Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org
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CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
Maybe use Software Updater? Nope, it doesn't think there are updates.
Are there? If so, how do I apply them? If not, how do I remove the notifications from the list in the snap store?
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How about the snap-store update? Well, you can't update that while the snap-store is running.
Any ideas on how to install these updates?
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Okay, let's try the gnome update.
It appears to be Schrödinger's update: available and not available at the same time.
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Okay, I'll try opening the snap-store to look for updates.
"This is getting out of hand! Now there are two of them!" -Nute Gunray
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My fresh Ubuntu install says I need some updates. Okay, but there are some problems.
First, it tells me to close the snap-store to update it, but the snap-store is not open.
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Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥
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This is Taz (as in: The Tasmanian Devil). He's as mad as a bag of rabbits.
His hobbies include licking snails, inhaling dandelions and then looking confused, chewing socks (and the feet in them), spinning round in circles for unclear reasons, barking at the vacuum cleaner, and sleeping.
Yesterday he did a poo on our carpet so now he's bringing me his frog toy by way of an apology.
I love him so much. #dogsofmastodon
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@SwiftOnSecurity Reminds me of people from a startup I talked to years back. They were a sort of aggregator for wedding-wishlists (you make your wishlist adding stuff from many different sites, your guests can pitch in and buy stuff from it for you). Their "aggregation algorithms", but for adding stuff to the list and buying it, were an office-full of people in SE Asia, clicking as fast as they could while you were shown a loading wheel in the USA.
Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥
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A bunch of props from #TheExpanse are up for auction if you're into that kind of thing:
https://propstoreauction.com/auctions/catalog/id/377?items=100&page=1
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A broken clock fixed by taping a working clock over it is a metaphor for every codebase you’ll encounter in your professional career as a software developer.
@mrcompletely Yeah, it's a problem
At the grocery store it's back-to-school season, but at the craft store it's already Hallowe'en. 🎃 💀 🧛 🦇
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Have you ever noticed that most self-driving cars don't have any passengers?
"Deadheading" is an industry term for keeping driverless cars in constant motion, even when they have neither a passenger nor a destination. Waymo & Cruise rely on deadheading to avoid paying for parking.
Why pay the city for public parking when you can store your car on the road for free (as long as it's moving)?
Since I've started keeping track, I've noticed that over 90% of the self-driving cars I see are empty...
I got one of these Monument devices to store my photos. Sure, it gets you privacy and all that, but the image recognition is vastly inferior to Google Photos. It thinks I've only taken five photos of my dog.
@claudegohier @Jeremiah @cwebber What about for tablets?
@undefined @stavvers I wrote the documentation for the mission editor for FreeSpace 2.
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@patbak @cheribaker Okay, that's reassuring!
(Yes, I hold down F11 to choose where to boot. If I forget, I get Windows.)
@patbak @cheribaker I didn't partition; I have separate drives for Windows 11 and Ubuntu. Windows was installed on both, and I've just installed Ubuntu on the second one.
I'm afraid I don't know what file systems are being used; I don't often work at the OS level.
- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
