I get that it isn’t the same but when all you have is a garbage version of a memory, I’m not sure or really matters whether the representation is the original garbage or something that makes you feel less regret over not having something better.

In my experience, the worse the photograph the better my memory of it. Probably because my mind is already used to filling in the blanks in the garbage version, so it’s constantly refreshing the memory in my mind to keep it vivid. YMMV obviously. I’m also not much of a shutterbug and prefer to commit moments to memory than try to fight with my phone to snap a photo I’ll probably never look at.

Are you able to tag the appliances after you’ve huffed all the freon out? I’ve got an old fridge in the basement I need to get rid of but can’t until I get someone out to extract the freon and put the evacuation certification tag on it.

DM me if you can help.

This appears to be part of the “Parents Decide Act”

Sure would be nice if parents would decide to parent their own kids instead of making it everyone else’s problem.

I will always use “M as in ‘Mancy’”

Looks promising, thanks. Gonna download and play around with it now.

You’d think the standard PDF viewers in Linux (Okular, etc) would at least show you alt text but nope. Seems like a huge omission.

Unfortunately, that seems to only work when exporting from a LibreOffice doc. What I’m having to deal with are PDFs generated by various staff already in PDF format.

Good to know. Is that only in the local sidebar or does the retention policy federate with the community info?

I’m not super active in meme communities, but would be nice to know they’re on a ticking clock before I do post something. That, or I just avoid Piefed communities.

I’ve never used Piefed, so I have so many questions:

Does it do that by default? Is it something you can toggle on/off? Why would anyone want it to do that? Is it healthy for the Fediverse to half self-destructing content?

users seeking to evangelize their beliefs across the Threadiverse

I mean, replace religion with communism/anarchism/whatever stupid -ism, and that’s like half the people here.

But also, any time you see anything “blogspot [dot] com” here, it’s 99.9999% always blogspam so I just report and block.

Excellent catch!

“Tell me how old you are without telling me how old you are” 😢

Don’t feel bad. I was able to distinguish by ear between a T.38 fax handshake and a V.34+ modem handshake which definitely reveals my oldness 😆

So many things wrong with that though:

1. That’s a fax machine handshake not a data modem.
2. That’s a LOT of data to be hissing over dial-up in a highly compressed GSM voice channel
3. She didn’t dial anywhere near enough numbers
4. The background noise would have had that handshake repeating over and over

The most nostalgic chiptune generator you’ll ever hear.

I was surprised by that, too. When I went looking for a way to decode them with RTL-SDR, I assumed it wouldn’t be parsing the audio but a narrowband data stream. TIL also.

Edit: It does kind of make sense with it being AFSK encoded in-band, though, or maybe I’m just so used to it being that way. I always thought the screeches were there to demand attention (and also be something that headend equipment can pick up and respond to). So it’s interesting they’re doing double duty as both an unmistakable audio cue to pay attention as well as containing the actual alert data.

Plus there are NOAA stations all over the country rather than centralized like the time signal transmitters. It was probably cheaper to do it in band at that scale.

There’s sound?!

I saved mine for 20 minutes, finally saw my chance, and was immediately slapped down by Purple lol.

I don’t have an EV yet, but I already refuse (prefuse? pre-refuse?) to use an app to charge my car which pretty much locks me out of most fast chargers.

I’ve been WFH since COVID and only drive a few times a week. When I do get an EV hopefully in the next 1-3 years, it’s probably going to basically trickle-charge from a modest PV setup. If it takes 3 days to fully charge, so be it; it’d just be sitting there anyway. Though I’ll probably wire in a 220v level 2 charger (or whatever they’re classified as) on the rare occasion I need a faster charge.

Damn. I just bought a 1 TB Sony micro SD card a month or so ago. Glad I bought that when I did.