toynbee

For what it’s worth, I was referring to a nemesis of Superman. Admittedly it was a bit of a stretch.

What happens if I say your username backwards?

People have sex. Sometimes, there are other people in the same house while that happens. Why shudder?

Got it - if I ever want to hide a bot I’ll name it “CertainlyADog.”

If you imagine it a hub, the network collisions get a lot more interesting!

I hope it’s not it Canonical might sue them.

Presented without comment.

I’ve never put stickers on any of my equipment, personal or otherwise … But someone at my work once told me that one could procure plastic shells you can put on Macbooks so you can a. Not damage the device and b. Take your stickers with you when you leave.

My ISP charges $15/mo for gigabit. I don’t really anticipate beating that.

They charge another $15/mo for a static IP, which they apparently require to allow port forwarding, but if I called annually about it they’d probably catch on. They already know me by name because, despite being several states away, they provide internet access exclusively to my city in my state and I’m apparently the only person here who wants port forwarding.

… What do you look like?

Almost a really, really stupid show.

A long time ago, before car keys with buttons were common, I had a car with one key with buttons. They didn’t work well, so I went to the relevant dealership to get another key.

They charged me $80 and gave me another key, which admittedly did have functional buttons, but in so doing they further broke the original key - the buttons no longer worked at all. They then told me that I should not have expected to pay $80 and come out with more than I’d brought in.

I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised. The first time I went to that dealership, I asked to test drive one of their cars … The salesperson to whom I spoke claimed that they didn’t have any license plates to spare while visibly holding one in his hands.

The biggest issue I have with it is that I have Linux on all my personal systems and OSX on my work laptop and sometimes switch rapidly between them.

My fingers don’t seem to adapt as quickly, though, and I often press the wrong combination between them.

I remember a while ago - when, like in your anecdote, I mostly coded in bash - I had a dream that I found out people were invoking my scripts in a manner that essentially overrode settings that might (or, in my case, might not) have been set at the beginning of the script.

This never (AFAIK) happened in waking hours, but I was very offended in the dream.

A fact that I like to share from my personal history: I took four years to graduate from a two year college because I was taking every computer class they offered … Except that I skipped “intro to Unix” because when was I ever going to use that?

My entire career has been largely based on knowing how to use Linux.

Wow, haven’t seen your thorns in a while.

I liked vimwiki for this, except that it set expandtab and I could never find where.

Pretty much the one and only good thing about work forcing us to switch from Linux laptops to Macbooks.

DNS ad blocking doesn’t work on YouTube.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=kwfA1UB2Je0

edit: Yes, I realize the irony of linking YouTube here.

My previous house apparently only existed because the neighbor of the building in the lot before it objected to the sexuality of the owners of said building and threw a molotov cocktail at it.

There was only one casualty of that event. Sadly, it was a cat.