This one?

With ending

“Gentlemen, I put my pants on like you: one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on I make gold records.”

Many licences make a distinction between using software and distributing it

For example in the GPLv3:
To “convey” a work means any kind of propagation that enables other parties to make or receive copies. Mere interaction with a user through a computer network, with no transfer of a copy, is not conveying.

John Safran - Not the Sunscreen Song

Nothing I said was critical of anyone, any set of skills, any profession. I’m glad that you have specialist skills, everyone does because no-one can know everything

I was responding to a particular question about technology, and how non-techies approach it. I explained in another comment that this complexity in technology is fundamentally different from many other fields of everyday experience

If the industrial fan stops working, they call you, and somewhere between the power point and the air they want to move is the problem you can fix and diagnose

If someone can’t see their cat photos, it could be anywhere from their device to their network, their ISP to the server, the programs on that server, the other server that holds the photos… Like with the fan they know the power is generally ok because the lights didn’t go out, but from that point you actually need some conceptual model of the complexity to even know who to call

“It looks like the second cutting board has grown legs. Any ideas?”

The first sentence uses a sarcastic metaphor that indicates the correct placement is known but the item is not to be found there

The second sentence expresses an interest in knowing what others can tell the speaker about this situation - maybe not quite discontent, but definitely interest in it being located

I agree, but also computers break differently. Using a computer is just like other everyday activities like driving a car, until something goes wrong

Imagine if you broke down, but you didn’t know if it was ‘the car’ (call a mechanic), or the road, or the traffic lights…

Tech people presume that normal people think about how technology works

They don’t even try to conceptualise how something on their phone gets there from the internet or ‘the cloud’ - when things stop working they don’t think about the fact that their an app on their phone is using a network connection to a router, which distributes an internet service that connects them to a server, that is running a program, on which they have an authenticated account…

They wouldn’t even know where to begin with troubleshooting, it’s just ‘broken’ and they get frustrated

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance begins with a discussion on this very theme, before it gets weird (weird and good)

I have a lemmy.zip account as well, and have not had login issues using Voyager on Android via F-Droid

… I award you zero points, and may god have mercy on your soul

One of the things I like about the Pern universe (similar to the Wool universe) is that you start with a technologically advanced society that (for whatever reason) loses knowledge, and the way that hidden history impacts society over extended periods

Does your quote above actually appear anywhere on that page (or did it at some point) because I can’t find it?

Edit: So the quote is real (and they either edited the original forum post or made it in an email or similar). What an asshole

NiMH has been common in consumer batteries for around 15 years (in my experience, although Wikipedia shows the chemistry is way older) but you can still buy the other chemistry (NiCd), and there may be newer lithium rechargables but I haven’t seen them in standard sizes (AA etc)

Eneloops set the standard for good quality NiMH batteries for a while, but IKEA Ladda batteries are also NiMH, and probably plenty of others now

Because rechargable batteries before NiMH sucked for many use cases - they were good for the Gameboy as you charged and used them straight away at high draw, but try using one in a low power device like a remote or wall clock and you’ll find it is dead in a week despite minimal actual usage

I just seed to 3 - if it’s popular it won’t take long, and if it’s not popular it probably needs the extra help (and it’s just one setting)

I actually seed much longer if something still has no other seeds though

This is somewhat outdated, developers can now opt in to reproducable builds using their own keys

https://f-droid.org/docs/Reproducible_Builds/

I’ve had to block this user and community thanks to some dipshit on Mastodon who keeps asking for Tony Soprano images