pelotron 3 weeks ago • 100%
I enjoy seeing the posts but am discouraged from engaging with them since I know the OP will never see my comment.
pelotron 4 weeks ago • 100%
Unfortunately I didn't get to have a conversation with him. But he did seem nice.
pelotron 4 weeks ago • 100%
In the early 2010s, Cape Girardeau, MO was chosen as a location for some of the filming of Gone Girl. I lived there and it was the talk of the town. People were running into Ben Affleck at the local Andy's and shit.
Meanwhile they put out a casting call for extras. I didn't care about it but of course my girlfriend and her cousin went psycho about it and signed us up. We waited in line with at least a thousand other people only to finally get up there, and all they did was take a headshot and send us on our way. The girls were all disappointed that there wasn't anything else to it while I the introvert just laughed about it.
Until I was the one they called back. Not only that, but it turns out they picked me to be a stand-in for Boyd Holbrook. I spent a week hanging out on David Fincher's set, occasionally doing work while trying to avoid getting in trouble for doing things like accidentally sitting in Rosamund Pike's chair. Then one of the assistant directors' mother died and he had to leave, so they "promoted" me to production assistant. At one point I was sent to look for and found David Fincher's missing iPhone.
Fucking surreal man. But I've got the 20th Century Fox W-2s to prove it.
pelotron 4 weeks ago • 14%
These people are gonna be pissed anyway when they find out the ratio of civilian to combatant deaths in this war is one of the lowest if not the lowest in urban warfare history.
pelotron 4 weeks ago • 50%
It must have improved in the last two years because their community forum has been really helpful for me. I've had users go back and forth with me for days until we solved an issue I had.
pelotron 1 month ago • 100%
ratemyteachers.com review: "professor's class was harder than Sekiro"
pelotron 1 month ago • 100%
This happened the year before I moved to the school, but at the beginning of the new school year I heard a lot of whispers about it and once saw a teacher shut down a conversation amongst a group of students about it.
So only ever hearing this third hand, it went something like this: a group of jocks abducted one of their friends after school one day. They took him out to someone's farm land blind folded, tied him up in a tree (or on a cross) and terrorized him by doing crazy shit like running a chainsaw close between his legs.
The kid they did this too immediately became an outcast skater punk who played in the local metal band. I got to know him a little bit through my girlfriend at the time and he was really cool. I have no idea why they did that too him. I don't know what, it any, punishment was handed down to the perpetrators. I know the school district wanted to expel them but it didn't happen during school.
It was common that year for kids from the neighboring town to drive by and yell stuff like "HEY LET'S GO CRUCIFY ONE OF OUR OWN PLAYERS!"
I also got reprimanded by a teacher for joking about kidnapping a friend of mine in order to force him to pay back the various $5 he had borrowed from everyone in our friend group. It was 100% a joke of course but I didn't realize what poor taste it was at the time.
pelotron 1 month ago • 100%
It's not our fault silicon valley decided to run with the "every service is free and we'll figure the rest out later" model. Unbeknownst to them I can configure my computer to not accept data transmitted from ad domains.
pelotron 1 month ago • 66%
Give Kagi a try. You get 100 free searches which is more than enough to decide if it's worth paying for.
pelotron 1 month ago • 100%
I'm calling the police
pelotron 1 month ago • 100%
XD
pelotron 1 month ago • 100%
Ooh, usbguard sounds cool.
pelotron 1 month ago • 100%
Excellent
pelotron 2 months ago • 100%
Thank you for these suggestions! I've been looking for something like Opensnitch for a long time.
pelotron 2 months ago • 100%
Negative - that's why I was thinking of giving Portmaster another go but am open to any solution like that.
Yes the PC will be unattended for many hours at a time.
