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

  • I would love to have a small Wikipedia browser that can survive the apocalypse.

    I've got the full 120 GB Wikipedia dump running in Kiwix on a Raspberry Pi Zero. Works great (surprisingly)

    E-ink display, mini keyboard

    Have been using a Minimal Phone for a few months now which has both of those. Can connect to the Pi easily.

    multiple ways/ports to transfer info,

    Add a USB-C hub (or add a hub to the Pi) and you're set

    All wrapped up in a heavy duty equipment case that's able to survive a building collapses and burns in an earthquake, that's shielded from EMP.

    And that's where I'm limited - My 3D printer can only do so much lol. 😆

    I've been working on a side project this week with a Orange Pi Zero 2W (Pi Zero "clone" but with better specs). It's got the Kiwix+Wikipedia like my older Pi (described above) plus a bunch of other neat stuff. It's kind of a combination travel router, portable web app server, party box, and extremely over-engineered bluetooth speaker all-in-one. Hoping to put together a show-and-tell post about it when I get the last of it squared away.

  • For sure. My shower thought is just that they won't be anything like the simple pleasure of the DVD screensaver. It would probably ads that cycle through.

  • What kind of mad person shuffles their whole collection?

    Me! lol

    The musical whiplash is strong. It'll go Pantera, Slipknot, Lady Gaga, Children of Bodom, the theme from Three's Company, Spice Girls, Waylon Jennings, N'Sync, Foo Fighters, STP, Britney Spears, etc. You never know what's next.

  • The sad thing is I have a fully functional MPD + Snapcast setup I could use (including a TUI MPD client), but this is just what I've always done. Old habits and such lol.

  • I know right? If you can find a better one that pays out, send me a link and I'll happily update the post. I couldn't find one that wasn't forced and only went in the corner.

  • A totally appropriate reaction!

  • I felt that. It took me 3 overnight sessions to download the "Throw a pie at Bill Gates" screensaver over 14.4 dial-up back in the day.

  • Spoiler: The GIF doesn't. Will spare you the time I wasted waiting for it lol.

  • If I could get that in a thinner profile, I would totally and proudly hang that on my wall as art.

  • Can you, like, just post the YouTube link so my browser extension can re-write it to the Invidious instance running in my basement instead of one that's slow, overloaded, and halfway across the world?

    Anyone who cares is already re-writing Youtube links, and posting links to random Invidious instance is just inconveniencing us.

    And the same goes to anyone else posting Invidious links and thinking they're "sticking it to the man". You're not. Most people don't care, and you're only sticking it to the people who do care by forcing us to use a non-preferred instance.

    Just 👏 post 👏 the 👏 Youtube 👏 link.

  • Constantly. Usually it takes the form of reducing topics to binary choices and/or purity tests.

    • "You're either with me or against me / You're either part of the solution or part of the problem"
      • Where "part of the solution" means doing exactly, and only exactly what they think you should be doing.
    • "If you don't satisfy all of my impossible requirements, you're ~as bad as~ a nazi"
    • "We only agree on 99 out of 100 things, so clearly you're not to be trusted"
    • etc

  • Yeah. I read a bit more since I commented, and Alton Brown doesn't just approve - he actually helped design it.

    The cost of those is definitely why I still have a mono-vection oven haha.

  • I'm not a fan of single-purpose appliances (microwave notwithstanding), and I recently got a toaster oven / air fryer / grill (so no microwave) and I love it. Haven't used my full size oven in the 3 months I've had this one.

    The "Trivection Oven" (as seen on 30 Rock) is a real appliance, and includes microwave heating as one of the 'vections. I believe the microwave heating is just to speed up cooking with the thermal and convection heat for crisping.

    Are they a gimmick? Honestly, no clue. I've not used one, but the logic checks out and Alton Brown approves.

  • To be fair, #32 is just me.

  • It's very likely I'm mis-remembering the BTS stuff, but I always thought the whole reason they wrote her out in S4 was to feature her in ST: Academy. I'm assuming now that was either never correct or something majorly changed.

  • He should at least get a cameo or a guest spot. Continuity-wise, Stamets is right there. And Tig Notaro is gonna be there, and Reno was the perfect foil for him.

  • [Giancarlo Esposito Meme]

    I think billionaires shouldn't exist because we should have appropriate levels of taxation and a "maximum wage" law.

    Lemmy thinks billionaires shouldn't exist and are setting up guillotines.

    We are not the same.

  • Sounds like at least a minor improvement. Can those me moved and still work? Like, if I move the project folder, do I have to reinitialize it and download all the packages again?

  • For me, it's the rigid and wonky virtual environments. I get why they're useful and necessary, but they're awkward to use. Like, Node just works from the working directory with no fuss and python has to be all source {venv}/bin/activate and lord help you if you need to move it.

    Plus, I have never liked that the spacing is load-bearing.

  • You're empathizing with the troll, too? 👀

    FYI: What the troll is describing is not required all. I don't know what they're on about, but I've used ldap-js in many projects without having to do any of that.