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ElectricMachman
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  • Desperate deans call for deansperate measures

  • Ideally not an ableist slur, if we can help it

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  • Eat them for the good of mankind

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  • Similar: the five minute rule. If you're struggling to get started on a big task, do it for five minutes. Best outcome is that you keep doing the task, and it gets done. But even if you've had enough, then at least that's five minutes' worth you don't have to do later.

  • Noice

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  • There are lots if you know where to look!

  • Like others below, I use FreshRSS for the server component. I have the Read You app on my phone which syncs with it, and makes for a pleasant reading experience.

  • Reminds me of the device icons in Microsoft Intune.

    Android is represented by a rounded rectangle. Linux is a rounded rectangle, but yellow. iOS is, you guessed it, a rounded rectangle, but black.

    Windows, however, is a nice flat-screen monitor (read: a rounded rectangle on a stick)

  • Dr. Cortex is undoubtedly evil; but he MASSIVELY overexaggerates just how much of an evil genius he is. The worst thing he did (other than building a slave army from endangered native creatures) was shoot an emu one time. Most of the other bad things he did were more incompetence than malice

  • Any IT admins in the audience: this is what remediation scripts were made for

  • I don't have any links to hand, but look into Dynamic DNS. It's basically a way for your device / router to talk to your domain registrar, and update their DNS records whenever your IP address changes.

    Have a look at DuckDNS as a starting point.

  • I'm not 100% sure off the top of my head, but the end result is that the drive is set to A: rather than B: in Windows. Something to do with the pins on the motherboard specifying the drive order.

  • And why the floppy drive's ribbon cable has a little twist in it??

  • Two options:

    • Change the DNS and gateway so they're pointing to 0.0.0.0
    • Give the Windows install a static IP or lease, and block that IP on the router
  • I can get you a toe by three o'clock, with nail polish.

  • It wouldn't really. Hand-drawn sprites are pretty standard even today - whether they're hand-pixelled (Stardew Valley) or frame-by-frame animation (Spiritfarer).

  • The characters and environments in Fallout and JA2 are basically still frames (sprites) of 3D models at specific angles. They were rendered once on a powerful development machine, and converted to sprites for our lowly Pentiums and Voodoos.