Captain Aggravated @ captain_aggravated @sh.itjust.works

Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast

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Or, they knew what they were doing.

pretty okay, just had a shower and I'm chilling on the couch with my cat. She is steadily purring. comfort level is around a 7.8, maybe 7.9.

I bought HL1's GOTY edition when it came out.

writing headlines like that should earn a nice lengthy face tazing.

The Rotax engines use digital CDI ignition that is independent if the airframe electrical system, and from each other. I've never seen one fail.

Take a lesson from welding class: You release what you've got bottled up just right with a little spark and you get an intense yet precise flame. It's amazing what you can get done with skillful application of said flame.

If you buy a brand new Skyhawk here in the space year 2025, it will come with a newly made Lycoming IO-360 that requires 100LL. I think they're still working on eliminating leaded avgas, I think because the Trump regime hasn't noticed it yet.

My cat just finds the nearest big idiot to yell at. That's usually me.

I mean, to any creature that weighs 3 pounds or less, he's right. If you're a field mouse a house cat is a terrifyingly effective predator.

More tuna are eaten by house cats than lions.

A grill should run on charcoal. It needs to get very hot and that's literally it.

There's a universe where I attach some electronic controller with a PID loop or something to a smoker, to maintain consistent temperatures via damper control. I'm not buying that off the shelf built into the machine though.

General Aviation is still using magnetos. The typical GA airplane is hilariously primitive.

Shellac dissolves quite readily in alcohol at room temperature.

For an electric kettle, which is usually a simple resistive load, I'd feel safe plugging it into American 240V60Hz.

Because KIA takes way too much room on the page.

I mean, it sounds like an Einstein-Rosen bridge.

"I run Arch btw" became a meme because until install scripts became commonplace you had to have a reasonable understanding of the terminal and ability to read and follow instructions to install Arch Linux to a usable state. "Look at my l33t skills."

Dislike of Ubuntu comes from Canonical...well...petting the cat backwards. They go against the grain a lot. They're increasingly corporate, they did a sketchy sponsorship thing with Amazon at one point, around ten years ago they were in the midst of this whole "Not Invented Here" thing; all tech had to be invented in-house, instead of systemd they made and abandoned Upstart, instead of working on Wayland they pissed away time on Mir, instead of Gnome or KDE they made Unity, and instead of APT they decided to build Snap. Which is the one they're still clinging to.

For desktop users there are a lot better distros than Ubuntu these days.

I find KDE's settings app isn't always easy to find settings in, especially when you have no idea what to call a feature.

Corporate fuckery is not a good smell to gamers. Smells like month old genital pus.

Just starting an article by explaining "Unknown Worlds Entertainment has been acquired by Somebody Interactive, the parent company of Hunka Chunka Studios and Rumpy Pumpy Inc" and we're already suspicious, because corporate acquisition means the game now has more parasites to fund - layers of upper management, investors, etc.

Then we hear about major names that are the people that had the vision for the original game being replaced "immediately" in a press release full of bullshit corpowank marketing boilerplate...it means this game is almost certainly going to be cancelled, the studio shut down and the staff laid off, probably after a lot of players have purchased the game in early access.

There's quite a bit of overlap in Subnautica and KSP's player bases, and we've already had our asses burned by Take Two Interactive.

So, I'm not going to be joining any early access campaign. I'm not paying for the game before it is finished, I'm not playtesting it for free, I'm not pre-ordering anything and I'm not buying any merch, and there's a reasonable chance I'm not buying the game at all, because it has already been smeared with the aforementioned month old genital pus.

I don't think I want to buy games from companies that have parent companies. Parent companies make everything fucking suck.

"Corsi-Rosenthal Box" sounds like it's some theoretical physics thought experiment, but no it's some filters and a box fan.

Be tempted to build one of those for my shop.

I read that as "our-SER-uh-pee" at first. I now have a new adjective.

Amateur mayonnaise practices until it gets it right.

Professional mayonnaise practices until it does not get it wrong.