Rarely, TBH. Unless you’re OK with being an absolute ass in some form or another.

Breath on your fingers like you’re trying to fog up glass. Immediately open by running your fingers in opposite directions along the edge, using the additional friction you created.

Zone of the Enders had a touching anime series about a widowed space truck driver whom stumbles upon a sentient orbital frame which he considers his surrogate daughter as he attempts to become a better father and reconnect with his grown kids, amidst an inter-system civil war.

And I’m kinda sure it’s cannon.

No, I am not making this up.

Ever tried to read something in your dreams? Coding is basically 90% reading and 10% writing. Then you have to insure that shit compiles and runs.

I can’t speak for you, but I don’t think my brain has a valid edition of the Java Development Kit.

Just think: People having to get help because the job they quit three years ago keeps showing up in their dreams. What’s worse is that they keep doing it, in control but unaware of the fact that they aren’t getting paid, threatened by their in-dream former boss with being fired if the quota wasn’t met.

Staying awake yet unemployed becomes one of their only escapes. They turn to stimulants to stay away from ‘work’ just a bit longer, just a little more peace.

But they then ‘crash’, falling asleep for almost a day, and starting a shift that feels like an eternity, Inception style.

Bombay is best bai.

Which is particularly ironic as the breed is known for its silky black coat, and bai can also mean “yellow mist”.

Which goes swell, until you realize that you are instead dealing with an ever complex and gnawing realization you can barely quantify as existential dread in light of the remarkably complex yet dangerous capabilities found in every human present and yet to be conceived on this suddenly constricting mortal plane, exceeded only by the sheer number of permutations which you generously call ‘best case scenarios’ that result in an irrevocable destructive spiral on the fragile biome only loosely labeled by you as “third rock from the sun”.

Sure, and it has nothing to do with the big ass vehicles being churned out due to loopholes in US law.

https://www.distilled.earth/p/the-loophole-that-made-cars-in-america

“I just heart my Ubuntu, and my computer friend was right: this was easy to install!.. wait a sec. What do you mean it’s only got 3 months of support left?!? You told me to get the latest version!”

Unspoken here is the third option: navigate a series of untextured raised rectangular platforms littered with smaller rectangles that will fire you automatically if you touch them, designed by an 8 year old that got bored halfway through the engineering phase and wandered off to play Breakin Story 2.

The good news is that, for only 399 robux a month, you can get VIP membership, which includes a coil that allows you to immediately jump over the entire platform and land into a dated pile of two dimensional meme sprites they meant to clean up.

Yes! It’s the epitome of clarity. I gotta admit, when I hear the accent, I immediately assume the person is American.

Hey, as an American I found that quite…ah, accurate.

It does vary by which part of the states you get someone from, but yes, apparently we get quite loud (if only to speak over our abundant amounts of cars and gunfire). And is charming as it can be to some, the variations in accents you find on the south and eastern areas in particular can get old quick.

Windows 11 is trash. Microsoft kept boasting it was “faster” than 10, but it is (unsurprisingly?) heavy in some weird areas, including a less snappy start menu, more telemetry, invasive integration with their software, you name it. Tried one machine in my collection to try it via an upgrade (a Microsoft Surface Pro 6), and the performance was so bad I ended up going back to Windows 10. Multi-second lag just to get to the program shortcuts is a really bad sign.

Yeah, it was kinda the stuff of nightmares. I think it actually… fused … some things together.

Not safe enough. Give it another decade; I’m sure they’ll get around to ruining it by then.

Saw that myself for the first time last night. Surprisingly atrocious. And WTH happened to the shadows around it? Did I just visit it on an overcast day?

The trees themselves would be right at home in a game from the early 2000s. Frickin’ Planetside 2, the game infamous for its indestructible trees and graphics from 10 years ago, has better looking flora assets.

I will also go as far to say it looks as if the game was designed for HDR, but due to lack of time, they just compressed the range, capped it about 10% below the normal maximum to leave some breathing room, and called it a day. Even the flashlight looks washed out at times.

In other news, IBM is still in the cloud game, stares angrily at Oracle ahead of it.

I’d like to think that half the crew died along the way, and it got to the point where promotions were being handed out just to keep the ranks filled.

“Shit, we lost another commander. Lets promote one of the remaining lietenants and…hey, Harry, how do you feel about getting another pip?”

Did you actually watch the video?

He literally presents a list of reasons around 5:12. Then he goes on to describe how formaldehyde already affects him.

Resin priting can be a lot of fun, but he’s correct: that shit is toxic. It needs to be respected, and he’s also correct in pointing out the carbon filter on many printers is basically a placebo for the consumer.

Still don’t believe him? Fine. Go checkout the small book that is the set of warnings with this stuff from a resin producer: https://entropyresins.com/safety/epoxy-safety-tips/

Yeah, that was a good one. Worf got that plant petal on him after the away mission, and boom: Wordi.