nickwitha_k (he/him)

I can verify that the OS fails to see the microphone and webcam when switched off. This was really confusing the one time that I wanted to use them.

I use Arch BTW.

Gotta start em on something lighter. A gateway distro, if you will.

No. Conservatism has always only been about conserving aristocratic/oligarchic socio-economic power structures and establishing them where absent. Those are the only ideals they’ve ever had. All of the test was just a facade to pretend that their ideology has any place in a free, open, and equitable society.

Technically correct (still the best kind of correct). However, the meaning has changed a but due to the word’s falling into disuse. Colloquially, it is now used as a mid-point between overwhelmed and underwhelmed, describing a situation as a mundane experience. Not disappointing, too stimulating, or even satisfying; just neutral (“Tell my wife I said ‘Hello’”).

I was also making a timezone joke :D

Spain is in UTC or UTC+1. I’m on UTC-8. 11AM for Spain is 3AM for me, making it easy for me to have a not-too-crazy evening and still be in bed before 11AM UTC.

That’s really easy though. And without getting plastered. Just start at about 5 or 6 and have one drink an hour. Then, with a bit of self-control and go to bed before 1 in the morning and you’ve 2 hours to spare.

Oof. Mine’s just under half that and I get that exactly. Went to replace an outdoor step about a month ago, just to discover that the deck wasn’t built to code and will need to be replaced. Everything is like that, either because the previous owner cut corners or the place is just old (like doorframes being out of square and changing by how much with the season).

As someone with AuADHD, can confirm that parenthetical statements are likely an ADHD thing (I use a lot of them).

Seeing the other comments here, definitely make sure that they are suitable for your walls. What works well for drywall, might be terrible for lath and plaster walls.

😯 Oh no! I’m so used to dry-wall/gypsum board that I forget that lath and plaster exists.

I’m not super familiar (just DIY) but, I think that you can make a patch that’s structural enough to take a new anchor. Definitely would need to be sure that there’s enough lath for our to hold onto and likely would want some fiberglass mesh tape to reinforce it.

Looks to be a bit of a pain (cleaning hole corners, using patching plaster and bonding agent, waiting for cure, etc). However, if done right, I think it would be sturdier than a typical patch in drywall.

Do consult someone who knows about the stuff though, like a professional plaster person or builder.

Makes sense.

Thanks for that! Very cool way to show how they work. My problem is usually that they deform prematurely (when being pressed into place). Might be a quality issue.

I hate these things. They deform far too easily. Toggle bolts and other metallic anchors are so much nicer to deal with.

5. Windows update intentionally bricks GRUB.
6. Delete Windows.

Seconded. Not coming up with much when trying to find out more about it.

ISO 8601/RFC-3339 (Unix Epoch also acceptable) gang reporting in.

This might help. https://smcl.org/blogs/post/making-sense-of-reading-levels/

I had to look it up because of your comment. It’s been over a decade since I dealt with anything in the AP Style Guide or adjacent. Fortunately, you are correct.

Sadly, yes. It is largely a consequence of two things: constant right-wing efforts to destroy public education and neoliberal profiteering. The first requires little explanation. The second is something that I only learned about because LeVar Burton (Geordie LaForge in Star Trek TNG) has produced a documentary on it and has been participating in activism to try to fix the damage.

Basically, with the neoliberal philosophy that profit is more important than anything else, education fell into the sights of profiteers. Through connections and back-room deals, schools have been forced to adopt proprietary “literacy” methods and tools that were initially developed explicitly to allow people with diminished cognitive capacity to somewhat function in society. This means that there’s a whole generation that only learned how to do things like guess what a word is based on its shape, rather than understanding its phonetics or figuring out its meaning from its constituent roots.

This profiteering, as a side effect, also harms education overall as it has robbed people of their ability to engage in self-learning. Something that is only helping to cause further harm with people off-loading cognitive efforts to LLMs, and not having the skills to differentiate between when they spout pure bullshit and output something that is useful or factual.