palordrolap

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[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 1 points 16 hours ago

Actually yes, but I didn't expect they'd go down the same avenues with the Pi.

I actually considered getting one of the computer-in-keyboard versions precisely because I'm of that same generation, but I couldn't justify the expense.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 3 points 18 hours ago

If you have more accessible money right now than the poorest person in your country would ever need to survive to the age of country's life expectancy, then you have too much money.

If you think of: the maximum fines leviable by your government for committing a crime; as mere inconvenience - rather than a life-ruining financial burden - then you also have too much money. (Weird punctuation for easier parsing).

These two things may not be mutually exclusive.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 2 points 18 hours ago

Given the Alpha ideology's interpretation of Alpha and Beta, I once quipped that I'm a Gamma male and owning it, but having had a long while to think about it, that might get me confused with The Incredible Hulk. And since I'm too old for sticking my arms out horizontally and saying things like "neeyowm", pretending to be a Delta is out of the question too.

Behold, I am Epsilon male. Do not perceive me.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 0 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Edit: It has come to my attention that it isn't actually the people behind the Pi doing this. I really should read more rather than jumping to conclusions. There's a few obvious rewrites I could make, but I think the prediction at the end is still valid even if the route I took wasn't the right one.

This would appear to indicate that someone in charge of product design at Pi HQ is a Gen X-er or Boomer desperate to relive computing history through their own products.

Computer on a board. Bigger computer on a board. Computer entirely within a keyboard.

And now a computer in a PC-like case.

Prediction: The next step will be some kind of ARM-based cloud service.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

Well, I have a bunch of stuff around here that serves no real purpose that I'm otherwise sentimentally attached to or think might be useful some day, but I'm not sure I have many duplicates, even loosely speaking.

The best(?) example is probably the fact I have 3 CRT TVs, none of which I use regularly. One is the main house TV but, since I don't use it much, I've never felt the need to upgrade it. The other two are portables that I'm keeping for if I ever get back into 8-bit computers.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 7 points 1 day ago

Relevant

^ The link above goes to...a video of a BBC reporter trying to report on drugs being destroyed by burning but he's a little too close to all that smoke...

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

The last time I decided to lose weight, I basically cut out all sweet things after meals and avoided regular snacking. It took a while to get used to not having those things (he said, with enormous understatement) but nowhere near as long as it did to lose the weight, so the good habits did lock in for a while, and the weight did eventually come off.

I allowed myself low calorie drinks whenever. The more water in them, the better. Tea with sweetener not sugar is my usual poison, but I switch it up with squash depending on mood and time of day.

A change in medication and slow fall back into old habits has got the BMI back over 25 again, so I intend to employ the same tactics again in the new year. Once all the Christmas snacks I've been bought are gone, anyway. *cough*

If I wasn't snacking and still needed to lose weight, I'd probably try reducing my portion sizes. One less potato. Smaller chops. One less sausage. etc. but I can't vouch for that because I've never needed to go that far.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

"Uncle Grandma"

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago

Someone who thinks that it'll be easier or more efficient to wring out if it's 1.4 times as long. And who has a bad memory. And who thinks the first two times were surely a fluke.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 30 points 2 days ago

The eyes of the Cryptkeeper puppet in the TV series Tales from the Crypt are the same two eyeballs that were used for Chucky, the doll from Child's Play.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I wash them whenever I've dirtied enough for a full load, and if I don't, I'll often throw the bathroom mats in there with them. Frankly though, still nowhere near often enough. If they pass the sniff and squint tests (smell and look fine), I'm usually OK using them again. And again.

There was already a towel wash pencilled in for this week or next, oddly enough, before this question showed up, or else it might have shamed me into considering it. Other laundry is first in the queue though.

As for throwing them out? Never had need in the 20+ years I've had my own towels, and some of those were hand-me-downs.

I remember one particularly large brown bath towel starting to fall apart at my parents' house long before I moved out, and I still kind of miss it, which is kind of funny.

Now, washcloths made of towelling material - I've ruined a fair few of those with careless wringing. PSA: Don't fold them diagonally before wringing them out.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 43 points 5 days ago

Russia are never going to agree to this...

Russia won't agree to anything that isn't the complete capitulation of Ukraine and Zelenskyy being replaced with a Russia-friendly ~~puppet~~ leader.

Having a plan out there in public isn't just about the plan, it's also a message to Russia that Ukraine (and Zelenskyy) aren't making it up as they go along and that this is what they intend to do if the Russians don't ~~idit' na h-y~~ go home.

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