PancakesCantKillMe
@PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world
- Comment on Same Shafeeq, same. 3 days ago:
Ah, you had an excellent day then! Good! Get some sleep!
- Comment on Same Shafeeq, same. 3 days ago:
Well, good morning and have an excellent day!
- Comment on Same Shafeeq, same. 3 days ago:
Himalayan Blackberry. An invasive for sure. Love the berry, but hate the plant as they spread very aggressively.
- Comment on Same Shafeeq, same. 3 days ago:
I’ll have you know that my friend at the ACME chocolate milk factory, Willie, swore to me that only brown cows can be used for production. He swore this over a stack of Spider-Man comics, so this is convincing and compelling evidence. Please retract your assertion good sir!!!
- Comment on Same Shafeeq, same. 3 days ago:
You forgot the step where it overtakes your yard and life.
- Comment on Same Shafeeq, same. 3 days ago:
like chocolate milk doesn’t come from brown cows.
Wait…wut…???
- Comment on Real 1 week ago:
I thought they could also see atmospheric composition as it passes in front of the star, no? Having that info and the data you’ve just mentioned they postulate if it’s habitable or not. Obviously not seeing any detail at all about land mass shapes, but perhaps composition? I’m not a spaceologist, so I’m only musing.
- Comment on Some things were better in the good old days 1 week ago:
Yes, you might get credit from a local shop if they’d known you or your family, but people generally lived within their means. Layaway was also a thing. I just don’t recall if we ever used that with appliances.
- Comment on Some things were better in the good old days 1 week ago:
Samsung has left the chat…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Yes. Same as Windows 3.1 running atop DOS. I would say it doesn’t truly qualify as an operating system because of its dependence on a parent OS. Perhaps it’s more of an operating environment.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It is so funny to hear about “critical” systems that run ancient OSes and I’ve supported my fair share of those environments. I did love AIX as well. Smitty (and F6) teaching me UNIX commands early in my career was a great help.
Was Rocket U2 still written in Pick Basic?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Veritably, a lifetime ago.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
If it makes you feel any better the manuals had his name as Richard Pick.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’ve administered this OS, which for us was used to develop images on plates for printing. It ran atop ATT UNIX and had to be “defragged” every now and again to regain contiguous space back. This process involved backing up the system to 250MB QIC tapes (twice for two sets of tapes), wiping the disks and then restoring the data from tape. This was an all-weekend process and really sucked if a tape broke, but that’s why there were two sets and scotch tape can work in a pinch when the other tape is bad.
- Comment on She is a "working girl" after all 2 weeks ago:
I once met a hooker who said “I’ll do anything for 50 dollars”. I said “Paint my house.” I gave her a paint bucket and told her to start with the porch.
She came back about an hour later and said “All done!”.
I said, “Wow, that was fast.”
She said, “Yeah, I’m getting pretty good at this. Oh and by the way, that’s not a porch, it’s a Mercedes.”
- Comment on 13,492% sudden interest increase in local Alabama news station 5 weeks ago:
doot…doot…!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
“That dress does not make your ass look any different than it already is.”
You’d think a non-commital blank statement like that should work. It does not. One then must explain themselves. Night out: ruint.
- Comment on Linux rules! How do you like my desktop? 1 month ago:
Are Sleestaks allowed or only Gorn? My Sleestak buddy is always getting called a Gorn.
- Comment on Administrative task management 1 month ago:
At a former job many years ago, we had an employee get super mad at his PC. He left and returned a short time later with a revolver that he unloaded on said PC. All six shots missed the critical components and it was still running despite the new cooling. Cops hauled him away whilst still frothing at the mouth about his PC.
- Comment on Make a note 1 month ago:
Careful the next time the opportunity presents itself. The previous experience has little bearing on the next as you have no idea of the efficacy of the random edible.
- Comment on A succulent meal 2 months ago:
One of the episodes that had me in stitches was when he ate seafood from a dumpster then went out in his rowboat for a cruise.
- Comment on Itchy 2 months ago:
Relevant article on Veronika.
- Comment on LE TITS NOW 2 months ago:
“Colder than a witch’s tit in a brass bra!”
- Comment on Hey Microsoft, How's it going? 2 months ago:
Yah I was trying to arrange a meeting but the email kept bouncing. Thanks, Microslop!
- Comment on How could you do this to me? 4 months ago:
That’s a little more of a pain to remove/disable them, but yes the old SSD will work fine for Linux. Windows does not respect the user or their experience so if you dual boot MS will clobber your Linux boot loader at some point. Keeping thing physically separate allows you to retain control.
The only games that deffo have issues in Linux are titles with anti-cheat built in.
- Comment on good architecture 5 months ago:
Aw shucks…thank you! When I replied I had an inkling that I might be missing an inside joke or a meme or something, but I got spun up on how cool the Borg cubes were in Sins. I had no idea wombats created cubes irl so yes I did learn something and appreciated that. My self-inflicted aspersions were more in a good natured way, but I appreciate your comment. This is all light stuff in the scheme of things and I have made far more severe mistakes in life with decidedly more significant consequences. Some of those were very tough to rise above. They still humble me.
Thanks again, I do appreciate you and your reaching out!
- Comment on good architecture 5 months ago:
It looks like there are newer versions out there of these mods, yes. Sacrifice of Angels and Armada are the main ST mods we played as I recall. I’ve been away from the game for a couple of years, but plan on getting back into it (with Linux). There are also some good SW mods. They really make the game more fun in my opinion. Go to moddb.com and see the list. It’s the Rebellion version that got the most mods.
- Comment on good architecture 5 months ago:
Your comment made me realize I had an id10t whoosh moment here. I didn’t realize wombats actually pooped cubes. What a dummy. Thanks!
- Comment on good architecture 5 months ago:
I have to disagree on this one. Playing Sins of a Solar Empire with the ST mod made me love seeing the basic shape, but exceedingly formidable Borg cube showing up in a space battle and absolutely annihilate the opposition. Admittedly, a mod update had to nerf the Borg a bit after people complained. You needed to go after their resources to beat the Borg, but even then it was difficult if the player had developed the assimilation ability. Anyhow, that cube just had an awesome and dominating presence. I love it. I also highly recommend Sins with the Trek mod. Hours of ST immersion.
- Comment on be a friend to the animals 5 months ago:
I know the Himalayan blackberry and they are awful to have on your property. Each year all too much time is diverted towards controlling it and attempting to eliminate it. The birds (if they exist) eat them and spread the seeds. They pop up where you thought you’d already handled them. Ug.
We do collect them to make cobblers and such, but I would gladly do without that if I could rid us of them entirely.