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  • What OS does the Batcomputer use?

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  • Ahhhh, iirc, it's one he built himself.

    It's actually come up in comics before, more than once if my mind isn't playing tricks.

    I don't doubt that he would have at least taken lessons from open source type projects if Linux doesn't directly exist in the comic universe.

  • If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save?

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  • Baldur's gate 3, tiny Tina's wonderlands, ff7, annnnd I'm not sure. The fourth and fifth slots are harder.

    I would say pacman, but even if you gave me the arcade game for free, I don't think I could play it worth a damn now. Same with centipede (they were my favorites back in the day, but pacman I was good at).

    The original Mario Kart could be in there. And I can't pretend that need for speed carbon couldn't compete for a spot either. I think I'd take Kart over Carbon though.

    Yeah, fuck it, pacman and Mario kart. Those are the last two spots.

    No! Wait!

    Neverwinter, the mmorpg. Fuck mariokart, I'd take that one, assuming I could either have ai teammates that didn't suck, or could just keep a server for it running without cost/effort. Loved that game. Technically still love it, but when I stopped playing for a while, I got power crept and didn't want to play ptw style like it turned into. But my haste cleric? Fuck yeah!

  • Your old android phone is begging to be a cheap home server!

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  • One problem

    Batteries.

    I've used old devices as many things: security cameras, a form of intercom, digital picture frames, etc. The real problem is that the batteries eventually go bad, and become dangerous.

    For the few devices that have realistically replaceable batteries, that's no big deal, but how many of those are left now?

    No thanks to the potential fire, I'll pass. The few devices I have left that I can swap batteries out are becoming harder to find new batteries for as well, so that's an issue beyond their anemic hardware (I'm talking really old tablets at this point)

  • People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead?

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  • My thing is that if I'm outside relaxing, I want the birds and bugs and wind. If I can't have those, headphones aren't an acceptable replacement, so I'll fuck off back inside.

    If I'm outside as in going about town, I don't want my hearing compromised. It's a fate safety issue. Even bone conduction gear is a distraction that I'm not okay with. Like, it isn't even about being hit by a car or whatever, it could be something as simple as a shopping cart that's loose banging into me. My crippled ass would be in the floor.

    My brain is enough stimulation for me. If I'm out in the world, my brain is going to be going a mile a minute scoping everything out. Doesn't matter how many times I've been in a given location.

  • pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned"

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  • I prefer car hole too, but don't tell me wife.

  • pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned"

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  • That's true, but I would argue that the player owned definition of it came so quickly on the heels of the typo that both could count as valid, with the caveat that the first usage being a typo would have to be considered a mistake, rather than the coining of the slang term itself.

    Which is stretching things a bit, but still fun to think about.

  • pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned"

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  • It's pronounced pwned, as all right thinking people know

  • Do air purifiers really reduce dust much?

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  • Air purifier? That's a less than ideal term since it gets applied to stuff like ionizers that are of dubious efficacy.

    But a straight up filter, hell yeah they work. Just check the filter on your furnace/heater sometime. Same with any AC unit.

    If you have something that has a filter, it will reduce dust, period. Without a filter, you aren't going to reduce dust worth a damn, if at all.

    But you also need to make sure it's turning the air over often enough. I haven't looked the info up in ages, but if you want a decent reduction in particulates, the device has to move air fairly significantly it it isn't going to about to much.

    Like, my house is right around a hundred years old. Four humans, and various animals over the years. Shit is dusty what with the dead skin, particles from things like carpet, pollen, dander, etc. Enough stuff gets produced that even with the regular furnace/ac filter, and a handful of one-room filters spread throughout the house (which tends to be better than one big one imo) we still get dust buildup on everything. But if we don't run the filters, you can both visibly and nasally tell the difference.

    A newer house isn't going to have as much, so you can likely get away with less air turnover, short term, and need to dust less. But you'll never be totally dust free just because you can't move enough air to prevent at least a little settling.

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    Do you prefer natural immunity over vaccination?

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  • I can't wait to develop my natural immunity to polio! Or smallpox!

    The flu, why, without the vaccine you can develop a natural immunity every year, twice a year if you really want to!

    Legit dude, what the fuck do you think "natural" immunity is? It's catching whatever it is, being sick, and surviving it. You specifically chose colds and the flu as examples, and they're the worst possible examples because they mutate so fast you never actually achieve immunity to anything; the version you have resistance to might come around again, or it might not, but you damn sure will eventually run across a strain that your body isn't equipped for.

    Like, I get that vaccines are confusing to someone with little education, but this is the internet age, you can look up the terms you're using and make sure you aren't fucking up your entire point. Like, the time it took you to type the post up, you could have looked up what vaccines actually do, and why they are/were the single greatest achievement of the human species.

