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What has Monty Python ever done for us?

Suprisingly accurate

Android wellness tracker says between 2 and 4 hours each day. Lower on weekdays… More on weekends.

That’s pretty much back up to Reddit levels from a year ago.

As others have said it should be quiet and smooth.

Brandt can’t watch, though, or he has to pay a hundred.

Shook me early in the evening long.

Yeah I just leave those comments and walk away. Explaining or editing a comment no-one is ever going to read is not worth the time. Nothing good can come from it.

You win some you lose some.

Comment on something new.

A standalone egg steamer / boiler / poacher (like https://www.sunbeam.com.au/kitchen-and-home/cooking/pie-waffle-snack-makers/poach-and-boil-egg-cooker )

Yes I can boil or poach eggs on a stove or in the microwave, but the sheer ease of use and that it’s always perfect is a life changer.

Bing!

Explained in https://existentialcomics.com/comic/1

Okay this sounds like a great idea.

Huge sneaker orders coming out of Russia. Huuuuge!

It was so much fun. I still get some of the same thrills building a retro console using a rpi, or a home media server in the garage using a second hand dual Xeon motherboard.

But sadly as the CEO of a software firm I don’t get to hack away much on anything anymore.

I do occasionally get to impress the young ones with my Linux command line wizardry and 1337 vim skills. I really need to get a beard.

At university in the 90s some friends and I ran our own Linux server. It was a 486 or early Pentium and we hooked it up to the university network in a post grad student’s office who was happy to just keep it running under his desk.

We even got the campus sysadmins to give us a proper edu domain name. It was a more open and different time and ethernet still meant coax cables with T connectors and terminators.

We were running pre v1 kernel on slackware and it was all installed from floppies. We used it as a web server, coded and played muds, read newsgroups and mail etc. I think tin and pine etc. we easily had 20 users using it from the computer labs.

Anyways the computer kept dying or freezing occasionally. Still early Linux. And the office where it was kept wasn’t always open and we didn’t have a key.

Being electronic engineering students we built a whole circuit with a PIC controller which plugged into the parallel port. We wrote a watchdog daemon which would keep pinging this dongle. And the firmware on the PIC would check for these pings.

If the server died the pings would stop and the dead man’s switch dongle was wired directly into the hardware reset button of the PC.

Worked like a charm for 4 years. And apparently worked for another 5 or 6 after I left.

They probably got frustrated and kicked it across the room and it landed upside and started loading.

That’s my head canon anyways.

New Pied Piper

I consider Lemmy mostly performance art.

My android pixel does the same.

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. I was going to say the same.

Go ask on lemmygrad. Kinda serious.