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Shower thoughts are wasting water.

My city is in the middle of the worst drought in recorded history. My showers are typically under 2 minutes and I have to shower with a bucket to catch otherwise wasted water to use to flush the toilet. I also shut the water down when I am wet enough so I can scrub myself without having unneeded water flowing then start it back...

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We’ve been getting tons of rain here, but we are still in an outdoor water ban.

Between 8-5, no lawn watering (except golf courses and businesses), no washing your car (except at a car wash), no watering your ornamental plants (except for farms and garden stores). No filling your pool (even a kiddie pool) or running through the sprinkler (except at the water park).

It’s not because of drought, but because one of our water sources is offline due to elevated PFAS, so they are blending water from other reservoirs, and those sources combined can’t make up the extra demand.

And also protecting businesses by making sure we can’t wash our own cars or lollygag through our own sprinklers. Gotta pay for that privilege.

We have to pay…for the privilege…of lollygagging through our sprinklers.

I get the lawn part. I hate lawns. But my yard is also a barren mud pit. I gotta put something down. Trying for mostly clover and other plants that don’t need a ton of water, but they still need to stay moist to germinate and start off, and that’s real tough to do if you can’t water it during the hottest parts of the day. I don’t really care what grows as long as it holds the dirt together and it’s comfortable to walk on barefoot.

JasonDJ ,

Florida woke and brown? Half the state literally needs to take a nap, and the only brown is in their Depends.

JasonDJ ,

Detroit failed because of automation and off-shoring. Things that could have been repaired or prevented politically, sure. But not directly caused by policies based in bigotry and ignorance.

If any correlation can be made, it’s from white-flight. Which would be caused by Detroit’s massive loss of jobs and Florida’s massive loss of land. But white flight, imo, is the reaction, not the catalyst, of its downfall.

JasonDJ ,

History has its eyes on them.

JasonDJ ,

Pet peeve : implying DFW has a bigger furry scene than Austin. For some reason I doubt that.

JasonDJ ,

If you save the cheerleader you save the world.

JasonDJ ,

If you give a mouse a cookie, he’s going to ask for a glass of milk.

JasonDJ ,

I’ll start integrating the webhookers with Slack.

JasonDJ ,

You mean to tell me, three days a week, they have to:

  • wake up extra hours early
  • pack a lunch or plan to pay for one
  • put on hard pants
  • drive their own vehicle in traffic, with their own gas and wear/tear
  • pay for their own parking.
  • do the exact same work in their designated space
  • drive back home in traffic 9 hours later

All for the same pay and several hours away from my family, home, or bed?

No fucking thanks.

Going remote was the best fucking raise I ever got, and it didn’t cost them a dime.

JasonDJ ,

System76!

JasonDJ ,

Does DisplayPort also support audio?

Yes, DisplayPort supports multi-channel audio and many advanced audio features. DisplayPort to HDMI adapters also include the ability to support HDMI audio.

www.displayport.org/faq/

JasonDJ ,

Only if you use the Self-Hashing Orthogonal Tracing Algorithm, naturally.

JasonDJ , (edited )

This is bad practice.

More accurately it should look something like this:


<span style="color:#323232;"># Load sys library for exiting with status code
</span><span style="color:#323232;">import sys
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">def sayHelloWorld(outPhrase: str="Hello World"):
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    # Main function, print a phrase and return NoneType
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    print(outPhrase)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    return None
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">if __name__=="__main__":
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    # Provide output and exit cleanly when run from shell
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    sayHelloWorld()
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    sys.exit(0)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">else:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    # Exit with rc!=0 when not run from shell
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    sys.exit(1)
</span>
JasonDJ ,

Aww it looks like if Jonah Hill were typecast as the chubby best friend. Back when Jonah Hill was chubby.

JasonDJ ,

You know what the world needs? Surge pricing on water.

–No one, ever.

JasonDJ ,

My wedding had a food minimum.

We come from big Italian families, in multiple meanings of the word. There was still so much food. Hors d’oeuvres, cheese board, crudites, bread tray, 3 courses, dessert…and then 11 o clock hits and the last food comes out. Pizza. So much fucking pizza.

I’d never seen so much food waste in one place. I really hated that there was a food minimum. The venue itself was cheap, and nice, but I’m certainly not getting married there again.

JasonDJ , (edited )

The fucked up thing is that it’ll have to get legislated. Like there will be a bill that says you can’t price gouge on water in a heat advisory.

And the more fucked up thing is that it’ll be controversial.

