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More running around in outside land today. Now I have matching blisters on both heels because my comfy shoes had a sudden total existence failure and I had to grab the last spare pair that I never wore because they don't fit.

Ouch.

Had to get one more document certified for the new house before settlement which is fine except that -
My mobile phone was set to be cancelled on the day of settlement for the new house - tomorrow - because my provider is changing networks and hates having customers, and I couldn't log in to the portal to activate the new SIM because the SMS confirmation was disappearing into the ether and they have no way to confirm anything except sending you an SMS.

So that was fun.
Also still working 14 hours a day.
And while I was out in the outside without a laptop one of my servers fell over.
While I was out I passed two random guys in the street discussing the Luna / Terra collapse - and actually getting the facts right.
Twitter's unspoken corporate motto: Commie as fuck. (Daily Mail)

Project Veritas doing the dirty work of actually reporting the news again.
'You know, our jobs are at stake,' he said. 'He's a capitalist and we weren't really operating as capitalists, more like very socialist. Like we're all commie as f***.'
Yes, we know.

Tech News

Need a desktop cluster of ARM compute modules? Yes? Why?

Anyway, here you go. (Kickstarter)

You can plug in a variety of modules via adaptors, including the Raspberry Pi 4 Compute Module and Nvidia's Jetson AI boards, and you get shared HDMI, USB, Ethernet, SATA, USB, and two mini PCIe slots.

Obviously someone wants this thing because the project funded in three minutes.
Which Linux desktop is the easiest for new users? (ZDNet)

It doesn't matter because there's 21 to choose from and they're all the same. (The Register)

Actually not quite; the first article talks about desktop distributions - they recommend Mint and Kubuntu - and the second is talking about individual desktop environments.

Just use Mint, probably.
Hong Kong is planning to block messaging app Telegram as part of a broader plan to block messenger app Telegram. (IBTimes)

I guess if you want to block messenger app Telegram, that's the way to go about it.
Demand has dropped like a rock says Chinese chipmaker SMIC. (Nikkei)
"Many smartphone, PC and home appliance companies had exposure in Russia and Ukraine, and their revenues [from those markets> are now gone. Sales in their home market [of China] have also fallen due to the COVID situation domestically," Zhao said.

Demand for consumer electronics "dropped like a rock, very seriously," the executive said. "Some of our customers are holding more than five months of that type of inventory."
SMIC's own factories are still running at 100%, producing chips for other markets that are still in short supply - unglamorous but essential stuff like power management chips and embedded microcontrollers.

The cause of the sudden market collapse is easy to identify, and since the CCP isn't going anywhere, is only likely to get worse for China.
The Pentagon has vowed to get to the bottom of UFO sightings. (Reuters)

That's actually pretty simple. They're not real.
UAPs are unexplained, it's true. But they are real.
Horseshit.
Small Android phone. (SmallAndroidPhone)

Disclaimer: Contains no small Android phone.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:55 AM

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1 Good evening Pixy
Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at May 18, 2022 04:56 AM (2JoB8)

2 Morning Skip

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 18, 2022 04:57 AM (MqQvv)

3 hiya

Posted by: JT at May 18, 2022 04:59 AM (arJlL)

4 Mornin' again, all

Hang in there Pixy! Moving sucks.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at May 18, 2022 05:00 AM (Vy4Nx)

5 yay

Posted by: m at May 18, 2022 05:03 AM (QcU9m)

6 Heading out. Make it a good day, all

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at May 18, 2022 05:07 AM (Vy4Nx)

7 >>>I had to grab the last spare pair that I never wore because they don't fit

What, no Crocs?

Posted by: m at May 18, 2022 05:07 AM (QcU9m)

8 What's the Luna/Terra collapse? Were we at war with a secret moon base and I missed it?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at May 18, 2022 05:10 AM (Dc2NZ)

9 "UAPs are unexplained, it's true. But they are real."
"That's actually pretty simple. They're not real."

Pixy doesn't want to believe.

Posted by: FOX News at May 18, 2022 05:11 AM (qH6FZ)

10 >>>While I was out I passed two random guys in the street discussing the Luna / Terra collapse - and actually getting the facts right

Maybe they are Pixy-readers.

Posted by: m at May 18, 2022 05:11 AM (QcU9m)

11 -Off stupid FOX News sock

Posted by: lowandslow at May 18, 2022 05:12 AM (qH6FZ)

12 Might have a solution to my 5/8 copper fitting issue, because they make them but no one has one.
Measuring figured out the inside if a 3/4 pipe works as well so made a sleave with that and have plenty of 3/4 to 1/2 reducers on hand. It's all together but haven't soldered the joints as grabbed 4 new leads for bathroom sinks and 2 are wrong and they are connected to these new lines.

Posted by: Skip at May 18, 2022 05:12 AM (2JoB8)

13 >> Pixy doesn't want to believe.

He's with the MiBs

Posted by: Agent Mulder at May 18, 2022 05:12 AM (Mzdiz)

14
I want Moon Maidens. So far, I don't see any Moon Maidens. Where are the Moon Maidens?

Posted by: Agent Mulder at May 18, 2022 05:13 AM (Mzdiz)

15 8 What's the Luna/Terra collapse? Were we at war with a secret moon base and I missed it?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at May 18, 2022 05:10 AM (Dc2NZ)

Featured in Monday's tech thread:

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=399140

Posted by: m at May 18, 2022 05:15 AM (QcU9m)

16
Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Posted by: Agent Mulder at May 18, 2022 05:17 AM (Mzdiz)

17 Crash shatter tinkle tinkle.

Oh good, one less thing to pack.

(I bought a new dinner set for the new house anyway.)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 18, 2022 05:17 AM (MqQvv)

18 enter

Posted by: DB at May 18, 2022 05:17 AM (geLO8)

19 Realizing I'm using a home built 10 year old computer with a early I-7, its still preforming very well. Can't upgrade to Wind 11 but who cares. I have a 2 year home built ADM which can be upgraded, but not in any hurry. Anyone else not rushing into Win 11?

Posted by: Colin at May 18, 2022 05:18 AM (YVx1O)

20 Benford's Commentary on Clarke's Law: Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 18, 2022 05:18 AM (MqQvv)

21 17 Crash shatter tinkle tinkle.
Oh good, one less thing to pack.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 18, 2022 05:17 AM (MqQvv)

It is a robust way of looking at the world.

Posted by: m at May 18, 2022 05:18 AM (QcU9m)

22
Some variations of Clarke's Third Law:

Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

Any sufficiently advanced crappy research is indistinguishable from fraud.

Any sufficiently advanced play is indistinguishable from work.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 18, 2022 05:20 AM (Mzdiz)

23 8 What's the Luna/Terra collapse? Were we at war with a secret moon base and I missed it?

Probably that too.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 18, 2022 05:21 AM (MqQvv)

24 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 18, 2022 05:21 AM (ju2Fy)

25 updates on Terra (UST) Powered by LUNA will be posted here:

https://nitter.net/terra_money

Posted by: m at May 18, 2022 05:21 AM (QcU9m)

26 For anyone coming along before JJ shows up the Pa Senate race for Republicans is too close to call between Oz and McCormick.

