…but those aren’t even words. He… he’s not even attempting to… produce words…

This is such a stupid timeline.

Random Republican, transported through time from 15 years ago: “No no no no no! You see, gerrymandering has everything to do with census data. It’s completely impartial! There’s no way the process will fail us.”

[Gets shown the footage]

Random Time-Displaced Republican: “Excuse me, but… Who the hell is in the power right now?”

[More footage]

RTDR: “Ohhhhh shit I HAVE TO GO BACK TO MY TIME!!! …What do you mean you can only time travel forward in time?”

Dunno how things are in America, but at lest here in continental Europe, during the pandemic, the app-economy delivery shit was mostly run by befuddled immigrants. Who got absolutely screwed over what comes to fair wages. Not to mention the fact that most of the small and medium sized restaurants that had an existing delivery services basically got bullied to joining the app-economy shit. It’s capitalism in it’s raw form. Fuck all of these apps.

Now that the name Karen has been run to the ground, maybe it’s time to do the same for Peter.

You know a Peter, right? Everyone knows one. There’s always someone who smokes a joint and gets the bright idea to burn down a church or whatever. Ugh. Everyday annoyance, am I right? Such Peter behaviour. Don’t be a Peter.

Side note: I’ve been waiting for decades now for the official folks to finally mail me a copy of the Homosexual Agenda, but they never do! It’s maddening! How the hell are queer people supposed to coordinate stuff???

Probably heading to the city centre to pick up a copy of Skyrim for Xbox 360.

I got home, did my NaNoWriMo writing sprint, and then fired up Skyrim and played like 12 hours straight.

[Random glance at the Krita recent files] [Ponderous inhale] It sure would be weird if someone hypothetically would be doing that, but I’m not sure I would be able to do anything about that.

Macintosh Killed My Inner Child

For 99% of computer users, if the GUI doesn’t have an option, it doesn’t exist.

Literally 99% of Windows tech support is

Have you right clicked on Windows menu, selected Terminal (Admin), then entered sfc /scannow and then DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth and DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth and DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth? …ohhh shit you’re still fucked up - well, maybe you need to completely reinstall windows, well, here’s the page on how to do it.

That’s the difference with Linux. Your average user never uses terminal, and when they do, they find the tools suck.

Well, the commands that I presented (sudo, mount, umount, ps, kill, even lsof) are actually just normal commands that you use to do ordinary things on your system to manage account elevation, mounted disk volumes, processes, and running processes. You need to “memorise” them just as much as you need to memorise their counterparts in a Windows system (Run As/Explorer/Explorer Eject/taskmgr) (…what kind of nerd memorises Ctrl+Alt+Esc anyway?).

…except you don’t have lsof, you literally need to install SysInternals Process Explorer.

I’ve used Process Explorer.

“What file handles are open that match <This drive letter and then some>?”
“Well there’s Dropbox now.”
“Oh. Again?”
“Dropbox, I think.”
“Again.”
“Maybe nothing???”
“OK, let’s try ejecting now.” (It fails again.) “Are you sure no file handles are using this drive?”
“I’m positive.”
“Well fuck this then.” (Unplug USB)

Now. I said I’ve used Process Explorer. I didn’t say I’ve used Process Explorer. I wish to be, one day, one of those frightening people who live and breath Process Explorer every day. There’s still a long journey to get there, I know.

Which is exactly what I do if sufficiently annoyed! Problem is, Windows is usually hella vague about which particular devices have Quick Removal™®© enabled.

Told ya, Process Explorer just told me nothing, except Dropbox maybe.

But it doesn’t change the usage scenario. I don’t care what programs are using the drive. I just need to tell them to fuck off, I need to unplug this drive at this moment.

Basically, if you, as a regular user, cannot unmount a device, you can usually just go to root shell (sudo -i), see where the thing is mounted (just use mount) and then unmount it (umount /media/blah/floop). If it says the device is still busy, as root you can remount it as read-only and then unmount it (seeking documentation left as an exericise to the reader, as I’m sitting at a Windows system now).

There’s also lsof (“list open files”) tool, which can be used to see which exact programs are using files on that device, which you can then use to kill those sneaky processes (ps, kill).

(I’m a trans girl with autism in the family) Hey a train simulator. Holy shit I’m having fun!

(hear it’s being described as one of the major Retired Dad Magnet simulators) Ummmmmm am I safe, guys???

(Woke Annihilator Rays descend from the heavens, just because some German train has a rainbow livery)

(A bunch of grumpy retired dads FROWN at the spectacle of their favourite sim being besmirched so)

Wow looks like I’m in good company

Close! But after some digging it turns out what I was thinking of was Childcare Action Project aka CAPalert. …jeez, last review is from 2013? I have some reading up to do.

(Last time I read this was in the 2000s. …As you can probably tell from the site layout.)

“Trans people aren’t real” -the Government

“Government isn’t real” -trans people

“So… the trans people are the government now!!!” -The Real

This is some Nietzsche stuff I guess

This is hilarious. Randomly reminds me of some website from the 1990s/early 2000s that had “Christian” movie reviews. Even the most innocuous films imaginable were labelled mega offensive. Except for explicitly Christian films, and one old film which the author really liked so it was only labelled mildly offensive after an impressive show of mental gymnastics.

Moving posts/comments to other sites isn’t a thing in threadiverse. Especially if you’re a regular user. However, migrating the content of Lemmy instance database to Piefed is apparently starting to look like a feasible thing and some Lemmy instances like slrpnk are exploring that possibility in the future.

What you can do is export your Lemmy subscriptions and import them on a Piefed instance.

Voyager supports Piefed now!

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