Hey all. I'm heading to Quakecon 2024 tomorrow and will be repping the penguin. I've got all my games set up and ready, but was now wondering, are there any extra steps I should take as far as network security goes? I'm sure I'm not as vulnerable to random badness as the flock of Windows machines that will be on the network, but you never know. The only thing on my list so far is to disable sshd. I thought about installing Portmaster but it has always messed up my DNS in the past... I'll probably run Wireshark just to see if I can capture anything interesting there. Do you all have any other suggestions for prepping my PC?
pelotron 2 months ago • 100%
You know what I think about sometimes is how it's so weird that in America it's the duty of our employers to provide health insurance, meaning it's a cost to the business. Universal healthcare would free up shitloads of capital and have a huge impact on small businesses' staying power.
pelotron 2 months ago • 100%
Damn, what a good way to think about this. Thanks for the post.
pelotron 2 months ago • 100%
Great, now I want a Ferrari.
pelotron 2 months ago • 100%
I want do a metal cover of Suni Lee's floor routine music.
pelotron 2 months ago • 100%
You can definitely use the bios to boot into each one as well. I'm not sure why that didn't work for you.
pelotron 2 months ago • 100%
I think you could have kept the Windows drive installed while installing Linux as long as you were careful not to let the installer touch that device. But regardless, ideally you would run os-prober from Linux and let it update Grub with an entry for Windows (some Linux installers do this automatically). Then you would be able to choose the OS from the Grub menu during boot.
pelotron 2 months ago • 100%
They'd better keep a strict eye on it. After what Amazon did to the Wheel of Time...
pelotron 2 months ago • 85%
It's what they most not the least
pelotron 2 months ago • 100%
How long does this take? I'm 40 and still see the D's do much better in this regard in general. The first example that comes to mind is the Dodd-Frank act that Obama signed that added loads of consumer protections against predatory bank practices. I worked at a bank at the time and this was life changing for a lot of victims customers that were bad with money.
pelotron 2 months ago • 100%
Lol rng company name
pelotron 2 months ago • 80%
The studios paid a lot of money for all that CGI so they damn sure are going to use all of it.
pelotron 2 months ago • 100%
I love how this isn't marred by the NBC talking heads going, "wow look it's metal at the Olympics hurrrrr"
They didn't even mention the name of the band, meanwhile they gave the full backstory of the very next act which was a French pop star who lip synced amidst this poor professional marching band who got snookered into being her backing performers.
pelotron 2 months ago • 100%
Oh fuck, I was just raving to my friends about how cool that segment was and was going to look for a replay later D=. Surely it will be on Youtube at some point???
pelotron 2 months ago • 100%
Some people don't have maps
pelotron 2 months ago • 100%
I could rephrase and say their beliefs are not the same, but their behaviors are. Think of some of the worst qualities of far right posting. Memes that pigeonhole non-believers, co-opting language to mean things other than what the majority of people understand it to mean, facts-optional diatribes. Now read any number of Hexbear threads.
pelotron 2 months ago • 100%
I wondered this same thing and investigated installing Hyprland on Bazzite but didn't really find anything. I suspect you'd layer the installation into the os with rpm-ostree, but I didn't end up trying it.
pelotron 2 months ago • 25%
There are still plenty of people that have gone so far left that they crossed the prime meridian and landed on the right.
pelotron 2 months ago • 100%
Can you imagine being the person that hit that button today? Jesus.
pelotron 2 months ago • 100%
My brother in Christ, I've borked Linux systems with a misplaced text file =D
Has anyone else been experiencing performance problems for the last few weeks? About half my requests time out when using Jerboa. The site on desktop is a little better but Lemmy still performs pretty poorly compared to how it has in the past. Is this an instance issue or an issue with Lemmy itself?
I went to this game last night and it was one of the best hockey games I've ever been to. The boys battled hard, especially during a crazy 2nd period.
This is the coolest corpse/refuse disposal system I've built yet. A couple stockpiles collect the garbage, and the mine cart pulls from those. When it's full, a citizen pushes it down the track to be dumped in a nearby lava lake!