And then you realize that this is why we can’t have nice things. We can’t all just play nice together on our own, no, as much as we all claim to hate daddy government, we need him to come down and remind us that shit like this is anti-human and start defining rules that really should have just been common decency in the first place.

Like how I feel when I tell my younger kid to stop throwing forks in the house. I shouldn’t have to tell you that. I told you yesterday, and the day before. And I told you three times today to stop throwing things. And then I get forked in the arse.

JasonDJ ,

Nah, it’s the Ten Duel Commandments. Because everyone loves Hamilton.

NUMBER ONE.

JasonDJ ,

That’s the saying, but in reality it’s more like 80%, or 4/5.

This, being in four states at once, that makes it 4/20.

JasonDJ ,

Wait three days for a medical procedure and nobody bats an eye.

Wait three days for a firearm and everybody loses their minds.

JasonDJ ,

Oye cómo va

JasonDJ ,

Pressing X to doubt. Not because it’s a dumb idea (because I wouldn’t put that past them), but because Microsoft is seemingly getting rid of every keyboard shortcut that doesn’t involve the windows key.

JasonDJ ,

I’m of the opinion they aren’t all bad people, just easily mislead and taken advantage of. These people honestly think they are on the right side of history.

JasonDJ ,

They aren’t getting beaten up for their money. They are gleefully handing it over to the bully for protection from the real bullies…trans women playing highschool basketball.

JasonDJ ,

Steven Miller

I’d call him “Maurice”.

JasonDJ ,

I thought that the idea was to stop crashing old satellites into earth and instead require they maintain enough propellent to move themselves off into a graveyard orbit.

When a magazine goes out of print and/or out of business, do the original 'master files' for each issue still exist somewhere?

Thinking about the gaming magazines I used to read as a kid in the ‘90s. Some of them have found their way online thanks to preservationist efforts, but most are seemingly gone forever. (I’m talking about the particular magazine I read as a kid, many others have complete or near-complete collections available online in the...

JasonDJ ,

NGL I kinda want to look into OG Xbox emulation, been waxing nostalgia for Fable.

JasonDJ ,

Dr Chan is a pretty cool doctor. Eh diagnosed one of my friends as a b-tard and doesn’t afraid of nothing.

JasonDJ ,

America isn’t racist anymore. Not in the classical sense.

We are closer to caste, but we use race as a criteria…people of a “lesser race” are default placed into a lower caste, but not necessarily, since blood, marriage, or loyalty can get them out of it.

JasonDJ , (edited )

It’s not racism, it’s racism+.

White caste is totally okay with accepting certain people from black caste, or Asian caste, or Latino caste.

It’s not as black and white as it was a couple generations ago. Irish and Italians are white now. Far more accepting.

We still have deep psychological instincts to be more distrustful of others. But who is an “other”, we’ve long since learned, is defined by upbringing, not a certain distinct quality. We learn who the others are by experiences, and the words and actions of those we respect (peers and elders).

We now push our identities into several different buckets…race is only one, gender and sexuality another, mental capabilities, music tastes, vehicle choice, job, whatever. We still segmentize and judge, just with extra steps.

JasonDJ , (edited )

How you gonna have Wendover and not Half as Interesting (his shorter form side-channel)?

No Road Guy Rob? Or Practical Engineering?

No Extra History? (I only know him from Nebula but I think he’s on YouTube too)

Also recommend 8bit-Guy for retro computing and Modern Vintage Gamer for retro gaming.

JasonDJ ,

Will they use Firefox?

JasonDJ ,

Canonical has been in the early stages of enshittification for a dozen years.

JasonDJ ,

As a parent I don’t have the time for multiplayer gaming.

Sometimes I feel like picking up an MMO. Nostalgia is calling for TBC Classic. But then I remember that I’m not going to have this combination of desire and time to play again for like a week, at least.

And I’d spend all my available time tonight just installing it and getting it working.

And then forget it’s installed.

And then next time I can play, it needs to patch.

That’s not way to play an MMO, especially one where I’d be paying $15/Mo for what amounts to a couple hours of playable time.

So yeah…single player ftw.

JasonDJ ,

Yeah. That’s why we can rank on school nights.

Most the players better than us have to go to school in the morning.

We trade sleep for funtime.

The old primary argument against panpsychism has now become the primary argument for it

Panpsychism is the idea that everything is conscious to some degree (which, to be clear, isn’t what I think). In the past, the common response to the idea was, “So, rocks are conscious?” This argument was meant to illustrate the absurdity of panpsychism....