Posted by: Skip at May 18, 2022 05:22 AM (2JoB8)

27 Barnette's apparent third-place finish might be at least a word of warning to the GOPe top two finishers that a substantial subset of PA Republican voters are not happy about them.

Posted by: m at May 18, 2022 05:25 AM (QcU9m)

28
Clarke's First Law: When a distinguished, elderly scientist says something is possible, he almost certainly right. When he says something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong.

Second Law: The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go past them into the realm of the impossible.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 18, 2022 05:25 AM (Mzdiz)

29 repeating from the ONT:

CNN (94% in)
Oz 31.3% 411,541
McCormick 31.1% 408,855
Barnette 24.8% 325,414

https://tinyurl.com/5xvr23b3

Posted by: m at May 18, 2022 05:26 AM (QcU9m)

30 The numbers have changed a bit in updates; same percentages.

Posted by: m at May 18, 2022 05:32 AM (QcU9m)

31 m this one is, will not fill out the oval for Oz in November if it comes to it

Posted by: Skip at May 18, 2022 05:35 AM (2JoB8)

32 Another variation:

Any sufficiently advanced satire or parody is indistinguishable from from a troll or kook.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 18, 2022 05:38 AM (Mzdiz)

33 I have a new-to-me Lenovo laptop with 16GB of memory and 2 hard drives. I installed OpenOffice instead of MS products, IrfanView instead of Photos, and VLC Media Player instead of MS's product. The thing runs beautifully on Win 10, but I am not using it to surf the Web or access email. Still I wonder: Would it be worth my while to change the OS to Linux? If I went to Linux Mint (I like the name), would I notice any difference?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 18, 2022 05:44 AM (c6xtn)

34 Another Q about Linux: Will the Brave Browser run on it without issues?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 18, 2022 05:47 AM (c6xtn)

35 Zorin OS is by far the best Linux Os for newbies.

Id also say Rasbian is quite good as there is a massive community behind it.

For instance, if you wanted to build a LAMP server, you can find dozens of step by step tutorials on how to do it specifically for Raspbian.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 18, 2022 05:48 AM (C4moP)

36 word of warning to the GOPe top two finishers that a substantial subset of PA Republican voters are not happy about them.
Posted by: m at May 18, 2022 05:25 AM (QcU9m)

To be completely ignored.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 18, 2022 05:49 AM (rB9IZ)

37 https://www.americanthinker.com/who cares what the WHO says
https://tinyurl.com/hb7apk5w

First article I read that at least thinks the new WHO regulations don't have complete ruling over the US laws, but does agree the WHO is not to be trusted.

Posted by: Skip at May 18, 2022 05:50 AM (2JoB8)

38 The Linux home page says that I can keep Windows if I want -- that when I start the computer, it will ask me which I want to use. And also that I can run Linux from a USB stick. Anybody done those things?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 18, 2022 05:50 AM (c6xtn)

39 33 I have a new-to-me Lenovo laptop with 16GB of memory and 2 hard drives. I installed OpenOffice instead of MS products, IrfanView instead of Photos, and VLC Media Player instead of MS's product. The thing runs beautifully on Win 10, but I am not using it to surf the Web or access email. Still I wonder: Would it be worth my while to change the OS to Linux? If I went to Linux Mint (I like the name), would I notice any difference?

Windows 10 with 16GB of RAM runs pretty well unless your using Photoshop or never bother to close your browser tabs. With less memory Linux would show advantages over Windows.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 18, 2022 05:50 AM (MqQvv)

40 25 updates on Terra (UST) Powered by LUNA will be posted here:

https://nitter.net/terra_money
Posted by: m at May 18, 2022 05:21 AM (QcU9m)

At that nitter.net feed, there's this disclaimer:

"All updates will be posted on ... @terra_money. Any other ... accounts purporting to represent Terra are fake."

And I thought, "I buy that." And then I thought, "Well, what WOULD a disclaimer on a fake site say?"

Posted by: m at May 18, 2022 05:50 AM (QcU9m)

41 Oops

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 18, 2022 05:50 AM (MqQvv)

42
Might have a solution to my 5/8 copper fitting issue, because they make them but no one has one.
Posted by: Skip at May 18, 2022 05:12 AM

I have a similar issue and decided the thing to do is solder a half inch copper pipe INSIDE of the 5/8" brass pipe. D'uh. Only took me a week to figure that out. Now I have to find a fitting to reduce it down to a 3/8" male and I'm good.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 18, 2022 05:51 AM (dQvv7)

43 Mr. Pixy, Mr. Pixy. Calling Mr. Pixy to the barrel, please.

Posted by: m at May 18, 2022 05:53 AM (QcU9m)

44 43 Mr. Pixy, Mr. Pixy. Calling Mr. Pixy to the barrel, please.
Posted by: m at May 18, 2022 05:53 AM (QcU9m)

I don't know how you're going to account for your absence from work.

Posted by: m at May 18, 2022 05:55 AM (QcU9m)

45 Good morning morons

People at twitter are commie as f*ck because they can afford to be, are so insulated they do not see the decay and destruction surrounding them, and so alienated they think its swell.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 18, 2022 05:59 AM (EZebt)

46 3/8 should be easy to find, think that's what I have a few of for a soft copper pipe roll I have in stock.

Better hit road, late start and closer today, but just 1 day at this job.

Posted by: Skip at May 18, 2022 06:00 AM (2JoB8)

47 Pixy went OUTSIDE again? Hasn't he read any of AtC's rants about outside always trying to kill you?

Heck, in AU, even the earthworms are armed with deadly fangs and a self destruct mode that covers 5 meters in radius.

Never leave home without a bomb disposal expert at your side.

Morning, y'all. In before Wolfus whines about Gulf Coast temps for the next 100 days in a row.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 18, 2022 06:01 AM (F0YaR)

48 >>>More running around in outside land today.

Keep an eye out for the dropbears.

Posted by: m at May 18, 2022 06:02 AM (QcU9m)

49 >> The Linux home page says that I can keep Windows if I want -- that when I start the computer, it will ask me which I want to use.

That's true, if everything works correctly. The complications are complex, and the vagaries arcane. GRUB, the current linux bootloader of choice must load itself in the master boot record of the BIOS hard disk. If GPT and UEFI firmware, it's a bit different.

Your hard disk has to be partitioned correctly. There are more vagaries here that can be explained. If something goes wrong, you can be quite fucked. Recovery from fuckage requires some knowledge of these vagaries.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 18, 2022 06:03 AM (Mzdiz)

50 48 >>>More running around in outside land today.

Keep an eye out for the dropbears.
Posted by: m at May 18, 2022 06:02 AM (QcU9m)

... lest they hurt themselves when they drop on you.

Posted by: m at May 18, 2022 06:03 AM (QcU9m)

51 The answer to finding hardware and plumbing fittings you used to be able to find at any hardware store is just a click away, McMaster-Carr.

