You’ll have to pry my 3.5 mm jack and physical media from my cold, dead fingers.

It’s meant to be shared.

Mrw this mf forgot Dr. Evil

Not me waking up at 3 AM from a nightmare where I died for no fucking reason.

Apparently, I (35M) lent my brother (33M) one of my cars (29Car). I also apparently didn’t tell him which one to take, so he took my '97 Honda that was driving on a wheel with no tire on (the real, non-dream version is sitting on all four tires btw). He was driving our youngest brother (22M) around in it. I thought he’d take something nicer and newer even though literally zero of my three vehicles are as new as his own (7Truck). Anyway, when I saw him in that car, I made him swap with me so I could put the spare on it and get it home.

I was back in my neighborhood suddenly (as in I drove for all of 1.7 seconds), on my way to the tire shop when out of nowhere, a group of nice young gentlemen with shaved heads, no faces, and white t shirts were in the street, aiming firearms at me. I didn’t notice this until it was too late. I stopped the car to avoid hitting them. Then I saw the guns. Then the guns were firing.

Fucking annoying shit. I already had a hell of a time going to sleep. Now I have to be up at 3 AM because I died in my dream. I’m fine, just extremely annoyed.

The sheer number of flammable metals out there is a little scary lol It’s not that many, but it’s more than most people realize.

Living in an oxygen-rich environment has its drawbacks lol

William Osman made the tungsten cube so expensive. It was like $2k when he did his video wrecking shit with it. Now they’re asking $10k for the 3 inch cube.

I respect the hustle, but damn.

Still, the 1 cm model is like $50 and would still be absurdly heavy for its size, even if it only weighs 19¼ grams.

Might be worth it to find yourself a bunch of old incandescent lightbulbs and get the filaments out instead.

Your places of work are providing a coffee machine? Someone was nice enough to buy one for the break room, and everyone who partakes in the break room coffee rotates who buys the next can/bag of it.

We previously had this microwave with 0-9 buttons that set it for a totally arbitrary amount of time. You didn’t enter a number of minutes and seconds and press Start. If you pressed 2, you got 30 seconds. 3 gave you a minute. 4 gave you 3 minutes. None of it made sense.

I sometimes have dreams that I’m eating batteries. Like I’m biting through them like they’re made of cake. And I’m like, “What am I doing? This will kill me! Lol” and then I wake up very confused.

But in a plane? Weeee! I’m in a glider!!

Bonk!

Violet

Huh. I must have missed this book in A Series of Unfortunate Events.

I knew about 5-digit dialing, but never knew people used to dial only 4 digits. That’s pretty neat, and probably made life with a rotary phone much easier than people my age realize.

I’m a younger millennial so it was no big deal to grab the landline and dial 1+10 digits to call my girlfriend long distance in 2009. On a rotary phone, it’d probably have taken til supper just to dial lol

I did find a rotary phone in a box at my great grandmother’s house once and played with it because it was fascinating to me. Then I dialed a random 800 number on it and remarked that it was kinda amazing that so many people bought things over the telephone in the day.

But it’s also why heavily populated areas have certain area codes. These numbers were just faster to dial. For instance:

• 212: Manhattan
• 213: Los Angeles
• 214: Dallas
• 312: Chicago
• 313: Detroit
• 314: St. Louis
• 321: East Central Florida
• 323: Also LA
• 332: Also Manhattan
• 413: Pittsburgh
• 415: San Francisco

Generally, if the area code took less time to dial, odds are it’s an urban code. The emergent pattern is when middle digit is 1 or 2. Like 816 for KCMO or 918 for Tulsa or 416 for Toronto.

And if it featured higher digits or a zero, it was probably rural. Area Code 907 was established in 1957 for almost all of Alaska. That’s 26 total pulses. 906 is for Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and was put into service in 1961 after splitting off from 616, which services Grand Rapids.

Many of the high digit urban area codes were put into use after touch tone dialing became widespread since any number took just as long as any other to dial.

That trick was a real treat.

I’m an at-will employee writing this comment from my desk job. I worked hard for that “achieved greater than expected results” last year, and you bet your whole ass I’m gonna take a few extra poops now if I wanna.

I was trying to put a new SSD in my laptop recently, but it didn’t recognize it. So I figured it needed a firmware update. I figured I could do this in BIOS, but nope! The updater was in .exe format.

Fortunately, I had an old Windows 8 install disc laying around. I had to install Windows 8 for all of 30 minutes to update my BIOS so it would take my new SSD. And it still didn’t work! Well at least the BIOS is as up to date as it can be.

Witch transit safety standards have come a long way since 1137 AD. Despite the smaller size, they are more than capable of supporting and protecting the average witch.*

~*American witches may opt for our enhanced support package.~

Nah, the installer is much more tame than it used to be. I just like to poke fun at ye olden times.

I did make a huge recent mistake by using an NVIDIA GPU on Debian. Every time it updated was playing Russian roulette with “is this gonna break my system and send me into six hours of troubleshooting?” Til I finally said fuck it and swapped it with my brother for his AMD card. And I haven’t had a single issue since.

I like Debian, but NVIDIA drivers just refused to play nice for any extended period of time.

All I know is I survived the Debian installer. But at what cost?

It’s my belief that one day a bunch of nerds way smarter than you or I will figure out how to run Linux on Apple Silicon. As many Macs as there are out in the wild, there has to be a market for this kind of thing once all these Macbooks start becoming e-waste.

Big beautiful woman. A term used by men who prefer a sturdy gal. Like Tom Hanks in Black Jeopardy.