Red letter media

I love Star Trek, but don’t want to watch the modern Alex kurtzman garbage, so they take the bullet for me.

I’m also not a movie guy, so watching their reviews/analysis while playing Minecraft is more entertaining than the movies they talk about.

Best of the worst is them watching B and direct to video movies that i wouldn’t otherwise know about.

For me, it was the lack of support for certain Wi-Fi cards. I had to pull an older Wi-Fi card out of an old Chromebook, because no flavor of Linux supported the card that came with the (Windows 11) laptop. And guess who has two thumbs and no Ethernet port…

Finally got it working, but at one point i was almost willing to have a USB tether to my phone, just so i wouldn’t have to fight with windows anymore.

Edit: Just realized it said desktop, but my desktop also has Wi-Fi, i just haven’t had the courage to switch fully from my Spectre Win 10 install…

“Just Jeeves it” doesn’t quite roll off the tongue…

The only “creation” I’ve tried to do is a cover letter for job hunting. If I needed something other than a resume, portfolio AND references, then I see nothing wrong with using one to do work that another ai is going to look at… Just my $0.02

Should’ve prayed harder.

“freedom of speech” means the government can’t arrest you for your views. It doesn’t mean the rest of us have to listen…

Whenever i search for a problem now, most of the posts that contain actual answers are more than a year old, and increasingly out dated.

Fortunately, Lemmy is tech savvy and small enough that I can ask questions without worrying about the down vote brigade.

I’m in a red state and have spent my life holding my tongue when these people start spouting their bullshit.

I’m done being nice. Unfortunately, they are taking us all down with them, but you can bet your ass I’m going to be reminding them of that the entire time.

I’m also shoe-stringing it, I’m posting this from an extended stay hotel at $60 a day because my credit is shit. My biggest gift is my ability to read and take instructions, so watching the mouth breathing red hats getting laid off is a small, but sweet, consolidation to all this crap…

Good.

Same.

Bought a Blu-ray burner and “archive grade” disks for third location backups.

I made a list of files that is just a text document (3MB!) that sits on the root of the Blu-ray. There’s probably a better way of doing that, but it works for me.

Are we taking bets on how many scaramuccis he’s got left?

Results of the rights constant attack on education.

Knowledge is power, and that scares the crap out of Republicans…

Yup, found on my phone yesterday.

It also claimed that i was part of the beta program, which is probably how they back-doored it in, so make sure you leave the beta program to keep it from coming back.

I’m fine in small doses…

I’ve used “spicy brained” and people seem to get it.

DNA digital data storage

Using dna to encode digital data has been shown to be stable, reliable and easily reproducible. And according to Wikipedia, there’s a technique that can encode data at 1Mbps. Not lightning fast by any stretch, but it works!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_digital_data_storage

How the hell is this news?

“Could of…”

It’s “could have”!

Edit: I’m referring to text based things, like text and email. I can pretty much ignore the mispronouncing.

The art of subtlety meets the reality of capitalism?

Accidentally replied to main thread:

During Obama, i was making $97.5K per year in web development. Bought a house, car, solar panels, (my) American dream.

Three months into the first trump fuckup, 10% of the staff was laid off, myself included.

Spent about 6 months burning through savings, before landing $7.stupid per hour job at Michael’s. Still burning through savings to pay the mortgage, mental health declining because fucking retail.

Pandemic happened, lost job, another 5 ish months doing low paid contract work, savings are gone and I have to go to my parents for help. My parents raised me that asking for help meant you’ve failed. You’re a failure.

Spent a year and three days unemployed. Now working at Target picking online orders. Nothing i do has a purpose, and it’s especially heartbreaking when you see items that you’ve picked getting cancelled and returned to the shelf.

My parents pay my full mortgage and car insurance. I work 40 hours a week, and target is strict on overtime, and i can still only afford to eat 2 out of every 3 days.

There’s more, but it’s a trauma dump with no solutions, unless i can get about $1500 more a month for the next 5 years to get my year long unemployment debt taken care of…

That’s just financial problems. My upbringing turned me into a shy anxiety ridden recluse, i can’t look a cute dude in the eyes, let alone ask anyone out. Last “date” (Grindr hookup) i had, there was a black guy in the white house …