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@LabGrownNeet @adrusi I’m curious… what’s a rat meet up? I imagine one of two things: - a west side story kind of gang where you do musical numbers. - an event where everyone turns up with their pet rat. 🐀 you had to change venues after an unfortunate misunderstanding with the health inspector

@adrusi It was commonplace for me. College orientation. Student government. Rat meet ups in Seattle. Other internet meetups. I dont think it ever came up at work. Your follow-up tweet about not believing people is just crazy

never once in 2013–2020 did i find myself in a pronoun circle or was otherwise asked my pronouns in such away that not answering required actively declining not in college classes, not in the corporate office, not even at the god damn queer conference at the liberal university

@adrusi The only people I knew who had their pronouns on email are those whose name could be male or female

@vibeonX69 Leave Linux? I can’t even leave Vim!

Do you agree with this? -First you fear Linux -then you love Linux -then you can’t leave Linux.

@UK_Daniel_Card Hang on. They keep making this. If your phone’s stolen 1 - sim’s locked out of network 2 - imei is blacklisted 3 - phone goes into activation lock mode All this amounts to soft bricking: the phone is good for parts only. New phones won’t pair with other parts to stop even that

I think some people should learn how this stuff works and how the crime works…. Drive out crime….. 😂

@fredroller66 @Itsfoss Didn’t Microsoft get an antitrust fine for that in the 90s?

@Itsfoss The OSs (MS) supplement commercial builds and when you take them out the cost goes up. I think it was referred to as the OS tax, euphemistically. One of the many ways MS controlled the market. It was at least when I did my research on this many moons ago.

Why do Linux laptops cost so much? With Windows out of the picture, should they not cost less? But you look at preloaded Linux laptops, and they are more expansive than similar spec Windows laptops. The same is the case with Linux mini-PCs. Your thoughts?

@Itsfoss Bulk distribution. The windows license isn’t much and having a different sku for pre installed Linux costs way more.

@A_UK_Stoner @JonathanPieNews Yes. It’s a shame the Monster Raving Loony Party has such high standards.

@JonathanPieNews She is actually very impressive but she's in the wrong party.

Holy shit... Even Kemi thinks Trump's a bit of a cunt.

@thecomputerclan @Mimms_Museum Isn’t that the OLPC XO?

Right, we're observing a wild ShrekBook Pro in its natural habitat. (at @Mimms_Museum)

@MomentsB4Wind @cisgenderhaver Why be transgender when you can be transhuman?

@cisgenderhaver I guess this is why people are so cautious about transition and the long term effects, if you change your mind you're stuck with the irreversible aftermath of being forcibly assimilated into the giant virtual hivemind

doing a bit of my own research this morning

@a_menkel @BGatesIsaPyscho That’s… the USA that does that

@BGatesIsaPyscho The UK was probably buying time to check her Social Media Posts, not her American Visa. I believe the UK is chomping at the bit to arrest an American for Social Media posts When they do, it will not go well for the UK.

🇺🇸🇬🇧 American Lady tries to Fly to the UK from America “I went to check-in - I was asked for my Visa” “I had to answer a load of questions, including what I do for a living, was I a terrorist?” “The UK are accepting people on boats, who they don’t even know what their name is, or have any record of”

@DrWallkick @hackingsack2 Maybe compared to some Western European places. But certainly not compared to the US. The Epstein files are a prime example.

@hackingsack2 it's a common thing across all societies but there's absolutely a stronger presence of "you will keep it to yourself and pretend nothing happened" in the UK

Half of why the UK became Terf Island is because they fucking love beating children over there. It's their favorite thing! A national pastime! If you beat children over there they will make a statue of you!

@DrWallkick I remember when they banned beating your kids in the 90s and they were all like, “well I turned out fine”

@Spoiled3lf Arrays start at zero

Britain can keep the ground floor, but they need to stop calling the second floor the first floor.

@deku1_zero @boymoderology We don’t listen to the smiths after what morrisey said. Bigmouth strikes again.

@boymoderology I met a British trans woman at a ttrpg thing and it took everything I had not to immediately try to talk at her about the smiths or george elliot or the crimean war / i settled for "i used to be a very big anglophile" and left it at that

?????????

