I saw Chopping Mall! I know how this ends.

slow internet could make for a fun opportunity to play around with a text-based browser from the terminal like Lynx, w3m, and browsh.

It really does but in a funny way because I’m also dependent on a tense geopolitical relatioship with russia so my pirated content is still accessible from the US.

Nothing stands out very far regarding the negatives. I could speculate to a few things, though. He’s not a Socialist. When the going got tough for him and his business he uprooted and moved out of NYC to Texas. I can’t really think of anything else objectionable. I actually like him, though so I may be biased.

For the positives, he’s helped drive a lot of the Right to Repair legislation in this country as he’s reported a lot of discussions he’s had with real legislators. He runs a website for mac product repair as a reference that also operates as a non-profit. He runs a daytime business repairing mac products that employs several other people. Generally he posts a lot to keep people up to date increasingly as an electronics-oriented influencer, but he used to post mac repair videos almost exclusively and he talked about having to navigate Apple’s influence on regulating the second-hand market. He has also given platform to a number of other mac & electronic repair people.

To me he seems to talk-the-talk and walk-the-walk when it comes to Right to Repair, but like I said, I might be biased.

More generic

my money is on style-flourish as you’ve mentioned, but that pointy bit does seem out of place.

yep, 'been focused on my downloads a lot more as of late, and more storage solutions/expansions as well.

Have you consulted the ‘README’ that is both in the yt-dlp directory as well as the github regarding installation?

Read the instructions all the way through before making attempts to follow them. I was working on a soldering project with a vacuum tube-mount and the instructions said “Solder the coil and vacuum tube-mount… …the vacuum tube-mount can only go in one way so be sure to install it on the reverse side of the pcb”

I tore off 5 out of the 14 traces trying to desolder that one component.

‘Feminist’ is one of those terms that seems to have different definitions based on who you ask. I don’t know what you call me but I’m a proponent of Equal Rights Amendment full-stop.

Is this the same award that Kissinger received?

…must be a pretty big nut.

CAD software.

FreecCAD just released it’s first full version and it’s a pain to use. Back in 2018 somebody said FOSS CAD software was at least ten years behind the big windows commercial software. I think now it’s about fifteen behind.

They mention animals that are frequently raised as livestock. Chickens, Rabbits, Guinea Pigs are all mentioned. Horse is the only unusual one to me. I’d find it much more upsetting if they were accepting cats and dogs.

-Coincidentally I watched two YT videos yesterday. One was about some homesteaders that were dispatching chickens they raised for meat to share with their village. The other was about some small-time farmers that raise guinea-pigs (among other things) that were used for lawn-mowing. The farmers just anounced in that video that the guinea pigs will also be used as a food source.

Oh man I said the same thing. The topless dead woman nightmare scene is seared into my memory.

That movie scared the hell out of me when I was in High School. I crashed someone else’s date to see it.

Event Horizon. I saw the first half as part of the second half of a double feature at the drive-in theater with my family. I think Men in Black was the first feature. I was 9 when I saw that topless dead woman scene. It’s such an underrated movie.

You made the polite decision to say “hi” to an old acquaintance and subsequently found out there wasn’t much to talk about. I hope in similar future situations you choose to make the same decision. -Minus the initial walk-away.

Also, as far as awkward situations go for me, this one wouldn’t register because I often find myself in much cringier situations. Anyways, se la vie.

I occasionally have a real conversation on Lemmy.

How do I contribute to his future bail?