ProllyInfamous

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by ProllyInfamous 2mo ago
The most-difficult part of installing any Linux distro is getting the motivation to create the boot media . Luckily for Ubuntu (I'm running v26) you can use an old HD or USB and then [your flavor of LLM] to then walk you through the s
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by ProllyInfamous 2mo ago
It was my favorite activity of 2024, easily. Went with my twin [&law] and met lots of very neat people. Learned a little bit about the sun, and lots about humble aweface. My first roadtrip in my first hybrid, who knew a Camry could fjor
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by ProllyInfamous 2mo ago
I brought binoculars to the 2024 event and made sure to keep my eyes closed during the preceding partial solar eclipse (eye acclimation). After the total eclipse was over, I watched a single honeybee re-orient itself , having temporarily l
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by ProllyInfamous 2mo ago
The craziest thing about Metro Nashville (the city/county entity we are discussing) is that the wealthiest enclaves (independent cities) voted to retain certain city-powers (because of course they did! ) – mostly Southern Davidson C
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by ProllyInfamous 2mo ago
Chattanooga (just hours away) has a DC Blox data center, approximately 50,000sqft (tiny!), located on the southwest corner of Main Street and Center Streets – yet if you didn't know it was there, you wouldn't know it was there .
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by ProllyInfamous 2mo ago
Can we get off with "the em dashes" – I've been using them for years (checks post history:), decades.
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by ProllyInfamous 2mo ago
After purchasing a brand new pre-built from Microcenter (mostly for the GPU & RAM inside), I didn't even boot the Microsoft garbage – started straight into Ubuntu 26 USB installer, formatted, and was up and running immediately. Now
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by ProllyInfamous 2mo ago
See, now here's the great part: it's probably not . BUT: until Flock-like tracking systems are legislated (or judiciated) out of existence, they're not actually unconstitutional [despite the obvious layperson applications
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by ProllyInfamous 2mo ago
If anybody else wants to sip on this: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmJI6qIqURA > Thanks for some coffeetime thoughts. ---- Something I have in common with Ms. Collier is that we both interpreted Atlas Shrugged a
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by ProllyInfamous 2mo ago
When the majority of a decades-long-scams' victims are Boomers getting hacked with AIs (clearing out your possibly-lesser inheritances)... does it still matter if the /u/usernametake29s of this world are still stuck thinking
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by ProllyInfamous 2mo ago
Makes sense, he was a lifelong hero (not just for his good fiscal advice, but also his advice on Man ), so perhaps I was semi-listening... #RIP
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by ProllyInfamous 2mo ago
We need an alternative, because a nation servicing interest on debt as its #1 fiscal line-item is historically irrecoverable #2027 #ThisTimeIsDifferent? My proposed alternative is that we must accept (as individual nations, perhaps some e
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by ProllyInfamous 2mo ago
As will the SDR. < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_drawing_rights >
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by ProllyInfamous 2mo ago
"Show me the personal incentives, and I'll tell you the outcome." –Someone way the hell wiser than myself
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by ProllyInfamous 2mo ago
Too. Big. To. Fail. I still have the tab (open from yesterday's /hn/) about Trickle Down Economics working as intended (which it obviously does, from a certain minority of the population's top-of-the-K-curve POV). Hone
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by ProllyInfamous 2mo ago
Ours has been exceptionally unique sets of experiences. One of my lifelong goals is to publish something witty about my perceptions on the nature vs nurture debate , given that I have both a genetic clone (i.e. same DNA)... but we're
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by ProllyInfamous 2mo ago
Many more such example on this wikipedia page: < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_color > My personal favorite is "Hyperbolic Red" – which is the brightest pink you'll never actually see in n
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by ProllyInfamous 3mo ago
Von Neumann is an interesting historical character that nobody has ever heard of , e.g: for such an accomplished inventor, that so few minutes of video footage exist of him. >I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he ta
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by ProllyInfamous 3mo ago
I wear a pretty big hat , myself. >You can take the boy out of Texas >...but can you take Texas out of the boy? Don't know why anybody wouldchoose'ta read me, but... it do be like that. ---- Random moviereq: Slingblade Cr
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by ProllyInfamous 3mo ago
I'll just use a 10-minute-email, and have anybody send anything to that burner while on my landline with them. To cite Paul Graham's 15+ year old essay on the topic, email is nothing more than "a to-do list that anybody can a
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by ProllyInfamous 3mo ago
Very disappointed with the US FCC's ~2020 decision to REQUIRE EMAIL for a 1920s technology (access to, via their 10yr-cycle licensing online nightmare ). I recently went to renew my legal callsign, and apparently now email is a requi
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by ProllyInfamous 3mo ago
Seriously what an inspirational Wednesday morning headline/LLCname, for us bottom 98.7% to romanticize. I don't care who started first , theirs is a catchy Corporate Identity. I've been around since GPT2&CrAIyon (an equa
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by ProllyInfamous 3mo ago
That's fair, but... ¿por qué no los dos? , hermanobeuno. ---- Texceptionalism eventually kills us [almost] all. >"It's crooked through-and-through ... all hat, no cattle." – with respects to Ms'ss Molly Ivans
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by ProllyInfamous 3mo ago
His stupid pussywagon literally has army-style&fluorescent gas canisters mounted on an inaccessible roofrack. I mean... really ?!?! Free targetable incendiaries?! Honestly I know they're madmax-fearing-"christians" in the
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by ProllyInfamous 3mo ago
Be careful visiting this website: it is very dangerous to your wallet. For example: just last month, it made me purchase a 5070Ti ... #GPUsAnonymous #Club1080Ti
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by ProllyInfamous 3mo ago
>neo-afghanistan lifestyle I guess that explains all the jacked-up parking lot queens. #PickupTruckCulture #Scratchless For security reasons I won't tell you which stupid one Brother drives , but it's literally the most ridic
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by ProllyInfamous 3mo ago
I have worked at this agency (in the article), as support staff (electrician), over a decade ago. It was incredibly eye-opening for my then-late-twenties just how much waste ... Reflecting now, it's still mostly unbelievable how muc
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by ProllyInfamous 3mo ago
I did my IBEW apprenticeship (mostly) at datacenters, during Snowden's revelations. It was a wild ride, all the "not real" but seen every day at work technological capabilities that didn't technically exist. I was just
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by ProllyInfamous 3mo ago
His brilliance transcends science, e.g: < https://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/s6681.pdf > He was a very proud Jew, who questioned whether he would have been had he not been born into such life. I disagr
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by ProllyInfamous 3mo ago
Instead of letting the Varroa destructor ( its scientific name , representative of its devistation) fall to the ground, place an oiltrap below the mesh/screening. And then those V. destructor can fucking drown. "See you in hel

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