I suppose you could get a shape like this if you tried to draw a square by true headings and bearings near the North pole of a sphere. “Turn heading 090, travel 10 miles. Turn heading 180, travel 10 miles.” and so forth. Start at a spot close to the pole and this will be your ground track.

Actually no it isn’t, because attempting to make a square you’d make four turns in the same direction, this would require turning left, right, right, left.

I want to label my toilet /dev/null now.

I saw the first one, enjoyed it…not sure I could explain the plot or what happened in it. At the time having the dinosaurs brought to life was spectacle enough; they could have made a movie about the park working correctly and it would have sold tickets.

I watched the second and third one back to back with a girl. They were alright. I don’t care to see them again. I’m not watching any more of them.

Yeah, in my shop a band saw would be used for resawing as much as anything. RIght now I resaw with my table saw, which…isn’t great. I don’t do much intricate scrollwork, or if I do, out comes the jigsaw. It’s what I rough cut the bottom arched piece of this with.

There’s an Arduino-based CNC controller firmware called GRBL. Gurble? Gerbil? Garble? GeeArrBeeElle? GuhRuhBuhLuh?

Most of the folks I’ve heard making tutorials about it pronounce it “guhDOUGH.” To get that FOSS cred the name has to be a dumpster fire.

I’m a woodworker, so I have a reason to own a bandsaw other than this project, I don’t need a cricut. I don’t have a band saw already because there is NO room in my shop for one. It’s actually getting hard to walk around in there.

First thing I’m going to do when I get a bandsaw is cut out a cursive “Ingest” to put in my kitchen. Then possibly an “Excrete” in the bathroom. “Shit Shower Shave” would be another option.

Concussion at an ice skating rink.

Yeah actual error messages with helpful information are a thing on Linux.

The last time I tried to install Windows on something, there was some problem with the BIOS config, and Windows would get part of the way through installing and then a “FAILED TO INSTALL ERROR 0xA9BF4DAFDEB99B7AD46” or something. Installing Linux on the same machine said “Unable to install due to BIOS config. See here for details.” “here” was a hyperlink to the Ubuntu wiki, which you could open in Firefox because this is a live session with the whole desktop there, not some useless installer environment, nevertheless it gave a QR code to the same wiki page so you could visit it on a mobile device if you wanted to.

It’s like it’s meant to be used by humans, not the Borg. And not even like Borg Queen Seven of Nine Borg, like TNG era Borg.

A KDE update broke its lock screen. Locking the computer would bring up a message reading “The lock screen is broken and doesn’t work anymore, to unlock the computer, hit Ctrl+Alt+F1, login and enter this command.”

I’ll admit to liking the look of some gaming PCs, with a custom loop with clear tubing, colored coolant, coordinated lights; it hits the same way a well done build in Satisfactory does.

I’m not really interested in gaming peripherals like a big chunky mouse with a bunch of angled plates on it trying to look like Gigatron’s jock strap. Some RGB can be kind of cool, I kinda wish I could do more useful stuff with it, like I always throught it would be cool to have RGB lighting that varied from blue to red with component temperature or something. I’m not the biggest fan of just unicorn vomit for the sake of unicorn vomit.

In the 1940s or 50s. My family has owned it since the 60s.

Would Stacy’s Mom be the Millennial equivalent?

Electronics engineering is a bit beyond my scope; as an electronics hobbyist or field repairman you’re gonna get the closest I have in my kit at the time, I’ll probably get within an order of magnitude of the spec unless it’s somehow very damn critical or the schematic calls for one of the oddly common oddly specific values like 220 ohm.

Rule by elderly thieves. Klepto-geri-ocracy.

It’s definitely make ends meet.

You’re getting a 10 ohm resistor and liking it.

I could probably build a gaming PC that matches the Series S for $500 with an AMD APU, some Ryzen thing with integrated graphics, no discrete GPU. The Steam Deck makes it work in a handheld format, I can do it in a PC case. Or, go buy used. There’s gonna be a lot of perfectly game capable machines being sold off because they won’t run Win 11. Slap Linux + Steam on there and you’re gaming.

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