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- Comment on Is there like a pocket sized computer? (I mean like not a "phone", but something that I can run full desktop OSes and programs on; and I'd love to also have the typical phone camera's and GPS.) 3 hours ago:
I’ll echo the GPD sentiment already on display here. I have a GPD Win Max 2 and it’s not exactly pocket sized per se, but it is just about as small as you can make a traditionally laid out (more or less) laptop while still keeping it usable. It’s also tiny little gaming monster which is neat, but might be overkill for purposes. I carry it around in a pistol case rather than a laptop bag, just to be an asshole.
If you want to go smaller you can dry the GPD Micro PC which is roughly the volume of an OG Nintendo DS although its proportions are a little different.
If you want cheaper and don’t need the horsepower, one of my coworkers actually bought one of those little N100 based 8" micro laptop thingies, akin to this one, and I have some hands on experience with it. They’re sold under a myriad of non-brand names and I believe internally they’re all the same. It’s got about the footprint of a paperback novel although it’s much thinner, and could conceivably be put in a pocket if you wear Jncos, or possibly in a jacket. I was surprised at the build quality but the performance is rather dire, and using its little capacitive mouse nubbin for any length of time is an exercise in frustration.
All of these are truly x86 compatible, i.e. real computers, and come with Windows by default. They can certainly be bullied into running some flavor of Linux if that’s what you prefer.
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 4 days ago:
We’ll just have to observe him carefully and see if he’s able to complete a left turn without assistance. That’ll tell us for sure.
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 4 days ago:
Or possibly ten thousand spoons.
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 4 days ago:
I’ve been summoned, just like Beetlejuice.
- Comment on Just give me a few hundred turns, and I'm gonna spank everyone at this tournament. 6 days ago:
Oh, that’s diabolical.
For similar reasons, I always kept Alabaster Potions around to sub out for the Meteor Shower (or Fireball, but Meteor Shower is more amusing). Pick white, you explode. Red, I’ll just give myself 4,294,967,296 health.
- Comment on Anyway to download just the song of this video? I want to put it to a ringtone but do not know how? 6 days ago:
You can pretty easily use yt-dlp to gank Youtube content, including just its audio. Either from this vid or whatever original it borrowed the song from.
Just Googling “youtube downloader” and clicking on everything you see is likely to land you with some malware…
- Comment on Just give me a few hundred turns, and I'm gonna spank everyone at this tournament. 6 days ago:
You know, I have a deck that could theoretically legitimately cast this by turn 4. Less if you were willing to abuse Lotuses or Moxes.
Usually I just dump all of that colorless mana into a Meteor Shower, though.
- Comment on Oh really? 1 week ago:
A friend of mine worked for the US Census Bureau for a while. Among their myriad binders and forms, etc. was a page full of tear-off perforated wallet size cards which contained no text or information on them whatsoever other than “do not distribute this card” printed on the back. And no, I have absolutely no idea what the purpose of these things was supposed to be. Nor apparently does anyone else.
So of course he dutifully tore them all off and quite deliberately handed them out to people. He gave me one. I might still have it someplace.
- Comment on How can i remove MIA mods? 1 week ago:
Eeenteresting. Well, now I know.
- Comment on How can i remove MIA mods? 1 week ago:
Really? That’s news. Is that one of those things that varies whether or not it’s presented to you depending on which client you use?
- Comment on How can i remove MIA mods? 1 week ago:
For fairly obvious anti-abuse reasons, mods can’t kick other mods. You will have to ask the admins of your instance (this instance, in this case) what they want to do about it.
- Comment on 5-minute oil change place 1 week ago:
Oh, I’m sure they do. And charge eight times more than what they’re worth.
- Comment on 5-minute oil change place 1 week ago:
The oil filter. Not the air filter.
- Comment on It's called seeing through a glass darkly. 1 week ago:
If only that boat could be made smaller somehow and fit inside the car.
- Comment on 5-minute oil change place 1 week ago:
They typically intend (and indeed, try to) use their machine to suck all the oil out of the dipstick hole and replace it via the same. That’s generally doable within the 5 minute allocation but it’s also only half of the job since that inevitably involves not replacing the oil filter.
- Comment on 5-minute oil change place 1 week ago:
The fact that these places always exclude the filter from their price and treat it as a “gotcha” add-on is deeply hilarious.
You have to replace the filter when you change the oil. That’s just how it works. It’s not special and it’s not extra. It’s literally the intended procedure.
- Comment on Stop this tomfoolery at once 1 week ago:
Ach, crivens. First it’s tha’ hands on the hips. Then it’s tha’ pursin’ o’ the lips. Then the tapping o’ tha’ feets. Waily, waily, waily…
- Comment on No looky for you! 1 week ago:
Negative. Being struck with water pressure is what opens the detergent door. That’s why it’s sprung like a mousetrap and so easy to jostle open accidentally. You can take the door and dispenser apart if you like and you will find no electronics in there. Also, if you look carefully at the upper wash arm you’ll see it has one nozzle on the tip that points outwards, not up. That’s the one that makes the stream designed to hit and open the detergent door.
