WetFerret

I got a b/w Brother laser and have been using it with Windows, Linux and Android devices with no issues. It has lasted me through 6 years of university and I’ve only replaced the toner once. Probably the best technology investment I’ve ever made.

I think we may need to implement a 128 bit unix timestamp before that will work.

Many people have given great suggestions for the most destroying commands, but most result in an immediately borked system. While inconvenient, that doesn’t have a lasting impact on users who have backups.

I propose writing a bash script set up to run daily in cron, which picks a random file in the user’s home directory tree and randomizes just a few bytes of data in the file. The script doesn’t immediately damage the basic OS functionality, and the data degradation is so slow that by the time the user realizes something fishy is going on a lot of their documents, media, and hopefully a few months worth of backups will have been corrupted.

My ongoing updates to my location description for UberEats delivery drivers.

Me: “I live in the westmost apartment building.”

Driver: ?

Me: “I live in the apartment building farthest away from Portland”

Driver: ?

Me: “Head toward the sun until you get to the last building. That’s mine.”

Driver on cloudy day: ?

Me: “Imagine you get an amber alert that Mt. Hood has begun erupting. Which way do you run? Head that way. I will be waving my arms in the air outside my apartment.”

Driver: “Cant find bldg”

Me: sigh

If you want to run some less low-level code to explore the kinds of sounds that code like this can create, I wrote a python applet that lets you explore random and custom functions interactively. It comes with several presets for interesting functions I’ve discovered on various websites.

YouTube video

source code

r/buyitforlife is a treasure

I agree. I can imagine communities being created for a one-time event, and having the content saved for posterity. Think something like how Reddit’s r/place is a snapshot in time.

Thanks for posting this! I’ve often struggled with ACPI and Linux in the past and this sheds a little light on why that is.

My personal favorite is the spider costume for dogs.

I have never seen so few fries from Five Guys before.

https://dos.zone/mobile/ has quite a lot of classic dos games updated with mobile controls. Strategy games in particular work well on a phone.