Stephen Brooks 🦆 @[email protected]
- Website
- https://stephenbrooks.org
Once there was an elephant,
Who tried to use the telephant—
No! No! I mean an elephone
Who tried to use the telephone—
Joined Jan 2019
The Moon and Jupiter are quite close in the sky tonight. Both good through binoculars and I could just make out Ganymede and Europa to the left of Jupiter #space #astronomy
Smelt a distinct burning smell, was worried about my new PC but actually the neighbours were having a barbeque
Made some of these lego blocks; got one reject but the rest fit together https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2626413
A spider was living inside the build plate of my 3D printer, using the light to attract moths
If Undertale had a sequel called Deltarune, I guess the third one will be called Elder Tuna
I'm now seeding it and a Debian 11.0 install disc, just in case you need to rebuild civilisation
You can torrent the whole text of wikipedia: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents#English_Wikipedia
Flying the helicopter on #Mars at lower atmospheric densities
#space
https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/334/flying-on-mars-is-getting-harder-and-harder/
Stephen Brooks 🦆
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"To teach children about the banking system, a U.S. primary school walked its students to a local bank where each opened a savings account into which each deposited $5. Implicit in this activity is the message that the bank is trustworthy. Another bank then acquired that bank and charged all low balance accountholders a monthly maintenance fee that wiped out the children’s savings. The children may have learned a more important lesson about the financial sector than the school intended."
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Keep forgetting about the handy "Startup" tab in Task Manager, can disable this crap there #windows
Powered on this 22" Dell monitor I got off eBay for $65, it's very nice, will become part of my main machine and the older monitor it's replacing will go to the Linux box https://www.ebay.com/itm/384371140116?ViewItem=&item=384371140116
I dug a program that actually spawns all 24 threads on this 5900X and puts it to 100% CPU. Can't get the temperature above 68C, can't get the fan speed above 1350RPM. I can hear insects outside instead of the fan.
Stephen Brooks 🦆
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Commercial software: wants an account, your name, your phone number, your credit card, shows you ads, monitors your activity, uploads your files to an evilcorp
Free software: none of those things, but has a slightly janky UI
For me to lose critical data, you have to destroy all my horcruxes I mean backups
Load of boomers talking about iPhones on here today
The weird Sun thing *was* wildfire smoke:
- Website
- https://stephenbrooks.org
Once there was an elephant,
Who tried to use the telephant—
No! No! I mean an elephone
Who tried to use the telephone—
Joined Jan 2019