Posted by: lowandslow at May 18, 2022 06:04 AM (qH6FZ)

52 People at twitter are commie as f*ck because they can afford to be...
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 18, 2022 05:59 AM (EZebt)

Yes. Also because they're historically ignorant, educationally indoctrinated, and insanely conceited.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 18, 2022 06:05 AM (rB9IZ)

53 Can we conclude that NC still has standards by bouncing perv Cawthorne and Pennsylvania, at least on the Dem side, has concluded brain function may be optional for the Senate?

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at May 18, 2022 06:06 AM (oWBc3)

54 17 Crash shatter tinkle tinkle.
Oh good, one less thing to pack.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 18, 2022 05:17 AM (MqQvv)

I figure if Pixy were to sell all his 'obsolete' equipment, he could solve 1/4 of the world's semiconducter shortage. He probably has a couple of unopened crates of 10 mb hard drives that he was saving for 'hard times'.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 18, 2022 06:07 AM (F0YaR)

55
From my old system, I did not GRUB install itself to the MBR. I used GRUB for DOS, which can appear as a entry in the Windows 7+ Boot menu.

On my new system here, which is UEFI, I have a number of hard disks. I set up Linux, bare metal install of Fedora, to use the UEFI boot system. It coexists nicely with Windows UEFI boot loader. I have two GPT hard disks, and let the default be Linux on one, and Windows on the other. Simply choosing BIOS boot options let me choose between the two.

Again, the defaults will work under normal circumstances and allow you to dual (or more) boot, but the complications are quite complex. If things are exactly kosher on you system, things can go awry, and you need to know the devilish details of this.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 18, 2022 06:08 AM (Mzdiz)

56 Anyone else not rushing into Win 11?
Posted by: Colin at May 18, 2022 05:18 AM (YVx1O)

I'll still not be rushing into win11 in five years or so.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at May 18, 2022 06:09 AM (1DgE4)

57 Allowing Joe to go to Buffalo was a bad idea. He looks (as he is) like a hypocrite for choosing "this one", people get that mental illness trumps politics, mass shootings actually indicate a need for more, not less, armed citizens and more than half the country doesn't give a flying eff what he thinks anyway.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at May 18, 2022 06:11 AM (oWBc3)

58 I'm sorry Cawthorne lost. Trump liked him and the GOPe hated him. Good enough for me.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 18, 2022 06:12 AM (rB9IZ)

59 @58

If you go on over to National Review, their top three stories are end zone dances about Cawthorne losing.

I think that tells you all you need to know about what was at play in this particular race.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 18, 2022 06:16 AM (C4moP)

60
I'm 2/3rds of the way back to home and staying at sister's house in Lower Michigan. I obtained the cargo van for the remainder of the journey yesterday and we disentangled our stuff as we unpacked the trailer in which we hauled it from Mom's place in Upper Michigan. I'm trying to coordinate efforts to unwind and distribute other proceeds from Mom's estate while here by writing letters to all and sundry who were involved with her banking, accounting and taxes. What fun ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at May 18, 2022 06:17 AM (xKFcT)

61 Last night, I successfully installed a new Samsung 32" monitor to my laptop. $220 pus tax. I installed it by lighting incense sticks and invoking Cthulhu; fuck yeah it worked.

I think I got this tech shit figured out.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 18, 2022 06:18 AM (F0YaR)

62
BTW, Windows does not like, and refuses to coexist with other OS boot loaders. All across the board. In UEFI systems, with Windows, trying to install Linux, you've got let GRUB be the default, which can then hand over to the Windows boot loader if you choose. Windows UEFI bootloader doesn't play nice, and doesn't hand over to another, only loading Windows.

On MBR systems, it's the same, but much more complex.

Dual booting, if everything goes well, works fine. But little details, little oddities of a particular system can fuck it all up quickly.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 18, 2022 06:18 AM (Mzdiz)

63
Pixy - one thing you'll discover quickly if living in a location with lots of wildlife is the early morning sound of birds trying to fly a shortcut through your house. Bang! Every morning at the crack of dawn.

Most survive. Some don't.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 18, 2022 06:19 AM (dQvv7)

64 @11

>>Anyone else not rushing into Win 11?

The only windows machine I have is my work laptop, if my company goes to Win 11, then I'll get a Win 11 laptop from them.

Otherwise Win 11 can die in a fire.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 18, 2022 06:20 AM (C4moP)

65
Correction: 1/3rd of the way home with 2/3rds and two days yet to go. The Pittsburgh area is tonight's targeted stopping point.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at May 18, 2022 06:21 AM (xKFcT)

66 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 18, 2022 06:22 AM (u82oZ)

67 Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars

Safe travels. And no close YOLO drivers.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 18, 2022 06:22 AM (u82oZ)

68 If there can be trouble with dual booting, maybe I should just go with Linux alone on the laptop. I have other Win machines. It's just that this laptop fell into my hands (my boss was going to recycle it), and I bought it a new battery and installed the apps I wanted. If Linux Mint is easy to learn (I'm good at that sorta thing) and will be stable and mostly trouble-free, maybe it's worth trying.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 18, 2022 06:23 AM (c6xtn)

69 Yes. Also because they're historically ignorant, educationally indoctrinated, and insanely conceited.
Posted by: Ordinary American at May 18, 2022 06:05 AM (rB9IZ)
===
This describes 90% of San Francisco.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 18, 2022 06:23 AM (EZebt)

70 63 Pixy - one thing you'll discover quickly if living in a location with lots of wildlife is the early morning sound of birds trying to fly a shortcut through your house. Bang! Every morning at the crack of dawn.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 18, 2022 06:19 AM (dQvv7)

That's quite the alarm clock.

Posted by: m at May 18, 2022 06:24 AM (QcU9m)

71 I see folks are scratching their heads over Idaho's left leaning Republican Gov Little easily winning his primary in what is a conservative western state in national elections.

But Western fops like Little get re-elected simply because I suspect Idahoans hear they have to vote every few years, look at the ballet and see they have Governor listed and say to themselves "guess we need one of those" and then vote for whoever.

Because that is what Gov Little is - whoever. He rules over a vast and sparsely populated state with little physical mechanisms to bring pain to a limited and ambivalent populace that probably has never seen ruthless governance up close.

Posted by: Boswell at May 18, 2022 06:25 AM (5iUNf)

72 Good morning! The little bird outside my bedroom window is singing loud and proud. He goes off very morning at about 0400. Not a bad way to wake up.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 18, 2022 06:25 AM (6Ino6)

73 >> If there can be trouble with dual booting, maybe I should just go with Linux alone on the laptop.

If you've got enough hard drive space for reparitioning, and that goes well, you can do it. Everything must be standard, or within the known parameters of the Linux install program. If so, it will work well. If not, you can be royally fucked.

You need to know something about how this works to recover.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 18, 2022 06:25 AM (Mzdiz)

74 My advice to Pennsylvanian voters pissed about yesterday? Come November do what I'm going to do, find something better to with your time, because fuck the GOP.

Posted by: lowandslow at May 18, 2022 06:26 AM (qH6FZ)

75 Had lunch with a former business collegue cancelled today by the 'vid. He's 50, West Pointer, health nut, four shot vaxxed. This is his third infection. We are so stupid.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at May 18, 2022 06:26 AM (oWBc3)

76 Mastriano easily won the GOP Gov primary in PA. That means one thing- The GOP will destroy him. So Shapiro, the guy who helped engineer the steal will be PAs next Dem gov.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 18, 2022 06:26 AM (bg3iC)

77 publius, Rascally Rapscallion

My favorite:
Any insufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from hard work.

