weights connoisseur @alice_meows@awoo.space

how much is 1 dirt?

which is why i'm excited to announce the #ovemittschallenge2025q4. this is a #self #careChallenge; starting tomorrow, for all of #Q4 of #2025, can #YOU #respect your body enough to #always use #ovenmitts whenever moving things #into OR #outof the oven, #regardless of #temperature?

i was extremely successful at achieving this. this remains to this day the only new years' resolution i've ever successfully implemented. i started out creative but developed a towel-based strategy for the long haul, and unfortunately for my hands, the habit stuck even after #noovenmittschallenge2024 was over.

@jk oh wow this is great

@jk like rly I wish more stuff could just be statically linked and just have self contained executables that can run anywhere, but I appreciate that this is so fucking hard that we came up with a whole wrapper to set up a virtual filesystem to dynamically link shit in from to work around this.

@jk it's a shame the linux ecosystem doesn't have room for "folders full of DLLs and EXEs" consistently working, too many weird assumptions about where stuff should be on a system. In theory /opt provides some clues how to do this, I think you could make a folder with bin, lib, share, whatever subdirectories and have a script that sets some environment variables?

This problem is why appimage is the most promising of the newfangled packaging stuff out there, to me at least, even if it's a hack

@jk "tamagotchi mode" is a perfect description of why I switched from Arch to Debian many years back. I inherited the very active "set everything up yourself" attitude from arch, but applied it to a distro that has stability. But I also don't run a full desktop (so i have no idea how broken stuff like icons is), and it didn't solve this problem, just mitigate it

Moves on to your game cube controllers

Unplugging the HDMI cables from your TV one at a time and eating them

@CarlMuckenhoupt but 2 doesn't always mean "two", if it immediately precedes a 3 it means the " twenty-" part of "twenty-three"

@codl this doesn't rly change the main point of what you're saying, but worth mentioning that "having datacenters" doesn't necessarily imply as much scale as it sounds, companies love sounding like they're a big deal when actually they just have like, a storage bucket and a handful of VMs in the EU region of cloud_provider_of_the_day. (Or iirc even digitalocean at least in the past has referred to "a cage at a colo" as a "datacenter")