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  1. yakkoj 🦊 @yakkoj

    just now seen on the tailgate of a truck at Lenexa Costco:

    "The only minority destroying the country is the billionaires."

    KS plate hailing from JO, too

    gives me a little faith in society...

  2. yakkoj 🦊 @yakkoj

    Preparing to do some financial squaring-away. Going to start with getting some passive income generated (probably via a ladder of some kind)

    I need to focus on making what money I've saved work for me. I'll admit I should have done this far earlier than now. I'll also grumble about needing to have known this in the 1980s instead of catching up now.

  3. yakkoj 🦊 @yakkoj

    Props to those who do actual software programming -- everything from designing UIs to actually writing the programs to doing "not sexy" but VERY important things like writing good documentation or debugging, and maintaining existing code.

    Those of us who are left willingly doing this for a living have major obstacles in our path: vibe-coded "AI" slop, needlessly-bloated middleware, intentionally non-optimized software that gives us a bad name, etc.

    That we've not quit by now is a miracle.

  4. yakkoj 🦊 @yakkoj

    I'd like to slap whoever at DELL thought it was a great idea to ship computers with ONLY DisplayPort and no (obvious) way to have HDMI without some hassle

    This goes especially for their "1L" computers. I have an Optiplex 3060 that's like that. 2 DisplayPorts; 0 HDMI ports. I have to use a unidirectional cable to go to an HDMI display, and luckily for me, the KVMs I hook that to are good enough. (that machine is otherwise good enough to run today's stuff)

  5. yakkoj 🦊 @yakkoj

    guess it's not the first time the internet lied

    ALDI's red tags are not "we're discontinuing it", but "it's a price drop"

    So my fiber things I have for breakfast are being restocked and are (for now) safe, but they cost me less. ;o)

  6. yakkoj 🦊 @yakkoj

    LibreWolf, Waterfox, Floorp. Three WEB BROWSERS that are based off Firefox and prove that it can be a competent web browser.

    Mozilla is just making excuses at this point.

    pleroma.envs.net/objects/4fce9

  7. yakkoj 🦊 @yakkoj

    >see "Serbia" trending.
    >first thought: "OK, what has USA done to Serbia?"
    >discover that a supposed fascist lost to a student-led protest.

    Ha... GOOD news from a hashtag that isn't "Caturday"!

    >"crispsandwichday" trending.
    >it is literally crisp sandwiches. 🥪 🥔

  8. yakkoj 🦊 @yakkoj

    I didn't even know there were more temperature measurements than Celsius, Kelvin, and Fahrenheit until now.

  9. yakkoj 🦊 @yakkoj

    >discovered "it-tools" docker container.

    It has pretty much every little util I need but keep forgetting to bookmark. OUI lookup, base64 generator, composerize, a whole bunch of other stuff that's useful...

  10. yakkoj 🦊 @yakkoj

    Men like Jesse Watters give all men a really bad rap.

    Women are right to not trust men, and these fucking clods are the reason why that is.

  11. yakkoj 🦊 @yakkoj

    Another of the best kitchen appliances I have is that Tiger rice cooker/steamer in the background.

    Not only does it cook my small quantities of rice perfectly (it's from Japan; they know how cooked rice should turn out!), it lets me steam vegetables that I'll eat.

  12. yakkoj 🦊 @yakkoj

    This is one of the best kitchen appliances I have.

    It lets me use one repeatable process to perfectly hard-boil eggs every time, by the half-dozen. I just give it the amount of water needed for hard-boiling 4+ eggs, punch small holes in the large side with the tool included in the measuring cup, put my half-dozen eggs in, cover, and press the power button. It lets me know when it's done, and I cool the eggs in water to finish.

  13. yakkoj 🦊 @yakkoj

    Its stuff like this that makes me question whether I'm really just another hack when I program. Even I know how to special case when I've counted to 1...

    digipres.club/@foone/117498074

  14. yakkoj 🦊 @yakkoj

    >172 miles
    >3.3 US gallons of fuel.

    Another week, another excellent(-enough) fuel usage

    Technically, I could have gone another 100 miles, which would have taken me to about 1/2 full, but I was near Costco right about then, so made my trip count.

  15. yakkoj 🦊 @yakkoj
    CW: pol-adj.

    really... this is in the same Kansas that tried to push "Intelligent Design" through public schools (though I was in the next state over when they did that, and STILL moved here because it was somehow MORE progressive)

    I'm getting the feeling that I've lived in a fucked-up place for 30 years. >:o(

  16. yakkoj 🦊 @yakkoj
    CW: pol-adj.

    In USA, GOP keep hounding about how "socialism is bad", and the examples they keep giving of why this is so make me want socialism to come sooner.

    And then there are numbnuts shitheads out there (seriously? can't tell) asking if fathers are OK with having women educate the kids, and saying that if he were elected to the board of education, it'd be all MALE

    Now authorities of all genders committed harm on me, but having "be a MAN" be the dominant lesson wasn't one of the 99 ways...

  17. yakkoj 🦊 @yakkoj

    There... finally untethered my reminders from my phone (just made a copy of them and put them into Reminduck 🦆 on the computer)

    Just got reminded by proxy that I need to cancel a VPS today

  18. yakkoj 🦊 @yakkoj

    Proof that my reminders are doing the correct thing:

    Utility bill sometimes sends email, sometimes doesn't. This is generally true for most of the bills. Having reliable reminders firing is the only way to be sure I can track the bills and pay them on time. (yes, I have reminders even for "auto pay" ones, because it's been proven that I can't trust THAT, either)

  19. yakkoj 🦊 @yakkoj

    Wait... "fastfetch" says I have 2 GPUs now (it is correct; Raphael integrated amdgpu on the Ryzen 7 7700X and discrete amdgpu that IDs as "Radeon 7750/8740" in the PCIe slot)

    Does this mean I can add a third display (Raphael is currently empty)? Will it spontaneously combust if I try it? ;o)

  20. yakkoj 🦊 @yakkoj

    Really nice to have space to properly read documents now. It had always been some scaling/page fitting compromise before

  21. yakkoj 🦊 @yakkoj

    making DPMS shut the screens can sometimes count as having unplugged them, so it's important for software to get things right when the screens drop out of the system...

  22. yakkoj 🦊 @yakkoj

    Ha... xscreensaver worked! (I count "worked" as "my screens are the same orientation after I wake the screen as they were when the screens were DPMS-shut")

    And oh... displaying a different hack per screen has been a perennial favorite xscreensaver party trick for me

  23. yakkoj 🦊 @yakkoj

    I have to use two Waterfox windows to separate my portrait stuff from the usual landscape stuff; hopefully no biggn

  24. yakkoj 🦊 @yakkoj

    guess Mastodon really doesn't play well with screens set up in portrait (I finally put a video card in here that supports multiple monitors AND got space on my desk for a second screen)

    Last time I tried this, X ballsed the multiple monitors up, but this time, I got XFCE4 to do the right thing and have a properly-rotated display

    Now to see if xscreensaver works (and hope to dog things stay the same when the screens are powered back up)

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