I’m thinking buying physical media is great and shopping for physical media is so much more interesting.

Using physical media is a hassle, I much prefer to rip the contents, then convert the stuff as necessary.

…Books are an exception. I just recently rediscovered that reading isn’t annoying actually, because you don’t have weird technical and DRM issues with physical books and you can keep reading the pages for hours and hours. My tablet sucks, but physical books don’t keep freezing!

I can honestly say I’ve never been impressed enough to utter “ccooooc wwow”

Happy World Turtle Day, everybody! 🐢🌍

I’m in Finland. We have pedestrian/bike paths that sometimes go under roads. Over here the underpass tunnels sometimes get flooded in the heavy rains.

In the Plague Years, I was on an app scoot when it was raining, noticed the underpass had water up to my ankles, so I said “YOLOoooo” out loud and pushed through. Even though the official app scoot company policy at the time was Will You Please Not Do That.

Hey, the scoot was completely fine! Received no complaints! You see, fleet vehicles like these are pretty sturdy compared to retail models. A little bit of water? No problem. I assume the scoots they have to fish out of the river, or find from under the snow banks when they melt in the spring, may have some mechanical problems, yeah.

Of course conservatives go “only physical work is real manly work, young people are lazy, hue hue hue”.

…while Babylon Bee staff is mostly known for sitting in the office and posting low effort shit that can incredibly charitably called “attempts at humour”.

Hey, if you’re conservative, you’ve got to be contradictory and hypocritical, after all.

Sure, the guy has a ton of books in the shelves. But how many mysterious badly sorted storage boxes of books he has? Now that’s the real test of character.

Also ask probing questions about how many obsolete programming books he has. It may get awkward but it has to be done.

2 STORY GRAND FOYER

Does it go to a 2nd floor?

… … …No

Motherf-

🤦🏻‍♀️

I started writing a clock app of my own because the Windows 11 clock app didn’t have a proper analog mode and it’s pretty useless. (Windows 3 clock app had analog mode, why not Windows 11?)

Some time ago I was ranting that instead of adding an analog mode, Microsoft will probably just pointlessly add Copilot to the clock app.

…Don’t blame me! I was just pointing out the obvious direction Microsoft is going for, whether we like it or not!

Aaaaanyway. This summer’s project is to figure out how the hell the Godot layout system works so I can make the layout responsive and I can release 1.1.

I have no idea how my brain chemistry works, but sometimes when I’m depressed and I go to !historyartifacts@piefed.social and it seems to help a bit. It’s just neat stuff I guess.

A while ago, there was a a YouTube video of people laughing at AI generated floorplans.

Because of course there was a company that tried to make an AI floorplan generator without a shred of thinking. They posted the “good” ones on their website, and even they had obvious weird details like completely misproportionate rooms, having ten bathrooms in a small house, and just straight up missing doors everywhere.

Well, it doesn’t have to be in the sign. Just tiniest print in the event rules, buried somewhere in the website. That’s usually enough for this to happen.

All of the Steam soundtracks I’ve bought came in MP3 format, some also in FLAC for good measure. Can’t download it over web though, have to download them with the Steam client. Some games have bonus content that is just slapped in the game folder as MP3s or whatever.

Bonus soundtracks in GOG are also DRM free (of course) and downloadable over web.

Reminds me of Dogmeat in Fallout 3. I was really worried about the buddy when the wiki said Dogmeat can die. Bullshit. Every time I hit VATS after that, I didn’t see a dog anywhere, just a dog shaped cruise missile repeatedly flying at the enemies, killing stuff dead. In Fallout: New Vegas, they upgraded the doggo into a real dog shaped cruise missile.

Funny thing is, I bought the Harry Potter ebooks back when they were only available through Pottermore. Last time I checked, you couldn’t actually download them through the website anymore. Which is funny because the site only allowed 7 downloads or someshit. (I think that I failed to download one file, that counted as one download anyway, and the queer idea of “fuck this greedy hag” started to percolate in my mind.) How many downloads did I need? One. Thankfully in the unlikely event I need to access this shit, it’s sitting in my Calibre library. Where it has been sitting ever since.

You can, you know, read another book

For Harry Potter fans in particular, may I suggest The Guy We Don’t Mention in the Same Sentence. You know. Terry Pratchett.

I use the YouTube TV app.

If I see ad breaks that are longer than ~20 seconds, I just back out and try again (if I’m just starting to watch a video) or go to history and resume (if in progress). YouTube can try to show another godawful long ad, but I’ll just back out again and again until they stop being stupid.

Protip: Number may go bigger, but I’m not changing this behaviour.

I hope the advertisers demand meticulous statistics, and are asking YouTube why so many users balked after 1 second.

Actually over the Easter holidays, my tablet was having horrible time with YouTube (the Android app is absolute garbage and doesn’t like old devices, and by old I mean 5 years) and sometimes ads made the YouTube app go suck mud and the tablet needed to be rebooted (!!!) before it worked again. So I watched YouTube on my laptop instead. With uBlock. Silence. Beautiful silence.

I’m old enough to have eaten burgers out of styro boxes, and IMHO it’s not one of the things I get nostalgic over. They held heat a little bit longer than cardboard/paper, but that’s basically the only advantage.

The places here that offer kebab/fries and sausage/grilled whatever to go still use larger styro trays here, and they’re less convenient and sturdy than the styro burgerware was. I’m actually hoping someone comes up with an alternative.

Well, we’re barely in the era where people can safely say “MPEG-1 is definitely out of patents and we’re pretty damn confident Layer III (MP3) is too”. Patents expire on the day they’ll be set to expire, but unfortunately, patent lawyers hired by big companies don’t expire that easily.

Large bottles are sold as “2 liter soda”…that’s it.

I’m from Finland. It never stops being weird when Americans talk about 2 liter sodas. First, it being in liters, and second, 2 liter sodas are huuuuge. (Large bottles are usually 1.5 liters here.)

I’m a photo nerd. Uhhh… keys, flashlight, swiss army knife, phone, pocket camera (Ricoh GR III), wallet. If I go anywhere I usually pick up a bigger camera (Nikon Z fc, or if I get serious, the D780, with 50mm / 24-120mm / 70-300mm lenses). There’s also a whole lot of random mystery stuff in my bags. I don’t want to think about that stuff too much, I’ll just get a headache