HexesofVexes

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[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You just captured the daily life of a UK academic after the catastrophically low recruitment numbers this year.

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

"My dear, monogamy is an entirely relative concept with no fixed frame of reference!'

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I need a pasta of this for when I get asked to man the open day stall on a weekend...

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I absolutely don't use notepad++ as my main IDE... Honest.

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I feel personally attacked by this!

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Huh, neat!

The University of Amsterdam will always have a special place in my heart - it's where Brouwer began his revolution in mathematics. Though, I believe his student's student (the late Professor Troelstra) was more fond of hunting for species of bramble around Amsterdam than horses tails!

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Ah the "horsetail", a plant that survived the extinction of the dinosaurs...

Even a small fragment of it can grow into a new plant, it spreads both via rhizomes and spores, and it'll punch through any barrier eventually too.

Given the revolutionary flavour of the university of Amsterdamn's history, it might well fit.

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 58 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

We won't have kids because, despite doing everything right, despite working hard, we're struggling with finances. Kids wouldn't be affordable without an extra job, and most of work two already!

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 46 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

$38,912,465

That's how much the 1993 Mario Brothers movie grossed worldwide. Really pause and think about that.

Let that sink in.

The mario brothers movie made $7,000,000 more than this, in 90s money. One of the greatest disappointments in movie history, which has a cult following for its level of fail, outperformed Borderlands.

That is the orbital nuke of fails.

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

Badger on the left just saw his healthcare bill. Badger on the right ate some bad beans and is contemplating the nature of regret.

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I love the Lemmy vegan community - they are the second greatest shitposters around (fuckcars have the edge due to their expert ragebaiting).

 

For when you need something to test video playback on your old windows 95/98/XP friend (files and instructions in description).

 

Not all art shows something beautiful - this really does feel like the internet of today without a lot of browser tweaking.

 

A few years ago I stumbled onto this, and it provided a nice afternoon feature film. Figured the folks here would enjoy it!

 

Truly a test of patience - this is an excellent modpack that unifies 3 classics together into the way I dreamed of playing them as a kid.

Found it by accident a week ago, and it's been my short nightly unwind (trying to do a solo run because I always wanted to).

 

Thought I'd share this list as it contains many emus I've not heard of before and I'd love to hear people's reviews on any folks have tried.

 

So, in the past, I used to make a bit of money fixing up comps for folks.

With slightly trickier cases, I used to boot up puppy Linux to check the more essential hardwares (and if it booted, back up essential files for the customer). My students are now asking how to manage similar things.

Alas, puppy is no good for a modern system, as it really does not like UEFI boot. I was wondering if anyone can recommend an alternative.

I'm looking for a very lightweight gui os I that can run some hardware diagnostic tools, runs on a wide range of hardware, that is easy enough to set up on a pen for novice users.

 

Mednafen is worth a go if you're looking for a lightweight set of emulators to run your dumped carts.

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Discworld MUD (discworld.starturtle.net)
 

Thought I'd post this up here since I've not seen it mentioned. For those who want to explore the world of discworld, this is a great MUD.

Very friendly community when I hop on every few months, and with a lot of rich detail from the books.

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