I cut my teeth on a '93 Geo Metro. Approximately 30 lbs wet, not weighed down by things like an automatic transmission or air bags or a tachometer. Had to learn the car’s language, listen when she told me to shift gears. God I miss that little toy car

Sounds great until either a) a student laughs, says no, and stays on their phone or b) a teacher gets fired for trying to force a student to drop their phone in a cardboard box

I mean they said “unless you’re using stuff that’s supremely sketchy and also installing things you shouldn’t be”

They don’t have him reading scripts at random. He’s Hank “Creator of Sci Show” Green. He lends an air of credibility to the channel, and the fact that they got their story about knitting so incredibly wrong damages the credibility of both him and the channel.

Been a minute since I watched it, but essentially Scishow did an episode about the science of knitting (and other forms of fabric crafting, which they did not adequately distinguish between) without consulting a single person who knits. It came off as really dismissive of the craft, like it’s somehow super surprising that knitting is actually interesting.

I’ll update this comment with a better explanation after work, check back in 12 hours

Two things are true: one, the “I appreciate the pushback” line was regarding his guest, not a leftover AI thing. Two, this is still strikes 2 and 3 for me. Been wary of him ever since the knitting debacle, and AI use is a bridge too far

I earned my first perma by saying Ann Coulter is a racist, and the account I made to bypass that ban got banned because I illegally used sarcasm while criticizing SCOTUS. Their moderation bots have the site so locked down that you can’t even have a normal conversation, and they’re surprised that they’re losing visitors lmfao

Gooey? Sounds gross

Socrates didn’t have access to modern science. This shit rots your brain.

Debian won, I’m trying it first. So far so good, using KDE because Arch ran pretty well with it, but will likely try i3 if this gets slow. Side note: This is the first distro I’ve tried that shows accurate colors on my laptop! I’d resigned myself to always having a slightly washed out, slightly cool color palette. Not anymore! It looks normal!

Why would they catch pedophiles? Their founder is one

Hey, it’s this meme again!

This seems as good a place as any to ask. I have a shitty old laptop that ran Arch pretty good, but I’m not good enough at Linux and I managed to fuck it up. Something about the root partition being full, and discussions about the fix went over my head. So I pulled all my stuff off of it and installed Mint like my other computer has, because it’s braindead easy to use. But even Mint Xfce runs like doo doo on this machine.

Is there any good middle ground that’s more beginner friendly than Arch, and runs on weaker machines than Mint?

Yeah, mine did cost like $160, but it is nice to know that canon can’t decide to end support and brick it in 10 years

For now, you can get inkjet printers that use liquid ink. Ostensibly Canon wants me to use Canon brand ink for my printer, but there’s nothing stopping me from buying some off brand and dumping it in the tanks

The people who called me crazy because “there’s no way your phone can be listening in on you all the time” are the same people who are going to be the most excited about this “feature”

It’s not a request, it’s a warning. The machine will be without power soon, and it’s up to the machine whether it wants to prepare for that or not

Now to be totally fair, 325 is 325 more than 0, which would be the ideal number of 3d printed guns used in crime… But also, how many of those 3d printed gun users had access to a different gun and simply opted for the 3d printed one? I get the feeling it was somewhere around 325 of them

This is all ignoring the fact that I’m using a very liberal definition of the phrase “3d printed gun.” I doubt anyone is using Songbirds for armed robberies lmao

They’ll ask chatgpt to generate it. It doesn’t need to be viable, it just needs to be impossible for manufacturers to comply with

Everytown for Gun Safety says recoveries of 3D-printed crime guns across 20 cities have risen nearly 1,000% over the past five years,

So… They found a total of ten 3d printed guns in the last 5 years?

I would love to see a politician try to fire a gun printed like that. Genuinely, it would be fun to see it explode in their hands