chiliedogg @ chiliedogg @lemmy.world

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While we're on the subject of violence...

American tanks :(

The 22nd amendment was written poorly, and prohibits someone from being elected into the office.

Terrifying fact: the Speaker of the House is third in line, and doesn't actually have to be a member of Congress. If the VP and President both leave office without a new VP being appointed, the Speaker of the House assumes the Presidency, bypassing both the 12th and 22nd amendments.

Everybody arguing rock, stone, or pebble.

It's a jpeg.

Do you people never do any actual work on your computers?

I have body parts that are less important to me than my numpad.

You try to take numpads from standard keyboards and I'll gladly charge that hill.

I want to see how that cane works.

It works well, and I'm a huge fan and contributor to Open Street Maps (which it's bassed on). But it doesn't do traffic, which is unfortunately wha I need from my navigation apps 99% of the time.

If they had a paid option to cover the costs of using TomTom's traffic API, I'd make the switch.

I was born in 83, and grew up in the time where being a computer need required real work and knowledge of computers.

The things got easier and easier, and then the smartphones came.

These new kids literally don't know how to search a file directory because they are used to the apps magicing stuff where it needs to be.

You seem to be doing some American math in that first line.

No, we've just really gotten good at finding other wrong options.

Yeah, and try as we might, we haven't been able to replicate its biggest selling point. It was unfortunately also its greatest vulnerability regarding the corporatetake over.

It was a central location from which thousands of large, niche communities could be found.

Lemmy is great, but the decentralized nature of it also fragments small communities and makes it hard for them to launch. I was super active of the Scuba subreddit, but on Lemmy, there are like 8 scuba communities spread across the instances, but they're all so small there's no activity on them, and that fragmentation makes it difficult for one to reach the necessary critical mass to become active.

Former fireman salesman here:

Don't just go buy a gun on a whim. Gun ownership is a responsibility with potentially deadly consequences if not taken seriously, and there are moral, legal, ethical, and practical considerations involved.

If anyone has questions about firearms, firearm safety, etc, feel free to reach out. I don't support violent demonstrations or lawlessness, but anyone wanting to know about the tools for legal self-defense, hunting, and shooting sports is welcome to ask me questions.

I've never been great at my ACBs.

ICS was an especially big update because out unified the phone (latest version "Froyo") and tablet ("Honeycomb") forks into a single OS.

Palantir is pretty spot-on. It spies on everyone, is a tool of evil, and once used you never know who's watching and influencing you.

Please tell me they flushed the signs.

A few years back I remember reading a headline along the lines of:

"Google Android Ice Cream Cream Sandwich for Galaxy 2 available on Sprint"

And I thought that someone from just 5 years earlier would have been really confused.

They took 3 weeks to attach my new plotter to the network because they didn't know how to figure out how to trace a fucking Cat 5 cable.

We have 12 employees in the city. My home office has a more complicated network closet.

Oh, I've tried the shared mailbox thing. I had it at my last city and it worked fine, but our third-party IT service contractor here is the shittiest I've ever heard of.