Puppy linux is wonderful as part of an IT “USB toolkit” for when it might not be safe to boot the normal OS, if you need to try data recovery on a dying HDD, or just need quick access to linux based tools.

And it’s surprisingly full featured for the small size. I’ve lived out of it for a week or so when a HDD died and I was waiting for a new one to ship.

Knoppix might be dead? That sucks. It was my first exposure to Linux. A family member who never participated in holiday gift-giving and almost never visited suddenly visited one day when I was young. I don’t remember much of the visit, but he left me with a Linux or Knoppix “for dummies” book with a Knoppix live bootable CD in it, and a burned disc of a more up to date version. He knew I was into tech, and this was pre-Steam days. Internet then was not what it is now, so it was a seriously nice gift for a growing nerdling.

He’s slightly more present now that I’m an adult, and he swears he has no memory of this. Or of Knoppix. But he daily drove Ubuntu as of a few years ago, and he’s the only family member even remotely techy and old enough for it to have been.

Maybe I was blessed by Tux himself?

Might have also been one of my Dad’s coworkers, as he got one of them to backlight mod my GBA back before the SP came out. But it would be very weird if I confused an actual visit. Maybe there was no visit and my dad just handed me the stuff and told me who it was from?

It’s a bit of a mystery, with significant impact to my life trajectory.

So… still toxic. Just marginally less.

Jimmy buffet billionaire here in the hollywood hiiiⁱⁱⁱⁱiiii_iiiiiiiiiiⁱⁱⁱⁱⁱiiiiils. Forty lamborghinis in my lamborghini account.

Why do ancient youtubepoops live in my head rent free?

Edit: don’t live well in my head I guess. I fucked up the line- https://youtu.be/0GIwTG8V-Ko

Thank god I’m not the only one who thought this crazy idea might work.

Savory/salty + sweet

Yeah, if I ever walked into a DG that looked like that image I’d assume I was at the flagship store.

For the real experience:

• Move all of those shelves so that the aisles are about 1ft (~0.3m) tighter.
• From any point you can stand, you can see at least one display/section that looks to be one heavy footfall away from collapsing onto the floor.
• Nobody stocks, (re)organizes shelves, or “faces” product. That would eat into the profit margins. The products are unpacked and put out once, then never touched by employee hands again until they are scanned for purchase. If a customer picks something up and puts it down somewhere else then that item’s location is only known to them and whatever cruel god. You can often find nonperishable products in the wrong area that were discontinued years ago.
• Tile floor? If only you were so lucky. The floor appears, but cannot be confirmed, to have once been some form of green carpet many decades ago. Now it is some deep green, almost black solid sheet of matted “material” composed of trodden upon old gum, engine oil from the parking lot, and substances known only to the unspeakable outer gods. Congealed and compressed into a thin homogenous layer by the endless footsteps of the forsaken customers. Under the right hallucinogenics, you could be convinced that it is old rubberized tennis court floor long past its prime, but there is still something distinctly wrong about it. In your soul you know it was once carpet, and you cannot comprehend the path between that and what you behold under your feet.
• There is only ever two staff at most in the building, and you will only ever be allowed to percieve one. Attached to the register, unmoving like some sort of defeated gargoyle. Legends say the other employee is stationed on a desk chair in the closet they call a manager’s office, prepared to chase any ne’er do wells out with a bat as needed, but no one has witnessed this in recorded history.
• Things often cost more than a dollar. Bastards.

I’ve been interested for many years, but I keep ending up holding off because I want something that does a better job at emulation than my phone.

I’m not sure that “dedicated device with potentially better control scheme” beats out “the one to two generations old semi-flagship android I already have with an xbone controller clipped to it and wired in through an adapter”. When I do find something that has better performance, the price point usually puts me off, which is silly because I pay more for my phone whenever I upgrade… and then the cycle perpetuates.

So I guess it comes down to that I don’t want to pay again for something my phone can already do. Just wish there were more phones with microsd card slots for expandable storage, and a quality controller with the same relative form factor as the dedicated devices. Console controllers are big for a work bag. Thick. Especially with the clip to attach a phone to it well.

Right now I’ve been tidying up an old Game Boy Color (cleaned and reshelled, thinking about rechargable usb-c battery modding it) and saving for an Everdrive for it. If that ends up scratching an itch by being a dedicated device, it might push me over towards buying a dedicated emulation handheld.

MOUNTAINOUS ORGANICS

Woosh

I work for a financial company where our largest clients look to us for fiscally conservative actions. Thankfully, that trickles down to create an IT division that is aware of current trends, but usually doesn’t chase the bleeding edge.

Let the risk takers tank the challenges, and we’ll come in after and benefit from what’s already been figured out.

We just opened Copilot chat to our users late last year. We discovered, and squashed, a whole slew of people trying to shadow IT their way into “supercharging their workflows with AI”. A few were fired for shoving private info into public and unapproved models, but not nearly enough.

If you have notification sounds on for that app, and have your ringer or notification volume turned up, the noise should come through while you’re in do not disturb mode.

Do not disturb just mutes things not whitelisted, and uses the normal setting for things that are whitelisted. If they were already muted it doesn’t un-mute them just because you whitelisted them.

A picture

https://youtu.be/sMRcIOjdojU

Curse of parenting a kid that loves Finding Nemo: I identified that dialog by the time I hit the first ellipses.

Whatever brings that crazed warlord out of hibernation is good for me. There are a handful of youtubers who have tried to ape the style, but nobody has managed to replace sseth.

Didn’t like his recent top down shooter reccomendation though. The reload mehanic is needlessly complicated, three button presses plus a timing minigame. I can appreciate penalizing early reloads by losing the rest of the mag/clip, I can work with manual reloads, and while I don’t like quicktime event reload mechanics I can tolerate it.

But press R to start the reload, press E to eject the mag, then time your R press to reload faster? Too much for me alongside all the other mechanics.

Personally, I’m waiting for the long feet episodes

Don’t miss this gem that’s been overshadowed by all the other shit they pulled recently:

Asking for a NSFW post to be appropriately tagged is the same as censoring it from all of lemmy.

This is the most blatant concern trolling I’ve seen in ages, bravo.

When called out on this, OP made the following thread mischaracterizing artist signatures in images as advertising and trying to get a rule made on the comics community to force all users to remove attribution. https://lemmus.org/post/21226925

In the comments they state that they refuse to consistently link the source, even though they are able to, until the rule they suggested is put into place: https://lemmus.org/comment/17161116

Notably, this all exploded after that community’s mod suggested a “no bots” rule and created a “two posts per user per day” rule that OP is blatantly violating.

OP is upset that they don’t get to use other peoples spaces for free exactly as they want to. They have a post in powertrippingbastards recently that amounts to this as well. Now they’re just continuing the tantrum elsewhere because they didn’t get the response they wanted.

Beep, a suggestion: Make the space you want to see on lemmy. Create a comm and set the rules you want on it. You want all posts to have what you consider advertising stripped out? Go for it.

“NonAdComics”, “BeepsMemes”, etc. The fediverse is still small enough to carve out your own space.

In less terminally online terms: “I think they’re a member of a US intelligence agency doing some vaguely psyop thing, not a normal poster”