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I'm beautiful and tough like a diamond...or beef jerky in a ball gown.

  • My saved items / wish list is full of stuff I want and could use. When I have some extra money, it's difficult to choose one thing, and I get stuck in limbo. So given I could set limits and hit a button, I feel like it would help me.

  • Despite posting a photo of the book in my hand, I haven't read it for a good minute. You're referring to the clinic scene? (I think that's first in the book, but not 100%).

  • Heh, that's happened a lot since our org updated to Win11. Updates in the middle of the day (despite IT assuring us those only install after hours 🙄) and people just randomly drop from meetings as their PCs reboot. Project manager almost called shenanigans on that until it happened to her mid-meeting.

    Today (well, yesterday now), mine was just "Preparing to hibernate due to low battery" and I was like "wait, what?!" and was frantically making sure everything got saved (this old workhorse doesn't always want to resume from hibernate). Turns out I had the cord plugged into the laptop but didn't plug it into the outlet

  • Not really. There's just a lot of characters in that scene (Muldoon, Hammond, Wu, Arnold, and Gennaro) all with dialog.

  • Also they lazily copied ...

    In film school, that's called an homage. /s

  • I think Nedry's death in the book is that for me. The movie version is practically G-rated compared to how it went down in the novel.

  • This was the first Crichton novel I read, and it got me into his other works. Most of them have the common theme of:

    1. There's a secret science place where science happens
    2. At event causes people not normally associated with the secret science place to have to go to the secret science place
    3. The secret science at the secret science place goes horribly wrong
    4. The secret science place blows up in the end

    That formula doesn't really detract from any of his books, but I did laugh when I had read enough of his catalog to see the pattern.

  • It's from the Jurassic Park novel. Spoiler: It kinda goes downhill from there (both the situation and the franchise).

    • Does it have USB-C video out?
    • Do you plan to run any custom ROMs / Can it run custom ROMs?

  • 🤚 Don't. Even.

    You are not even remotely the first to try to pull this scam here.

  • With that many details, your story must be true 🙄

    I too have struggles. Can you find it in your heart to share some of your scampaign funds with a fellow struggling human?

    But seriously, shame on you for pulling this scam. People like you make me wish I believed in God so that I could take comfort in knowing one day you'll burn for eternity in Hell.

  • Yeah, for sure. I tend to use WebDAV with that to connect to my Nextcloud more than the actual Nextcloud app. Works great.

  • That kind of puts the scene where Rick keeps reanimating in different universes in a new light. Forget the episode, but he keeps coming out of his lab in a different universe and they're all fascist hellholes. He's like "Is this, like, the default setting or something?"

  • Assuming you mean SSH for file transfer? Material Files supports SFTP, and I use it to connect via SSH to my machines to transfer files.

  • Sounds like a Buddy Space Cop show, and I would watch the crap out of it.

  • Damn Small Linux (Knoppix-based) which was the gateway drug to Fedora Core 4 on an old Pentium III that was lying arouind.