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I remember learning that 3.5" disks were still called “floppy” disks, despite being rigid plastic. My teacher took apart a disk and showed us how the inside was a film, but all that did was encourage us to take apart the disks and make desk toys out of the springs.

Man, I remember when Zip Disks were a big deal and a GB was a lot of storage.

Reminds me of a joke my grandfather used to tell. A guy bought a new suit from a tailor at a significant discount, and took it home to show his wife. He put it on, and his wife was not happy. “It is a nice suit, but look how it bunches up around the waist! And look at the way the collar pokes out. Also this sleeve is shorter than the other.”

The guy went back to the tailor, and the the tailor said “Oh, yeah, all you need to do is tug on the crotch a little, and it smooths the waist. For the collar, just tuck it here under your chin. And for the sleeve, just scrunch up your shoulder and they will look even.”

So he wears the suit home, scrunching his shoulder, tucking his chin, and tugging on the crotch. At the bus stop, two old ladies see him, and one says to the other “Oh, look at that poor man,” and the other replies, “Yeah, but what a nice suit!”

The joke works better when told in person.

Not NSFW links. You get a popup window that says “To view mature content, open in the app” or something. I don’t feel like clicking it again to read it verbatim. You can replace www. with old. but ain’t nobody got time for all that.

But the browser version of reddit won’t open links marked as nsfw.

Stop linking to reddit on lemmy. The links don’t work unless you install the app, and a lot of lemmy users are here because they don’t want to install the reddit app.

I love that this exists, and thank you for introducing me to the site as well.

Because they’ve been watching it from the beginning.

Imagine if suddenly China discovered the Simpsons, and also the Simpsons had been telling a cohesive narrative from the beginning until now where the characters grow and change. Then China translated every Simpsons episode to Mandarin and Cantonese, and then they made a live-action Simpsons show with real actors, and they started by covering early stories from Monorail to Who Shot Mr. Burns.

The Simpsons has been on TV for 10 years longer, and hads made over 750 episodes since its debut in 1989. One Piece debuted in 1999, based on a manga that came out in 1997, and has produced over 1,080 episodes.

So if the Simpsons suddenly became popular in China, that might skew the search results on Baidu, but it’s not going to dramatically alter perceptions of the show in the USA.

Good point, but let’s say you download 20 new movies, meaning rewrite to every block on the drive each week. That’s barely 1,000 write cycles a year, and we’re still talking about a hundred thousand write cycles, which would take 100 years. Even if you start seeing bad blocks at 10,000 write cycles, by the time the drives are wearing out, the cost of replacement drives should be considerably lower.

Yep, and it used to be free for personal use, although I don’t know if that’s the case anymore. Either way, I will highly recommend it.

The write cycles shouldn’t really be an issue for a home NAS because you’re not erasing and rewriting over and over. For commercial projects, where logs, security video, or rotating data needs to be stored and erased hundreds of thousands of times.

Is ngrok still a thing?

What do you use the Pi for now?

I had a bunch of Pi 3Bs sitting around, so I made piholes for a few friends and family, I made a dedicated MAME emulator that I never have time to play, and I gave one to each of my kids to learn about computers and linux. I also use one for work as a linux test environment for our software, but the 3 hardware doesn’t really keep up.

I would be very interested to read this in an article format, but I have zero interest in watching a video about it.

I haven’t done it myself, so I hesitate to recommend a specific project. But Carpi and OpenAuto are good places to start.

Why risk it? Build your own with a raspberry pi and a touchscreen.

The Kenshin animated series skips most of the hyperviolent stuff and starts after the war. You could start with that show, and watch the OVA later when they are more mature.

Agreed on OG Dragonball. My son showed interest in DBZ, and I thought it might be good to go back and rewatch the series to get caught up. I started my own rewatch and was shocked at how sexualized it all was, especially given the ages of the characters. And it’s not even like side-plot fan service you can skip. Bulma, a minor, is flashing people left and right to get what she wants, including obtaining Dragonballs.

The problem with that sort of storytelling is that you have to spend more time on exposition. The fish out of water premise gives you an audience stand-in who needs everything explained to them.

“These eels are what everyone uses for currency. Their value is inversely proportional to how much they like you. That’s why we use them to do battle, so they hate us. And if we win this eel whip race, the Tree of Sorrows grants a single wish! You can go home!”

If there’s no Mary Sue, then you have to work those elements into plot points. It takes much longer, and you have to build slowly so you don’t lose the viewers/readers. But if a regular kid is transported into the fantasy, then discovering everything is like solving a mystery.

Oh we’re gonna fight today? Is that what we’re doing?

17 Orangutans isn’t software, it’s just a bunch of apes I’m hosting in my basement server room. I trained one to answer level 1 trouble tickets, but manager said we need highly available maintenance processes. So, I got another container and put an orangutan inside it, and kept doing that until either we hit our KPI or we exhausted the budget.