That’s 617lbs for the Americans. And wouldn’t you know it, we have a whole show about that. 152 episodes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_600-lb_Life

Seriously, this has to be some clever business move to sell more toilets when the employees invariably take a sledge hammer to them.

I can eject USB drives in Linux! You click the button to unmount it, and it unmounts. This is some crazy technology right here, maybe one day Microsoft will catch up

Ignore deaths and just do brain damage statistics. It will all start to make sense.

I used to have a cat I could let out on the back patio with me, and she would stay on whatever concrete pad we had out there. I moved a few times, and each time we would do this routine when we went outside the first time where she would put one paw like this and look at me and wait. Without much change in my tone I could just say ‘yea’ or ‘nope’ and she’d learn where she’s allowed to go. It was always pretty obvious, just a concrete pad, but shed test the boundaries anyway. There was never any friction, shed just accept it and test the next spot. But one time I tried seeing how specific she would go, and I said ‘yea’ to some railroad ties lining a flower bed on one side of the patio. For the rest of my lease, she would not step foot in the flower bed but would do a loop on the railroad ties and come back to the concrete. I’m not sure where I’m going with this, maybe your desk needs railroad ties

BOOK SPOILERS

The entire story is different. For starters there’s no t-rex loose in LA or whatever. Hammond is dead in the book (he gets eaten by compys at the end of the first book). There’s a few details that are the same, like the fancy research lab on wheels, but in the movie the child that stows away on it is Malcolm’s daughter. She’s not in the book. Instead in the book two research assistants to another character are the stowaways. Small things, lots of them.

The trex getting loose is probably adapted from the first chapter in the book that predicates the entire adventure - there are reports of raptors on the mainland snatching babies out of open windows at night. I can see why Hollywood might have left that part out

The movie did him dirty.

Wait till you read the lost world.

To be fair there’s no article, just a video of a guy off camera talking about his Xbox, not exactly engaging.

I dug through the start of some guide on github, and nothing jumped out at me that the stuff remains configured. Maybe there are pieces stored on the jump drive afterward, but if it does they aren’t saying it very loudly. That’d definitely help convince me to try it.

Who am I kidding, I’m trying it the first time I come across a 360. I just don’t see myself using it regularly

I’ve seen estimates between 30-70% failure rate for the race condition, even on this updated 1.2 version.

And then ok, the exploit is successful. Now you have to install the custom launcher. Hope you like the default theme otherwise you’re now configuring that each and every time too. I didn’t get this far in the guide but now I imagine you also need to install the ISO manager that launches the games. Whoops, there’s always some weird collection of dependencies that you’ll probably have to tweak. Remember wii ios’s? God, what the heck was that. Then you lose power and have to do all of this over again?

Have you ever modded a console? The exploit is only step one.

Its a shame it doesn’t persist through a reboot. I thought I was finally going to have a hacked 360, but I’m not reapplying this thing every time it turns on…

That’s great it still doesn’t cure cancer or whatever mr brain worm is saying that week.

The word mysterious ruins it for me. They always know damn well what it is. They will chug pesticide knowing full well its pesticide because these clowns told them to do it

I know I’m winning when it serves an ad in a language I don’t speak

‘I was kind of saving that stick’

Oh look at Mr rich with his DVD burner. In our house we databurned videos to CDs and we LIKED it

It’s worth it to include a couple extra points on the current ‘meta’ of seed boxes. A lot of these servers that people set up to serve as an inbetween to torrent then watch via jellyfin etc - they are being set up with weak security. Usually read access is left wide open to get all these services working on the same directory where the movies are. They assume there’s a little security through obscurity, but Google WILL manage to index this folder, and now when someone searches for that obscure 90s movie you torrented (with a few fun search arguments like intitle:), they’re now able to access all your downloads.

Sometimes these seed boxes have bandwidth use limits, where they might charge you if you suddenly use a few dozen TB, which will happen if you’re showing up on Google!

If they don’t have bandwidth limits, you still might land in hot water with your hosting co because you’re being a little loud with copyright infringement. You’re showing up on Google.

If you’re not too worried about either of these things, go ahead and be a hero, leave that shit wide open because…

If hosting a seedbox is way over your head or budget, just know a lot of them are left wide open for you to grab bits and pieces with near zero risk.

Have you ever tried listening to music in another language? I find myself in a similar situation where electronic gets too busy and pulls me out of focus. Listening to lyrics I can understand also breaks focus because some amount of brain cycles are trying to comprehend them. But when I put on like some russian indie rock, I can zone out to sounds I like without that dialogue interpreter running in the back of my brain.

I heard the cartels have a sale this weekend on NVIDIA cards