When your blog is discussing riffs on Clarke's Laws, it is going to be a good day.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 18, 2022 06:28 AM (u82oZ)

78 Trump did a great job destroying Barnette.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 18, 2022 06:28 AM (bg3iC)

79 @75

>> four shot vaxxed.

But just image if he wasn't vaxxed and boosted, he might have contracted COVID. Oh wait..

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 18, 2022 06:29 AM (C4moP)

80 Looks like we were lied to about how well Barnette was doing. I wonder if the GOPe pushed her as a spoiler to prevent Trump's pick, Oz. Who the hell knows.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 18, 2022 06:29 AM (VhE0u)

81 75 Had lunch with a former business collegue cancelled today by the 'vid. He's 50, West Pointer, health nut, four shot vaxxed. This is his third infection. We are so stupid.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at May 18, 2022 06:26 AM (oWBc3)

For some values of "we."

Posted by: m at May 18, 2022 06:29 AM (QcU9m)

82 @78

>>Trump did a great job destroying Barnette.

All Trump did was pick a candidate, Barnette wasn't even a figment in anyones eye until the last couple of weeks.

Now surrogates on the other hand.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 18, 2022 06:31 AM (C4moP)

83 They are already saying Mastriano's victory is "problematic" because he tried to overturn the election and attended- dun dun duuuuuuhhh- January 6th! And as the guy in the comments said yesterday Doug wanted to hipaa, something, mumble.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 18, 2022 06:31 AM (bg3iC)

84 IrishEi

This is extremely likely. GOPe is so good at betraying their base for a few CoC clones.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 18, 2022 06:32 AM (u82oZ)

85
Not my preference, but I think Oz can win in November. Too many people in PA vote based on name recognition only.

It's like THERE'S A NAME I RECOGNIZE! Check next to name. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 18, 2022 06:32 AM (dQvv7)

86 Now surrogates on the other hand.
Posted by: Thomas

He identified the target.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 18, 2022 06:32 AM (bg3iC)

87 Whatever the major malfunction in PA was, I'm certain of one thing. It's all Donald's fault. It has to be.

I read it here.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at May 18, 2022 06:33 AM (1DgE4)

88 Time for work preps.

Have a blessed day, everyone.

I have to look at the storm damage. Quite the thunder cell last night.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 18, 2022 06:34 AM (u82oZ)

89 Not my preference, but I think Oz can win in November

Nope. I am done playing the game. I will not hold my nose and vote for anyone. If biden was fine for the GOP, Fetterman is fine for PA. Fuck it all.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 18, 2022 06:34 AM (bg3iC)

90 Name recognition?

I remember reading something a few years ago about that. It is EVERYTHING.

Except for Trump vs. Scankles. Because the whole world recognized them both, it came down to likeability.

Biden only won because of the fraud.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 18, 2022 06:35 AM (lKAqb)

91
Basically, if you want to play with Linux with Windows, I recommend trying it with a virtual machine before turning it loose on the bare metal.

Windows 10 includes Hyper-V the MS hypervisor, which like to take over everything, as MS always does. By default that is not installed. My favorite VM hypervisor is VirtualBox. You run Linux or whatever as a virtual machine under Windows.

Or you can use Hyper-V. Or Both. Me, getting Hyper-V working together with Virtualbox is a bitch, so I have boot switches set up that can boot Windows with Hyper-V disabled so I can run VirtualBox.

That's what I use most of the time. But I do have some Hyper-V machines, and have boot options.

My systems are set-up so complex that it's ridiculous, but that's what I do. Miley thinks I'm insane about this stuff. She's right, most likely.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 18, 2022 06:35 AM (Mzdiz)

92 I'm not going to vote for a guy who only votes for my interests 70% of the time. That way the guy who never votes for my interests wins.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 18, 2022 06:36 AM (lz5hY)

93 Trump did a great job destroying Barnette.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 18, 2022 06:28 AM (bg3iC)
~~~~~

Blame Trump? I'm not so sure about that. She came out of nowhere and that should have given us pause. Truthfully, I don't think we vetted her properly. I liked her but frankly, her responses to the attacks were less than convincing.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 18, 2022 06:36 AM (VhE0u)

94 Looks like we were lied to about how well Barnette was doing. I wonder if the GOPe pushed her as a spoiler to prevent Trump's pick, Oz. Who the hell knows.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 18, 2022 06:29 AM (VhE0u)

With 19% undecideds, and the relentless attacks on her (way underfunded) by the likes of Hannity and Breitbart, this result is not unexpected.

She did well to pull the amount of support that she did.

And Hannity can suck my greasy ole hog of a Rebel dick.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 18, 2022 06:37 AM (F0YaR)

95
I gotta hold my nose and vote for Oz. We need about 55 GOP Senators just to have a fighting chance at keeping the D's from running amok.

I'll just put Oz in the Romney, Collins, Murkowski wing of the party.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 18, 2022 06:38 AM (dQvv7)

96 The Puppeteers are only having Sundowner playing to the Marxists and the message white Conservatives are racist

Posted by: Skip's phone at May 18, 2022 06:39 AM (oxX/J)

97 Unlike Gov. Little in Idaho, governors like Gov. 'wretched' Whitmer get to rule ruthlessly and gleefully over a vast populace. The easily traveled terrain and dense population allow lefty government tyrants like her, along with her enforcement goons, to bring maximum pain to a trapped and squirming populace. And she knows it, as evidenced by that permanent sneer plastered on her face.

Gov. Little could order all Idahoans to wear their pants on backwards, use party hats instead of cowboy hats, and recite The Walrus and the Carpenter all day, every day, and no Idahoans would ever know it, much less obey. He's the Beatles real nowhere man, making his nowhere plans in his nowhere land for nobody. He'll be governor there for quite some time I should think.

Posted by: Boswell at May 18, 2022 06:40 AM (5iUNf)

98 68 If there can be trouble with dual booting, maybe I should just go with Linux alone on the laptop. I have other Win machines. It's just that this laptop fell into my hands (my boss was going to recycle it), and I bought it a new battery and installed the apps I wanted. If Linux Mint is easy to learn (I'm good at that sorta thing) and will be stable and mostly trouble-free, maybe it's worth trying.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I have Linux Mint on my 10+ year old, hand me down, workstation. Runs fine. Granted, I don't use it for much, but I could. Linux Mint seems fairly stable. Haven't had any problems with it, when I've actually used it for any length of time.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 18, 2022 06:40 AM (2graF)

99 People at twitter are commie as f*ck because they can afford to be, are so insulated they do not see the decay and destruction surrounding them, and so alienated they think its swell.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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They'll see it soon enough.

As we all will.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at May 18, 2022 06:40 AM (EuFDw)

100 With Linux, I'm partial to Fedora (second favorite is Ubuntu), but I would not recommend either for a noob familiar with Windows only.

I keep a VM running Fedora open almost all the time here on my main system.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 18, 2022 06:42 AM (Mzdiz)

101
Me, I'm like an old man who can't stand anything new. I hated the GNOME 3.0, and I'm still using MATE, a fork of the old GNOME 2.0 line for my Linux installs.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 18, 2022 06:44 AM (Mzdiz)

102 89 I am done playing the game. I will not hold my nose and vote for anyone. If biden was fine for the GOP, Fetterman is fine for PA. Fuck it all.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 18, 2022 06:34 AM (bg3iC)

If you want to send that message, then shouldn't you vote for a Dem?

Posted by: m at May 18, 2022 06:45 AM (QcU9m)

103 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at May 18, 2022 06:45 AM (UnQlg)

104 I fly out to Chicago this morning for my visit, haven't been outta NM in 3 yrs. I hear it's real green, kinda forgot what that's like.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at May 18, 2022 06:46 AM (Pu/aU)

105 Truthfully, I don't think we vetted her properly. I liked her but frankly, her responses to the attacks were less than convincing.

Her responses were to point out exactly what she said, rather than the contorted version being pushed by the Trump machine.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 18, 2022 06:48 AM (bg3iC)

106 Maybe Barnette can polish her persona and run again.

Posted by: m at May 18, 2022 06:50 AM (QcU9m)

107 I will just leave the senate blank in Nov. i wont vote for a candidate who can only name 2 cities in PA to represent PA from the Romney wing.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 18, 2022 06:50 AM (bg3iC)

108 I hear it's real green, kinda forgot what that's like.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby
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Here in southern IL, it's glorious.

So green, it's almost blinding, though got some storms rolling through the AO at the moment.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at May 18, 2022 06:51 AM (EuFDw)

109 More PA newz. A local HS near my hometown is all in a kerfuffle due to a sex scandal. A cute music teacher was having an affair with one of her female (17 y/o) students. The cute music teacher is/was married and waited till the husband was out of town. She got caught via social media. Saw it in my hometown newspaper. I think NYPost had an article about it too. The world is spiraling down the drain.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 18, 2022 06:52 AM (2graF)

110 If you want to send that message, then shouldn't you vote for a Dem?
Posted by: m

I won't directly help the other side. I will either leave the senate blank, which is really hard to do on our machines, or I will vote L.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 18, 2022 06:53 AM (bg3iC)

111 Her responses were to point out exactly what she said, rather than the contorted version being pushed by the Trump machine.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 18, 2022 06:48 AM (bg3iC)
~~~~~

