Ugh, when the food places near my work started recognizing me. Yuck.

What? It’s not even his car, it was a review vehicle provided to him as a car reviewer (his job).

Lol no. Very no. Getting gut shot is a wonderful way to die slowly and in agony.

A new Evangelion series was just announced directed by Yoko Taro. Can’t wait to see what additional batshit trauma he lumps on the characters this go around.

That’s one hell of a story, especially with the little I saw scrolling your profile. Anyway, just wanted to say that a bunch of folks have reverse engineered Lego Island into an open source codebase that they can get running on just about anything now.

You can play it in your web browser even, but it’s a little tough to control on a phone.

Website is isle.pizza

This guy has a super deep voice and has voice acted a lot of these “brother, no” memes quite well, including this one

Fucking tease.

Oh hey, it’s that thing from my last therapy session that hit me like a fucking train because the therapist pointed out correctly that I never grew up feeling this, which is something I’ve never truly acknowledged.

Like I get it logically, but rarely have actually felt it.

Thanks for the reminder friendo.

Always one of the character ones. The others you can get at stores pretty easily. Not as a kid, but still.

It only takes a few taps to go from a meme, video, or picture you’re showing someone to the browser.

Didn’t have smart phones when I went to college, but I had some friends who prided themselves on how fast they could get to browser history on an “unattended” laptop, as in, I turned around to talk to someone else for ~60 seconds.

Also toddlers:

Me: “Why did you just throw your toy? We don’t throw things in the house.”

Toddler: “Because I needed to.”

Me: “Why did you need to?”

Toddler: “I meant it! Hmph.”

Unfortunately a number of my friends from college fell prey to League. A few of them were already dating who they’ve ended up marrying, so I can only assume yes.

The key is that they grew out of it long before 20 freaking 26.

Too late

Oh 100%.

Microsoft claimed ages ago when they made updates effectively mandatory (you can turn them off entirely or delay them by 27 day chunks forever on non-enterprise installs) that they would dynamically detect the times your computer wasn’t actively being used and try to target that, but it never really made a difference besides “aim for when the computer is likely powered off anyway”.

And that still doesn’t hit the basic “is the user presenting in PowerPoint, running a full screen video/program?” sort of common freaking sense stuff you’re talking about.

In some nicer news, Microsoft finally started trying to release some updates as “live updates” that don’t require a reboot late last year. So maybe in a decade they’ll get close to the Linux update experience.

My kind of people. Lesbians, apparently?

At around 22 years old, I met an athletic little stick of a 19 year old lady who hadn’t grown out of her rebellious phase yet. She was into a somewhat rare combination of dad-bod and bad boy, trying to maximize parental upset. Going for the complete opposite of how she appeared at first glance.

A friend in their late 20s had brought the young one along to help pretend they weren’t rounding the corner on 30 themselves. Funny thing is, the 19yo and nearly 30yo had a falling out later when the younger one settled into responsible adulthood before the older one.

Younger one got out from under her parents and settled into responsible (and domestic) adulthood almost immediately, dropping the bad boys and keeping the dad-bod thing. Married pretty quick too, to what looked like a kind snuggly bear of a guy, before I lost touch with her.

Sounds like your IT doesn’t know how to properly orchestrate updates.

Best way to do it in a Windows enterprise environment that I’ve seen so far:

• 1 Week: Install in the background silently and finish when the machine reboots.
• After the week, 2 Days: Warn once that the machine will automatically reboot in 48 hours.
• 12 hours before forced reboot: Pop up a warning in the corner with the countdown before reboot. Options are reboot now or warn me again in X hours. If you dismiss it without selecting, it pops up again in an hour.

If your Windows machine hasn’t rebooted in a week and a half, of course you’re going to have performance issues. What, you expect devs to avoid memory leaks?

That all said, the amount of Windows sysadmins who haven’t entirely given up on wrestling Microsoft’s update bullshittery is shrinking every day.

People doing crazy shit instead of just finding a ladder.

pidgin

God how I miss interoperability. I went to college right as all the disparate chat systems started coalescing into everyone just using Facebook, and it was super useful being able to chat across all the platforms (including FB) from one program

But I need my armpits for THE STINKING