That sort of thing isn’t anything new. My grandpa made my dad burn his baseball cards because he thought they were becoming “idols.”

I’m always amazed that my dad managed to rebuild their relationship later in life.

7/29 is TACO Tuesday!

Had a smoke detector going off randomly one night and I pulled it down only to have mama crawl all over my hand as the babies were running around like maniacs, some casting off. Mama still had a bunch on her when I got the smoke detector outside.

I started off with fan grills and led fans and cold cathode lighting way back when.

Now, my gaming PC, which is about due for its 5 yr update again, is in an old antec sonata case from 2008ish. I’ll probably splurge on a new one next round, but if it’s fancy, it will be one of those unassuming fractal cases with wood.

No lights if I can help it.

It’s Nvidia that that jumps out in your question.

They are /were notorious for lackluster support on Linux and sleep/wake issues are /were significant.

IIRC you still need to configure a few bits to get it to work properly (maybe just a systems service enable?).

… And it looks like it’s still a constant issue.

Thread with various fixes and tweaks: https://gist.github.com/bmcbm/375f14eaa17f88756b4bdbbebbcfd029

For the uninitiated.

My wife has an anaphylactic allergy to whey. I guess we’ll now be waiting for the day she has a reaction to “vegan” milk.

I have a significant colony of false widows (steatoda) around the house. They’re very chill and mostly stay outside and make webs in corners.

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That’s archetypal passive voice since it doesn’t change the target of the verb and uses state-of-being plus past participle.

“ICE kills Canadian citizen” switches this around.

Big parmesan cheese fan by chance?

Ah, so that’s why the response from Iran was so meager: quid pro quo.

The mechanical dials bit makes me jealous. I have a fancy new one that has a drawer mechanism and is built in under the counter.

It has settings to disable the chime, the 30 second “omg your food is still in the microwave” reminder, and even all sounds.

But doing anything that isn’t just pushing a couple numbers and start is hopeless. Defrost or “melt”? Enter the food code (???) then the weight (just guess randomly at the units and start over if you’re wrong). I just run at 30% power to defrost the occasional thing now.

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Documents show that the energy and water projected to be consumed by the data center campus are staggering. If built to full capacity, the Bessemer data center campus could consume around 10.5 million megawatt hours of energy per year, based on estimates provided to residents by representatives of the data center development.

That’s more than 90 times the amount of energy used by all residences in Bessemer annually, according to figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

That’s half the annual generation of the largest power plant in the US.

A recent regulatory filing by county officials estimated that water usage by the facility could amount to 2 billion gallons per day. That’s more than five times the entire state’s daily residential usage, according to government figures.

The entire US uses 18 billion gallons of water per day from direct draws (not drinking water connections).

I have to admit this can be only horseshit. I don’t want to be an apologist.

Here another slightly older figure: That’s the entire daily fresh groundwater use of the entire US.

Yeah, also a dev here. I’d be so happy if they’d parted ways with the 90s legacy bits at some point. Just glad there are enough parsing libraries that I’ll never need to care (right? Please tell me I’m right!).

This is probably my first time ever using it for an appropriate purpose as this team’s technical docs are destined for the press (and digital distribution). They just have no idea how to software, so I was brought in to build bridges between and ultimately simplify all their tools.

https://pdf2docx.readthedocs.io/ seems to fit the bill. I can’t vouch for it.

PDF is such a curse. I say this as a person currently tasked with deploying new mysteriously complex enterprise PDF conversion software for technical documents. The rabbit hole is so deep.

If you need a deep dive on this hell hole (764), Popular Front did a massive episode a few months ago.

Hell on earth: the ultra sadism report