    You can go and get a shot of something stable enough and never get sick from it, ever in some cases. In others, you might get sick but it'll be a few bad days instead of a week or more of misery (as is sometimes how the flu vaccines end up because of the aforementioned mutations, but other viruses are just a bit harder to stop entirely).

    So, nah, fuck your natural "immunity", that's just a recipe for lost health and time better spent on something like reading up on why vaccines are fucking awesome, even in the rare cases of allergies or bad reactions.

  • Is there an anti- sleep-paralysis device?

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  • You can try looking into a sleep position trainer. It isn't what you're asking about, but it has had good results in reducing or eliminating the paralysis episodes, so it's a similar outcome.

    The problem with what you're specifically asking about is that nobody has gone into production afaik. There's patents for things like they, but they're either junk (and obviously so), or would be way too complicated to set up and use reliably. Sleep paralysis isn't usually responsive to just shaking by itself.

    But you could try something similar to the alarms made for deaf people, if you have a consistent timing with your episodes. Or do something like strap a massager to your hand where you can cut it on and hope that the vibration breaks through. People have made that work, though it isn't consistent afaik.

  • What one book or piece of literature would adapt into a movie/TV series if given the funding and full creative control? Why?

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  • My own lol.

    Any of them

  • Medical professionals - Is there any benefit to a parasite cleanse?

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  • Well, of course there's a benefit.

    To anyone selling the ivermectin or whatever to people that don't need it.

    Seriously. That's it. There's zero benefit to taking medications like that if you don't have symptoms.

  • Would you be friendly or hostile in a zombie apocalypse

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  • Shit, I'm hostile now.

    Legit, I'm usually nice to people, even though I hate people at large. But I don't trust any motherfucker at my back until they've proven they can be trusted.

    That's how I would handle things in a crisis like that. Short term, low trust, mutually understood cooperation, but with safety valves.

  • Do you guys just have flawless experiences or what?

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  • No more or less flawless than windows, Android, or the iOS stuff.

    It's different flaws.

  • Call of Daddy

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  • I mean, I referenced the tacticool thing already, but you do you

  • Call of Daddy

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  • You aren't kidding lol. Projectile diarrhea is even worse imo. And I've had both get past ppe before. Not good times

  • Call of Daddy

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  • Yeah, molle rocks. The bag I had when I was working, I kept gloves and wipes in two front pouches I could swap out fast. I'd have multiples prepped so I could grab and go, stick them on and be out the door faster. Super nice when I would have multiple patients and something messy happened, or I'd need to resupply at home. Take care of the prep once a week or so assembly line style and spend less time not getting paid to do work stuff.

    Baby supplies are really similar, and a parent of an infant is going to have similar time issues (for different reasons).

    Modularity is awesome.

  • Call of Daddy

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  • Heh, good one.

    Legit though, I used to have to carry similar supplies (minus the actual diapers and infant) for my job, and it was really hard to find things that were durable, well compartmentalized, had good capacity and could be cleaned relatively easy.

    Towards the end of my working years, that kind of "military inspired" stuff started showing up, and it really did beat the pants off of other options I had been using.

    It was super nice to be able to really organize all the ppe, wipes, gloves, spare pads, etc I had to tote around to patients. Not that nothing else worked, it just didn't work as well.

    I felt like a moron with the whole tacticool vibe, but not enough to switch back lol

  • I told the nurse I was bitten by a wolf

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  • "There, wolf"

  • Call of Daddy

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  • Well, other than it being all tacti-cool in aesthetics, standard baby gear is not as well arranged as what's in the picture.

    That gear in the pic would let you carry the baby stuff with your hands free and able to actually take care of an infant out and about. Waaay better than the usual shoulder sling or backpack options, and absurdly better than the kinds meant to be carried by hand.

    There's a reason surplus gear used to be wildly popular. It was mostly designed to work. It would be better than what you could get outside of a surplus store, even when what you were getting was years out of date and current issue was better. With companies making stuff that's built with stuff like molle in mind, following principles that make what's being carried leave hands free but be reasonably accessible, shit just works better, even though it looks ugly.

    If I'm toting an infant around, I don't need pretty, I need comfortable and capable.

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    Is anyone else having trouble uploading images?

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    Wise words being quoted

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    am I doing this right?

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    am I doing this right?

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    wanna hear a dirty joke?

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    nasa has refused to send ducks into space.

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    ever read the book "the yellow river", by I.P. Daley?

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    whatcha eatin? "chocolate". where'd ya get it? "chicken dropped it"

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    coral!