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Sometimes things just stop working for no apparent reason, and you phone the doctor then play the “well, hopefully this isn’t permanent” waiting game which is fun. Current case: earwax or just deaf in one ear now?

I’ve never used the feature but my toothbrush has Bluetooth for some reason lol

I’m still on a 4a too! I’m kind of thinking about upgrading 'cause I run GrapheneOS on it and nowadays whenever I reboot it I get a warning that it’s no longer supported, but also it still works so whatever.

I think maybe if I see a newer Pixel that’s cheap second-hand somewhere I might think about it, that way I can keep using GrapheneOS and not give any money to Google.

That might just be Steven Moffat lol

I thought Kaos was really good, so of course they shitcanned it immediately after one season lol.

I remember seeing a Russel T. Davies interview where he said he once received a script and the very first line of dialogue was someone saying “Happy Wedding Day, Sis!” and he immediately threw it away lol.

Or that thing where a character references something that was said/happened 10 minutes ago and they do a flashback to show that it happened.

Yeah I think it’s worse. In Idiocracy they’re dumb, but they do eventually listen when told what they’re doing is wrong, and take steps to amend it. We… do not tend to do that lol

It definitely seems like the smart move as far as I can tell. I assume building new infrastructure/software etc. would create a lot of jobs, plus it seems like a solid long-term investment in general, and it would probably help against hostile influences from outside. By which I mean mainly Russia but also increasingly the US too. Sorry, Americans but I also suspect that your troubles won’t end with Trump. I think the whole system needs flushing out TBH.

They actually do meet Hitler at one point in Doctor Who. IIRC they can’t kill him for time travel (and probably also family TV) reasons, but they do punch him in the face and lock him in a cupboard.

Yeah probably the more likely outcome.

Docker is the source of my secret nerd shame lol. I feel like I’m reasonably competent with computers - I’m no pro but I can install and setup Arch (BTW) without using Archinstall and stuff like that. But I just don’t understand Docker. I’ve read so many ELI5 guides and I understand in a really general way what it’s meant to do, but I just… cannot picture in my head what it’s doing. I don’t even know where it is on my machine! But I still have two apps that I run in Docker. They just… exist somewhere and if they ever break I’m lost.

I’m lucky in that I’ve been in the same job for ages (since before AI) and so I haven’t had to deal with this yet, but a friend of mine was using AI to write his resume recently and I had the thought that the resume is probably being written by an AI, then sent to another AI to read it and that you could conceivably get a job with a resume that no human has ever entirely read. Probably not an original thought but it had never occurred to me before lol.

That reminds me a bit of the Undercover mode in Kali Linux. It doesn’t wipe anything, but it changes the desktop to look like Windows lol.

Yeah that’s fair. And mine were pretty small scripts so easy enough to check, and I keep proper backups and whatnot so no big deal. But like I say I wouldn’t use it for anything big or important.

It’s like that old meme about how Luke is a desert farmer who is given weapons and radicalized by a bearded man in a cave, then goes off to a militia training camp and eventually blows up a government installation.

My favourite one (it happens a lot in the UK and I assume in other places too) is when people say things like “I support the cause but the protest is really disruptive.”

Like no shit, that’s the entire point of a protest. They also sometimes complain about strikes being inconvenient for them. Oh, is this strike illustrating to you why this service is essential and it would be bad if it went away?

One time when I used to be on reddit I had an argument with someone who was against a climate protest because it could have blocked an ambulance and gotten someone killed. But this was after the protest had already happened and that had not occurred. So you don’t support it because of a hypothetical disaster that you just made up, that already didn’t happen? People, man

Yeah pretty much! TBH for the first one there are already things online that can do that, I just wanted to test how the AI would do so I gave it a simple thing, it worked well and so I kept using it. The second one I wasn’t sure about because it’s a bit copyright-y, but yeah like you say it was just quicker. I wouldn’t use the AI for anything super important, but I figured it’d do for a quick little script that only needs to do one specific thing just for me.

As an FYI in case you didn’t know you can also stack them when they go on sale. I have like 3 of them on the same account lol

Not OP but I made a little menu thing for launching VMs and a script for grabbing trailers for downloaded movies that reads the name of the folder, finds the trailer and uses yt-dlp to grab it, puts it in the folder and renames it.