FrChazzz

@FrChazzz@lemmus.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is incompatible⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I use LocalSend ALL THE TIME between my Linux machines and my iOS devices. It’s faster than AirDrop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays World of Warcraft⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m old, so my first MMO was Everquest. I only did “hunt-and-peck” style typing using my index fingers prior to this. Within a month I was a skilled typist out of necessity.

  Everquest also taught me that I have to keep very clear of WoW because I realize that if I ever started chasing that dragon, I’d wind up homeless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing to see here⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  AWWW SNAP!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Washington man arrested for allegedly throwing rock at seal in Maui⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally. Not trying to defend the guy, just sharing the story. Just seems super convenient. Why not tell the people yelling at you that you’re trying to protect the turtles? Why are we only now hearing about this? Seems like the sort of story one of my kids would come up with to try and get themselves off the hook.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Washington man arrested for allegedly throwing rock at seal in Maui⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Swimming pool. Surrounded by seals trained to throw rocks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Washington man arrested for allegedly throwing rock at seal in Maui⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ll let Pele sort out how to pronounce that name!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Washington man arrested for allegedly throwing rock at seal in Maui⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “NOAA, huh? You guys give the weather report. You can’t do nothing to me!” spits

  “You know what NOAA stands for? No Assholes Abided!” firefight ensues

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Washington man arrested for allegedly throwing rock at seal in Maui⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was that story of da guy who killed one on Moloka’i. Was like last year, two years, yeah? Never found em. Local guy I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Washington man arrested for allegedly throwing rock at seal in Maui⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Eh, get cracks!”

  Saw that the local guy is also not having any charges pressed against him for this. Love to see it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Washington man arrested for allegedly throwing rock at seal in Maui⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I live on O’ahu and I’ll never forget the first time I encountered a monk seal while surfing. It was near sunset and I was kind of off by myself, away from the rest of the crowd. I heard a sound of heavy breathing from behind me and I thought that maybe someone was paddling up. Nope, it was a seal.

  At first my brain couldn’t make sense of it. I grew up in Florida and so immediately thought it was a manatee (for some reason I thought monk seals were like sea lion size or something smaller and leaner), but I knew this was impossible. Then it yawned and I saw its sizable teeth and realized what it was. It was funny because it was about that time that it realized I was looking at it and it had this “oh shit!” look in its eyes. We gave each other a cautious side-eye just before it went back underwater and swam away.

  These things are big. What would possess someone to think they can approach one is beyond me. A couple years ago there was a story of a lady out swimming in Waikiki and she apparently wandered into an area where a recently born seal was on the beach. The mother messed her up, iirc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Washington man arrested for allegedly throwing rock at seal in Maui⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  His defense attorney is saying that the dude was trying to scare away the seal because he thought it was hurting some sea turtles. Story is here. Found this when I was looking for yesterday’s story quoting the dude as saying “I can afford the fines” when he was confronted by some local people.

  Not sure I buy this. But, we’ll see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dammit!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, the Days of the Truman Show memes are upon us!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m laughing because I grew up in the ghetto and I saw plenty houses painted in both this color and a few in this manner. My mom would always say “free paint!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks about Truman⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They do actually nearly kill him in the movie. Paul Giamatti’s character protests about this and refuses to cooperate when Ed Harris’ character wants a full-blown hurricane at sea to try and get Truman to comply

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks about Truman⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s also been raised to perceive the world as Christof (Christophe? Kristof? Ed Harris’ character) designed it. So ubiquitous product placement would not have felt strange to him, or even people overly talking about a product, because he’d have nothing to compare this behavior to. Not until he began to suspect things, which is when he confronts his wife (“who the hell are you talking to?”)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We dunking on England again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, loading up some spaghetti on a piece of garlic bread is pretty delicious

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We dunking on England again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Somewhere, many years back, I read that an alternative to British beans on toast is spaghetti-os on toast. I have no idea if this is true, but I have to say: it has always sounded delicious, but I’ve never bothered to try and make it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did the Crocodile Hunter die? Was he aggervating sting rays. I watched and messed with them in the gulf. But not one has ever try to sting me. Was he piising them off that much?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I recall, he was trying to film an interaction with another animal (maybe a shark), completely missing the stingray below him, which I believe was camouflaged. It came out of nowhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ecosia has Planted 250 MILLION Trees⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve started using Ecosia after years of using DuckDuckGo. I find that the results are better. DDG has been slipping (and I used NoAI version), giving me way too many LLM-generated sites and putting the actual stuff I want way down the list (or on the second page). I haven’t had the same issues with Ecosia. It’s not perfect, but I’ve become a fan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Greg, Pastor of the Promised End playing guitar???⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now here’s a person who’s heard “fellowship” used as a verb!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A long-ass way to write 'not parmesan'.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Parmesan-y”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm good, thanks!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  On my timeline, this is appearing right above the story about the Israeli soldier destroying the Jesus statue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I concede and withdraw my prior point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at this guy, calling bullshit on Fleetwood Mac

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨877-CASH-NOW⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I love that it generated the name “Juano.” That seems like a special kind of racist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hay there⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they let their cat walk on the keyboard when it was set for Wingdings, iirc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The World Is Basically Begging for Another iPod⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I can tell. I did get much better battery results from doing RockBox after a factory reset. (Initially switched it over after having loaded my music onto the device; battery was no good and there were some weird quirks with the file system so I decided to fully reset the device, installed RB, then loaded my music. Noticeable difference!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The World Is Basically Begging for Another iPod⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I got the itch to have a separate music player from my phone. Became very interested in the Innioasis Y1. It looks like a late model iPod nano (before they went touchscreen; it has the wheel). Bought it and then put the RockBox firmware on it (no simple task if you use Linux, let me tell you). I love it. It’s made me more intentional with my music. Plus I’m acquiring CDs and burning them to my laptop to transfer over to the Y1.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y'all ever have intrusive thoughts about accidentally dropping stuff in storm drains? (particulary when you have your phone out) And like if that happens, wtf is someone supposed to do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to live on a boarding school campus as an administrator. My kids and I were hanging on a culvert at a pond on the campus, I leaned over to look at something and my black iPhone 7 slid right out of my breast pocket and into the water. I knew that I had like fifteen minutes before it died. So I ran home, grabbed a wetsuit jacket (it was like February in Florida, cold enough to need this) and put on my board shorts and ran back to the water with a net. I waded in, felt my body sink down to my knees in muck. It was so gross that I wasn’t about to let my head get underwater. But I felt with my feet and used the net to pull stuff up from around where I saw the phone fall (while my wife pinged it with the Find My app). She watched the dot disappear and that’s when we knew the phone had died. Never found it.

  I took like three showers after that, just to be sure. And I do not go near ponds with my phone anywhere except in my hip pockets (or in a sling bag)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of one of my favorite ways to eat vanilla ice cream: with olive oil and a bit of sea salt. I get a lot of grief for this, but I learned about it ages ago in an old Cracked (.com) article and it is really good.