SirSamuel

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SirSamuel ,

Oh the feelin/
On a voice of betters yeah/
And i said/
I wanna be dead again

I don't know what your problem is. Yellow Ledbetter is totally understandable

SirSamuel ,

I've found Grayjay helps me hate YouTube less

SirSamuel ,

I'll take both

Why are we getting weird and territorial about cheese and pasta?

SirSamuel ,

Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown Lemmy

SirSamuel ,

That could be Mama. Nests are not the safest place for fledglings, so mom or dad will push them out of the nest, but they are not abandoned. (Predators can find a nest easier than an able-bodied fledgling).

I once rescued a baby chickadee from a neighborhood cat that was stalking it. The parents were going nuts in the tree above, so i set the little bugger in a yew bush and took the cat away and gave it treats. Everyone was happy that day

HP bricks ProBook laptops with bad BIOS delivered via automatic updates — many users face black screen after Windows pushes new firmware ( www.tomshardware.com )

On May 26, a user on HP's support forums reported that a forced, automatic BIOS update had bricked their HP ProBook 455 G7 into an unusable state. Subsequently, other users have joined the thread to sound off about experiencing the same issue....

SirSamuel ,

If i knew of any execs near where i live they would be getting a front row seat to my reenactment of the Office Space printer scene.

It's rare for me to viscerally hate someone just for existing, but if i met an HP exec I would have to exert quite a bit of self control to not beat them until I lost feeling in my hands

SirSamuel ,

Ray Belli is amazing and I've failed to learn so many things from his podcast because as soon as he starts speaking my mind wanders. It's like the audio version of reading the same paragraph four times because my brain decides to think about something else while my eyes move across the page

SirSamuel ,

TBH, smaller communities with more engagement is better IMO. If you don't get in early there's no chance to do more than passively comment and get no reply. If I'm going to engage in conversation I'd like at least a little back and forth. Where the lack of volume really is felt is in niche subjects

Dunno where I'm going with this, but your point is valid. I just kinda like the small web feel. Reminds me of early Internet days

SirSamuel ,

Are you kidding? I didn't handle things maturely at 23! But hey! thanks for getting me to think about aaaaaallllllllllllllllll of my embarrassing childhood memories. Funny how there's so few good memories, but loads of embarrassing ones

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'Star Trek' Franchise Reboot: Simon Kinberg Eyed for Paramount Movie

So now this just sounds like a Trek prequel, not specifically a Kelvin prequel.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/star-trek-movie-franchise-reboot-paramount-1235904930/

@startrek

SirSamuel ,
SirSamuel ,

Your posts, maybe. Apparently I've been shadow banned

I don't even know what the offensive post was, there's zero communication. I only post on my local city subreddit and one directly related to my trade, so whatever i guess. It was a good site for a while

SirSamuel ,

I had one like that a while back. I'd heard the song on Pandora a few times and liked it, but it was just background music while i was working. The tune was catchy, but I couldn't remember the lyrics at all. I tried humming it into sound hound and stuff, but to no avail.

Finally my wife was playing Pandora when I came home from work and it was on.

Welcome Home, Son - Radical Face

Back in the late nineties I had the reverse problem. I heard a cover of Bakers Street by the Foo Fighters on an independent radio station. I knew it was from a Japanese version of The Colour and the Shape, but no one had the CD. (Actually it was the UK version of the single My Hero, but either I misheard or the DJ was wrong. No wonder I couldn't find it.) Then, Napster happened. I've still got that song somewhere on an old HDD, in all its 128 Kbps glory

SirSamuel ,

I definitely read this in their voices

"And remember kids! Yakko spelled backwards is Okkay"

SirSamuel ,

I'll be having a slightly modified Old Fashion:

  • Bourbon
  • Muddled Bourbon
  • A dash of bourbon
  • Garnished with bourbon

I'll make mine a double

SirSamuel ,

+1 for accuracy, thank you

Related to fall protection training, this might be a practical demonstration of the extension length of different types of lanyards (the "rope" that secures the body harness to the anchor point) using weighted dummies. Some lanyards will stretch a few inches, some several feet. Their use varies depending on total fall height, anchor points, work space requirements, really a lot of different factors. But use the wrong one and you'll wind up with broken legs and a wedgie instead of a safety report and buying beers for your coworkers.

