This reminds me of the book Rainbows End, by Vernor Vinge. In it, a company uses a mulcher to grind down all the books and shelves in a library, then uses scans of the scraps to reassemble the books in digital form for an AR version of the library.
Current hourly forecast says we’re gonna get thunderstorms around 5 here, but the rain will start at 3.
I thought trains were the most efficient way to ship goods, though I’ll concede that trains are notoriously bad at crossing oceans.
I’m similar, but it’s internal drives are planets, while external drives are moons.
I don’t name my machines anything special, but I’ve started naming my internal hard drives/samba shares after planets, and external drives after moons.
When I helped my father run ethernet in my family’s home, we ran cables up to the attic, dropped them down to specific rooms between the walls, then drilled holes for panels as needed.
You use a plugin called Fanficfare to get it to work, though the news feature is good for blogs and other sites! Here’s the tutorial.
I can’t say there was a worst interaction, but there’s two candidates for best. The first is that when he was just starting out, shittywatercolour painted one of my photographs.
The second is not just a reddit thing, but about 7 years ago I wrote a tutorial for r/fanfiction on how to use calibre to save stories from various websites. It was well received at the time, but since them ive had multiple times where people said it was useful, including one a couple weeks ago on a completely different website.
Oh, it’s a great book. Or at least, I liked it a lot. The library mulching was opposed by most of the characters.