@boymoderology It’s like they came to hate the UK after reading the Daily Mail. Fair enough. Reading its newspapers enough would cause anyone to hate the UK.

@Whale_Guru Trump told the UK it didn’t need them after they sent a warship to defend Cyprus. What changed?

🚨🚨🚨 TRUMP ASKED THE WORLD TO SEND WARSHIPS. HERE'S WHAT EVERY COUNTRY SAID: 🇫🇷 France — OFFICIALLY REJECTED. Will not send warships. 🇨🇳 China — No response. Called it a "sovereign right." 🇬🇧 United Kingdom — "Discussing options with allies." No commitment. 🇯🇵 Japan — Silence. 70% of Japan's Middle East oil comes through Hormuz. 🇰🇷 South Korea — No confirmation. Seoul caught between Washington and its own oil dependency. 🇩🇪 Germany — No convoy support. 🇳🇴 Norway — Rejected. 🇶🇦 Qatar — Already STOPPED gas production. Declared force majeure. Their energy minister said "this will bring down economies of the world." 🇦🇪 UAE — Gulf states "tried to stop this war because they knew the implications." 🇮🇷 Iran — Still attacking ships. Still laying mines. Still blocking the strait. 10 countries. 0 warships. The most powerful military on Earth asked for backup and got ghosted.

@Nick_Kay You know they make most of their money on the snacks right?

The mad thing about this is the 8% Retailers Profit is GROSS PROFIT. The NET PROFIT is 1%-2%...at this point they are literally giving it away.

@silly_sorceress @copeittogether As someone from Bromley… this tracks.

@copeittogether Do NOT date a girl from Croydon

if ur trans do NOT come to london all tgirls in ealing are TENDER all tgirls in dalston are DANGEROUS all tgirls in peckham are MENTALLY ILL all tgirls in croydon live in CROYDON DO NOT COME TO LONDON

@SebAaltonen Stupid take: Mac gaming market is ridiculously underrepresented. Porting games to Mac from iPad is simply the case of clicking a tick box, yet devs refuse to. Why? Because it’s not seen as a big market so consumers don’t demand it. Self fulfilling. Not because cheap laptop.

I am vocal about 8GB RAM laptops because I am a game dev. We were also vocal about cut down 10GB RAM in Xbox Series S. Steam Deck is a 4 year old $399 gaming device with 16GB RAM. It's the modern min spec for gaming. I would love to see more games on Macs, but 8GB alienates devs.

@elormkdaniel Fortunately thinkpads also come with trackpads.

That tiny red nub sitting between the G, H, and B keys on keyboards has been quietly dividing the tech world for over 30 years. Half the people who encounter it have no idea what it does. The other half refuse to use anything else. It’s called the TrackPoint. And it was born out of a single frustrating observation. In 1984, a researcher named Ted Selker conducted a study showing that it takes a typist 0.75 seconds to shift their hand from the keyboard to the mouse and a comparable amount of time to shift back.  That 1.5 seconds of lost time, multiplied across an entire workday, felt like a solvable problem. So he built something that would eliminate it entirely; a pressure-sensitive nub planted right in the middle of the keyboard, so your hands never had to leave the keys at all. IBM introduced it commercially in 1992 on the ThinkPad 700 series.  The way it works is not what most people expect. It doesn’t move like a joystick. It responds to pressure. Beneath the rubber cap sit strain gauges that measure the force applied in different directions and translate it into cursor movement. The harder you press, the faster the cursor moves.  There is no repositioning, no lifting your finger, no running out of space. Infinite cursor movement from a single fingertip that never moves more than a millimeter. The red color almost didn’t happen. IBM’s product safety division had reserved red exclusively for emergency power-off switches on mainframe computers. ThinkPad designer Richard Sapper got around this by calling the color IBM Magenta and when the first batch shipped, the engineers made it decidedly more crimson. A loophole dressed in plain sight.  Power users programmers, analysts, executives who live on their keyboards swear by it. The reason, according to Lenovo’s chief design officer, is that your hands never leave the home row. You type and navigate simultaneously, without the constant interruption of reaching for a trackpad.  Once mastered, people say it feels less like using a tool and more like an extension of thought. Most laptops abandoned it. Lenovo never did. And the people who know, know.