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I still have the slide as default and use it a lot. I have it set to slide when I mousewheel on the desktop and keep my taskbar shorter so there’s always some desktop showing in the corners. When I get frustrated with something though, I hit my key to activate the cube and the animation of it pulling away from the normal view works as like a disconnect from whatever I’m doing. Virtually stepping back basically.

Without the cube, I found I would get frustrated and instead of working on something else I would keep going and ultimately make mistakes and end up more frustrated. If I tried switching with the slide or fade to another project, the irritation stayed with me and I’d mess those other projects up too. The cube, for me, just worked.

I did have some success using the overview, however it was a lot more overwhelming with the way it shows everything, while the cube limits it to what’s on each cube face, without showing minimized windows at all.

When I updated KDE and found that I had lost the cube desktop switcher effect I was fairly put off on Wayland and made a lot of effort to get the cube back in various ways which did not go well. Now that it’s on Wayland, albeit slightly different, I am content with staying on Wayland. I can’t thank the people who ported it enough. It may seem like a trivial graphic effect to some but that fraction of a second that it uses when switching desktops is something that helps my ADHD tremendously. If I’m getting frustrated with a project I can switch to something else and something about that visualization helps me keep everything organized mentally. I use 4 virtual desktops, each with it’s own project subject matter, one for each side of the cube, excluding the top and bottom.

This meme imagary is from the movie Seven Psychopaths. It’s a very good movie.

Not to mention powered flight was invented in Ohio.

Because people were flying the fuck out as fast as they could, Ohio stepped up its game with other inventions: speeding tickets and stop lights.

It’s no coincidence that cash registers, price sticker affixing machines and barcodes were all invented in Ohio too. You can try to leave, but you’re gonna have to pay and it wont be easy. Ohio is also where vacuum cleaners and chewing gum were invented.

Think I’m being ridiculous? Just wait and see!

There’s a variant of three-ring loose-leaf paper binders invented in Ohio. It’s called a “Trapper Keeper”. Think about it…

The inventions of Ohio tell a bleak, dystopian tale if one reads between the lines. Interesting that Ohio brought the world freon and leaded gasoline along with gas masks…

As someone in Ohio, it only requires an ID to watch porn online. I’ve been saving material since learning about the bill.

I can imagine a couple hundred GB will last me awhile. Also after that, I can imagine. They can’t regulate that yet.

That analogy with the pencil is great! Thanks for the info.

Also the ones who think this is something with even tiny chance of being viable in court anytime soon or will persist as an effective crimebuster for any notable amount of time if they do.

The above comments have already covered many possible variations complicating things, due to the settings and positions of how the machine was used to 3d print something. The article claims 3d printing tech has nozzles that have unique signatures. They would (or at least should) need to make sure it is actually unique by cross checking with other nozzles too. Lots of them really, just to make sure.

That might require finding multiple nozzles made in the same batch as the murder weapon, preferably unused, so they could attempt to recreate the crime version, to rule it out. It might be a nozzle manufacturer causing these imperfections where each batch of 10,000 nozzles is made in an extrusion plant or injection mold or done like solder ball grid array or pipefitters and play-doh (i honestly have no idea how they are made lol) and it turns out every nozzle in the first row has the same ‘fingerprint’ that warps the same way with use.

As technology progresses, parts should (but these days, idk) be made with more durable materials, with greater precision, capable of smaller scales or higher complexity and these unique signatures disappear for any easily detectable method. That’s just the nozzles. In theory, that can apply to many if not all the parts.

I mean, Fabs for CPU are currently producing chips at what, 3 nanometers now? I just learned about electron-beam lithography too. The 3d printed smoking gun fingerprinting will be an anacronism before it’s a specialization, in my opinion.

Sure you can! See?

Do GIMP, Krita, Kdenlive or Inkscape use AI? I did not think they did, to the best of my knowledge. Maybe I’m missing something about AI assisted compression and correction, which I admit I’m not familiar with.

Does this only apply to digital media used in mainstream sources or does it mean everyone who uses editing software is using AI?

The truck might have had one of their ‘lifetime’ subscriptions.

