Aloha_Alaska

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[–] Aloha_Alaska@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I’ve never seen a more relevant username.

[–] Aloha_Alaska@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly! They didn’t explore the “aerial flight” or “beautiful colors” tech tree at all, but are maxed on armor and chomping.

[–] Aloha_Alaska@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends on how reliable you think my Uncle Charlie is.

[–] Aloha_Alaska@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was about to make a similar comment but you beat me to it.

It recently showed me a bicycle as part of “select all motorcycles” so I didn’t pick it. And I failed. Twice. Finally picked the bicycle and it let me through. Guess the computer knows best.

[–] Aloha_Alaska@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well yeah, I mean not always but for probably 20 years their laser printers have been terrible, and their inkjets have been not consumer friendly for even longer than that.

For instance, I once had an HP color laser printer that was designed in a way that toner dust would build up on the prism and mirror, causing streaks and splotches to be printed on the page. The official recommendation was to buy a new printer, and the local repair shop said is it even though it’s a known issue and they’re capable of fixing it, getting it apart and putting all the pieces back together is such a time consuming hassle that it would be just as cheap to buy a new one. A $300 color laser printer. If I did it successfully, I would need to do it again in a year or two anyway. I now have a Brother; it’s black and white only but has been rock solid.

I did see on The Other Site a discussion from a year or two ago that Brother isn’t so great anymore, but the consensus seemed to be that they’re still better than anything other than maybe those Epson printers with the ink reservoirs.

I remember that my high school, college, and first couple of jobs had amazing HP laser printers, but sadly those days are gone and the company is a shell of what it used to be. I would not buy an HP printer at this point.

Sorry for your suffering but welcome to the club.

[–] Aloha_Alaska@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Oh, and how about some ethics rules? Didn't Amy Coney Barrett just come out in favor?

According to another poster in a different thread a few days ago, the ethics guidelines are basically already in place and just aren’t enforced. That person suggested that we need more enforcement or penalties rather than more ethics rules.

I like your idea of adding more justices because of what you said about diluting the president’s power to appoint a majority. It’s an interesting point, although we shouldn’t be in the situation we are in now (“Wait, wait, you can’t rush the process…oh, now that we have the majority we need to finish this quickly!”)

[–] Aloha_Alaska@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

I think you have to be more specific.

[–] Aloha_Alaska@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I’ll add it to my wish list.

[–] Aloha_Alaska@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I grew up thinking we knew everything there is to know about dinosaurs. Then I had a kid, who started to learn all about them. So far he’s told me about how scientists think many of them had features, how Brontosauruses didn’t exist, how there are multiple T-Rex species, and more. The pace of scientific development is crazy, and he keeps up with a lot of it for also being ten. I love to hear about it.

Not exactly related to what you said, but what you said made me think about it. Dinos are cool.

[–] Aloha_Alaska@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We are talking about a code editor, not a whole operating system!

/s

[–] Aloha_Alaska@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, good point! I have file versioning turned on, too, so if I do need to roll back a file, SyncThing probably has a good copy.

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