Yikes. I’ll have to pull mine out ASAP.

I’ve actually still got mine in a box somewhere. Maybe I should see if I can do something with it.

Uhg. Seriously bummed I forgot QuakeCon was this past weekend. I was planning to check it out this year. Hadn’t been since they’d shut down during COVID.

A French politician did, said the US isn’t upholding what it stands for.

Makes me think they’re talking about Always Sunny

soon

He just needs 4 years, and he promises he’ll get to it next term. /s

Same! I feel like I’m part of the harem club now!

There’s a sweet Renaissance festival every year there

Idk what novel they’re thinking of, but It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis pretty closely predicted how things are currently going down. Fictional novel written around WWII about how what happened in Germany with the rise of Hitler could happen in the US.

My philosophy is if they don’t leave a voicemail it must not have been important. I’m not calling anyone back whose number isn’t in my phone that didn’t leave a voicemail. Silence Unknown Callers stays on; only time it’s an issue is when I try to get a call back from support or something, I gotta remember to turn that off temporarily.

Video scalers my dude. Proprietary yes, but Chinese is questionable. Crestron, Extron, QSC, all major video products based out of the US, tho I believe only Crestron manufacturers in the US.

Alt text: “How could anyone consider themselves a well-rounded adult without a basic understanding of silicate geochemistry? Silicates are everywhere! It’s hard to throw a rock without throwing one!”

https://youtube.com/shorts/1jqtJEhq3bY?si=3R_nhyVjp5vELW7E

Normal enough I deal with it on 2 separate machines. One new and store bought, unmolested by IT lockdown bs, and the other I built and use really just for gaming. Idk man. I just feel like Windows has gotten worse and worse and I’m thinking of hopping back to Linux now that gaming is more accessible on it thanks to Proton, but I can’t completely get away from windows.

It doesn’t. I bought it with a company credit card and I don’t let IT touch it. I gotta do a lot of stuff in the field so I don’t have time to call IT every time I need to install a software update update.

The File Explorer behavior is something I’ve been noticing lately. I do have a number of cloud accounts connected for work, 2 One Drive, 1 dropbox, with a shit ton of files and folders (most not sync’d locally) and I wonder if File Explorer is looking through those when it opens.

Idk man. I have a brand new laptop my work got me and I notice it. Windows is just plain bad now. It’s like I go to save a file and the file browser window opens and I’m stuck sitting there waiting for minutes. It’s like I’m suddenly 10 again when you’d turn on your pc, go make breakfast, come back and hope your PC finished booting. Does it both on my work laptop running 11 and my PC at home running 10.

Damn. The timing on that was perfect

Probably because the family as a whole was greater than the sum of their parts.

Need a font? Just make your own. Turn your handwriting into its own font. Problem solved.

Man I wish I had handwriting that nice