peto (he/him)

The lack of pain-empathy in healthcare is mind-blowing. I’m a white man in an excellent position to be listened to, but when I had appendicitis last year getting people to understand that no, I am in crippling pain and I think it’s urgent was far to much hassle for someone in crippling pain. I can’t imagine what it’s like for women.

I can understand folk getting jaded eventually but I often get the feeling that many people start out not caring.

‘vampire smut’ is almost, but not quite redundant.

You probably don’t want to know the details of any science done before… What? the 90’s?

If she is she isn’t a very good one. You can generally tell when a writer has a solid grasp of the occult and magic and she just doesn’t display any of that. She is a fantasist, and not great at that either. Or maybe she is an excellent occultist and just doesn’t do any of it in her writing. She exhibits very static, very materialist thinking though so I don’t think so.

I’m not familiar with Liungman’s dictionary, and going by those quotes I don’t think I am missing out. He seems to just list all the meanings he has heard or imagined. Maybe it’s of use to an academic who wants to know what a certain mark could mean but I don’t think it has much use to the practitioner. Analysing a sigil this way is entirely useless.

Just follow Baldrick’s recipe.

I recall being told something about two cows…

Are you referring to the song or Reagan?

There is generally a battery that powers the clock and keeps it running even when there is no external power to the system normally one of the larger coin shaped ones. It’s non-rechargable as it lasts for a long time. It’s being constantly drained but it’s only the smallest trickle.

If you can get to the internals you should be able to find and replace it, it’s pretty obvious when you know to look for it. While you are in there you can check for corrosion/damage to the traces and components, give things a dust. The biggest issue is probably going to be an old battery, 20 years ago they were rather primative and though generally more replaceable than modern builds, getting a replacement might be harder.

You maybe not, your family? All your friends/coworkers/etc? Talk about scams with people, lots of people use PCs without knowing what is and isn’t safe.

And there generally is, most libraries have a catalogue or at least a directory explaining the numbering system at a topic level. Thing is, this sign doesn’t just help people come to the library wanting help with these things. It helps people in the library who are experiencing this and didn’t know they could find a book to help them.

Hell some people don’t even know they need help with these things until someone offers.

Honestly if you can already touchtype an ortho isn’t going to be that big a learning curve. At least for me (going to an ortho with strong stagger), it finally meant that the keys felt like they were in the right place. I don’t think the benefits of other layouts are quite as big if the keyboard actually fits your bone structure.

If you are going to a cut size layout, it’s better to add in features incrementally onto something you already know rather than having to learn colemak and layers and thumb clusters.

If you have the time of course to re-learn how to type sure, do it all at once, but any time you spend on another layout (like, say, in the office) is going to make the transition harder. And as I said, layouts designed to make typing on a normal keyboard better make less sense on an ergo.

Should Vale release a general Steam OS and folk move away from Windows en masse it’s probably going to be worth it. Proton does a great job but a tested and supported Linux build will be better. Some solos do it, but I think it is more based in ideology rather than necessity.

Your time and effort as a solo is going to be limited though, testing and supporting a Linux build is going to be work, and if you want to keep things closed source you are not going to be able to leverage the community in the way open software does.

There might be steps you can take to be more compatible with Proton and/or Steam Deck, which probably would be a good idea, and give you much more effect for your time spend.

There is part of me that says let them. Of course I’m neither a woman nor a politician but I don’t think them whipping it out will have the effect they think it does. They are the ones that finds it sinful, after all.

And you know at least some are going to set themselves up by asking if we can see it.

Or the beginning I suppose. Could be someone gaining their power.

Scum practice by a scum company. Nothing of value is lost by not going there.

I don’t even think this is top 5 worst things they’ve done.

You have to use it a lot. From what I can tell that’s their problem, they priced unlimited access low based on some numbers they pulled out their arse and then were all shocked Pikachu face when people used it and unlimited amount.

My maths prof wrote his own textbook, we had to buy it but it cost I think £40 new and covered everything we needed for a 3 year physics degree and you could easily find a used copy near campus. Still got my copy somewhere.

I think it was the only textbook I actually needed, all my lecturers wrote their own courses and extra reading tended to be from journals. Only other book I remember using regularly was the CRC Handbook and those were just scattered here and there around the department.

Well, he’s clearly not talking about small people like say, me or you compared to Trump or Musk. And let me be clear, he is probably wrong about that as well. If Trump is anti-google that is likely nothing more than a negotiating position.

It’s probably just a language thing. When he says small people he means sub-mega corporations. Actual humans probably pass beneath his notice.

True, the clue is the samurai sword.