Midnight Wolf

A sternly-worded letter

HDD* (hard disk drive)

But streaming is downloading. Sure, it’s not saved to the disk, but…

In high school, I had a classmate that I was not yet in the ‘friends’ territory, but we knew each other and would make small talk. One day she asked me to come around and look at her family computer, usual ‘slow and acting weird’ stuff. Sure.

I go over, all prepped with a flash drive full of utilities, and get straight to work. After a bit, maybe an hour of just chatting while I run programs and make changes, she offers to show me her room. I mean, I’m just waiting for the progress bar, why not. So she leads me back and it’s a cozy room, all neat and tidy, and I stop in the doorway while she sits on the bed. I survey the room, I remember the bed being pink, like that of a flowers pedals (I don’t know names of flowers but you all know that one I’m talking about, pink with a shade of white making it a light pink). I said something about the room being nice or something, and she pats the bed next to her and offers that I sit.

“No thanks, I should probably get back to the computer to see how it’s doing.”

And I do just that. She asks for help twice more after that - and I’m just like ‘how are you this bad at computers’ but strangely the follow-up visits don’t show much for me to fix. Strange, why would she ask for help - and pay me - when it’s basically in pristine shape now?

About a decade later, it clicked. She was cute, tall, quite intelligent, and nice to talk to, but I’m both an idiot, and like 99.4% gay, so that makes sense. Had it been a guy, I would have connected the dots immediately.

Ah well, she had a better-than-new pc for quite a while, at least.

Common mistake. Dinosaurs actually tasted like dinosaurs.

This might be a stupid answer, but uh… make more CRTs? There’s a niche shop for everything. Just like how new components for retro computers are made today (stuff like bootable flash cards for older stuff, creating better ways to achieve things), if there is a demand, there will be a market.

I dunno how they’d be made but someone will figure it out. But I’m sure because it’s low-demand (comparatively), it will be high price.

I run a synology nas, and use their photo system. Occasionally I’ll run thru critical apps (med schedule/dosing/refill reminder, blood pressure logs, signal…) and make backups, then stick them/update them in a folder on the nas, etc.

Basically anything I want to keep, goes on the nas. What’s on my phone is just temporary, and disposable.

For stuff like calendar and contacts, I run radicale and then sync it via DAVx5, then use Fossify Calendar and such. I moved away from G 8 years ago, and the only link is my yt channel (meh, disposable), nest (smoke alarms and thermostat), and store credit card (for buying devices). Calendar, contacts, tasks, notes, drive, photos, etc are all handled by the nas; email is through my hosting provider.

And while I’d like to roll my own hardware for a nas, the synology system is pretty forgiving to new users, and while I think I can do it, it’d be more work and more monitoring, so I’m staying put until something lights a fire under me.

wild kink but I don’t judge

much

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heh

This pisses me off. If the text ends with “minutes”, “minutes” is shorter than “show more” and thus the interface should have just shown the fucking remaining text instead.

Okay grandpa, let’s get you back to the old folks home so you can get your meds…

Payday 3, if all players enter the pause menu, the game actually pauses. Anyone can exit the menu at any time, and re-enter it - which again pauses the game, if all other players remain in the pause menu.

It’s nice because it lets players loot and plan while others are away, but if they too need to afk, the team isn’t screwed by a guard coming around a corner with nobody to react.

No, not through the dockge UI. You can do it manually with standard docker commands (I have a cron task for this) but if you want to visualize things, dockge won’t do that (yet?).

Yeah

1v1 me

Duh

taking notes

I mean I think the Toyota Corolla is still the most popular new car worldwide, and bland colors like white and gray are the most common as they are neutral colors that everyone seems to be okay with. Not our fault we want to use dependable boring transportation for our families, officer…

But we are indoors?

That’s why you get some friends together to all have similar plates. Similar cars too, if possible.

“Was it the gray Corolla, or the gray Camry? Was de-badged?” “They are all de-badged! What about the prius from the bank robbery?” “There are three cyan prii, that fled from that” “Were they driving an LE or SE model trim?” “No idea, did anyone check what wheels they had?” “Oh, they are known to swap the wheels of the different trims of that generation” “I’ve heard that they wrap the cars before they pull a job, so they don’t expose the real paint job” “GAHHHH”