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I believe it was you, and the Irish.

Oh shit, I just realized why they’re mentioned. Yield, for they have the high ground, and cannot be sieged.

Thank you, democracy fans in the Netherlands!

Apologies for the confusion, and the late reply. I see what you mean; my comment could have been worded far better.

Exactly because of stuff like the above, I’m just returning from a long break from social media. I’ll do better. Thanks for highlighting the issue, take care.

I don’t think it would be fun to be a serf, and I haven’t idealized it. I made a dumb joke, based on a trope, and a couple of you guys just can’t accept that, and have to leave a smug reply.

I worked in manual labor for decades, in worse conditions than any serf ever experienced, right up until my body fell apart. 20 years ago, I would have traded my life with nearly any serf, in a heartbeat, and I’d be far better off now.

But, I’m sure you could show little old me what hard living really is. If only I knew!

It was meant as a joke. Capitalism isn’t feudalism in new cloths, either, but that gets a pass. I think you just hate ducks.

Besides, serfdom went on for centuries, under hundreds of different lords and rulers, in just as many environments. Your description covers one type, not all types. It’s disingenuous to paint it black and white, just because you have a problem with ducks.

Serfs in Gucci belts.

Ah, who am I kidding? Serfs had a far better work/life balance than most people in the developed world today. They had to use regular belts, though, which is embarrassing.

Can someone explain all the of possums these past few days? And, while I’m on the subject…

Car hitting possum memes: No. :(…
Cowboy possum memes: YES! :D

Ye olde shitte transcribers

I have a tall mouth, and I drink tall tea. The cup is the same, though.

I caught a brief glimpse of the second frame, and thought I’d foolishly opened some goatse.

Feels like I got off with a warning, and that it would be wise to slow down a little on these mountain roads.

As another commenter hinted at, “Thinkpad” used to mean IBM laptop; Lenovo bought the name (and PC division of IBM) for that reason, and they don’t mind if people think they’re still IBM, because OG Thinkpads were the bomb. This is what I was getting at.

It’s bananas that the IBM association is just gone now, because the name was huge in the 90s. Sometimes a fella can really feel old.

PSA: Lenovo has gotten in trouble for hidden Chinese malware on their laptops, multiple times.

Careful with their hardware; it’s no longer the company that built the name.

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This part is also, ummm, interesting…

BleepingComputer has confirmed that this API is still openly available to anyone on the web, even after its abuse was reported to DuoLingo in January.

I don’t see an issue if a living person wants to sign away their rights for this. But, if someone’s already dead, and they were never asked, creating new material with their likeness should be off-limits.

A good use of the tech is to restore and enhance old films. That’s exciting, this other thing is dildos.

You absolute maniac.

Everyone here has grand ideas, but maybe you don’t need any of that stuff. My old laptops are retired as couch laptops; they just live on the couch, so I can do pointless stuff, like leave this comment.

Currently on a laptop that was purchased in 2007; it was running Windows Vista on a 2GHz Pentium Dual Core, with 4GB RAM. As you can imagine, it did a poor job, even when new. For the past decade+, it has been running Linux Mint with (fast and light) XFCE desktop, and it’s faster than a new Windows laptop (of similar shit-tier).

So, there you have my suggestion. Throw Linux on your old laptop (so it runs properly), and then park it on the couch.

Ghost Commander is a winner for me as well, because it’s also an FTP client, and is dual-pane (and because it’s FOSS, of course). Been using it for what must be at least 10 years now, across many devices, and have no complaints whatsoever.

If anyone is intrigued, here’s a link to Ghost Commander on F-Droid.

I’m pretty sure there is no “wait” feature on that model, it only has settings for “go fast” and “sleep” modes. If you keep it in that state too long, it will begin nervously shaking, and then spontaneously revert to “go fast” mode.

I’ve seen the low-effort meme comments as well; I hated them on Reddit, and I hate them here. This topic had come up on Reddit many times over the years, and there’s not really a way to combat it, from what I could tell. People with nothing to say still want to participate (e.g. earn fake internet points), and that seems to be a favored way do it.

Entomology subs like /r/whatsthisbug had a hard rule against comments like “kill it with fire”, “nope”, and “nuke it from orbit”. It was explained in the sidebar, mods would actively remove the comments, and people would downvote them, but it barely made a dent. Scroll to the bottom of a post and you’d see the same stupid “joke” repeated over and over, verbatim.

These people don’t even look at the other comments, they just drop their canned catchphrase and leave. This is why I like that we have to scroll to the bottom to comment here; at least the numpties have to put in slightly more effort, and hopefully they notice the comment has already been made 30 times. Ah, who am I kidding? Seeing the same comment probably reinforces their desire to post it.

The entire issue is lame as frig, wish there was a way to stop it. I know I’d be a bad moderator, because I’d just ban them.