I doubt that's what's being demonstrated here, but it's a possibility

Edit: turtle loving duck, just to be clear, i was mansplaining for the masses. You clearly have a firm grasp of fall protection

SirSamuel ,

And it wasn't a proprietary storage card? They didn't invent their own headphone jack that only works with Sony headphones? Amazing. It's like a whole new company!

If you can't tell, I'm still salty about aaaaaallllllllllllllllll the shit they pulled in the 90s/00s. Nothing like buying an mp3 player with money I should've been spending more responsibly and then learning I could only use Sony brand storage cards. Cards that cost twice as much for the same storage space. I bought my Xbox and dropped PlayStation solely because of those shenanigans.

If, in twenty years, HP makes the only computer that doesn't give you literal AIDS I still won't buy one. And i feel the same about Sony today

SirSamuel ,

Dude I went straight back to J&R on Park Row and returned that thing. I had SD cards from my camera that I planned to use, and didn't ask about storage at the store (mistakes of youth lol). I eventually got a Zen (30Gb!) a year or two later. What a tank!

SirSamuel ,

member digital cameras being 4 megapixel and that was amazing?

member Nokias being bullet proof?

member Nextel push to talk?

member downloading albums on limewire using the coffee shop's Wi-Fi across the street, cobbling together a Can-tenna using a coke can cut up with a utility knife for a better signal?

member waiting for Penny Arcade to load like one line at a time because everyone was using the free Wi-Fi from the coffee shop?

member file sharing using mp3 discs with everyone on your floor?

i member

SirSamuel ,

My institutional memories prevent me from buying Sony

When the PS4 came out and my old friends were clamoring over it i thought, "In 2003, we swore 'never again'. In 2013, we broke that promise."

But i NEVER DID
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fa84f561-71bc-49ed-83b1-3fd17f1ca797.gif

SirSamuel ,

TBH I didn't feel that strongly, but I could not resist channeling BLM

That analogy works for many things these days

SirSamuel ,

This is a fascinating analysis of culture and religion of origin and it's influence on scientific views. I also admire your rigorous skepticism, but I have a question:

Why, for the love of Om, did you used emojis like you did?

SirSamuel ,

The FAA investigates after Boeing says workers in South Carolina falsified 787 inspection records ( apnews.com )

The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday, May 6, 2024, that it has opened an investigation into Boeing after the beleaguered company reported that workers at a South Carolina plant falsified inspection records on certain 787 planes. Boeing said its engineers have determined that misconduct did not create “an immediate...

SirSamuel ,

It's the plane number

The number of falsified reports is much higher

(If anyone asks for receipts, you should know this is sarcasm and a joke)

SirSamuel ,

Amazing, thank you

Google sued by US artists over AI image generator ( www.reuters.com )

April 29 (Reuters) - Google has been hit with a new copyright lawsuit in California federal court by a group of visual artists who claimed the Alphabet unit used their work without permission to train Imagen, its artificial-intelligence powered image generator....

SirSamuel ,

First, yet another reason to love Sarah Anderson, she is a delight.

Second, why are there two spurious ", opens new tab" expressions within the text above?

SirSamuel ,

Hey you did more than I did, you actually posted something of substance

I'm just amazed someone can up and push submit without obsessively reviewing every word and punctuation five times first. Must be nice

SirSamuel ,

I don't dislike most animals. I love all of God's creatures… sometimes with barbeque sauce. Except chihuahuas, screw those guys

In all seriousness though, aside from the bitey and parasitic insects I enjoy animals for what they are. The only reason I dislike chihuahuas is their behavior within the realm of a domesticated animal. However, just like a small child that will kick you in the shins, punch you in the nuts, and scream until they get what they want, I've found with chihuahuas that punting them into a wall just once usually solves the problem.

My wife on the other hand does not like larger birds. She thinks chickens, ducks, and geese "look weird" and "shouldn't be able to stand up, shaped like that". She does, however, like them with barbeque sauce.

