toddestan

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[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It wouldn't happen. The Republicans would either gerrymander the hell out of Canada in their favor, or Canada would just be another unincorporated territory like Puerto Rico - part of the US but no representation in Congress.

[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

The Republican propaganda machine has already convinced a bunch of people who grew up during the cold war that Russia is now the good guys. It'll take some time, but I don't doubt they could do it.

[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago

When I was at college us physicists would joke about the biologists and the chemists and the mathematicians and the engineers, and in turn they'd joke about us, and we'd all have a good laugh over it.

I suppose it would come down to the context and how it was said.

[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Have they watched it more than once? I actually thought it was okay after watching it the first time, despite the confusing plot and a bunch of minor characters I just couldn't keep straight. So I decided it was worth another watch so I could pick up more of the story, but instead the second viewing was just painful as I ended up realizing how terrible and nonsensical the movie was.

[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

While we're at it, let's also vent about cars and trucks with loud modified exhausts.

[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I use BiglyBt on Debian. I use BiglyBt because I previously used Vuze, and I used Vuze because I previously used Azureus. I don't really remember why I went with Azureus originally, but it may have just been because it was popular at that time.

I get the impression most people use other bittorrent clients nowadays, but BiglyBt does what I need it to do. I never really used any of the "advanced" features of Vuze myself, pretty much only using it for torrents.

[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

The sad thing is back in the Windows XP days Microsoft had the focus stealing thing pretty much solved. Well okay - I remember you had to install some of the PowerToys or make some registry edits to get at some of the settings. But once setup pretty much nothing could steal focus away from the current window, which was a welcome change from where we had been. That started to break again in Windows 7, and has gotten worse with every release since then.

Admittedly XFCE isn't perfect either, but it's much better behaved than modern Windows.

[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Rock n' Roll Racing.

[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Challenger had a fleck of paint damage one of its windows on an early mission.

[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I see enough weird behavior out of the Dells at work and their USB-C docks so I can believe it. Not detecting the dock, not charging from the dock, ports not working on the dock, randomly insisting the dock isn't compatible. Even the machines that end up as folding desktops that never get disconnected from their dock end up doing this stuff. I really had no use for a laptop anyway so I finally convinced them to give me a desktop.

[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Why not use gvim on Windows? That's my "IDE" on Windows. Though with modern versions of Windows, trying to run vim in the Command Prompt isn't a complete disaster like it was in the past.

"IDE" in quotes because I consider vim a text editor, and I don't try to make it an IDE with a bunch of plugins.

[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

I managed to get this: How to Fire a Gun.

So it's at least plausible.

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