I had no problem with stuff she said, and I liked her views on nearly everything. I was thinking more about things like her inability to produce a DD-214 or proof of her academic background.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 18, 2022 06:53 AM (VhE0u)

112 I wish I had a job where I only had to work 4 hours a week and still make enough money to live in California.

Posted by: Buzzion at May 18, 2022 06:54 AM (V+jCQ)

113 >>A local HS near my hometown is all in a kerfuffle due to a sex scandal. A cute music teacher was having an affair with one of her female (17 y/o) students.

You know the rule...don't make us recite the rule!

Posted by: Boswell at May 18, 2022 06:54 AM (5iUNf)

114 110 If you want to send that message, then shouldn't you vote for a Dem?
Posted by: m

I won't directly help the other side. I will either leave the senate blank, which is really hard to do on our machines, or I will vote L.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 18, 2022 06:53 AM (bg3iC)

I see. I remember voting third-party for a local election--only once, I think--to make the point.

Posted by: m at May 18, 2022 06:55 AM (QcU9m)

115 So now we are back in Somalia. Probably to get lessons on becoming a third world shithole.

Posted by: fd at May 18, 2022 06:55 AM (vrz2I)

116 I wish I had a job where I only had to work 4 hours a week and still make enough money to live in California.
Posted by: Buzzion at May 18, 2022 06:54 AM (V+jCQ)
~~~~~

Or take a few months off because you're "just not feeling it."

Posted by: IrishEi at May 18, 2022 06:55 AM (VhE0u)

117 Safe travels tinfoilbaby

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 18, 2022 06:56 AM (EZebt)

118 Serious injuries suffered by migrants while climbing over the US-Mexico border wall soared by 460% in the two years after Trump ordered height of steel barrier to be increased to 30feet

0.000 fucks given

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 18, 2022 06:56 AM (yrol0)

119 Rep. Swallowswell wants you to believe he discusses mass shootings with his 4 year old and doesn't understand how depraved that is.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 18, 2022 06:57 AM (EZebt)

120 I guess I'd prefer Oz to win just to show that Trump's endorsement carries weight. Of course, it looks like Trump endorsed Cawthorn is toast (basically due to his own behavior).

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 18, 2022 06:58 AM (cMXNt)

121 113 >>A local HS near my hometown is all in a kerfuffle due to a sex scandal. A cute music teacher was having an affair with one of her female (17 y/o) students.

You know the rule...don't make us recite the rule!
Posted by: Boswell

I'm at work. Not sure tinyurl works here.

https://tinyurl.com/3ts6hybp

Hey, it worked. That's new. Didn't work before.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 18, 2022 06:58 AM (2graF)

122 105 Truthfully, I don't think we vetted her properly. I liked her but frankly, her responses to the attacks were less than convincing.

Her responses were to point out exactly what she said, rather than the contorted version being pushed by the Trump machine.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 18, 2022 06:48 AM (bg3iC)

Frankly, I was well on way to a hearty endorsement of her until she said, late in the campaign, that she wouldn't support any R winner but her.

That's sour grapes. I've run into that before, personally, and I took all my candidate's bling and tossed it in the trash when he pulled his dick maneuver. I donated and worked for this prick, and he endorsed the Dem when he lost the primary.

Fuck all weaseldick candidates. With a rusty spoon.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 18, 2022 06:59 AM (F0YaR)

123 First article I read that at least thinks the new WHO regulations don't have complete ruling over the US laws, but does agree the WHO is not to be trusted.
Posted by: Skip

How far the guy on first has fallen.....

Posted by: JT at May 18, 2022 06:59 AM (arJlL)

124 I wish I had a job where I only had to work 4 hours a week and still make enough money to live in California.
Posted by: Buzzion at May 18, 2022 06:54 AM (V+jCQ)
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This element of the economy is also a large driver of inflation.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 18, 2022 07:00 AM (EZebt)

125 My district uses the Unisys voting machines. Basically a tablet attached to a printer. If you leave a race blank, the move to next screen button says something like "choose later". At the end of all races, it displays a summary of all of your votes , but the race you left blank is red, and the print ballot button is grayed out. It gives the impression of a hard stop where you must make a choice to move on. But if you touch the grayed out print button, your ballot will print with a null selection.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 18, 2022 07:00 AM (bg3iC)

126 Frankly, I was well on way to a hearty endorsement of her until she said, late in the campaign, that she wouldn't support any R winner but her.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 18, 2022 06:59 AM (F0YaR)
~~~~~

I hadn't heard that. And yeah, that's bad.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 18, 2022 07:04 AM (VhE0u)

127 Hey, it worked. That's new. Didn't work before.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 18, 2022 06:58 AM (2graF)

Worked for me. Thanks!

