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MerriedxReldnahc said:
Went out skating to the cliffs and found this wonder of nature.
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When I was 14, I attended a teen retreat at a religious venue. When a handful of us went on a walk around the grounds during our free time, we discovered a pair of panties lodged in a tree. That generated the speculation and giggles one would expect from teen guys who wouldn't necessarily expect to see that on a church-sponsored weekend retreat.

keyboard-warrior said:
Today I helped my 80-year-old innocent looking neighbor with some PC-related stuff. What caught me off guard were the massive amounts of porn link shortcuts on their desktop. I had to try my hardest to hold it in. I really didn't expect that.
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Years ago, I found countless cookies for porn sites on a HS friend's computer when she asked me to come troubleshoot some new hardware for her. I really had no opinion either way about my discovery, but I gave her some good-natured ribbing about it. She tried to tell me it was from her brother when he last house sat for her. Personally, I think it was her doing the browsing because she never asked me over to her house again and we started drifting apart after that.
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Today, I have learned that the protective glass I ordered for my newish phone is the wrong size and that it's well past the time where I could ask for an exchange. Luckily, it cost less than $10, so I'm not out that much and I now know what size to order this week.
 
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Well, I've been, admittedly, rather slowly pecking away at this while I've had some alone time to kill. I've just got some software tweaks etc left to do, but the hardware is done.

This is a raspberry pi zero (wireless because why not, it's barely a few extra bucks, if that) with, as you can see, an OLED screen and buttons.

The idea of this is to create a virtual CD drive. So, what you would do, is connect it to a computer, select HDD mode, it presents itself to the OS like any other mass storage device. But here's the magic part...

After you've loaded it with a whole bunch of ISOs, now you can plug this little bad boy in to the device you wish to, say, install some OS on. Instead of fucking around wiping a flash drive, formatting it, etc, with this thing, the idea is that you'll just dump ISOs on it, and when this boots on the host computer, select your ISO, and the Pi will now pretend to be a CD drive. No formatting, no "my OS is 4GB but I can only have one, so I have 124GB left over", and no multiboot software.

As far as the target device is concerned, all it sees is just a CD drive. Anything else on the memory card here is irrelevant, the computer only cares that it's being presented as a CD.

The software is pretty well all there, but I still have a bug or two to iron out. Right now it doesn't seem to want to mount properly, so I'm SSHing into the thing to try to sort that out (another reason to get the wireless, makes headless stuff *much* easier.)

Anyway, thanks for coming to my ted talk. If any if you like the idea and want to make one for yourself, you'd be more than welcome to poke me wherever. It's a fun little weekend project that doesn't cost a lot, and it you're a sysadmin or just have lots of computers and OSes for whatever reason, these little doohickeys could be rather useful.
 
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Bought a new computer. Just a cheap Dell laptop because I'm poor, but fortunately my needs are modest. I'll be waiting a few weeks for delivery though. Also, went to the supermarket with one of the housemates. We stopped for a spot of sushi and it was pleasant, despite the pungency of the bone broth he insisted on ordering. And I found a pair of Bailey's Irish Cream tumblers at the op shop, too.
 
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I found a thing of firm ripened sheep cheese that was barely opened on the ground as I was walking my roommate’s dog. After showing it to her, I removed the exposed part that was drying out, washed it with vinegar and water then wrapped it up in plastic wrap. It’s also been just below freezing where I live by the way.
I never thought I’d find sheep cheese and start researching recipes to safely use it.

It’s probably gonna end up being used as Alfredo sauce or thrown out. I’m just shocked I found sheep cheese because I never knew it was a thing.
 
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Catman from cat town said:
I found a thing of firm ripened sheep cheese that was barely opened on the ground as I was walking my roommate’s dog. After showing it to her, I removed the exposed part that was drying out, washed it with vinegar and water then wrapped it up in plastic wrap. It’s also been just below freezing where I live by the way.
I never thought I’d find sheep cheese and start researching recipes to safely use it.

It’s probably gonna end up being used as Alfredo sauce or thrown out. I’m just shocked I found sheep cheese because I never knew it was a thing.
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What's wrong with you?
 
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