Any farming will deplete the soil of nutrients over time simply because we harvest things from the plants and ship them elsewhere and don’t ship the waste or replacement nutrients back. Especially considering the insect die off, which at least moved some nutrients at random, though still not likely enough to make up for removing them at an industrial scale.

Could be that Canada is ready for the snow it gets while you see some states shut down completely when they get a light dusting of snow.

I’m never buying another Logitech device again because that problem that happened with my G7 back in the 00s still happened with my G900 in the 20s.

With my G7, I’d open it up when it started happening, and open up the switch to re-bend the metal piece to give it some spring back. Kept doing this until one day the plastic button that presses down on that metal part fell on carpet and was gone forever.

With my G900, I said fuck it and just bought some better mouse button switches and replaced the left mouse button. Was actually kinda glad I needed to because the battery had become a danger pillow so I replaced that, too.

But with the button issue existing for so long and being fixed by a part that cost a trivial amount compared to what I paid in the first place, you can’t convince me that Logitech isn’t deliberately using switches that fail quickly to drive up demand for mice.

I’ll see that and raise a Metroid Prime

Normally it doesn’t work because they end up trying too hard and it feels like it’s not taking itself seriously (which can still be fine and works for parody movies like Scary Movie), but the Room feels like an honest attempt to make one of the greats that completely missed the (oh hi) mark. It’s the combination of earnestness and awkwardness that makes it so entertaining to watch, like a car crash in slow motion.

If it weren’t for seeing other works of his that also capture that same feeling (but it comes off a bit more forced… Can’t remember the name but he plays a building manager and it’s a series rather than a movie), I wouldn’t even suspect that he did it on purpose and figured out how to bottle that lightning.

The Room is considered a movie so bad it’s good, but if it turned out that Tommy knew what he was doing the whole time, would that make it just a good movie?

Oh wow, if steam is still 32 bit, forget the offshoots, fedora itself won’t be worth using. I’m on fedora but if I can’t run steam, then I’m finding a new distro.

On the flip side, what’s the reason they want to drop 32-bit support, given steam depends on it, which they should understand means it’s integral to the size of their current userbase?

I can’t understand how anyone looked at JavaScript, worked with it for a bit, then decided they wanted to use it to build full applications.

Why does this video repeat the same shit twice? Just let it play past the end and (my client at least) just starts replaying it anyways, so what’s the point in sticking a repetition into the file itself? I hope the compression at least results in it not using much more space for the 2nd copy.

Is there a good resource that lists all games known to require a specific version rather than being fine with the latest? I don’t really have the patience to check each game these days, so a list to skim would be nice.

Yeah, the interface between the analog reality and its digital representation will always be the weak point. But, such a scheme could at least mean that whatever reality is going to be represented at least needs to be decided relatively quickly after the moment has passed, rather than it being possible to create whatever video helps the most well after the fact.

Like if someone is trying to frame someone of some crime, with video authentication, they need to create and authenticate a video based on when they want the supposed crime to occur. Without it, they could find out when their target has alibi gaps and just target that time after the fact.

Though another bit on reality’s side is corroborating with other nearby cameras. If my camera says you walked onto my property at 8:00 and left at 8:30, there should be nearby cameras I don’t own that pick you up before and after those times. Every camera that has an angle should pick it up. Though advantage goes to those with many cameras, since real footage or fake, they’d be better able to create a longer narrative and dispute conflicting narratives.

I finally put my sister in law in my phone with our now shared last name just today, since she texted me on my first phone that didn’t just use google’s backup on all my contacts and I had to look the number on my old phone and add her to this one.

IKEA does use a higher quality particle board than say Canadian Tire. Or at least it’s better than what it used to be at Canadian Tire, since I stopped buying furniture from there (so who knows if it’s still that bad). After one move, the old Canadian Tire stuff was wobbly while all of my IKEA stuff is still solid, even though I was feeling less patient last time I moved it and had a “if it doesn’t survive, so be it” attitude.

Though note that I do tend to avoid the bottom tier IKEA stuff, since some of it does look pretty short term.

As much as I love my independence, I can’t help but look at society and think that things have gone very wrong at some point.

Which is kinda funny because they could save money by automating texting for some of the shit they have people call for.

Though on the other hand, if it’s a legitimate business, you can stop the call spam easier, at least in places with enforced do not call lists.

I’d still have to because the new voice mail notification won’t go away until you at least pop in and delete it or listen.

Only watched half of the video (because it’s something I’m well aware of), so it might have gone into it, but another angle is that there’s often villains that make good points and then suddenly take it in a batshit direction.

Like Thanos had a point but apparently never understood exponential growth and how reducing all life by any constant factor is just delaying the same result, even if his snap made 99% of people disappear (unless he snaps enough people that the population collapses entirely, which is what he wanted to avoid).

There’s many other examples where reasonable starting points end up in unquestionably evil conclusions. Pretty sure it’s just propaganda to make people who don’t think much about things link those reasonable beginnings with “evil” in their minds.

Also there’s characters like Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark who are billionaires but their stories always ignore the realities of what must be done in order to become a billionaire (ie underpay staff doing the actual work by billions). In Stark’s case, they sidestep that by giving him super advanced AIs and automation robots, though he’s still the owner of a large corporation, that he still benefits from despite offloading any of the responsibility of even running it to everyone else.

I think it means he’s not really that into her but just gets horny for her.

All I can say for sure is that the cinnamon desktop I’m using has wayland (experimental) as an option. I haven’t tried it myself so I don’t know how stable it is. Or how well it might work with other desktops.

My ex had an early grade school teacher hit the left handedness out of her with a ruler. Sometime around the year 2000.

Last year, my daughter missed lunch a few times because her teacher insisted on finishing the work before eating so she could say she never assigns homework. Luckily a meeting with the principal ended that quick, once we found out about it (poor kid thought she’d get in more trouble if we found out). Daughter did best when the old bag was replaced with a sub for a couple months while she dealt with some medical issue, since the sub actually cared. She’s got a great teacher this year and is thriving when she was previously struggling.