Posted by: Boswell at May 18, 2022 07:04 AM (5iUNf)

128 Is it too much hope the Grey Aliens snagged the top Pentagon brass for like four years of anal probing?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 18, 2022 07:04 AM (zLI2m)

129
What a square that music directors husband is, notifying the Principal instead of getting hot three way action.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 18, 2022 07:04 AM (dQvv7)

130 A report by the Herald newspaper highlights the “very unusual” spike in deaths of babies, with the alarm being raised after 18 infants died within four weeks of birth in March.
That same control limit was also breached in September last year, when 21 neonatal deaths were reported, the first time this had occurred since records began.
“The neonatal mortality rate was 5.1 per 1,000 live births in September and 4.6 per 1,000 in March, against an average of 1.49 per 1000 in 2019,” reports the newspaper.
Public Health Scotland (PHS) said the deaths could not have been down to chance, while the cause behind the previous spike in September also “remained a mystery.”

It is a mystery, all right.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 18, 2022 07:05 AM (bg3iC)

131 I wouldn't expect her to support Oz, who didn't live in PA until he decided to run, and spent millions on lies to destroy her.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 18, 2022 07:06 AM (bg3iC)

132 https://tinyurl.com/y9wyahzd

My hometown newzpaper article about reasonably cute HS music teacher getting her lezfu on with one of her 17 year old students. The teacher isn't much older than the student. She's 26.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 18, 2022 07:06 AM (2graF)

133 54 I figure if Pixy were to sell all his 'obsolete' equipment, he could solve 1/4 of the world's semiconducter shortage. He probably has a couple of unopened crates of 10 mb hard drives that he was saving for 'hard times'.[/quote]

I'm not quite that old. My first hard drive was a 3.5" 40MB model.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 18, 2022 07:07 AM (MqQvv)

134 The Greys come to Our Earth for the same reasons that I watch Three Stooges reruns.

Posted by: klaftern at May 18, 2022 07:07 AM (taPSh)

135 129
What a square that music directors husband is, notifying the Principal instead of getting hot three way action.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Well, according to those documentaries on XHams........

Never mind.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 18, 2022 07:08 AM (2graF)

136 I did it again.

I guess six months without sleep is about my limit...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 18, 2022 07:10 AM (MqQvv)

137 128 Is it too much hope the Grey Aliens snagged the top Pentagon brass for like four years of anal probing?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 18, 2022 07:04 AM (zLI2m)

Can Col Bearclaw go firstist?

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 18, 2022 07:10 AM (yrol0)

138 I see the Jan 6th Komission has turned down the DOJ's recent demand for their transcripts of witness testimony. Hmmmm.

I suspect that, since the DOJ never spelled out who's testimony they were after or why, this was all just an intimidation move, a trial balloon by lefty Dems to see who would object and by how much.

Posted by: Boswell at May 18, 2022 07:11 AM (5iUNf)

139 9 years is actually much older.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 18, 2022 07:11 AM (EZebt)

140 One of the XOs I served under had a project Blue Book report. Claims he saw one on a TransPac flight. Maybe fatigue set in, who knows. Guy was a Sierra Hotel aviator, competent officer in general, liked by the troops and respected by brother officers. He languished as a Major until retirement. Project Blue Book reporting scuttled some careers.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 18, 2022 07:11 AM (lz5hY)

141 Vote for a Dem?

Hell yes. I will do that to get rid of Lindsey Graham.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 18, 2022 07:11 AM (lKAqb)

142 Morning, y'all. In before Wolfus whines about Gulf Coast temps for the next 100 days in a row.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 18, 2022

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Whining???!!?? Whining, sir??? Grumbling, yes; carping, yes; growling, of course; but never whining!!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 18, 2022 07:12 AM (txdEq)

143 Last year, the School District of Philadelphia encouraged teachers to attend a transgender conference on kink, BDSM, trans sex, bigger dick energy, and banging beyond binaries.

Trans sex is just homo sex!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 18, 2022 07:13 AM (yrol0)

144 He only whines when denying the whining.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 18, 2022 07:13 AM (lKAqb)

145 I'm not quite that old. My first hard drive was a 3.5" 40MB model.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 18, 2022 07:07 AM (MqQvv)

Lol. I *am* that old. Dropping a 10 mb drive on your toes would cause a serious limp. A ten pound thunk.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 18, 2022 07:13 AM (F0YaR)

146 My hometown newzpaper article about reasonably cute HS music teacher getting her lezfu on with one of her 17 year old students. The teacher isn't much older than the student. She's 26.
Posted by: Puddleglum

Like Mozart and Salieri.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 18, 2022 07:15 AM (bg3iC)

147 The Puppeteers are only having Sundowner playing to the Marxists and the message white Conservatives are racist
Posted by: Skip's phone

I was thinking, we all know Dogeater is calling the shots. He is using Biden, a lifelong "centrist, moderate, pragmatic", a uniter, as his avatar.

Dogeater didn't have the stones to do what he really wanted during his reign of error since his thin skin could not take the political heat for his planned disasters. But wearing FJB's skin, he can break the border, blow up energy (necessarily skyrocket prices), kill King Dollar, advance the interests of the CCP and really, REALLY stoke racial grievance. And Brandon is too far down the dementia rabbit hole to understand any of this.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 18, 2022 07:16 AM (66jxp)

148 My first computer was an IBM XT with a 20MB drive on an expansion card.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 18, 2022 07:16 AM (bg3iC)

149 You would think the chip market would be boosted by the homebrew military drone explosion

Posted by: tmitsss at May 18, 2022 07:17 AM (m/niv)

150 he can break the border, blow up energy (necessarily skyrocket prices), kill King Dollar, advance the interests of the CCP and really, REALLY stoke racial grievance. And Brandon is too far down the dementia rabbit hole to understand any of this.

The FAB was supposed to do these things, and she is not demented. Just for reference.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 18, 2022 07:17 AM (bg3iC)

151 TWITTER FACES FINANCIAL NIGHTMARE – Must Prove It Didnt Lie in SEC Filings About Only 5% Bots – Elon Musk Is Waiting –

Newsweek Reports Biden Account May Be 50% Bots

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 18, 2022 07:18 AM (yrol0)

152 Newsweek Reports Biden Account May Be 50% Bots
Posted by: rhennigantx

Mrs Blutarksi and I were discussing this yesterday. We both think 50% fake is the absolute floor. Kinda like the number of "votes" he got.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 18, 2022 07:20 AM (66jxp)

153 Morning, y'all. In before Wolfus whines about Gulf Coast temps for the next 100 days in a row.
Psted by: GnuBreed at May 18, 2022

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Whining???!!?? Whining, sir??? Grumbling, yes; carping, yes; growling, of course; but never whining!!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 18, 2022

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Besides . . . it'll be a *lot* more than 100 days. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 18, 2022 07:21 AM (txdEq)

154 Wolfus - yes, the Browning poem, which is a dramatic monologue written in iambic pentameter with an aabb rhyme scheme. First read it in eleventh grade English class and have been trying to get the performance right since then. And yes, it is creepy as all get-out.

Pixy - yes, I signed up for the small Android phone...

