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Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitating it, trying to be amusing and informative.

Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.

Was on kbin.social (dying/dead) and kbin.run (mysteriously vanished). Now here on fedia.io.

Really hoping he hasn't brought the jinx with him.

Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish

  • Note for second (or more) language speakers of English (and maybe a few first language folks as well): The plural 's' is omitted when a sentence fragment is turned into an adjective. It's supposed to have hyphens in it as well, though these are often left out.

    So, for example, "My PC is ten years old and runs Linux" becomes "My ten-year-old PC runs Linux".

    In the case of this meme, it should be "My 10-year-old PC".

  • Yes it can. First you pump the sea full of the most obnoxious, toxic, lethal poison, then you wait for the global food web to collapse, taking humans with it.

    Climate will begin to behave within a few hundred years.

  • You had me concerned for a second, but "mists of time" shows up on Wiktionary (easier to be wrong), Merriam Webster's site (likely to be right) or the Oxford English Dictionary (practically canonical), whereas "midst(s) of time" does not.

    Collins Dictionary and Dictionary.com don't list either, but the existence of the former in other places would seem to suggest that that's the right one.

  • You should have seen it when the typos were still in it. Now try to figure out whether the parenthetical was there before the edits.

  • Older folks might think you're making a reference to Cliff Richard, a guy who is quite famous here, so expect that to come up every now and then.

    Lots of people really don't like the guy, or think he's a bit cringe-worthy, but others regard him fondly.

    Anyway, like yourself, Cliff isn't his real name, but most people know him by it.

    Do with this knowledge what you will.

  • You like cursed?

    Way back in the mists of time I got a 32MB (not a typo) upgrade for an 8MB computer. In total: 40MB.

    Since I knew it ran fine with just the 8MB, I set up a RAM disk of 32MB and put the Windows swap file in it. Windows absolutely insisted (and maybe still does) that there be a swap file, so why not put that back in RAM?

    It worked perfectly, but that memory was better used for other things, so the cursed setup didn't last all that long.

    Edits: Typo city baby.

  • Minor correction: Finland is Nordic, but not Scandinavian. It was arguably Scandinavian during the several hundred years it was occupied by Sweden, but that's a somewhat touchy subject.

  • I am convinced that if this was easy to do, the people that did so would find that their sleep schedule would mutate into something less easy to deal with.

  • There are posts on Usenet from the mid-to-late '90s under my real name that are probably still around. I don't go looking for them and hope they don't come looking for me. About 50% of them are an embarrassment.

  • The UK's ITV News at Ten used to have a segment called "And Finally..." at the end of the broadcast that was intended to be light-hearted (but still somewhat newsworthy) in order to soften whatever horrors might have gone before it earlier.

    I haven't watched TV news in years, but apparently they don't do that any more.

  • I never said it was empathy. I said it's the closest thing you'll ever get to it from him.

  • My bad. I used a double negative, which clearly confused you.

    "That doesn't mean that racism doesn't exist there" means "racist behaviour almost certainly still goes on there".

    I can try to break this down to words of just one sound if you like, but to do that might be too mean, and it's hard to write like this as well.

  • Nominally non-racist. Back during apartheid, South Africa was definitely racist. Now apartheid is over, everyone there, regardless of race, is supposed to be equal.

    That doesn't mean that racism doesn't exist there, just that it's no longer encoded into law, and indeed the opposite might be encoded, regarding hate crimes and the like.

  • South Africa isn't a threat to America, no, but living in a post-apartheid, nominally non-racist country is super uncomfortable for rich, white racists. They perceive the situation as them being in danger, and this has triggered the closest thing to empathy that you'll ever get out of DJT.

  • I feel like proponents of that calendar might be better off giving all the months completely different names. It would avoid some of the potential confusion during the changeover. Sol could keep its name, I guess, but the rest, no.

    On the other hand, that still wouldn't disambiguate numeric YYYY-MM-DD and the like.

  • I'd be sitting down and prototyping conduits with strong cardboard and sticky tape. And my desk fan in the middle.

    The fan itself doesn't have to make the angle if it has the right kind of redirection around it.

  • Due to the omission of the year number on the grid, it's somewhat reusable too. 2037 is the next time all the dates and days of the week will match.

  • Not sure he's been accused of killing any.

  • My diet is fine. You may have missed that I'm cutting out things that qualify as snacks. Things whose nutritional content is limited and are mostly fat and carbohydrates, including those commonly eaten right after what might otherwise be a sensible meal.

    I'm talking biscuits (cookies), cakes and the like. I already don't eat crisps (chips) nor do I drink anything with fizz or sugar (or both).

    If I can't get to a good weight doing just that, I might look into alternative sources of nutrition and superfoods, but those tend to cost the sort of money that I can ill afford to spend.

    Also, I looked at the blurb for that book and it claims that it contains recipes that will "treat" cancer. That's weasel wording to avoid being called snake oil, while at the same time convincing the gullible that it contains a cure, so you'll forgive me if I give it a miss.

  • Linux @lemmy.world

    Minor WTF: librust-winapi-dev wins the prize for the length of its "Provides" line under Debian's apt

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world

    Trying to track down what game created a "dirks" directory under ~/.config