I just found this cool utility a couple days ago and have found that it's a great solution to sandboxed versions of Discord being unable to provide rich presence. It's a Python script that queries the Steam web API to get info to forward to Discord's API. The "installer" sets up a systemd service that will auto-run the script for you. It requires you to get your own Steam API key which was a trivial, though slightly buggy, process for me. You can optionally use your own Discord app ID, or just use the one owned by the guy that created this script.
RIP James Randi who died before anyone could claim the his prize for playing RB1 over the board against Levy.
Sorry for the messy work bench but that's how it is with my DIY projects. 🙂 This is the Build Kit Boards Duo kit with a custom battery setup. The battery enclosure is one from their site that is on fire sale due to being left over from their previous kit version. It doesn't exactly fit so I did a little work on it with a hacksaw. It is bound to the board via 8 thumb screws that attach to steel threaded inserts that I installed on the deck. I do have to remove all the screws to take the batteries out and charge them... I'd like to come up with a better solution but no good ideas so far. For batteries I'm running three 5000mAh 4S LiPo batteries in series, so effectively a 12 cell. There is room in the enclosure for three more of these so I can have two 12 cell packs in parallel. I'm hoping for a 25 mile range from that setup. I commuted to work on this this morning and had a blast! Electric skateboards kick ass.
It's necessary for my very important hobby of generating anime nudes.
This song popped up on Sirius XM this past weekend and I loved it. It's like a blend of Dimmu and Wilderun.
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I've been gaming on Kubuntu for over 2 years now but recently have been getting interested in Garuda. I've booted into the live Dragonized Gaming iso and was really impressed with the out of the box gaming-centric setup. I've also been looking for more reasons to switch away from Ubuntu, and have been hit with the EOL countdown for plasma in 23.04, so the time is right for a distro hop. With the latest Garuda release they added an official Hyprland variant which looks really cool too. Does anyone use Garuda? What are your impressions/thoughts/experiences? What should I expect from switching to an Arch base? Same questions for Hyprland too. I have 16 gigs of ram, an Intel i7 something and an nVidia 2080. Edit: I booted into the Hyprland live iso last night and I must say, Hyprland is cool af. Really a breath of fresh air and very intuitive. I'm going to run with the install this weekend.
Anyone have any tips on good places to view this outside of the metro area? I live in Olathe and have tried the area around Hillsdale Lake before which was alright, but still had quite a bit of glow in the horizon.
Don't forget to vote in these elections today! Local elections are where your votes carry the most power!
Inherited from my Opa whose memorial service I'm attending today. Has kind of an old man vibe to it, but I think it looks really sharp. It was absolutely filthy when I got it. I spent about two hours de-gunking it, and what I assume is gold plating on the bracelet has almost entirely worn off. But I've enjoyed wearing it the last couple days. 🙂
I nominate I-80 in Illinois or I-70 in eastern Colorado. Crossing the border from Kansas to Colorado is like "holy f- OW I BIT MY TONGUE"
Installed this valve the very first time I changed my oil. It makes it so easy. And when I buy new oil filters the guys at the auto shop give me wild looks when I tell them I don't need the crush washer. :D
Went on a bike ride around the city with some folks yesterday. This is one of a few pics I took along the way. It was a great day to ride, if a little hot.
Went to the new terminal for the second time today and parked in short term parking. There are lights in each row that indicate where there are available parking spots. Pretty cool!
2nd time visiting the new terminal today and we parked in short term parking. The garage has indicators in every row that show you where there are available parking spots. Pretty cool!
On some farmland in southeast MO. Big weekend with friends we do every year. We were the first ones in and last ones out.
Serious question. I had a friend born and raised near Seattle who I invited to come on a float trip in southeast Missouri. Her mind was blown that this is a thing people do - drinking and making a ruckus while floating down a river. In MO, this is just a thing that people do. At least in rural areas. I had no idea it was regional. So, how far across this region does the concept of float trips go?