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at May 18, 2022 07:21 AM (8548M)

155 He only whines when denying the whining.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 18, 2022

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Hmf! If I were a teenage girl, I'd flounce out in a huff!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 18, 2022 07:23 AM (txdEq)

156 145 I'm not quite that old. My first hard drive was a 3.5" 40MB model.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 18, 2022 07:07 AM (MqQvv)

Lol. I *am* that old. Dropping a 10 mb drive on your toes would cause a serious limp. A ten pound thunk.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 18, 2022 07:13 AM (F0YaR)

Talk to me when you've dropped a crate of punch cards!

Posted by: Marie Jacquard at May 18, 2022 07:24 AM (Dc2NZ)

157
My guess is Biden's account is about 99% bots. If nothing else, Musk's interest in Twitter is shining some light on the deviousness of the platform.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 18, 2022 07:25 AM (dQvv7)

158 Climate change will mean every day is over 100 degrees, even in the arctic!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 18, 2022 07:26 AM (bg3iC)

159 Newsweek Reports Biden Account May Be 50% Bots
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To be fair, Biden himself is 100% malfunctioning simulacrum.

Folks, there will be (is?) an animatronic Biden in the Hall of Presidents and it will be indistinguishable from the "real" Joe.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 18, 2022 07:27 AM (Dc2NZ)

160 Wolfus - yes, the Browning poem, which is a dramatic monologue written in iambic pentameter with an aabb rhyme scheme. First read it in eleventh grade English class and have been trying to get the performance right since then. And yes, it is creepy as all get-out.

Pixy - yes, I signed up for the small Android phone...
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at May 18, 2022

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I've always wanted to do it in a public reading too. There is one particular moment, when the Duke has told his horrible story to his listener, and then says, "Nay, we'll go down together, sir." You can just see his listener hanging back ("What kind of creature is this standing next to me??"), and the Duke taking his arm basically to drag him down the stairs.

I point the poem out to fellow writers as a marvelous example of showing everything you need to show through dialogue only -- a monologue in this case.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 18, 2022 07:27 AM (txdEq)

161 Talk to me when you've dropped a crate of punch cards!
Posted by: Marie Jacquard at May 18, 2022 07:24 AM (Dc2NZ)

a diagonal line across the top of cards at least tells you if the card goes in the top middle or end.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 18, 2022 07:27 AM (yrol0)

162 Most peoples first computer was either the Apple II , Commodore PET or the Trash 80.

In many ways, computing was much better when computers had 4kb of memory and monochrome screens.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 18, 2022 07:28 AM (+Jekj)

163 Climate change will mean every day is over 100 degrees, even in the arctic!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 18, 2022 07:26 AM (bg3iC)

Welcome to the party, pals? *sweats a bit*

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 18, 2022 07:29 AM (F0YaR)

164 Fist PC had 2 20 MBs as DOS 3.3 did not recognize a single drive greater than 18 or 19 MB.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 18, 2022 07:29 AM (yrol0)

165
My first fax 'machine' was actually mounted on a card inside the computer. I needed a way to generate a purchase order from a text file and Fax it out hands free. That card probably cost about a grand, but it saved me a fortune in time. Printing out incoming Fax's was incredibly slow, which was a pain in the ass.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 18, 2022 07:30 AM (dQvv7)

166 In many ways, computing was much better when computers had 4kb of memory and monochrome screens.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 18, 2022 07:28 AM (+Jekj)

In many ways, computing was much better when the abacas had only 6 rows of beads.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 18, 2022 07:30 AM (yrol0)

167 165
My first fax 'machine' was actually mounted on a card inside the computer. I needed a way to generate a purchase order from a text file and Fax it out hands free. That card probably cost about a grand, but it saved me a fortune in time. Printing out incoming Fax's was incredibly slow, which was a pain in the ass.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 18, 2022 07:30 AM (dQvv7)

Greatest salesman in the world sold the first fax machine!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 18, 2022 07:31 AM (yrol0)

168 Maybe Elon's only real interest in Twitter was to expose it for the (IC) fraud that it is.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 18, 2022 07:32 AM (VhE0u)

169 Most peoples first computer was either the Apple II , Commodore PET or the Trash 80.

In many ways, computing was much better when computers had 4kb of memory and monochrome screens.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 18, 2022

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It was certainly more of an intellectual challenge sometimes. You actually had to *learn* something, the syntax of DOS or whatever. I had a bit of that last week: Some videos would not play in VLC Player on my Lenovo laptop at home, but they played fine on my desktop at work. Turned out to be a question of permissions. Once I set those, everything was fine.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 18, 2022 07:32 AM (txdEq)

170 UFOs exist. I grew up under the flight path between Groom Lake and Mountain Home, and I’ve seen more than my share, one of which seemed to violate pretty much everything we know about aerodynamics, all of which had FAA mandated running lights.

There’s a deliberate conflation by the media and government between “that’s weird” and “It’s aliens Bob! Aliens!” (Of course, nut jobs are happy to buy in, and normies automatically tune out. So it’s effective. Just categorically false.)

Posted by: Luke at May 18, 2022 07:33 AM (LcCGY)

171 I gotta hold my nose and vote for Oz. We need about 55 GOP Senators just to have a fighting chance at keeping the D's from running amok.

We need 55 *conservative* GOP Senators AND conservative leadership in the GOP.

Continue to vote for Romney, Murkowski, Collins and Liz Cheney types and that never happens.

This is the same bullshit the right has been doing the last 20 years. "Electability!" "We need a GOP majority!" When that "GOP majority" is GOPe, there's no difference between that and Democrat majority.

If the right is fine with "hold my nose" and vote for a piece of shit like Oz, just to get "a GOP majority"... we're just going to get the same shit we've been getting the last 20 years.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at May 18, 2022 07:33 AM (Do5/p)

172 @166

>>In many ways, computing was much better when the abacas had only 6 rows of beads.

*** Stares at 5 row abacus and tablet chisel.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 18, 2022 07:33 AM (+Jekj)

173 "Gov. Little could order all Idahoans to wear their pants on backwards, use party hats instead of cowboy hats, and recite The Walrus and the Carpenter all day, every day, and no Idahoans would ever know it, much less obey."

That's actually how it SHOULD be IMO. The ideal government, as I envision it, would be like a well-fitting shoe -- you could forget about it 99 percent of the time because it would unobtrusively do its job without constantly causing you pain. In an ideal world, I would think, people would not have to even think about who their governor or mayor (or even President) is in between elections because those people would just do their jobs and not get in everyone's face 24/7.

Posted by: Secret Square at May 18, 2022 07:36 AM (9WuX0)

174 >>In many ways, computing was much better when the abacas had only 6 rows of beads.

*** Stares at 5 row abacus and tablet chisel.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 18, 2022

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Works fine when you have the right kind of clay and stylus!

