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[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Finally started Slow Horses. It’s played straighter than I’d thought it would be, and the pacing of the first couple of episodes makes the title feel very accurate indeed, but it does worm its way into your brain, and Gary Oldman’s work is a god-damn treasure. Looking forward to continuing it when the wife gets back.

Also watching Foundation, and while it’s getting space opera-y in a way I assume is even farther from the books, after 2 and a half seasons I finally find Gaal more interesting than annoying, and the genetic dynasty actors continue to make it work, plausibly playing the “same” characters but with vastly different different experiences revealing the little changes that have slipped in over the centuries.

Strange New Worlds maybe never grew into what I really hoped it would be, not that I know what that is well enough to articulate it, but it’s still by far the strongest of the recent Trek offerings.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

My eleven year old loves it, and it's decent in that way where it will take a good bit longer for the music to drive you nuts.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago
#WhenTaken #521 (01.08.2025)

I scored 888/1000🏆

1️⃣📍896 km - 🗓️2 yrs - 🥈171/200
2️⃣📍1.3K km - 🗓️2 yrs - 🥈161/200
3️⃣📍164 km - 🗓️0 yrs - 🥇193/200
4️⃣📍154 km - 🗓️10 yrs - 🥇179/200
5️⃣📍276 km - 🗓️6 yrs - 🥇184/200

https://whentaken.com/
[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is Captain George Costanza erasure, and I will not stand for it. WILL NOT STAND!

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

spoilerConfused Jumpman for Puckman, skipped reading the rest of Question 1, answered incorrectly, and immediately rage quit, where "rage quit" means I made a sour-looking face and closed the tab. I'll see you guys over on !dullsters@dullsters.net. 🤣

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago
Wordle 1,504 4/6*

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[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago

Wow, Joanne just really hates everybody, doesn't she?

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yup. My last JLC PCB order, also keyboard related, came at the worst of the recent tariffs, and it was still 1/3 the price of the cheapest option for PCBs in the US, and the pre-clearance rolled into shipping was as much as the tariffs themselves. The only place even close in price was a fab in India.

It's dubious to to think that every country needs to have every sector fully spun up anyway, but even if that's your goal you don't just dump it on people overnight. That just raises prices and hammers the economy without creating any new jobs. Even the Trumpers know this at some level, hence TACO.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Maybe it tastes better than it looks. I certainly hope so.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Gameday threads are my favorite part of the comm anyway. 👍

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

It speaks well of him.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Florida undefeated, coming’ in hot!

Well, no, but go Gators.

 

And have any other sports communities come up with a team flair workaround? I haven't messed with my hack of a *monkey script since I was on kbin.social.

 

These are for an upcoming keyboard meetup in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. I'm annoyed that some of the tacos didn't infuse properly, but most of them came out okay.

 

Not low effort at all!

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by wjrii@lemmy.world to c/gaming@lemmy.world
 

I received a basic but modern PC case (Corsair Frame 4000 if anyone cares) as a father's day gift. My low-end PC had been in a media PC case circa 2008 with about 40 holes drilled in it for more airflow. After getting everything in (except my DVD burner, LOL), this image came to me, and I correctly assumed I would be able to find the completed meme with no trouble.

 

Because heeler, that's why.

 

This is !texas@lemmy.world

We also would have accepted /c/chupacabrasatemyface

 

login wall removed: https://archive.is/hvY3y

The basic argument being that, no, men are not being pushed out of the traditional publishing houses by "woke-ass DEI feminazis," but rather that the overall decline of publishing as a business, and particularly of serious literary publishing, has meant that people with lower cachet in the workforce (i.e. women) are the ones willing to do the work for less money, and also that modern opportunities tend to go to aspiring authors who are willing to build an audience on their own, generally online, and then take their brand to a publisher with a built in floor of book buyers. Again, the need for "hustle" and enduring public scrutiny and largely unpaid creative labor is more likely to be done by people who sense they have fewer options in the "traditional" business world.

The gruff but masculine "man of letters" who's too proud to promote himself is no longer able to bully his way into publishing houses by the sheer force of his brilliance and persistence (and contacts and privilege), so he ends up whining and letting his misogyny flag fly instead of burying it in subtext.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31175359

More pics: https://pixelfed.social/p/wjrii/838255973232132267

I messed up in a million ways, but I managed not to screw it up too badly to be happy with it. It used 35-year-old switches and keycaps. Case is dowel joints, an up-jumped rustic picture frame. This was also my first keyboard build with QMK firmware and then the VIAL config tool. Some lessons:

  • ALPS stabilizers are a pain.
  • Don't let sleepy English majors design PCBs after midnight. Seriously, the thing barely works for this layout, but should be slightly better for Cherry MX switches.
  • One is strangely zen when one accidentally deletes all the PCB design files for such a flawed PCB. Still have the fabrication Gerber, but with half a dozen errors that's very near to useless.
  • Don't be a coward with your woodworking. There is a bigger gap between case and keys than I'd like.
  • On the other hand, don't be stupid. The pecan inlay on the back may be there to cover up where I sliced right into the dowels joining the frame together.
  • Sandpaper and Danish Oil forgive many sins.
 

This is gonna be a cluster...

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30918089

Definitely not undercover Fundies either. :-)

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