It would be cool if it rolled into a functional telescope.

Might have been very horny but also very self aware.

No, it’s w, s, j, d.

W for walking, you walk forward.

S for side-stepping.

J for jumping.

And d is for digging because you can’t jump down into the ground.

My “page” is my monitor’s screen, a window into many virtual worlds that extend past the plane of my screen.

Actually, my screen is a curved surface. So the 3d virtual world is projected onto a 2d plane which is then projected back onto a 3d curved screen. The math to make it look correct in the final projection is different from what makes it look correct on a flat screen, though I don’t know if any renderers actually do this correction. Not that I think the difference is huge.

Once you realize that they are just using whatever words they think will get what they really want, they become much easier to understand.

Also be aware that they aren’t very creative and tend to just accuse others of the same horrible shit they are doing that they know could get them into a lot of trouble (or aspects of those that they support that makes them uncertain they should be supporting them).

Also, since so many others are dumb, many either believe the first accusation they hear or don’t believe it but then think when it turns out that the accusers were actually doing that, that it’s just more political lies coming from the other side.

BDSM enthusiast is another possibility. Never know when you’ll run into someone who wants to be tied up.

While I generally oppose police brutality, I think this is a good case for it.

Oh that one has been out for a while. It has two screens on an awkward helmet thing, one screen for each eye. The 3d effects are kinda cool but it’s all red lines. The idea is probably about 15-20 years ahead of the technology to make it good.

I think the OS itself will be fine since the kernel and all that will be loaded to memory. But if you install games on that USB stick, they might be painful to run/load (depending on the game, some do disk reads while you’re playing, some do it all before the level).

If you have a free partition to install it on, try using it to install a game or two while using the live boot. Or hell, you could even just install the OS there and then nuke the partition if you decide against it. It wasn’t a long process iirc (with Fedora), most of my time was spent learning about what the implications of each choice were. If you’re just experimenting, those choices don’t matter as much (just don’t format your existing partitions).

Though they’ve also got USB external drives (HDD and SSD) that perform better than USB sticks. Some external SSDs probably still way outperform internal HDDs, even.

Homelander said it would be funny. And that he would kill him if he didn’t.

I bought a pro license for win10 specifically because I learned that it gave better control over updates via group policy.

Now I use Fedora, which implemented updates in a way that doesn’t imply “ok, this is all I’m doing until it finishes”, and it never interrupts what I’m doing.

On the one hand, you can usually contract MS support and tell them you just upgraded your hardware and they can re-enable your key. That thing was meant to stop people from sharing keys and limit how many PCs they have running that key at once, not to force a new key for upgrades. Assuming they still even do that, as it’s been a while since I needed to.

But on the other hand, it sounds like you already found an even better solution.

Something about spelling nazis spinning in a grave attached to a magnet and coil setup…

What if we add some nutrinos? And then reverse the polarity? And maybe some antimatter?

Wait, was dilithium just the media Star Trek used to go from reacting matter with antimatter, producing heat, causing the dilithium steam to expand, spinning a magnet inside a coil somewhere behind one of those access panels? Was antimatter just fancy futuristic coal powering the Enterprise’s steam engine!?

Edit: phew No, it’s not just a fancy space steam engine. It is pure fantasy; the dilithium crystal matix regulates antimatter (impossible for any matter to do so) and interacts with subspace (no evidence such a thing even exists), but it’s not spinning any magnets.

That depends on how you define “viable”. And “generate”.

Peltier devices generate a voltage from a heat differential passing through a bi-metalic matrix. It’s not a huge voltage, so the definition of “viable” comes in there, but it can be used to power low power things and works well for heater accessories. I first saw its use for wood stove fans that get powered just by sitting on the stove. I’ve also seen them power USB chargers for pellet stoves.

And then there’s batteries that generate a voltage from submerging two types of metal in acid. And more modern battery designs might be doing it a bit differently but still no spinning magnets and coils. Obviously they are viable for powering many things, but usually themselves are powered from another source rather than using fresh acid for each charge, so the “generate” bit comes into question.

I think there’s some others. Like fiction can be used to generate a static voltage and I’m pretty sure I’ve seen some tesla coils that use friction to generate their voltage. If you continuously generate that voltage, you could make a circuit out of it rather than shock high school kids or make their hair stand up, though I don’t know what kind of amperage you could generate like that (that 5 figure voltage isn’t fatal because of a lack of amps).

I asked an AI out of curiosity and, while I won’t paste the response (feel free to ask one yourself), it gave a list of 20 methods, though I’d say this thread on its own covers about 9 of them, since some are different specific ways of doing similar ones (eg there were 4 based on moving something relative to a magnetic field).

Some tabs are for ongoing things that I keep coming back to, though I don’t have as many of those these days. Like back in the day, I’d have a facebook tab, a few reddit tabs, etc.

Other tabs are for things that I’m not done with in general but was done with for that moment because something else came up or I just wanted to do something else and the task wasn’t urgent enough to stick with it.

Sometimes I get back to it, finish the task, and close the tab. Sometimes I’ll later see the tab and just close it because I decide I am done with it forever (or done enough that I can find it again if I want to go back to it).

I like it better than not keeping my tabs. Though I did disable the inactive tabs thing on mobile firefox because those were too out of sight and just piled up (along with the ambiguous behaviour where sometimes backing up closes newly opened tabs, sometimes it doesn’t, or I don’t back up all the way). Mobile tabs feel a bit more like bookmarks, which are more likely to just disappear entirely from my mind. Visual tabs serve as reminders of the thing.

I’d say, yes, you are literally consuming your food to take anything of value that your body can extract from it, often at the cost of everything for the thing you’re eating (but definitely at the cost of the parts you eat). Like I’m a bit baffled as to how you can consider it not a form of theft. Hell, I’d even argue it is the purest form of theft there is and quite likely the original theft that only scavengers, photosynthesizers, and other life forms that survive on non-biological sources of energy aren’t thieves in that manner.

Bees (and relatives) do it too. If you need to deal with a wasp nest or something like that, do it at night and their defense will be much less enthusiastic.

When I last dealt with some, knocking down the (small) nests would have a guard harass me until I moved about 10m away from the nest during the day. At night, it would just buzz me a bit before settling back down to rest without me even moving.

Note that I’m not saying it’s safe to harass a nest/hive at night, just safer than doing it during the day. The ones I dealt with were small enough that I only ever saw a single guard plus one worker, and even during the day, sometimes I’d just fight the one guard instead of running, since it’s hard for a single wasp to sting you if you can track it decently and manage any fear. Trying to deal with a large nest could still be fatal at night.

Though I’d add on to that that cleaning glass can be difficult to do right. You need to clean/rinse it properly, otherwise whatever is left over will dry into streaks, which catch light like this.

Alternatively, if you get those rings of iron right at the water line that refuse to wash away, pumice stones work great.