Posted by: Mesopotamian Scribe at May 18, 2022 07:37 AM (txdEq)

175 That's actually how it SHOULD be IMO. The ideal government, as I envision it, would be like a well-fitting shoe -- you could forget about it 99 percent of the time because it would unobtrusively do its job without constantly causing you pain. In an ideal world, I would think, people would not have to even think about who their governor or mayor (or even President) is in between elections because those people would just do their jobs and not get in everyone's face 24/7.
Posted by: Secret Square at May 18, 2022 07:36 AM (9WuX0)

My grandfather thought about the Fed Gov maybe once a year. His father probably never even thought about it at all.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 18, 2022 07:38 AM (yrol0)

176 Joy Behar: "Tucker Carlson has, in a country of 326 million people, he has 3 million listeners .. hes almost irrelevant."

The View had an average of 2.214 million viewers per day.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 18, 2022 07:40 AM (yrol0)

177 The line I have trouble with is "Who'd stoop to blame this sort of trifling?" I started out thinking it should be angry, because the answer is obvious - HE would - but now I think it needs to be more subtle, like of course ANYONE would agree with him, pff, he's just a perfectly reasonable guy and it made total sense to off his wife for being nice.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at May 18, 2022 07:41 AM (8548M)

178 Mornin'

I see Analpundit has xer knickers in a wad over TuCa calling out Eyepatch McCain for his Ukraine war-hawking.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 18, 2022 07:41 AM (HsAzN)

179 PA looks. Like Oz

Posted by: Braenyard's phone at May 18, 2022 07:42 AM (2L0fX)

180
I had probably 5,000 plus items in inventory and hundreds of suppliers. To have an automated system to generate a text file and then fax it out within five seconds was a great idea. No need to stand in front of a fax machine and dial a number. What incredible productivity gains were occurring in manufacturing during the 90's.

Then our politicians sold us down the river to China and the lights started going out. Last number I saw was American manufacturing down to 8% employment from a 90's era of 33% or higher.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 18, 2022 07:43 AM (dQvv7)

181 179 PA looks. Like Oz
Posted by: Braenyard's phone

The yellow brick road has some major pot holes.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 18, 2022 07:43 AM (2graF)

182 @MilesTaylorUSA
I'm done.

I no longer believe the Republican Party can be saved. The vitriolic rhetoric is inspiring violent radicals.

I'm quitting the GOP. And I hope more do the same.

*flounces*

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 18, 2022 07:44 AM (bg3iC)

183 Today is Don Martin's birthday. Shtoing!

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 18, 2022 07:45 AM (p+1gI)

184 182 @MilesTaylorUSA
I'm done.

I no longer believe the Republican Party can be saved. The vitriolic rhetoric is inspiring violent radicals.

I'm quitting the GOP. And I hope more do the same.

*flounces*
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Wow! What a loss. Sure hope Max Boot doesn't leave!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 18, 2022 07:45 AM (2graF)

185 Here we go again:

"Pennsylvania Election Thrown Into Chaos Due to Unexpected ‘Error’ Affecting Mail-In Ballots"

https://tinyurl.com/4xrkc4y7

Posted by: IrishEi at May 18, 2022 07:46 AM (VhE0u)

186 Here we go again:

"Pennsylvania Election Thrown Into Chaos Due to Unexpected ‘Error’ Affecting Mail-In Ballots"
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lol

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at May 18, 2022 07:47 AM (EuFDw)

187 Irregularity Well here comes McCormic

Posted by: Braenyard's phone at May 18, 2022 07:48 AM (2L0fX)

188 Nood JJ.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at May 18, 2022 07:48 AM (uvymP)

189 Before overweighting SMIC CEO, TSMC says:

TAIPEI -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has warned clients for the second time in less than a year that it plans to raise prices, citing looming inflation concerns, rising costs and its own massive expansion plans to help alleviate a global supply crunch, people briefed on the matter told Nikkei Asia.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 18, 2022 07:48 AM (MkuC5)

190 G'morning, all.

My father reports that he never received his requested Pennsylvania mail-in ballot.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 18, 2022 07:49 AM (1n+EO)

191 Twitter calls its employees "Tweeps"?

Good Lord.

If a manager called me a "Tweep", I'd be outta there, likely giving said manager a kick in his man-snizz on my way out the door.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 18, 2022 08:00 AM (bW8dp)

192 @ Wolfus Aurelius : [ 1/4 ] Gonna have to break this into four parts because Pixy's spam thingy is having fits.

Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition 20.3 is what I use. I've been using Mint for years, and absolutely love it, and have converted family members onto it.

Here's the install guide:
https://tinyurl.com/4nwv924j

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 18, 2022 08:16 AM (nRMeC)

193 @ Wolfus Aurelius : [ 2/4 ]

Here's the Download page for Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon edition:
https://tinyurl.com/yckj2f3h

Scroll down to the "Download mirrors" and pick a mirror close to you to download the ISO from.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 18, 2022 08:16 AM (nRMeC)

194 @ Wolfus Aurelius : [ 3/4 ]

On Windows, I use "Rufus" to write the ISO file to a USB stick which makes it bootable. This will erase everything on the stick, so don't have any files on it you want to save. Rufus is available here: https://tinyurl.com/2p9ay6h6

Once written, leave the stick inserted, restart your machine and try to boot from it directly. (Install instructions mention this.)

You'll boot into the Linux Mint Cinnamon desktop, and you can try it before you install it.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 18, 2022 08:16 AM (nRMeC)

195 @ Wolfus Aurelius : [ 4/4 ]

Finally, check out the Linux Mint Forums. Peruse the "Beginner Questions" section: https://tinyurl.com/2p95wexr

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 18, 2022 08:17 AM (nRMeC)

196 189 Before overweighting SMIC CEO, TSMC says:

TAIPEI -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has warned clients for the second time in less than a year that it plans to raise prices, citing looming inflation concerns, rising costs and its own massive expansion plans to help alleviate a global supply crunch, people briefed on the matter told Nikkei Asia.

Yes, SMIC focuses on the (huge) Chinese domestic market.

And the Chinese consumer electronics market has just imploded for a variety of reasons starting with CCP.

TSMC's outlook is more robust; they make chips for Apple, AMD, Nvidia, Microsoft, Sony, Intel, and a long list of smaller companies around the world.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 18, 2022 09:29 AM (MqQvv)

197 desocking

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 18, 2022 09:56 AM (yikp0)

198 34 Another Q about Linux: Will the Brave Browser run on it without issues?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 18, 2022 05:47 AM

Yes

38 The Linux home page says that I can keep Windows if I want -- that when I start the computer, it will ask me which I want to use. And also that I can run Linux from a USB stick. Anybody done those things?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 18, 2022 05:50 AM

Yes, but I don't any more. The main problem with dual-booting is that whenever I switched to the one that I rarely ran I spent a lot of time updating it before I could use it for anything.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at May 18, 2022 10:44 AM (VgK+3)

199 Smallest available android in US is the Asus Zenfone 8, in Japan Sharp used to make a tiny one -

Posted by: Mildlycitrusy at May 18, 2022 11:28 AM (R6eDj)

200 191 Twitter calls its employees "Tweeps"?

Good Lord.

If a manager called me a "Tweep", I'd be outta there, likely giving said manager a kick in his man-snizz on my way out the door.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 18, 2022

You watched the video, right? That guy was definitely a "Tweep".

Posted by: West at May 18, 2022 12:17 PM (QY+6a)

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