Focal length motherfucker, do you choose it?

If you don’t, you’re letting your focal length choose your photos

It’s not every day you get to use a word like dilettante, so I figured I’d make a salad

Flukey dilettante regards stochastic parrot as unfathomable prodigy

Read all about it

He wasn’t impressed and I didn’t make it to the next round.

Poor Stockholm syndrome afflicted fool

Breaks my heart to know people are still suffering this particular hell

That was always the fake dream that was sold, about 15 years ago there were a lot of people writing cukes

I never saw a single business analyst or product owner ever open even one of those text files that ostensibly primarily only existed for their benefit.

The closest we got was copy and pasting the user story from the ticket and hammering it into the shape of the existing regexes

Then we all woke up from the fever dream about 10 years ago and I’ve basically not seen one since.

Tbh with this AI bubble it’s only a matter of time before someone tries it again

Mostly posting this because holy shit what a jump to blame schools distributing laptops being the cause and not psychologically addictive social media algorithms having a total domination of their attention

Definitely nothing to do with the fact that schools giving out laptops disproportionately benefits less wealthier families

Letterboxd is pretty good, though it got bought by private equity a few years ago and they’re now trying to flog it off to Netflix or Paramount, so probably numbered days

I think you’ve got the power dynamic wrong here

If OP is having to contact loads of estate agents, it’s probably because they live somewhere with in-demand property.

That means those estate agents are going to have loads of potential people to sell to

Someone who wants to do something differently than everyone else is going to get a lower priority over someone who just does everything they are asked without question.

The estate agent doesn’t really lose anything by doing this, OP risks reducing their chances at getting a place, ostensibly one they need to live in at some point soon.

Dino-mo

Oh don’t get me wrong, our intrepid adventurers are going to have to spend a good chunk of time on this with no guarantee they live long enough.

However assuming knowledge isn’t a gap (given they already built a time machine), iron ore is fairly abundant in many areas of the world, and it’s relatively straightforward to build a kiln that would reach the appropriate temperatures to smelt the iron into bloom (that can be hammered into workable iron)

It’ll take many, many years, but assuming they can avoid ending up as food, it doesn’t seem impossible

Assuming Dr. Stone is some kind of MacGyver regen:

Two obvious approaches to me that I’ll run through in high level: build a wind/watermill generators or potato/lemon batteries

First thing you’ll need to figure out for both is how to make some wire. That’s going to require finding some metal ore and a hot furnace, and creating a few tools out of stone to work with it.

The biggest difficulty with the former two is going to be finding some ferrous metal to turn into magnets. You can make a magnet without electricity by smashing the shit out of some iron as it’s aligned with the earth’s magnetic field, and it’ll become a weak magnet. From there with enough wire, you can build a generator. With the sails of the mill, you can build that out of wood and foliage.

For potato or lemon batteries, you’re going to need a shitload, as they give you about a volt and a pretty tiny current, but theoretically you could figure something out that way with enough. I imagine some things may want to eat your batteries though

And to save you jumping around different VPN countries looking for it:

https://unogs.com/

I have something similar with my phone plan

My current plan (that I’ve been on for about 7 years now) includes unlimited everything and global roaming across basically anywhere I’ve ever visited (only had to get a separate ESIM once)

I’m regularly getting offers from them to switch to a plan with limits and more restricted roaming for only an extra 25% more a month…!

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BBC in recent years has (arguably maliciously when you look at some of the backgrounds of the recent show runners of things like question time) been presenting two views as equivalently valid when one is from a genuinely respected expert in whatever field is being discussed and another is from racist Barry from the pub who drove a leaded petrol car for a few too many years.

Presenting two sides as equal is not impartial, it gives extremists a platform to amplify their platform.

The paradox of tolerance follows that we should actively avoid platforming bad-faith extremists. Let alone presenting their views as reasonable.

Hmm assuming the disk isn’t super scratched up, I’m thinking you need to configure the region correctly.

I think if it was a decryption error, you’d have something different to a read error on what looks like one of the first blocks.

I remember there’s a cli utility for setting the region that you should be able to get from your package manager, I can’t remember the name off the top of my head

Edit: reread your post, regionset rings a bell actually. If it’s not available in your package manager, perhaps try building it from source

The non spineless thing would be to tax the shit out of these companies to pay for it rather than letting them shift the cost of breaking everything onto everyone else

A 128GB blu ray should be sufficient for basically any game

Up to 256GB over two disks should be more than enough

What is the error that VLC gives you?

I don’t think the product actually existing is something scammers are typically concerned about