Sirius sold lifetime subscriptions. Some people who purchased one were led to believe it was for the rest of their life. Sirius worded it to say it was the lifetime of the device. Their ‘lifetime’ service got cancelled on them after a merger with XM Radio, or they’d replace their vehicle which had a different but still a Sirius radio and could not transfer lifetime service.

There was a class action lawsuit filed. The lawsuit was settled in 2021 (subs had been sold as far back as the early 2000’s) and made ‘lifetime’ refer to the subscriber, not the life of the radio. People with inactive subscriptions could cancel it and get $100. An active subscription could pay $35 (instead of $75) to move it to another radio, each time they wanted to move it. Except that settlement was dismissed in 2022 and it’s no longer possible.

Mailing lists for Spotify and Pro Tools, plus you get signed up for a ‘free’ with an asterisk lifetime subscription to sirius radio that can’t be cancelled.

this applies possibly to phone calls, text messages, email, comments on forums and sites like youtube and many other things.

check: does user respond? if yes, user will engage. add to will engage list.

check: how does user respond? delete or reply? if reply, add to repeat text/voice call list. if delete add to spam defender list.

will engage list: continue to send. engagement is attention. they are acknowledging and thus may be able to attract their attention in some way for advertisers.

text/voice list: same as engage list but also opens lines of communication. chance to upsell. chance to phish with support scam.

spam defender list: continue using default spam tactics. add higher level phishing techniques. consider adding to spearphishing list.

spearphishing list: has spam experience and can use computer/phone. possible tech worker. gather more information. attempt to infiltrate. cross reference username with leak db’s. do they reuse their passwords?

all of the above: collect ai training data.

i don’t know how true any of this is, it’s simply how i imagine some of it works. i might be paranoid. how you react is part of how you get classified into a list or group.

I thought I could write something worse and came up with this. it was not really a good idea. (i modified it so no one makes my mistake by blindly copy and pasting it. hopefully.)

if [[ -f ~./kitten.sh ]] #     if the file kitten exists
    then killall -KILL kitten.sh || touch ./kitten #    kill all kittens. if that fails, touch kitten.
fi;
echo "Killed kitten... )"; #    announce the terrible deed.
# bash kitten.sh; #    runs this kitten script again. do not remove # symbol at start of this line, unless you want to have a bad time.
# it will make this run repeatedly. you monster.

I believe there is value in it. By not knowing about some negative role model like these youtube personalities, when my nephews are talking about them I can be more believably disinterested if I don’t know who they are. When they attempt to explain the person my continued disinterest helps them realize the person they follow isn’t that great, since they rarely do great things and my nephews might realize that as they search for reasons why they watch them. If I use my time to learn about more positive role models and activities instead, it’s easier to shift their opinions to something better. I can’t just say “X person sucks, don’t watch them” since that usually only further entrenches them in watching the drivel.

an example is when I pulled out my raspberry pi, plugged it into their tv and started playing retrogames, ignoring them while they were talking about some LTT video because i thought it was boring. it wasn’t long before they dropped their conversation and were focused on what i was doing, as I played various games on it. now they seem more interested in learning how to do that, instead of mindlessly watching some idiot.

i know that is a weak argument. i know i can also come up with examples of times my ignorance has been detrimental. like regarding idiotic political figures whom i should have learned more about, to help inform people of why they are bad, instead of sticking my head in the sand until things got a lot worse.

so i see and understand your point that it’s better to not be ignorant about internet celebrities and awful people. i still feel it is better to spend time focusing on better things, hoping that my chosen interests can outweigh my choice to ignore idiots. in the long run it all comes down to opinions i suppose.

I’m proud of the fact I don’t know who that is and even more proud that I don’t care if anyone thinks that is not impressive. I hate that I learned who poodiepie is and have yet to meet any fans that weren’t mentally challenged. It is a waste of space in my brain and I would happily live under a rock if it meant I didn’t have to know about the existance of vapid, self-centered, so-called “youtube celebrities”. They add nothing to this world of any value and wouldn’t be missed.

I fed the cable through a hole in the wall, not that it matters since the door doesn’t shut all the way. The building is old and the frame doesn’t match the door shape anymore.

