I had to scroll way too far to find this. Especially considering that I have a desktop with full disk encryption, I don’t worry about it. If anyone ever did break into my house and take my computer, they would have to unplug it first; at that point, the disk would encrypt, and they’d have some really nice hardware which sucks for me, but that’s all they’d get.
Stephen G. Tallentyre
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
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Stephen G. Tallentyre@lemmy.worldto memes@lemmy.world•I mean, I'm glad we're growing here, but...83·9 months agoIt all started back in 1998, when the Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell in a Cell, and plummeted 16 feet through an announcers table.
I was gonna say, I haven’t used Windows in years.
Stephen G. Tallentyre@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is something you SHOULD cheap out on?153·11 months agoPeople are gonna pillory me for this, but flashlights.
First off, you want something that runs off two AAAs, regardless of price. If you can’t walk into any gas station, or any grocery store, or what have you, and buy batteries for your flashlight when it dies, it’s not gonna matter how bright it was before it died. You also don’t want anything brighter than ~200 lumens at the very most, unless you actually need one brighter, for some reason; they drain batteries way faster. You want something thin enough that you’re able to clip it inside your pocket and forget it’s there. You also want one that has an end switch that toggles between two modes: “full power” and “turned off.” If you have one that toggles between low and high settings, you will only use the high setting. If you have one that toggles between low and high settings, and strobe and SoS, you will only use the high setting. Every additional step in between “all the way off” and “all the way on” is just friction you don’t need, that will do nothing but piss you off every time you use the damned thing.
The features that make big, fancy flashlights expensive, are anti-features.
Stephen G. Tallentyre@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English7·11 months agoImagine the male equivalent of the same exact ad: “My penis FINALLY smells healthy”…
Stephen G. Tallentyre@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft's 'Recall' feature can't be uninstalled after allEnglish3·11 months agoOof. Yeah, I don’t use my computer for work, so I’d never even thought of that. That’s annoying.
Stephen G. Tallentyre@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft's 'Recall' feature can't be uninstalled after allEnglish20·11 months ago[ Insert “I see this as an absolute win!” meme here ]
Imagine day walking, lol.
Subject-object-verb or object-subject-verb?
I used to work nights at a grocery store. The break room coffee was made by a recovering meth addict, and was basically the next “best” thing if only in theory.
Stephen G. Tallentyre@lemmy.worldto memes@lemmy.world•Remember when games had manuals too?4·11 months agoYes, good and/or bad and/or otherwise. It’s gonna get weird.
The machine I had before this had 4 GB, lol. That’s why I put so much of the budget into RAM when I built this one.
Shaving what little hair I have left on my head is so much more convenient, lol.
Okay, fine. I have 192 GB of RAM.
Stephen G. Tallentyre@lemmy.worldto memes@lemmy.world•Remember when games had manuals too?5·11 months agoI can remember saving my allowance for however long I had to, to be able to get the game I wanted, and then riding my bike to Walmart, or the used game store, or wherever it was, and then riding home with a stupid grin on face. I feel bad for kids who will grow up to be adults who won’t have memories like that.
I hate having any more tabs open than I absolutely need. Right now, I have none. I’m probably gonna either fire up a YouTube video or find someone to watch on Twitch here in a minute, at which point I’ll have one tab open. I’m not gonna say exactly how much RAM I have, but I have as much RAM as my motherboard will take, so I can definitely afford to open more than one tab. I just don’t see any reason to, frankly, and it drives me up the wall.
Eh. I don’t have kids and I use the left back burner because I always have. It is what it is.
“…or is this actually a thing now?”
Always has been.
I’ll see myself out.