Miles O'Brien

don’t lick the platters

No joke, as a teenager I temporarily considered using one as a pizza cutter but ultimately decided to use a pair of scissors just because I didn’t want the shiny platter to be greasy.

I really want a thin metal disc to spin now… Maybe see if I can get it to spin with my arduino…

My dad was convinced the fridge magnet he “wiped the hard drive with” was sufficient to destroy the data inside.

I plugged it in to the new computer and whattaya kno’, booted up just fine.

At the time, I assume he just didn’t know fridge magnets weren’t powerful enough to do anything past the sheet metal exterior.

Now I’m convinced he physically wiped the fridge magnet all over the outside, thinking that literally you had to wipe the physical drive with any old magnet, and has absolutely no idea how hard drives stored data or why/how magnets work to disrupt it.

A subtle, but important difference.

I never part with my hard drives, once all the important data has been transferred and the entire hard rive has been backed up vie external storage, I disassemble it and cannibalize anything I need, and keep the actual disc assembly intact. I like spinning them by hand.

Lmao this guy thinks hard work is what makes people rich instead of massive amounts of exploitation in an inherently exploitative economic system…

Corporations that already more or less control the world want even more leeway to control the world even MORE despite clear evidence they are woefully unprepared?

Name a more iconic duo.

I thought showing off my own kobo and library of books that I can let anyone I want read would convince them.

Nope.

Oh well

Indeed.

I even sent them the related news articles about content I’ve had removed from my own devices, and still they don’t seem to care in the least.

So I sent this to my parents, as they’ve spent hundreds, if not thousands on their Kindle books.

They don’t really care. Zero interest in DRM-free backups that I can make them. They don’t think it’s an issue. They trust Amazon to not mess with their books, and that they’ll always have access to wifi and kindles.

As I keep telling people, they keep saying “DEI” because even most Bible belt folks get uncomfortable when you drop the hard R they really want to say.

If you’re giving your printers arms and fingers, that’s on you.

Do you keep a gun next to your printer in case it makes a noise you don’t recognize?

That’s the mark of a true cs student/programmer/software engineer

The hardware guys have it easy.

Old people and overreacting to normal things because new ideas are scary and confusing

Name a more iconic duo

Yeah, my dogs will be gone by then so I would absolutely set up a tent close enough to catch it. I’d even bring a baseball glove for shits and giggles.

Project Sundial can still make a comeback.

Her logic IS undeniable.

You heard it here folks, you shouldn’t question something unless you are directly affected by it.

Ah yes, that pursuit and sharing of knowledge known as “paying a shitload of money for the privilege of making a company that ultimately provides nothing of value some extra cash”

I didn’t know ml is cool with ultracapitalism as long as it’s under the veneer of knawlege.

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Every single part of this comment just screams “It just wouldn’t be proper!”

And I’m sorry, but I can’t seem to care about what’s “proper” when half my friends now have reasonable fear for their lives, not just “comfort of living” just because they are lgbtq+ living in deep red country.

I tried explaining tariffs to my in-laws.

They genuinely think that other countries will be paying the extra cost for the privilege of trading with the USA.

Completely refuse to believe they have to pay the extra cost out of their own pocket or the company will sell elsewhere.

Edit to add, these in-law’s also think China is still mostly like their media-based perception of feudal Japan. As in “they only have two modern cities, Beijing and Tokyo” type of “knowledge” of China.