SirSamuel ,

I wish I could find the original quote, but Sam Vimes, in one of Terry Pratchett's books, says something to the effect of "being one of nature's pedestrians. Never trust anything that looks at you with its teeth"

SirSamuel ,

Yep, badly behaved children. To be clear, i wouldn't punt a chihuahua… unless it was actively biting me. Just like a goose. Or a toddler

Does color change how hot a laser can get something?

For convenience sake let's say you have 2 identical lasers, one is blue and one is red. And you shine it on lead (so none of the light leaks through) until the lead doesn't heat up anymore. Would the temperature change at all between the different color lasers. It doesn't have to be red or blue, it could be microwave or x ray,...

SirSamuel ,

Oh I have a question! Do all frequencies on the EM spectrum emit photons? Like, when gamma rays or X rays or microwaves hit something are photons bouncing off/being absorbed and we just can't see them?

SirSamuel ,

Ooh neat! Thank you, very well described for a layman such as myself

SirSamuel ,

This song is really silly but i feel like it's the quintessential Midwestern road trip in song form

https://youtu.be/kD6DBxIobz4

Be warned, it's folk music, which means it's catchy, in it's own way

SirSamuel ,

There's a German style brewery in Columbus, Ohio that sells black shirts with red block lettering that say "Helles Real" and I think it's the best thing ever

SirSamuel ,

r/locksmith

r/lockshop

r/[local area]

r/sw5e

These communities either don't exist or don't have critical mass here.

And if you recommend Discord as an alternative, it's not the same

Also: Search results that take me to Reddit threads with actual answers

SirSamuel ,

Right!? gO To oUr DiScOrD. Like bitch please, I've got ADHD, i will never find what i need in a discord chat

SirSamuel ,

This is highly pedantic, and i apologize for doing this. However, I can't leave this alone

It's lose

Personally I blame Gboard

SirSamuel ,

Speaking of giggles keyboard getting worse

I think I'll just leave whatever that's gives me instead of correcting the dumb mistakes it makes. This will make things confusing, but possibly entertaining as well. It send to be doing well, but theirs another mistake, and another. Oh well, I'm going to get back to installing graphene of on my old pixel

Oddly enough, there are no randomly capitalized words this time

SirSamuel ,

You loost me there lol

SirSamuel ,

Will it make it easier to type out or sweetie swipe again? I'm so tired of having to edit every other word in a text or email. I'm On the other hand, much as Disney motivated me to finally investigate and implement a mass NAS box, Alphabet is finally motivating me to look into Graphene OS. And Microsoft, with it's Windows 11 socket dickery, has me moving toward a Linux distro.

Btw, any suggestions on a distro that let's Nvidia work out of the box, runs down Steam easily, and would allow me to use MS365 for work stuff without arguing to too much?

SirSamuel ,

Yeah I'll likely do a VM for 365. How does steam do on those distros? Or more specifically, how do BG3, Cyberpunk 2077, and RDR2 hold up? I'd just like to know how much wrestling I'm facing here

SirSamuel ,
SirSamuel ,

I have a friend that works with a rescue group in Colorado, almost exclusively for cattle dogs. They rescue and re-home the dogs for a variety of reasons. The most prevalent is the dog can't work anymore and will be put down. That's it. It got too old and is consuming resources without producing.

I'm not saying all farmers and ranchers are like this, but the mentality certainly exists. These people see certain life as a commodity only, and it often extends to cruelty to "lower life". It's even at the root of calling people who aren't in their tribe "lower life", and devaluing them accordingly

SirSamuel ,

I know you're joking, but

Natural regeneration, devoid of magic, requires more calories than the severed limb will provide. The ring of regeneration creates new flesh via magic, bypassing the rules of physics

SirSamuel ,

For reference for those using freedom units that's roughly 60 mph in a 20 mph zone

Bonus. In eagle burger land that will either land you:

  • $200 fine and 2 points on your license (varies on state)

  • shot in the face (dwb and reaching for a gun wallet)

  • nothing (hello fellow patrolman, have a great day killing pet dogs)

Source: I'm a red-blooded freedom loving eagle burger citizen

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