riskable

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[–] riskable@programming.dev 12 points 5 days ago (33 children)

Everyone wants to access Netflix, YouTube, Prime Video, etc through their TV interface and I just don't get it. The best experience is when you hook up a PC to your TV... not some TV-centric Android OS or Roku's thing.

Install Kubuntu on some old PC with a GPU that can handle 4K @60Hz and you're good to go. KDE and Firefox let you crank up the zoom so everything's easy to read and it even has HDR support (though I prefer going without it... Old person eyes).

It's such a vastly superior experience. Not only do you get the usual stuff, you can use a real keyboard to type into that search bar. You can also access all those pirate streaming sites and do normal PC stuff like play games.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 0 points 5 days ago

Remember kids: It's not okay to give your developers access to production credentials. However, it's totally fine to give them to hallucinating GPU addicts.

[–] riskable@programming.dev -5 points 5 days ago

So their AI prompts are like...

Women: "My boyfriend keeps looking at his phone instead of me!"

Men: "Explain the Bessemer process to me in case I get Isekai'd."

?

[–] riskable@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

Bah! I think birds are fowl.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 176 points 1 week ago (75 children)

I browse "All" most of the time and the Femcel Memes show up pretty regularly. It's not like this gif though. It's more like watching a super interesting science experiment.

"Ah, yes. I see. I see. How interesting!"

My scientific notes so far:

  • They crave cuddles. It's almost like a cuddle-based economy.
[–] riskable@programming.dev 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I swear, if there's an afterlife, you won't be judged based on how good or bad you were. It'll be based on your hypocrisy.

Example 1

Death: "You were a mob boss. You had many people injured, tortured, and murdered. Did you ever try to fool anyone into thinking you were not a mobster? That you were innocent?"

Mobster soul: "Only law enforcement! I mean, everyone knew I was the head of a criminal organization. I was a proud mob boss! I acted accordingly and never misrepresented myself!"

Death: "You will be reincarnated. We have many worlds in need of villains."

Example 2

Death: "You were a politician, fraudster, and serial philanderer. You took many lovers in secret. Made many promises you never kept. That you never intended to keep."

Politician soul: "Guilty as charged! But hey, I gave millions to charity! I was super polite and never personally physically harmed a single person. I mean, so many people thought I was great! Obviously, that means I was!"

Death: "You will serve in hell."

[–] riskable@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

The tech firm was not named by the court.

Why the fuck not‽

The fact that this is even possible in China blows my mind. Court proceedings should always be a matter of public record unless there's some grand reason like national security concerns or victims that could face very real danger from their names becoming public.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Their... menace?

[–] riskable@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago

I love Canada Dry Zero. It tastes great if it's really cold.

Zero sugar (uses aspartame)

[–] riskable@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't they already have a king?

[–] riskable@programming.dev 17 points 1 week ago

I have zero faith in faith-based anything. Because no one should. That counts 10x when it's run by or featured by the government.

Just another way the Trump administration wants to enable pedophiles and sexual predators.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

One look at this picture and I was like, "oh dam!"

 

Did you just look askance at some writing that uses an uncommon word, thinking, "I keep seeing this word... has it suddenly become popular?"

It could be the Frequency Illusion!

 
 

Decades ago, I moved from Massachusetts to Florida. When I moved from that house to a new one, I discovered an unopened bathroom fan motor + blower wheel in the attic (left by a previous owner). "Nice" (head nod) I said to myself, and threw it in with everything else in the moving boxes.

Of course, my wife told me to "just leave it" and "you're such a hoarder!" It stayed in that box when we moved again a decade later.

Today, one of our bathroom exhaust fans stopped working (for the 2nd time) so I decided to reach deep into my hoard of random crap. "I have just the thing!" I still remembered which box it was in and where I stored it in the attic above the garage!

BONUS: The old bracket nuts didn't fit the new motor so I had to fish around in my collection of random nuts, bolts, and screws to find two exact matches. Which I had, of course—because I save all the screws of all the things 👍

I saved ~$37 and a trip to the hardware store today!

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by riskable@programming.dev to c/writingprompts@literature.cafe
 

River Monsters was cancelled because they ran out of monsters! They literally caught them all (Note: This is the real reason; I'm not making that up!).

Because of this—and the impressive staying power/popularity of the show over time—the executives have decided to fund continuing research to discover a new world, and this research has finally bore fruit!

A new world—full of rivers—has finally been found! Because of their continuous funding, they get first crack at it.

A daring crew is assembled, they start recording, and enter the portal...

 

I'm guessing that we'll see lots of news in 2026 about how companies are hiring developers to help improve the memory efficiency of their software because they just can't get enough servers. Also, the servers they do get will have reduced RAM compared to what they wanted.

 

He gets out of Windows! 😀👍

 

The fire extinguisher in my garage is almost 20 years old now and the pressure gauge is right at the edge of the red zone. That means it's time to order a new one!

Decided to get two because it seems like a good idea to have one out by the grill (and they're a better deal that way) 👍

Very excited because this means I get to ~~play~~ teach the kids how to properly use a fire extinguisher with the old one! Been a while since we used the fire pit out back...

 

The genie asked the man, "do you wish you were worth a lot of money?"

Onlookers watched in horror as the quickest among them broke off large golden chunks of the statue before they could even get close to claim their own prize.

 

Pool pump has been a bit weak lately: The stream of water pouring out of the hot tub "waterfall" into the main pool had become more like a trickle. This usually indicates a significant clog or that the pool filter needs cleaning.

Considering I haven't cleaned the filter in almost a year I figured that was likely the problem. It wasn't 😮‍💨

Turns out that there's something stuck in the intake at the bottom of the pool which means I have to dive deep with a screwdriver in the super cold water and carefully clear out whatever is in there. Probably a plastic bag or similar.

Note: Never attempt such a thing while the pump is on! In fact, lock it down with some tape and maybe a warning label that says not to turn it on while you're doing your difficult work.

Been a long time since I had to hold my breath under water. I wonder if I can still reach 2 minutes? 🤔 Probably not with this water temperature 🤣

 

I just watched the final episode of If My Wife Becomes an Elementary School Student and I had to write something about it... When I first read the description of this anime I thought it looked stupid, "Another low effort anime." But of course I watched it anyway (because I run out of episodes fast on Sundays, haha) and it turned out fantastic!

The description is accurate but severely understates the concept: It's not a comedy but more akin to sci-fi or isekai with a, "what if?" scenario. What would it be like if your dead wife suddenly appears in the form of a little kid, saying she reincarnated? It does a pretty good job of going into the emotions and real-world problems (Japanese 🤣) people would run into in such a situation.

For example, what about the mother of the little girl‽ Wouldn't she be like, "WTF‽" Ummm... Yeah she would! And the show explores that aspect of the concept as well as the family of the deceased.

I highly recommend this anime. It'd probably be a great show to watch with your partner too. Also, make sure to have some tissues handy to soak up the tears!

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