Miles O'Brien

Is it considered normal to type out a normal question format when using search engines?

If I were looking for an answer instead of making a funny meme, I’d search “heat movie cast Angelina Jolie” if I didn’t feel like putting any effort in.

Then again, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. I’ve seen someone use their phone to search google “what is 87÷167?” instead of doing “87/167” or like… Opening the calculator…

People do things in different, sometimes weird ways.

At first I thought “wow, really? Only 8 seconds?”

Count out 8 full seconds in your head.

Now imagine you’re being hit by young teenagers with baseball bats.

8 seconds is a LONG time

The frequent lack of desire for people to experiment and learn anything on their own is very off-putting.

Any time I hear someone say “I didn’t think about that” when dealing with a very simple problem, I just want to pull out “How long did you piss on the toilet seat before someone told you to lift it when you go?”

Seriously, I shouldn’t have to describe how to remove the ball bearings from this part, because I explained how to do an identical one 2 minutes ago.

I love taking things apart to know what makes them work. Electronics and mechanical devices are fascinating.

And I don’t understand how someone can look at things and go “yeah no need to look any deeper, I know enough already”

Ah. Well that’s a relief, I removed foxit, and never had anything Adobe.

I open the pdfs in inkscape to pull the vector files and save them as an svg. There’s probably a simpler way, but this allows me to open the vector in a lot more programs like my laser software and my CAD programs.

The only pdfs that get printed like a normal person are small rc planes and the files are from trusted sources.

It’s nice to know I can do a little extra to protect myself from pdf based attacks though, thanks for the info!

Oh damn, that gave me flashbacks of trying to get my page to look the way I wanted it while knowing almost nothing about any type of coding…

You’re thinking of Lance Armstrong

He was a tall, bald black man who was a great actor and starred in movies like John Wick, and also did voice overs for tons of games, including Destiny.

"What were your expectations? "

That the world I was raised to live in still existed?

That the laws I’ve been told my whole life I HAVE to follow or I will be jailed actually mean something?

That literally any of the lies I was fed about alternative economic systems, religions/nonreligion, or stereotypes were true?

Unfortunately all we have is this shit.

gestures wildly at humanity and what we have done to everyone and everything in our reach

I might need a therapy or two…

Look, if you want to wrangle with a bear to try and get that pelt, you go right ahead.

I’ve had enough suffering in my lifetimes, I’m hunkering down and waiting for the department of temporal investigations to show up and take me home.

Besides, you need at least 3μg of pergium, which I’m sure I don’t have to remind anyone is not native to the solar system.

Unfortunately due to some temporal shenanigans, I’m stuck here without so much as a self-sealing stem bolt.

No transporter system.

Besides, why would I want to wipe my pattern buffer prisoners guests experiments?

There’s 1,000 jokes that can be made in sure, but in the US I once found a grenade while magnet fishing and called a guy my parents know who is a cop. The moment I realized what it was, I told my friend to run to the end of the bridge, and I gently laid it on the pile of rope I was using.

They have a whole bomb squad that’s about 30 minutes away at full speed, and they rolled up with their trailer, a guy in a suit came over to the bridge and placed it in a box, put the box in the trailer, and one dull THUNK later all I had to do was sign a paper saying this is where I found it.

I specifically called my parents friend rather than 911 because I had read too many accounts of cops showing up and attempting to arrest the magnet fisher for any number of reasons.

UXO is no fucking joke, don’t for a second think you can handle it without training. You really have no idea what explosive compound they used or what it’s stability level is after being exposed to the elements.

I’ve legitimately tried that, even tried no alarm at all.

The no alarm is a bad idea just because every so often I just sleep right on through, if I’ve had a particularly harsh day.

I think my brain just goes “you sneaky fuck, I know you REALLY want to get up at 7 so we are getting up at 630ishjust to be sure.”

Any questionable software I have is coming up on 4 years old now, most of it is older than that. I move them to a new machine every time I upgrade, simply because I don’t trust torrents anymore.

Honestly, I don’t trust PDFs anymore unless they’re from places I know are “safe” which kind of sucks because I’ve been getting back into RC as a hobby and it’s hard to find non-pdf plans. I prefer vector files, but I’m having to try my luck with jpg and png files.

A lot of the programs I used to use have been surpassed by current FOSS projects, and I’ve been replacing them as I can. Finding an open source laser engraver program that isn’t shit is proving difficult.

Addicts always gotta justify how they get their fix, I guess.

I don’t need an alarm.

I wake up every few hours regardless.

And I’m always awake about 20 minutes before my alarm, no matter that time I set it to.

Existence is pain

I can go to my individual comments and check the scores, but I like that I can’t see any cumulative score. I’m a sucker for “number go up” games.

Lemmy isn’t a competition.

Nah, I know for a fact 2/3 of my kills were luck, and the other 1/3 is new players.

I know for a fact I’m opinionated, and don’t have problems sharing them.

Please, by all means, block me if you think seeing my comments is adversely affecting you. I’d rather be ignored by someone than make their day worse (unless they’re actively trying to make others miserable, but that’s a separate discussion)

The fediverse has definitely gotten a little less hostile after blocking a few things.

And remember you can jump ship to another instance at any time! I’ve hopped a few times but for now my instance is filling my needs without much drama that I am aware of.

Oof, you must have gotten a shipment of Ferengi pencils, they can be a little… “Eccentric”

I was gonna ask “And just how long is this pork, exactly?”

I’ve been told I need to redo paperwork because I marked the date like 12APR2025.

I get standardization for computers, but for something a person is going to look at I feel like it’s very direct, needs no explanation or interpretation. Anyone who sees it should be able to figure it out instantly.