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it was a long and annoying process, and it's not quiiiite done yet, but i have windows 10 pro running and a couple games installed that i haven't actually tested yet oops

the last few bits and bobs are on the way and should arrive between this saturday and next saturday; im gonna dual boot with some flavor of linux and im gonna have a big storage drive and im gonna have a bunch of usb ports and stuff mounted in the drive bays and its gonna be great

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There should be a way in CSP or Photoshop or fuckin' in your phone's camera roll to just ASSIGN alt text to a photo/picture so no matter where it's uploaded it will automatically populate the alt text.

@EeveeEuphoria oh i love closing bracket, one of my favorite cave story characters

Would you believe this is how we used to install Arch Linux?

@Hearth well yeah but like, if you're like me and want to do things like "generative art involving stuff like hanging power cables" and you know in the back of your head using a parabola would be *just ever so slightly wrong*, this is a thing you care about having a simple answer to. and its just hyperbolic cosine

today i learned the catenary (the shape of a hanging cable or chain) is just the hyperbolic cosine. what the hell. i thought it was one of those shapes you could only get accurately with a physics simulation or something but its just cosh

The car industry is even worse for your privacy than the worst tech company -- and that's because the worst behavior of the tech industry is embedded in every car. This report from @mozilla is what Consumer Reports should have done years ago -- and it is infuriating. foundation.mozilla.org/en/priv

A student came to a Zen master and asked for a Koan. The master said, "how will you stop that distant temple bell?" The student bowed and thanked the master. Later at meditation, the student's back ached and forehead itched and knees cracked. The master broke the silence to admonish the student, "be still!" The student stood, bowed, and left, and the master became enlightened.

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