The SpaceX IPO was hilariously ridiculous. They were saying that in a few years they’ll be launching Starships every few hours. Meanwhile they haven’t even delivered payload to orbit with them yet… (As they still don’t trust it enough I guess)

Anyone who knows anything at all about spaceflight could tell you that was both stupid and impossible, yet they just get away with it. It’s blatantly obvious lying to investors, but I’m sure they’ll make up some excuse or pretend they never said that by the time it’s 2030 and they’re not launching Starships every few hours

He was involved in PayPal early on (after a merger iirc) so most of his money was from PayPal stocks. That might have changed over the last few years, but that’s how he was so rich before

Because PayPal is something that people actually use

Maybe zorin OS. I think that mint is still popular with new Linux users though.

Distrobox?

Well, I’d be surprised if they’re throwing away the digitized versions, they will want to use them in training all of their future models. If they go bankrupt maybe someone more willing to share will get the data

some things I though were funny:

community regex: “^Yuri|^WholesomeYuri”

filtered domains: “*.itch.io”, “bit.ly”, “forms.google.com”

keywords: “🥺?👉👈”, “enlightened centrist”, “italian plumber”, “Perchance”

Anyways here’s what it is at the moment

https://copyparty.adrian.place/u/?doc=policy.json

Curl is a foss utility that’s kinda everywhere

lol as a piano player I feel like my hands get quite a bit of exercise

And in general piano players are known for having quite large hands (although that’s by no means universal) it really makes some things quite a lot easier. I think it also trains you to stretch your handspan more than non-piano-players can with equivalently sized hands, although I’m sure that won’t help you open a beer ofc.

Yeah, we have had this little rubber pad kicking around in a drawer that we always used to open cans. More grip makes it a lot easier.

Someone linked a study on this a while ago. IIRC it’s a 20-30% strength loss on average, depending on the ability you’re testing?

great video about perceptions of british food (Tor’s Cabinet of Curiosities, 48 min)

I have never heard it referred to as toad in a hole, but fried bread with an egg in the middle is pretty good. Just pan fry with a bit of butter and salt appropriately

I was about to say this same fact on another comment above, but then I read the wikipedia article again

apparently it isn’t like an ‘official’ national dish, I guess it comes from Foreign Secretary Robin Cook referring to it as “a true british national dish” in a speech

Chicken Tikka Massala is now a true British national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences. Chicken Tikka is an Indian dish. The Massala sauce was added to satisfy the desire of British people to have their meat served in gravy. (full speech) (wikipedia)

chicken tikka masala was invented in England

I have never in my life tied and untied shoes every time I put them on, even though all of my shoes have laces. It takes a lot of force, but I slide into tight-ish dress shoes as well. With my hiking boots, I just pull the string over the clips. I have also known how to tie shoes decently quickly for as long as I can remember.

Well yea, this one came out in 2014

Probably would look relatively similar to this camera when using a regular amount of zoom?

I’m sure there are a lot of earlier ones as well tho

well, i measured that on windows (since I still run windows on my main PC) but I assumed it would be similar on linux lol

will cost probably a lot more but if you find a good deal on a superzoom camera those are neat because at the max zoom range you can get some shots that not many other cameras can take (and certainly not phones)

I got a used sx60 hs for like $200 a couple years ago, compared to my phone (oneplus 12) it’s decent at macro, great at high zoom, but worse at basically anything else. of course if you want that look then it’s good for that too lol.

Also keep in mind that those all have pretty small sensor sizes (actually apparently the sx60 hs has exactly the same sensor size as this camera) so you need the area to be pretty bright for max zoom to be usable, and fast subjects are pretty hard.

curated photo dump:

TV

captive birds

wild birds (i really don’t know why that hawk let us get so close to it…)

full zoom

macro (it can actually focus on the lens, if you ever want to do that)

top of the london eye

random helicopter

can get some nice bokeh

full zoom range across the thames

steam is like 500 MB of ram by itself at least for me rn, so add any game or os stuff on top and it rounds up to a gigabyte