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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Yeah, that’s another form factor for it.

    But a sticker or magnet version of it means it can be stuck on cars, lamp posts, walls, fridges, etc. I haven’t put anything at all on my car since about 2004. But I would have at least one of these on all sides

    It’s a victimless crime. Even his family hates him. The only people not begging for him to die are the totally out to lunch conservatives who aren’t plugged in beyond “vote R guy blue person bad”, and the other rich people.

    And both sets of people I hate, so I really don’t care even if they get literal, actual trauma from it. I would gladly traumatize both of those sets. Forget trying to get them to be woke, I want them to live shook. Up to and including total mental shutdown.

    Note: I’m aware that I’m crazy overestimating what this is capable of. But it’s intentional for expression’s sake.





  • My immediate reaction to seeing this title was split between happy AF “oh maybe he thinks he won’t make it to 80” and then “but what is he saving for that birthday?”

    I have never honestly, purely, maliciously, and actively wished death on somebody currently alive (I’ve done it before for certain people to happen right before they did “the thing” they did) than I do now about him. Well, them. Him and the co-president.

    And for once I feel no moral uncertainty in hoping it is the most terrifying, embarrassing, humiliating, depressing, public, well-captured (for historical purposes of course), and agonizing things ever experienced by a single human. By a huge amount.

    Hitler may have tortured 6 million, but Trump is making 300 some million lives worse. Significantly worse. And if we end up in a war, then 100% of those deaths will be directly attributable to him, as will all the LGBT people that harm themselves under his reign.




  • I’m not a kid (see my other replies in this thread lol), but I’ve never had to use PDFs for much at all. The closest I’ve ever been to editing one is clicking a box to draw a signature or check a checkbox.

    So I’ve gotta ask. Why would one need to rotate a PDF? They would be made on a computer, and naturally default to the correct orientation, no? I can’t imagine why one would ever be sideways.


  • My younger brother will not flinch when talking about playing a first person game, (he says it for every game though) he will say a controller is superior.

    Now I understand that there is a lot of wiggle room to debate the “best” input method, but I will die on the hill about a mouse being the best (and maybe best possible) input for look/aiming in a first person sense.

    The left hand could use an analog input for sure, but digital movement is so rarely an issue it didn’t matter a whole lot.

    I will go as far as to throw him a bone and say that controllers are probably the best for something like a platformer (his genre of choice), or a racing game, or in some cases, 3rd person action. I will typically use Rocket League as an example of that, because that game is one of the few that analog movement is much, muuuch more important than analog camera control.

    But keyboard and mouse is so widely usable for (and so often a clear front runner) that I have to dunk on him every time he shits on kb+m.

    But then I think about my coming up learning and using computers, and our built in familiarity with kb+m, whereas these days, these scrubs are using touchscreens almost exclusively, and a keyboard just looks ancient right off the bat. And of course anything that “old people” use is definitely just totally obsolete and gross as soon as something else comes out.

    So I give him consideration in that regard, but it saddens me that he won’t think critically enough to understand the differences, and is not thinking about it. His brain is very literally saying “old way bad, new way good”.

    He’s still too young, but damn the communication barrier is frustrating.


  • Tablets… in use at 2nd grade…

    Damn. I know whether to call you a baby or call myself a geezer anymore.

    The Internet itself didn’t even become widely available until I was in 4th grade or so. Windows 95 was only a year old when I got my very first access to any computing device beyond a very simple calculator.

    Being “online” wasn’t a permanent status, it only applies for as long as you were allowed to tie up a phone line.

    I could say more, but you’ve heard a bunch of back in my days already probably.


  • I got used to looking for registry tweaks, but I don’t even know what to call it exactly.

    The closest I’ve got is: A place for accessing hidden settings in Windows. I’ve made a couple typos in there and nuked an install or two of XP, but I never really changed much personally. Just kinda looked up various ways people would use it to accomplish x, y, or z, out of curiosity.

    I don’t have to deal with it anymore at least.





  • I feel like I (and probably a lot people now) don’t have a clue what most of their emails are. I don’t subscribe to anything anymore. I have no reason to routinely check it.

    It’s just where receipts and account management messages (verification codes, click here to finish logging in type stuff), along with automated reminders of activities that have happened it need to happen. I haven’t checked email that wasn’t a log in thing for a very long time. And even then it was probably to check a record of some sort.

    It used to be used as a primary communication protocol, now it’s just the account you need to have to make an account on what you’ll actually use.

    Has anyone used it intentionally for anything more than that in the last 10 years? Personal email I mean, not for work email.