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  • Nope. This episode of The Outer Limits has lived rent free in my head since the 90s and I want no part of it. Neither should anyone else.

    (In fairness, quite a lot of those stories live rent free in my head because they're all horror. If you really want to know, this one was called "The New Breed". Don't say I didn't warn you.)

  • Lawful good is asking for trouble. Before they know it, they'll be inundated with e-mails to their personal company address with poorly worded help requests. They'll spend half their time making and updating tickets on the user's behalf that would have been mostly automatic if they'd gone the Lawful Neutral route. They need to insist requests are sent to the main support address. I'm assuming that's tied directly to the ticketing system.

    When I was being Lawful slightly-better-than-neutral, I'd create the ticket and then put a paragraph in the reply telling them to please not e-mail me directly in future, because one day I might be unavailable and their e-mail could go unseen for hours or even days.

    Repeat offenders would eventually do it at a time when things were busy too, so I'd be concentrating on the tickets and not things to my personal address, so that slight delay often helped it sink in.

  • Somewhat relevant: I recently stopped using a plastic-bodied electric kettle to boil water for drinks because it was often making drinks taste "of plastic". I have to imagine that some of that would have been redistributed, well, in places implied by this article.

    This makes me wonder what regular, close-to-source plastics the tested men were using around the time.

    Of course, there's also that a lot of the water supply goes through plastic pipes these days. It would be interesting to know how much of that, specifically, ends up coming out in people's homes.

  • There are probably pre-written awk scripts out there that already do what you want, not that I know where they'd be.

    That said, you might be better off using one of the bigger but still fairly commonly installed languages. There's bound to be things on PyPI (for Python) or CPAN (for Perl) that could be bolted together for example.

    If you're really lucky there might even be something that covers your whole use-case, but I haven't checked.

  • In their minds, being the antithesis of Trump, a man who clearly doesn't give two hoots about his own kids, Joe Biden must therefore care so much that it would destroy him for his son to be a felon.

    To those, Biden not stepping down or suffering some kind of breakdown after the verdict must have been at least a momentary confusion.

    OR, more likely, it's as simple as they're running "Like father, like son" in reverse. Son's a criminal, therefore so is Joe.

    Of course if they themselves have criminal offspring, that'd be completely irrelevant. Merely a hiccup.

  • Duplication of resources mainly. Bloat upon bloat. Worse, a Flatpak can ignore things that it probably should use on the system, and I'm not sure that's a good thing.

    Don't get me wrong, there are supposed "bare metal" installs that duplicate all sorts of things too, and I don't like it when that happens either. Steam, for example, keeps at least one extra copy of itself as well as a bunch of other things.

    And there's that Flatpaks an entirely different ecosystem that require their own set of updates.

    I get it. I understand there are benefits. Doesn't mean I like it.

  • Listen, I don't even like Flatpaks, but at least they're multi-platform and non-proprietary.

    But the original poster is probably of the opinion that "pro-consumer" means something that "just works", and if it's a walled garden, so what?

    "Why is there barbed wire at the top of that wall?" "Don't worry about it."

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  • By that logic, this could be a place for literally anything, when clearly it isn't. It's for Fediverse-specific posts and commentary.

    Climate change is important, yes, but it's not Fediverse-specific, is it?

  • Borrowing from something I saw elsewhere: Set up a task / cron job / whatever it is on your OS that takes a full screenshot every minute and then sends it to Microsoft's AI team.

    Or save it to a drive or something, I'm not the boss here. And neither is Microsoft.

  • Reading about his going missing in the first place, I got the distinct impression he had underestimated the size of the island he was on and decided to plough on regardless, thinking that he'd reach his intended destination "any minute now".

    And if it wasn't the distance, the extreme conditions were almost certainly not taken into account.

    Literal misadventure.