“Lack of skill” is a bit harsh… the artist used the “mirror” tool as a time saving measure. Doing anything else would require redrawing most of the creature in a new pose, and I don’t really feel like it’s necessary for this comic

This was all in school

Wrote a script that runs on startup and creates a service in the background. It just opened the CD drive at random intervals. I think it was every 300–30,000 seconds

Wrote a program, again that runs on startup and creates a service. On a much shorter interval every 15–150 seconds, it jiggles the mouse cursor slightly. Just enough to cause a mis-click

Another program that replaces a full stop keypress with a comma 10% of the time. Really funny for assignments and typing URLs

Another one ejects the floppy drive at random intervals. This one I never released due to data loss risk

Another that kills the monitoring software the school I.T. team uses for watching your screen or preventing you playing flash games

Finally one that makes the computer go BEEP every once in a while

Basically I was just an annoying troll

The school I.T. department got really mad at me and banned me from all computers lol

I know this might sound like just another “just keep waiting”, but my life improved 1000% once I finished school and moved out. The oppression from an impartial school system, and living in a space where I’m not in charge of my own life, was fucking torture. I think you’ll enjoy freedom and the ability to make decisions and be responsible for yourself.

God, I love the smell of my own Debian-based open source freedom farts

Fuck, I was born to be a gnome after all

These are the same people that also spend 10k annually on drive through coffee, work cafeteria lunches and second coffee, then takeout for dinner; while also complaining how expensive everything is and how poor they are. The word “budget” isn’t in their dictionary

Really it’s about constraints yeah?

• Needs to fit in pocket
• Needs to be convenient to hold up to your face for phone calls
• Needs to be small enough to be holdable in one hand (highly individual)
• Needs to be big enough that you can use the touchscreen effectively (highly individual)

So really you can just use the size of an average pocket and hand as a guide and go from there. Once it stops fitting in pockets and hands, it has to go in the bag, and typing becomes very difficult as you have to prop up the device, which means people won’t use it as much and get annoyed with it.

If it’s just battery life, you can get bags and such nowadays with convenient rechargable battery packs in them. You don’t need to change the device at all. If you want more screen size as a bigger person, there’s XL versions of phones. Other than that there’s no reason to get a bigger phone

One of the things I hate about the way I look is people are scared of me. Feels like just to exist somewhere, I either accept I’ll be treated as a “thug”, or I need to actively project an aura of civility. It’s exhausting either way.

Totally different social experience if I have any feminine-looking person with me; people are suddenly nice and welcoming. Like I’ve been “vetted” as normal.

That I’ve forgotten some critical information that will completely ruin things for me in the future. E.g. going to an exam without my student ID. Forgetting I have urgent surgery today. Etc. The worst part is I’m usually right lol my memory is extremely bad

It has that cheesy taste but more of a dry texture, so it needs a touch more olive oil. It doesn’t melt either obviously but I prefer it that way :)

Cheat’s Carbonara. I was practically making it for dinner every night anyway. Start with a basic recipe of spaghetti with olive oil and nutritional yeast. The only change is, don’t pour out all of the pasta water, and add a beaten egg or two with black pepper. Tastier, and more protein too, with almost no additional effort. Parmesan is probably more to most’s taste, but I like nooch.

Edit: if your eggs are refrigerated you’ll probably need to put it back on the heat for like a minute or two. Accept that you’ll overcook it a few times until you get the timing right.

I discovered this ten thousand fold technique; also known as crumpling them into the drawer along with the other laundry spheroids

That issue has amazing comments. Including someone who unironically calls themselves an autistic genius with a straight face and is desperately seeking attention.

Second one seems better. I know I’m willing to give something a shot and see if I grow to like them. I also know most other people are… not. If I don’t like them, we stop dating, and nothing was lost

Self taught music and “professional musicians” are completely different beasts. If you enroll in a formal course, you’ll basically start by unlearning your existing habits. They’ll call them bad habits. It’s a long, hard road, where perfection is the expected standard. Not trying to scare you off it, just sharing my experiences in this area. It wasn’t for me in the end; I decided to play music for fun instead.

Kind of random, but I’m really good at Photoshop. Editing photos, fixing scans, removing or adding objects and making it look natural, making photos look beautiful, removing blemishes, colourising, etc. It’s now a completely useless skill with the advent of A.I. image generation and smart filters and such. But sometimes I still do it anyway.

You got me wondering if there’s like an abandoned database full of unlisted software from defunct hosting sites out there, and what glorious mysteries are on there

Seems you’re asking a philosophical question, which wasn’t immediately obvious and others may have missed.

Loyalty is valuable as an unwritten, intrinsic agreement between parties. If both parties are loyal to each other, it builds trust. Trust then facilitates many things, especially cooperation; there’s less “verification of work” or suspicion, making processes more efficient. Mistakes and slights can be forgiven more easily. You get access to more resources and responsibilities, and become closer to the other party.

If only one party is loyal, we call that betrayal, which destroys trust and relationships. So there’s both risks and benefits involved with loyalty. You can do things like carefully choose who to be loyal to, but you can never guarantee they will reciprocate. The betrayed party often suffers severe consequences, which leads to interesting conundrums like the prisoner’s dilemma.

Loyalty is also expected in many social situations, but it’s difficult to tell if someone is being truthful or pretending. Practically, in modern society, there’s very little benefit to be loyal to large groups of people such as corporations or political parties. It’s fundamentally a unilateral relationship, and gives you no benefit other than membership, with an almost guaranteed betrayal as you never actually accumulated any real trust or relationship with the larger entity. In these cases it’s best to assume both parties are feigning loyalty for social politeness reasons and not accidentally become truly loyal.

In contrast, it’s a different story at the smaller, more human levels; such as clubs, romantic partners, family, etc. You’re much more likely to receive benefits of trust, and less likely to be betrayed (in comparison). Of course it still happens a lot, but that’s just life.

Means they have added you to their personal block list and won’t see your posts anymore. Which is a bit crazy since your comment seems pretty normal to me anyway

It probably still works. Have you tried actually contacting the author if you have their contact details? You’d be surprised how often this works. They might be willing to relist it on Google or even just send you an .apk you can install. Up to you how much you trust installing a random unverified .apk but that’s a separate question

Yep it seems to work

English

Can I has cheeseburger

Claudish

Can I have a cheeseburger? That is the question.