this is my 4th try but its working.

@calligraphy

"In the first essays of his youth he was not regular nor happily balanced; he allowed himself to follow mere natural character, which, without the control of reason and instruction, is apt to hurry, upon either side, into sudden and violent courses, and very often to break away and determine upon the worst; as he afterwards owned himself, saying, that the wildest colts make the best horses, if they only get properly trained and broken in."

WOOT! Delivery scheduled for tomorrow and I am fairly certain its my Storm2 Liquid ... kinda excited it looks cool!

RT @Iron_Spike
Reading an interesting book that theorizes the Old Testament has a mistranslation (and maybe not accidentally), and Eve was not made from Adam's rib, but his baculum.

The baculum is the penis bone; nearly all placental mammals, including other Great Apes, have 'em. Humans don't.

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