It was easy to feed the line because, well, the monitor is in the hole too. It’s a big hole. Honestly, it’s kind of embarrassing. A mouse infestation took out the supports and drywall around an exhaust vent/air conditioner wall-unit thing and it fell out of the wall. Plus the landlord is a slum lord.

I can’t really do a current picture for complicated phone reasons/problems. Just imagine a monitor in this hole, instead of the portal to Narnia which I lovingly crafted in GIMP: https://i.imgur.com/BLHhUF0.gif

The monitor is in that, mostly held in with spray foam and duct tape. My rent is $325 a month, no contract, no late fees up to 3 months. My landlord is a slumlord. IDK, I feel that might help explain things around here.

and your Pants Pee-free

they are seriously underestimating my capabilities, as well as the efficacy of my laundromat and determination of the drunken hobos who live there.

They measure the angular degree of the appliance but I’ll wager a testicle they still have not tackled the more critical issue of the degree in temperature of cold porcelain. As I’m sure most men living anywhere with a latitude bigger than 45° can relate, there is nothing worse than having to chip onesself free on a cold night in the dead of winter.

The specs on the website don’t have the number one statistic I care about: Can I, a 6’3" (190cm) man, fit comfortably inside without being forced to drive with my knees? It says it is 69" (175cm) tall which is not a promising sign. The website does not have warranty information yet either, the next most important thing for me. The fact it is mostly made in America, implies that it will probably break within a year which makes the price irrelevant. The lack of infotainment is a huge plus, I don’t understand how those things are even legal. A laptop dock would be much more beneficial in my opinion. One which can easily slide out of sight, like when I’m actually driving and not just watching porn while stuck in a traffic jam. The option for hand crank windows pretty cool, so I can re-enact that one scene from the movie The Game if I want.

After really taking a deep look at the customization options I can’t help but wonder, Am I dressing a Barbie or looking for a vehicle? Can I get the icon in cornflower blue? Is there an option to make the entire vehicle look like a 90’s geocities page, including gifs? I spent who knows how long looking at the options and went to see what the price would be. Well guess what? I can’t! Not without reserving one for $50. Even then I have no indication I’ll be told the price. Sorry but I don’t care what options there are, I’m not gonna pay one dollar, let alone fifty, if I can’t see what the final price will be, even just an estimate would be nice. Am I supposed to trust the word of random news articles that it’s actually under $20k with an asterisk? I don’t care if the $50 is refundable. Any company that requires I speak to someone for the price of their product, is a company that is lying about the price of their product.

Great idea and almost a step in the right direction for cars (in my opinion). However, I can all but guarantee this would be a bad car for me to buy, because car salepeople and car engineers simply can’t help but take any good idea and load it up with as much enshittification as they possibly can stuff in and then try to get the customer to pay more for heaps of shit on top, which they call icing but is really just shit, all while lying about every possible thing they can.

My eeepc sadly died last year, it was a single core laptop i had running hannah montana linux in my bathroom as a music player.

My Precision M6400, a dual core made in 2008, is still going strong and sure, it’s slow, but it still works and has replaced the eeepc in the bathroom so now I can listen to music OR watch videos (not streaming) during my extra long showers. i don’t keep it in the bathroom, it’s on a dock in another room connected to a monitor with a really long dvi-i cable.

pet solutions

I’ve never heard this term before. My searches online aren’t bringing up anything useful, it’s all stuff about literal pets. I can’t seem to wrap my mind around what it could mean or the right thing to search to find the answer. Could someone explain please?

The ADHD aspect of computer related stuff is something I wish more people understood, Linux and beyond. I have about 45 seconds before I get distracted, that’s if I’m lucky and my phone doesn’t go off or a neighbors dog starts barking or I hear strong wind and decide to check the weather or I suddenly remember I need to mop the floor of my bathroom and a near infinite set of other possibilities. If I need to spend 15 minutes reading man pages about what arguments actually do or searching online for it and getting a short list of links dating anywhere from 2 to 20 years ago or a forum post with a dozen pages of comments then I… I… shit. What was I doing?