“yer walks faster than ah can run, yer paler than a ghost, and y’all? got a driver’s license? i ain’t buyin it. Ah reckon ah know what yer affliction is”
“say it wit ya whole chest!”
“got dang yankee”
“and whaddaya suppose we feed on, ay?”
“Why ah gather it ain’t shrimp n grits” cut to shot of edward wearing a greasy white tank top and sucking down a bowl of spaghetti

can we make this a regular event every 5 years?

even that isn’t really relevant at all for most people, modern bluetooth earphones are quite good and one charge lasts more than a week if you don’t use them constantly, as they recharge in the case.

for all that i detest apple, their smartwatch is one of the neatest devices i know of and i dearly wish i could have an equivalent that runs android (and not the janky android wear os, i’ve had a watch with that and it was not appreciably better than whatever my xiaomi smart band runs).

right but like, a modern audio player should be very cheap to make, my fucking xiaomi smart watch cost 80 bucks and that would be a fair price for a device that meets my specifications above.

And many people, like me, much prefer to have their music downloaded so it’s ALWAYS available, and if i could have a small handy device that can accept multiple SD cards that’d definitely be worth up to 100 dollars.

I used to have this sony bluetooth reciever that just clips onto your clothes and outputs to plug-in headphones and it was great, something like that with maybe even TWO sd card slots and ample battery life would be amazing. Then just let me connect it to the phone to manage playlists and stuff and we’re golden.

Or, you know, do what apple is doing, which honestly seems more and more genius the more i think about this… I don’t like when apple is objectively innovative… Also fuck patenting it, i don’t want it to be legally impossible for other companies to make the same thing, fuck off apple.

Even aside from that i genuinely think a music player still makes sense as a product.
Nowadays we could trivially make it tiny and convenient, you can fit a stupendous amount of audio on even a cheap SD card, and having it as a separate device means you’re not using up the battery on your phone and you can be more flexible with connecting it to speakers and stuff.

And of course just like the ipod you can also do video, and now that we could actually put in a decent display you could actually see the fucking content.

i believe you’re eligible for a free replacement baby, the old one will be refurbished and sold at a discount

half the reason to use linux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2mc8AQ7ruw

but clouds don’t really affect light levels that much, meanwhile up north it’s just… straight up night for most of the day during the winter.

that sounds like you’re relating your position to something else 😏

least bittern
most bittern

i feel like this just keeps happening in the open source space, people go “Oh this is bloat, get rid of the bloat” and ardently insist that actually it’s better to use a bare TTY, despite that just… obviously being hilariously dumb?

that’s not how the big bang works, the whole thing about the big bang is that it was a singularity containing all of space in a single point.
The standard analog is to take a small balloon with dots painted on it, then inflating it. The surface of the balloon is spacetime, and as it shows there is no origin, everything just gets more distant from everything else.

“but Stephen, there are no fixed points in space. Space is relative, meaning you can only define positions relative to other things. You demand the fundamentally physically impossible of me, Stephen.”

i love that bluesky just keeps getting away with it like this
“oh well they said people can run their own instances, so that must be true!”
nope, you just can’t run a bluesky instance, can we please recognize this fact and stop giving the massive corporation the benefit of the doubt?

at this point i wholly despise joanne for making “magic = latin” the cultural default, for this precise reason
can’t even read genuine actual historically used latin without part of my brain going “haha weird hogwarts spell haha”

i mean we already have murder hornets, and bees are generally on our side on the war against hornets, so i’ll take monster bees.

“construction date: december 29th, 1849”
aw nuts