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@lnxw48a1 side note:

typhoon: loan from Cantonese "daai fung", big wind

Apparently when a poor child does it it's not impressive.

@thegibson @snipe It saddens me that in this day and age we STILL have satanic panics. Will those damned Christians ever leave people in peace?

@snipe

"While various Pride Collection products are under review, the only ones now being removed are the LGBTQ brand Abprallen, which has come under scrutiny for its association with British designer Eric Carnell.

Carnell has faced social media backlash for designing merchandise with images of pentagrams, horned skulls and other Satanic products."

you know... I appreciate the satanic panic element to the story... because the complainers/threat actors are the same demographic.

@MiaWinter Jevons Paradox.

@marcan the problem is people tried to fix the X11 bare metal situation

and realized that you more or less have to reimplement an entire wayland server, with all it's compositing stack and redraw loop and modeset handling and everything else

and then you need to retrofit the X11 window model into that rendering pipeline, all while keeping the glamor acceleration going

people actually built this. it's called $wayland_compositor + Xwayland

that stack _is_ your modern bare metal X11 stack

the vaunted 25mpg mileage of its *hybrid* engine is what got me

@notjustbikes WE BOUGHT A NEW MONSTER TRUCK

I stumbled across this video when looking up new truck videos on YouTube. (It's important research! I promise!)

These Americans get convinced into buying an expensive pickup they can barely afford because they're having their 3rd kid.

And the best part? The truck doesn't even fit in their fucking garage!!

It's almost like a parody. It's insane that pickup trucks have become the new family vehicle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_19xUNo0NcE

@charliejane Enjoy the new album from the band Duvet. They’re a cover band.

I had mediterranean food for dinner, and now everything I do for the rest of the evening will be post-hummus.

@mattblaze Heh.

And kidding aside: the most memorable example I've seen of this was a comment on an article abt Faraday bags, which linked to a 1-star review some guy left for one, complaining that the bag completely ruined his WiFi reception. "Like, it barely even works, even when it's right on top of the router." Further comments revealed that he was 100% serious, and not joking around even a little bit.

@RufusJCooter frequency, so to speak...

Also, I have to wonder how someone could reach the conclusion that I think phone tracking isn't a real and very serious threat for some people based on a 5000 word article I wrote going into a great deal of detail on countermeasures against the threat of ... phone tracking.