in a sense, i did defeat duolingo. that thing is engineered to get you hooked on dopamine, with all the satisfying pling sounds and the leaderboards and stuff. clearly, i prevailed.

if i do get through ace attorney, i'll probably end up having learnt a disproportionate number of words related to anime court. i'm not sure how useful those will be in the duolingo's later courses.

anyone else reading this in 2024

can't tell if this is legit spam or a /u/twovests joke

was today

If facebook wanted to extinguish the fediverse, they could simply spread rumours about making a compatible social media site, and then watch as the ensuing inter-instance drama completes the job for them

Films and tv shows on dvd.

I could do blu-ray now, i guess, but i've yet to see shelves full of them in charity shops, where i can get dvds for cheap. Also i have no idea if they'll play in vlc without any fuss.

Anything to do with physical media tends to get so much worse over time, it's really depressing

I saw people on twitter discussing whether they'd get the physical release of gta vi or not, as if the game's actually gonna be on the disc lol

Anyway I should have mentioned my two drives are from around the same time period. So although I briefly mention how bad stuff has become, the topic is really the quality of a product they put their name on vs that of one they were too embarrassed to put their name on

i really regret making /f/ the prefix, due to /f/art

but it also makes it /f/artificialintelligence, so who's to say if it's bad or not

i, too, like to spend my free time being completely normal

yes json apis you count too

*whispers into mic* especially json apis

they all have their place and purpose

in the case of unix timestamps, i seem to disagree with a lot of people what those are. i think using them in places where you expect humans to look is a bad use of them.

we get 1:3:12 twice a day, though

still have not played this yet

although steam disagreed and would not give me a refund

i'm not good at the whole music production thing, so i just stick to tossing knives and forks and computer peripherals around

Ed Balls

that might work, but they've been known to remove ways of deshittifying windows in updates. for instance, there's like a bunch of group policies that no longer have any effect on windows 10 version so-and-so or higher. so who knows how long it'll work? my solution avoids this problem by just blocking updates entirely.

the key to owning a windows computer without the fuss is to uninstall all the bothersome updates and use Windows Defender with Advanced Security to block all outgoing traffic, except from the programs you use. although idk if windows 11 can be reverted to a "good" state, but it works on 10.

i've had this setup for several months now and it's been great. i don't have to worry about microsoft pushing updates that add an annoying malware-like bing ai search bar that keeps coming back after a while when you turn it off. i can put my computer to sleep and come back the next morning and find everything was exactly as i left it.

highly recommend if using linux just isn't an option for you

yeah

it's just like email

ah, the venerable communication platform that everyone loves

it's good you managed to show restraint. almost as if something you did that day reminded you that with great power comes great responsibility,

epic

yeah, i ended up just scotch taping the cardboard packaging of a cooking pot to the inside of the case door.

unfortunately the connectors are very sandwiched between the card and the cooler, so i didn't want to take this route

i tried it, and unfortunately the settings don't persist after a reboot

lol i thought this was another one of your weird jokes until i came across this article

truly shocking that an nft event can exist in 2023