The Boston Molasses Flood

Optimus85 · 2020-10-01T02:13:31+00:00

Just found them out a week ago. Cole and Sam Gendel are two creative geniuses. The band Knower is pretty damned great as well! Calzone will not be tolerated!!!

Optimus85 · 2020-09-26T06:48:32+00:00

"Pre-Stretched For Your Comfort"

Optimus85 · 2020-09-24T20:55:29+00:00

Mint is a good place to start if you're unfamiliar with Linux. I'm on Pop! OS which is Ubuntu-based like Mint and it is quite user-friendly. There is a Linux version of eDEX-UI and it looks quite nice although a bit heavy on resources(+15% CPU usage) and it takes about half a minute to load and start. TOP and HTOP are lightweight but on the terminal only(and text-based). If you ever decide to make the switch and have questions, don't hesitate to ask(I'm assuming, perhaps wrongly, that your Linux knowledge is minimal)!

Optimus85 · 2020-09-12T20:36:27+00:00

Yes indeed. That sub is one of the reasons I deleted my reddit account a while ago.

Optimus85 · 2020-09-11T02:14:21+00:00

Banned for telling the truth. How pathetic has the world become?

Optimus85 · 2020-09-03T01:05:40+00:00

"Cry yourself to ash."

Optimus85 · 2020-09-01T20:34:22+00:00

Is it Comet Ping Pong pizza?

Optimus85 · 2020-08-25T09:55:24+00:00

Kinda like the Superstore episode where they find a dead employee in the wall. Not making light of this; it's really fucked up.

Optimus85 · 2020-08-19T09:34:33+00:00

The aftermath. :)

Optimus85 · 2020-08-19T06:38:23+00:00

Chtulu calleth. ☠️

Optimus85 · 2020-08-06T00:56:35+00:00

Sad. Red Hat 8 is the first Linux distro I ever installed and I liked it. Tried Fedora two years ago and an update broke my system :/

Optimus85 · 2020-08-05T00:22:16+00:00

Nice! I need all the music knowledge I can get and I'll submit something to get the ball rolling.

Optimus85 · 2020-08-04T23:38:08+00:00

There is. I don't think the admins want to spend their time policing NSFW content plus the unwanted attention and being scrutinised by the authorities for illegal content. I don't know what new users think of this but I'm fine with it. There's no shortage of porn on the Internet anyway.

Optimus85 · 2020-08-04T23:24:17+00:00

Good. Saidit doesn't need that shit. Some people are trying to sabotage this site.

Optimus85 · 2020-08-03T07:44:07+00:00

You get a light bulb and a stupid smiling face from me. If only there was Saidit gold. Nah, that's retarded.

Optimus85 · 2020-08-01T02:10:33+00:00

It'd be funnier if it weren't true.

Optimus85 · 2020-07-31T21:06:44+00:00

I don't like double posting as well but s/engineering is a sub I created a while back and I wasn't sure it would show up on s/all so I also posted on s/technology. FWIW, I took down the offending double post.

Optimus85 · 2020-07-30T09:44:57+00:00

FreeBSD?

Optimus85 · 2020-07-30T09:23:40+00:00

Well that's the thing, those are Microsoft-centric programs and tools. There are equivalent open-source alternatives. If you're a professional graphics designer and you can afford the Adobe suite for Windows/Mac then by all means. If not there's GIMP, Inkscape, Blender and a host of office suites for spreadsheets, presentations, word processing like Open/Libre Office for free. And the console is a bonus if you know how to use it; it's faster for a couple of things and can be useful for system monitoring and troubleshooting issues. But you can pretty much do everything by pointing and clicking. Linux has some nice graphical interfaces(KDE, Gnome, XFCE, LXDE, etc.). I don't know, with Linux I feel like I'm more in control of my computer. I get to decide when updates are applied, what desktop environment to use, install it on as many machines I want to...And it runs great on old hardware.

Optimus85 · 2020-07-30T05:24:13+00:00

DE backwards compatibility. What does that even mean? You mean driver compatibility? That's hardly an issue nowadays. Besides, Linux supports more peripherals out-of-the-box than Windows. But keep shilling for that M$ proprietary crap.

Optimus85 · 2020-07-30T05:14:37+00:00

Because Windows 10 with its telemetry, spying, NSA backdoor, forced updates and overall sluggishness is much better right? Not forgetting the fact that you have to pay for it. I'll stick with my "sucky" Linux thank you.

Optimus85 · 2020-07-29T21:19:22+00:00

Probably not the best course of action.

Optimus85 · 2020-07-29T07:14:18+00:00

Sweden clear-cut its elderly population, let it spread like wildfire in nursing homes, and denied medical service to dying people at the peak of the infections.

Source?

Optimus85 · 2020-07-29T07:05:39+00:00

Not quite. TLDR: It's not possible from our vantage point to assert this although it could be possible. They're(nebulaes) just very spread out masses of ionised gasses that we see as coloured halos from light years away.

Optimus85 · 2020-07-29T06:55:18+00:00

Unrelated somewhat but you might find this interesting; overview of a 1938 Tatra(Czeck car) by Jay Leno with a rear-mounted 2.4L magnesium-cast V8 engine.

Optimus85 · 2020-07-29T06:31:17+00:00

Yup. People have this prefabricated notion of what life is about like having babies, marrying, owning a house and then slaving for a lifetime trying to accomplish/pay for all that. Our institutions, media(Hollywood) play a role in forging that mindset. I just find all of it pointless.

Optimus85 · 2020-07-24T01:04:22+00:00

Gotta love that bass. Chris Squire had such an original tone.

Optimus85 · 2020-07-23T21:30:40+00:00

Another great album/song is Starless And Bible Black. I like all their albums up to the eighties.

Optimus85 · 2020-07-23T03:36:34+00:00

This album is a masterpiece. R.I.P Greg Lake.

Optimus85 · 2020-07-22T05:46:26+00:00

And the third cop to intervene didn't even have a face mask on. 2 + 2 = 5 right?

Optimus85 · 2020-07-22T05:05:56+00:00

Les temps sont fous.

Optimus85 · 2020-07-22T03:31:07+00:00

"The two D's are for a double-dose of pimpin'."

Optimus85 · 2020-07-22T03:24:30+00:00

18$ an hour minimum where I live for a 1 bedroom plus utilities with a little left over for food.

Optimus85 · 2020-07-22T03:21:41+00:00

And this is where capitalism fails. Treating basic needs such as housing like a commercial commodity and determining its value based on the laws of the market(supply and demand, inflation, speculation, emerging markets, etc.) completely disregards the human factor. I am not advocating communism as it stifles innovation, competition, entrepreneurship and certain freedoms(communism however does not equal totalitarianism) but a little bit more socialism wouldn't hurt. If you don't mind being branded a "commie" by those conflating communism with socialism. But I digress, this world is FUCKED!

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