JasonDJ ,

Considering how “fuck you in particular” lightning can be…maybe.

JasonDJ ,

Ugh I still have an air conditioner that was dead out of the box (bought it off season so didn’t use it till summer…summer 2020)

Tried a bunch of times to call in but “due to the pandemic” (what a fucking catchall for anti-consumer behavior…if a huge company hadn’t figured out how to keep their call center staffed 5 months into it, then it’s clearly intentional), nobody ever answered the call in the hour or so I’d wait on hold, several times.

I eventually gave up and just ate the cost.

JasonDJ ,

Charge back for what? Ain’t the stores fault they sold as broken AC.

JasonDJ ,

Yeah…okay.

JasonDJ ,

I mean, it kinda is, especially in Florida of all places.

Had even half his voters, just in FL, gone to Gore in 2000, it wouldn’t have even been a question who won. The world would be a wildly different place.

So yeah, thanks Nader voters.

And somehow we still have people preaching abstinence or a third party this year in their arrogant quest to make perfect the mortal enemy of good.

JasonDJ ,

Texas, no, but he’d consider Cape Cod.

JasonDJ ,

I don’t know this reference. Is this a play on Miss South Carolina?

JasonDJ ,

Depends. Chihuahua or mini-pin, yeah, I agree. But a golden-doodle? That’s a tough call.

JasonDJ ,

I mean, the market did what the market does.

They released a device with the intent of being a tinker kit for programming and interacting with the physical world. The next technological jump for hobbyists from PIC to Arduino, became an ARM SBC.

Of course, they released a cheap ARM SBC, and industry quickly learned that these are great for rapid prototyping and any case that called for a small low-power Linux system.

I wouldn’t say they lost their way. There’s still a great hobbyists market around it, and tons of good competition. I’d say it’s more like they are a victim of their own success.

JasonDJ ,

They’ll make their own fediverse. With blackjack. And hookers.

Nintendo: 🙋‍♂️

Fine, Nintendo, you don’t have to have the hookers.

Nintendo: 🙋‍♂️

No, you cannot dress Pikachu up as a prostitute.

Miyamoto: 🙋‍♂️

You can do whatever you want.

JasonDJ ,

Shylophone

What a great way to describe me at a party.

JasonDJ ,

I remember getting sent to the principals office for “hacking” (pinging the computer in the next room) in like 8th grade.

Back in 4th/5th I actually was hacking, modifying our user menu to add Windows 3.1 and a password (copying config from a teacher’s profile). Also brute-forced at least two teachers passwords.

I’m a network architect now, so there’s that.

Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in iOS 18 | The new standard will replace SMS as the default communication protocol between Android and iOS devices (www.theverge.com)

The long-awaited day is here: Apple has announced that its Messages app will support RCS in iOS 18. The move comes after years of taunting, cajoling, and finally, some regulatory scrutiny from the EU....

JasonDJ , (edited )

One of two things can happen…

Either Apple does the bare minimum to implement RCS, continuing to make interoperability a pain in the ass. Meanwhile, keep making improvements to iMessage.

Or Apple does it right, fully implements RCS, contributes back to the standard, and abandons iMessage as maintaining two separate platforms for the same function is a waste of resources.

I’ll take a guess as to which it’ll be.

Alternatively Americans just accept using 3rd party messengers. But that field is huge with big and small names competing, and ultimately anything that displaces FB messenger or WhatsApp will just get bought by Meta (or some other FAANG) and we’re back at square-one.

Everybody just remember that Apple is the stubborn ones here, reluctantly adopting the standard that every other OEM has been using for a decade, and the reason they’ve been doing this was as a means to keep people in Apple’s walled garden by “othering” people who don’t have iMessage.

They knew exactly what they were doing. I got rid of my iPhone to go back to Android literally a week after the original announcement. Exchanging multimedia with my wife was literally the only thing holding me to iOS. The alternative, using third party messengers, is just plain cumbersome for one user (and likely means selling your soul to Meta nowadays, anyway).

I doubt I’m alone.

And RCS is a neutral standard, belonging to GSMA. Even though Google is a key player, they aren’t the only ones. Any phone OS or OEM could always have implemented RCS. Apple has historically chosen not to, while also not reciprocating the openness with iMessage.

I guess there is one other possibility…Apple embraces RCS and, being keenly aware of its limitations and with Apple and Android cooperating, they collaborate to develop a new open standard that fully replaces both. That’s probably the best outcome but also least likely to happen.

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