Blank spaces arent characters by definition as they’re the space that allows the letters to exist

He did

As a standalone word it’s Shire as we say it, but put it at the end of a word and you pronounce it differently

Lancashire is lanka-sheer, for example

Your guys’ box isn’t full of HDMI and USB mini/micro?

Oh and I have 150ft of coax, don’t ask why, I don’t fucking remember

Almost 10 years in and my wife is like “I can’t believe you love these so much still”

I don’t understand that comment honestly

It was, riffing on Minority Report from 2002

Success, I’d say. You’re really a frood dude who knows where his towel is finger guns

One time I did come across one of these that popped the whole iPad keyboard up, I tried to enter a negative number and clearly the programers were extra dumb because it managed to crash the whole POS and force a reboot

ETA: cashier thought it was hilarious, store owner got so mad he banned me from the store “for life”

That first bit reads so much like Pratchett

If it’s not then props, it reads almost exactly like a line from one of the Night Watch books would

LARPer

Hey, if youre a coward who can’t back up what they say online IRL that’s on you, not me

sad sack

Awwww that’s cute, you think having conviction is sad!

Seethe harder, it’s hilarious

Seethe

They wanted it, they can enjoy it

Conservatives have signed on for fascism, I hope they rot slowly while alive in front of everyone they love, maybe then they’ll learn, but I fuckin doubt it

smashing printers with baseball bats

I have years of IT experience, offer Linux support, and am visibly the kind of guy you just know can fix your computer problem (or, if I take my glasses off, I look like I sell weed apparently), and when asked to help with printers I have one answer:

They’re sentient and they hate you. I was trained in IT, not exorcisms. Send it as a PDF, PNG, or smoke signal before you try troubleshooting.

Like, I broke my big office one the other day so bad the tech had to come out. What had I done to brick it so badly? Tap a menu option, tap back, then tap a different menu option. If you don’t wait 3s between the second and third tap it errors and freezes and they have to send a tech out to do some sort of 2 hour long ritual where he rubs it and whispers how sorry he is.

What the fuck is wrong with printers

No, though I get what you mean, I locked eyes with this woman as my ass came off the seat and she death gripped the cart, I think she might legitimately have been momentarily worried about hitting her head on the ceiling and breaking her neck (had a friend be a hostess and she said the training absolutely mentions that)

As soon as they were touching the floor again they moved as fast as they could to their area, locked it down, and strapped in hard, and the captain yelled in Japanese over the intercom for a couple minutes before finally translating in English that we were fine, clearly freaked out

I know planes are safe but that experience at 1am over the pitch black Pacific ocean occasionally flashes back to me when I’m on planes because holy shit what the FUCK happened

Ive seen a loaded drink cart get a few inches of the floor, though that one was intense enough that even the flight attendants adopted an “oh fuck we’re about to die” face, which is comforting

Ok, even I have a cringe reaction to that by default

Even then though I’ve only really seen people go “you should try mint instead, basically that but without the proprietary stuff”

Think I did see ONE guy weirdly assholish about it but haven’t seen em in a while

I see a lot of the “even once you pick a Linux distro you get yelled at for using the wrong one” and like I just haven’t seen that here?

Lemmy is by far the chilliest place of Linux users I’ve ever fucking seen. Even when I posted an issue on the Linux mint forum I got fucking told “well you used XFCE, there’s your issue” despite it being the better choice for that system

We absolutely will pressure people to try it, because we’re a cult. Meetings on Thursdays at 9PM for my local chapter

I forget the type of mic but there are mics specifically designed for picking up vibrations from surfaces (I googled it, they’re called surface mics ffs, could probably use a cheap normal mic without a pop filter tho)

If those use USB or 3.5mm, or can be made to, then plug them in and on windows check the “listen to this device” checkbox and boom, you’ll hear what’s coming through that mic. Adjust the sensitivity to your needs, done

On other OSs you can do it too just as easily but I don’t remember what my Linux distro calls it and if you’ve installed Linux you have enough info from my comment to figure it out methinks

The downvotes just mean your take is great and everyone else is pissed you said it first, obviously 😎

30 dead in a security line is nowhere near as big of a deal as 30 dead in an airplane

I understand your point, but the airplane usually has well over 100 people on it and itself can also fall out of the sky and hurt people that aren’t on it

Security theater is annoying bullshit that doesn’t even catch a shocking number of shit, but planes get more attention for what should be obvious reasons