Captain Aggravated @ captain_aggravated @sh.itjust.works

Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast

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But yes, in the semi-rare event you find yourself approaching another aircraft of the same maneuverability head-on, you are to both avoid the collision by turning right.

Pilot here. We just say left and right and don't bother with port and starboard.

I mean yeah probably, someone somewhere has a PC-AT with MS-DOS and Windows 1 dating from the 80's somewhere, while the first release of Linux was in what? 92? Somebody like LGR or Tech Tangents very likely has some old hardware running period software for history enthusiast reasons.

But let's play this game: What is the oldest hardware currently in service running a currently supported edition of Windows, versus the oldest hardware currently in service running a currently supported edition of Linux?

My own father takes a kind of "Oh well, I'm only gonna live another 10 or 20 years anyway" attitude toward....basically everything, from politics to the environment to roof repair.

It hasn't occurred to him that it's a pretty shitty thing to say to your son's face. But it's how they think.

So he could be in a good financial place if his wife didn't deliberately sabotage him.

These sister fisting things.

You'll see them called Euro hinges, concealed hinges or cup hinges. They come in a myriad of variations and several syncopations depending on the characteristics of the cabinet and how the door relates to it, but they all work in such a way that the mechanism has to fold partially into the volume of the door itself. The part that attaches to the door is a metal cup-like structure that requires drilling a 1 3/8" by 1/2" hole in the door (if the industrial revolution took place outside your nation's borders, you'll probably understand that as 35mm by 13mm).

A major manufacturer of these infernal misunderstanding of what mechanical engineering is for publishes a catalog thicker than the engineer's head and when you order something they send you the wrong part anyway because the vendor doesn't understand this convoluted shit either.

Some other 90's TV shows and movies:

The Simpsons. Homer owns a 2 story house and supports a family of 5 (at least sometimes 6, with his father Abe) and two pets on a single income as a nuclear safety officer.

Christmas Vacation. Clark Griswold works as a chemical engineer at a food company working on such projects as a coating for cereal to keep it crunchy longer. There's no indication that his wife works. He supports a family of 4, owns a large house, takes frequent lengthy vacations and has enough disposable income to install an in-ground swimming pool...assuming his typical year-end bonus.

Married...With Children. Al Bundy is a retail shoe salesman, his wife does not work. He owns a 2-story house and supports a family of 4.

A single breadwinner owning a large house and supporting a family with disposable income didn't used to be hilariously unrealistic.

Remember how Homer Simpson was supposed to be a loser? Owning a 2 story house in the suburbs and supporting a family of 5 on a single salary? The 90's hit different.

I forget which episode it was, but on Last Week Tonight someone compared some process to "turning a fried chicken nugget back into a live chicken." To which John replied "If you managed that, that chicken would be FUCKED UP. Imagine the poetry it would write, 'the things that I saw, buck buck bacaw...'"

A sponge can un-puree itself but I bet there's a kind of scream we can't hear that it would never stop making.

Izzy does like to walk on me. She doesn't care what she steps on either.

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/18767294

It's a sh.itjust.works link to lemmy.world on lemmy.world because the Fediverse isn't viable but I tried which is more than you can say for most humans.

I'm in a severely pissy mood because of European cup hinges and the ocean of incompetence surrounding them I'm supposed to just be okay with. It's pissed me off enough that I might just get promoted to Major Aggravated.

Izzy doesn't bite me. she'll stick her little nose in my ear to wake me up though.

Maru the Scottish Fold.

You want to make a midplane, a reference plane midway between to parallel planes. You click the Datum Plane button, and then the two parallel planes, and you get a plane that is perpendicular to both, not parallel halftway between. I found it easier to forget how to need midplanes than to get FreeCAD to make one.

There's some cool concepts in there, I make heavy use of the spreadsheet function, but I swear to every god in every pantheon that Autodesk is paying the FreeCAD development community to keep their UX at least this horrible to preserve their business model. I can't explain this level of incompetence any other way without relying on rock chewing stupidity.

GTK is the better looking girl at the sock hop. QT's dress is a little ratty and she's still got that lazy eye.

QT has a certain "Ah that's good enough for now, I'll fix it later" feel to it, while GTK makes things that look done. It's such a shame they wasted all that potential making something as rectal puke as Gnome out of it.

I want him to do FreeCAD.

Some genius won't pay attention to the orientation of a christmas light display while he's putting them up, he'll go to plug them in, and they'll be the wrong way, so he'll want an "adapter."

I can't help it, I'm reminded of some educational Youtube thing, like I think Sci-Show or some similar, went to a museum to talk to an egyptologist for a lesson on reading hieroglyphs, and the example they used was a doorway to a pharaoh's tomb. It had the pharaoh's name in a cartouche, a motto/title "Bringer of stability and life" and a couple figures of gods. And it occurred to me it read exactly like a breakfast cereal box.

Ramses The 7th, bringer of stability and life. Osiris tested, Horus approved. Part of this complete dynasty.

Fun prank: Do this around the 7 foot mark of the tape measure, then sell it at a thrift store.

"Full stack"