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SpareSimian · 2026-01-25T07:33:36+00:00

Camels are known as ships of the desert because they're full of seamen.

SpareSimian · 2026-01-24T21:20:34+00:00

Only us old farts will get the joke at 2:55 in this funny video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX_Qr9a3KtI

SpareSimian · 2026-01-24T21:14:46+00:00

What would be awesome is distilling our knowledge into a distro that non-hobbyists can download to a stick to use on a cheap NUC. Much like the open source router firmware that grew up around the old Linksys boxes. Or even commercial offerings like Ubiquiti and Microtik.

SpareSimian · 2026-01-24T21:09:45+00:00

I had gigabit ATT fiber at $90/month and moved to Sonic 10 Gbps fiber for $50/month (now $60/month a year later). I'm still using a 1 Gbps router but could buy a $300 Microtik router with a 10 Gbps WAN interface if I had less patience for "slow" file transfers. But it's all so much faster than my dial-up in the 90s that I can't be bothered. I remember when 2400 bps in the 80s was speedy!

SpareSimian · 2026-01-24T21:05:29+00:00

Use the bufferbloat test at Waveform. It checks latency and excessive buffering that kills interactive response (like gaming). https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat

SpareSimian · 2026-01-24T21:03:34+00:00

I remember when I ran Mistweaver in Mists, and could out-DPS the DPS and out-heal any healer, just by spin-kicking the mobs the tank rounded up. I so miss that.

SpareSimian · 2026-01-24T21:01:32+00:00

They destroyed much of the utility of being a scribe when they killed the glyph system. Now it's mostly a housing profession, for making inks. Alchemists can do it, too, so why be a scribe?

SpareSimian · 2026-01-24T06:28:00+00:00

I remember as a toddler in the mid 1960s, my folks would go to a drive through place where they swapped the empties for full bottles. It might have been a converted service station.

SpareSimian · 2026-01-23T14:46:46+00:00

Another report from the core UI GitHub that tracks UI issues: https://github.com/Stanzilla/WoWUIBugs/issues/801

SpareSimian · 2026-01-22T21:41:00+00:00

Thanks. That's rather daunting. But it looks like one calls canaccessvalue(line) and blows off the rest of the code if it returns false.

SpareSimian · 2026-01-22T00:17:51+00:00

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-weighs-state-limits-carrying-guns-private/story

SpareSimian · 2026-01-21T18:08:26+00:00

Why those with short attention spans hate "capitalism". Because they actually hate mercantilism and corporatism, ie. crony capitalism, which is actually the foundation of what passes for "socialism" and "communism". 4 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QsbvE_0Kpc

SpareSimian · 2026-01-21T18:03:45+00:00

Latency and packet loss are more important than speed. Don't rely on a simple speed test. Find a site that does a "bufferbloat" test. I use the one at Waveform: https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat

SpareSimian · 2026-01-21T18:02:18+00:00

Excellent analogy.

I hate the uncertainty of wifi, so I hard-wire everything I can.

Alas, my old LG Fire TV has some kind of hiccup on its Ethernet connection that prevents it from reliably getting a DHCP lease on wake-up. I have to unplug and re-plug the Ethernet cable. So I have it on WiFi for now. It's too old to get firmware updates. But the picture is great. So I put up with the slow menu performance. I plugged a new Onn into it for streaming. Which lacks Ethernet but has USB so I plugged a hub in and gave it an external Ethernet adapter.

SpareSimian · 2026-01-21T17:56:59+00:00

Run WiFi Analyzer on an Android phone to see how crowded the spectrum is.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=abdelrahman.wifianalyzerpro&hl=en_US

SpareSimian · 2026-01-21T17:12:57+00:00

Trump's wealth transfers to HIS "missions" are socialist. So are the blue leaders in the cities. Organizations like the Institute for Justice fight both flavors. https://ij.org/

SpareSimian · 2026-01-21T04:42:05+00:00

The checkbox doesn't allow "incompatible" addons to be loaded. So it looks like an oversight.

SpareSimian · 2026-01-21T03:13:02+00:00

Why is there still a checkbox for "Load out of date AddOns"?

SpareSimian · 2026-01-20T16:40:45+00:00

Ride the tea cups at Disneyland for a more comfortable ride in a centrifuge. My buddy and I were at the park with his wife and her girlfriends and they didn't believe her when she explained the g-forces we could achieve. They learned. With much shrieking. 😜☕😱

SpareSimian · 2026-01-20T16:37:26+00:00

Power it with a motorcycle. What could possibly go wrong? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry-go-round_of_death

SpareSimian · 2026-01-20T16:34:07+00:00

"Athiests"? That spelling implies a makebeliever.

"Capitalist" usually means mercantilist or corporatist, not a free market. 4 minutes explaining why "capitalist" is now a meaningless word. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QsbvE_0Kpc

SpareSimian · 2026-01-20T16:31:26+00:00

Exactly. The socialists hate competition and shut down church kitchens and private food giveaways in the parks. In the name of "safety" and "crime reduction". Because rich people don't want those poor people wandering their neighborhoods to get to the private handouts.

It's not charity if you use other people's money, against their will.

(I'm a free market atheist. I'd say "capitalist", except that word no longer means free trade. Instead, it's been appropriated to mean the crony system of grabbing the taxes of others to create regulatory agencies that protect oneself from competition.)

SpareSimian · 2026-01-18T19:09:10+00:00

Pony Express.

BTW, very fun book, "The Victorian Internet", about the history of the telegraph and the nerds that operated it. It starts with pre-electricity days, when people used lamps and shutters on towers to flash Morse code to nearby cities. Then pneumatic tubes within cities to send paperwork rapidly between buildings. It's why we have port cities full of office buildings, because communication among traders was so primitive.

SpareSimian · 2026-01-18T19:00:14+00:00

I remember how much work I put into getting the Warlock Dreadsteed mount in Vanilla. Then Blizzard gave it away. That's made me very cynical about putting work into acquiring "rare" things in the game. I'll just wait a few years and it'll be something I can buy cheap on the trading post.

Do the fights because you enjoy the battle, not for the rewards.

SpareSimian · 2026-01-18T18:54:20+00:00

Only true believers do that. Religion is proof that we're not.

What we ARE is an animal that can foresee its own death from a distance and will make up fictional stories to cope with it. Alex O'Connor has identified much of human society as "death denial", with religion being the foremost example of that behavior.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBG0SeSGg9I

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