Not a fan of terror, but saw The Ring with friends and it had some memorable jump scares.

Now what really scared the shit out of me and probably created some trauma was the witch from the Wizard of Oz. Also that wolf in Neverending Story. Probably because I was 8 years old.

Haha sorry I’m not David! Been following his work for a while, great channel.

Most silly excuse was my boss refusing to install Linux because he just had a friend give him original windows 98se licenses for the PCs we just bought for the company.

Well it gets less silly thinking that getting the eprom programmer software and orcad 4 working on Linux was probably impossible.

Then it was outright the best decision ever, because those machines never required a reinstall and worked flawless for the 5 years I was there working. Never understood the bad rep W98Se had. Never used it on my personal rigs of course.

Pong, Tetris, Pac-Man, Minecraft, and petcii robots.

Did the interview room have a big black couch?

Remote work looks like that thanks to covid. Before that, nobody wanted to see your face, maybe share the screen and that’s it. It was a beautiful time. No tracking, no meetings, no stupid dailies, just pure self organized efficiency.

My kid (13) surprised me the other day and said he wanted to try Linux. He has seen me forever using it and got scared about W10 getting hacked or something so thought of trying it out.

I handed over to him my Fedora 43 (KDE plasma) install USB drive and once installed the problems began.

The monitor couldn’t be set to native resolution, and Steam didn’t want to run. Turns out that there is no wayland compatibility with the Radeon Polaris RX480. What a bummer, that card is perfectly fine for what he does on his PC.

We tried with the cinnamon version and that is working fine. He even has roblox running.

Tl;Dr: Wayland isn’t compatible with older hardware that most casual windows users are mostly going to be using.

If you are a firefighter?

Tell them to wait and save resources, earthlings are doing a great job destroying themselves.

Simbin’s GTR2002 was an amazing mod of EA’s F1 game. Great online racing and the added hotlap ranking from Find the Limit.

Many hours invested and IRC friends made. Got to race Gregor Huttu and had some of his setups ;)

I’ve driven many cars without ps and when going fast enough that a quick reaction is necessary, it can be handled fast enough. Not a major safety issue more than looking at GPS is a safety issue. I ride over 100km a week on my MTB so thanks for the suggestion.

Cranking! That allows no electrical wires needed to cross into the door. Simpler and less prone to failing.

I can start by saying that I’m a tech “guy”. The evolution was simple: Puzzles, Lego, bikes, model R/C cars/planes, computers, motorcycles then cars. Add to that motorcycles and cars give you freedom of movement to go anywhere anytime in a whim, it is difficult to not geek about them.

Then, during a brief period of my life I lived in a big (for me) city and had to use the public transport and it was horrible. This only exacerbated my dreams of owning a motor vehicle. Car magazines helped fuel these dreams.

My dad loved sports cars, that didn’t help the addiction ;)

This is something I’m looking for also… but extended to the max. It seems all EVs have to be feature packed. I don’t want that. Give me an option to have manual windows, no central locking nor remote, and if the tire size is right, I won’t even need power steering. A/C AND USB-A would be the only creature conforts wanted… Probably an EV converted beetle?

After every race change oil and filters for the engine and optionally gearbox and differential. Send samples for analysis to determine if a replacement is needed.

Cook at home mostly. Every now and then maybe every two weeks we go out. And twice a week I send the kids to get kebab or pizza at the plaza in town. Never have had anything “cooked” delivered… because no such service where I live.

Me thinks this is funnier where universal healthcare doesn’t exist

Thanks that was it. I can lock in and focus the wall style very fast, as it is the most common. This took me while but got it with the finger trick!

For some reason I’m getting the depth inverted. Mt. Saint Helens looks like a hole in the ground.

There is a reason it is ilegal (at least in Spain) to have campings in historically active ravines. This happened after the much similar incident in Biescas almost 30 years ago.

Sorry but you can’t depend on forecasting for everything. The earth has showed us again and again that if it gets the shits you better not be in the way.