Of course, the dishwasher’s program determines when to blast it at full pressure to pop it open. So it is “timed” in that sense.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 2 weeks ago:
Another possibly related wrinkle here is that I an given to understand (I am by no means an expert) that there is not a single square inch of dirt anywhere within the United States that is not considered by the Postal Service to fall within the boundaries of a ZIP code. Regardless of the population level of that location (even if any), any mailbox staked into the ground anywhere will have an associated ZIP code which will inherit the name of some city/town/borough/whatever by default. This is regardless of how many miles are between that location and the city in question, or how much it makes sense.
Everywhere in the country is somewhere, even if it’s the middle of nowhere, according to the post office.
For added giggles, here is one of my oft-reposted pictures, which happens to be more-or-less in the, er, “city center” of Tartown, PA which is on the MABDR route in the saddle of a random mountain in the middle of the woods near the Southern border of Pennsylvania.
Tartown is an abandoned “unincorporated community” within the ZIP code 17320, which ostensibly covers Fairfield in Adams County, PA. “Community” is a strong word. There is in fact no such place as Tartown, except there is. Information on it is sparse, and it contains no development, no remaining buildings, no utilities, no government, and no population. However it is a named point on a map that has a defined location and presumably will forevermore, as long as the records are kept. Thus it is a town.
…For a suitably small quantity of “town.”
- Comment on FFFFFUUUUUUUU 2 weeks ago:
I still use the “y u no [whatever]” guy pretty frequently. That one has some legs.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 2 weeks ago:
People will start calling their settlement a “village” here when they’ve decided to start being pretentious about it. Expect to find a winery there, or a studio where someone with frizzy hair makes inscrutable physical art, or a bunch of horse enthusiasts.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, it’s an example of the “everyone fled” variety. Well, almost everyone.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 2 weeks ago:
One Dollar General. If you have a Family Dollar as well you are in the big city.
If you have a Dollar Tree also, you may in fact be in the 'hood.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 2 weeks ago:
There are named towns in the US with populations in the single digits. This can be due to either the population moving away, fleeing, or simply dying off over time – Centralia, PA leaps to mind – or because it’s just a cluster of a couple of houses at a crossroads that would otherwise be in the middle of nowhere. There may not necessarily be a post office or any other services there.
In fact, there are “towns” in the US in that they are named on the map and have a defined location filed with the state/county/Postal Service, but they have no inhabitants at all. In many cases this is because a planned development never actually happened.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says 2 weeks ago:
I’ve held multiple times before that it possibly would have been better off if it were a more focused, linear experience possibly akin to how the newer Deus Ex games worked. Within those you had the freedom to screw around in the area/mission you were in and given a wide latitude to complete things as you saw fit, but it definitely excised the wannabe GTA filler in the middle.
2077 had an excellent series of incredibly well-directed moments, both within the main story missions as well as several notable side missions, but the stuff in between made little sense especially given the story framework of V living on borrowed time with a ticking bomb in their head. But sure, let’s save up and buy nine apartments, collect all the gold class weapons, stock your garage with all the cars, traipse all over down finding all of Delamain’s rogue taxis, do a sidequest for this random chump, see a concert, check all these cyberpsychos off our list…
There is incredible detail in the world if – but only if – you stop to search for it. There are a lot of things most players will probably miss unless they’re specifically pointed out, and while that’s certainly neat it also means that the lack of discoverability means the time spent on many of those details ultimately turns out to be wasted. 2077 is thus a weird hybrid of a linear and open world game and as a result feels both too constrained and to unfocused at the same time. It’s all to easy to get derailed, and alas to some extent you have to let yourself get derailed to accrue enough XP and equipment so you don’t get your ass handed to you if you just try to stick to the main storyline, even though that storyline is written as if it’s supposed to be a single linear narrative.
Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoyed the game. I just would have presented it much differently if I were in charge.
- Comment on No looky for you! 2 weeks ago:
Specifically in your face because one of the nozzles on the middle spray arm is aimed outwards to hit the latch on the detergent dispenser door.
- Comment on No looky for you! 2 weeks ago:
INB4 KDTM804ESS.
I have to conjecture this didn’t sell very well.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 2 weeks ago:
…Just don’t look at it too hard when you go to the Great Deku Tree in BotW.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 2 weeks ago:
If you’ve never actually used the Canon app on your phone: I assure you that it would be faster to ride the elevator down from your hotel room, walk to the nearest store, haggle with the store owner for 10 minutes over the price of the cable, get your money changed, buy it, and return to your hotel room than it would be to wait for the app to connect to your camera over wi-fi.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 2 weeks ago:
Ballista > Catapult.
(Orbital ion cannon > Ballista.)
