If you’re looking for a nice action comedy to watch, you could check out “The Last Mercenary” on Netflix.
It’s got Jean-Claude van Damme as one of the main protagonists, and the whole thing is something of a send-up of the genre. It helps that it’s a French film, so there’s a certain intelligence and charm.
Van Damme looks like he’s having a great time making fun of himself, both in between and during the copious action scenes.
Hab dann erklärt, dass ich als Vater von vier Kindern möchte, dass meine Kinder eigenständig mobil sein können. Und dass ich mir immer Sorgen mache, ob sie heil nach Hause kommen. Weil die Radwege so schlecht sind (mit konkreten Stellen).
Is there a canonical essay about (the problems with and complexities of) social media aggregation as journalism that I can just link to so I don't have to break down the angles and weirdnesses myself?
@kissane You’re probably looking for a more nuanced take than “everything is going to shit, and what we used to call journalism is leading the way “, right?
@BlackAzizAnansi Some of my very much non-technical relatives have been using Linux without issue for years.
Installing it isn’t terribly hard either, but it’s a bit more of a hurdle. You could go easy on yourself and just either buy a laptop with Linux preinstalled (as others have suggested); or get someone to install it for you.
Recently a relative needed a new laptop. I helped them pick it; had it shipped to my address; installed and configured Linux; and sent it off to them. Worked great!
Musk would shout on his way out, “I’m gone! Let that stink in!” while carrying a bag of old garbage, storm over to his CyberTruck parked in a disabled permit space, jump into the vehicle after several tries to open it, and then slam the door—causing all the panels to fall off in cartoon-like succession…and then a pause, and then all four wheels. https://mastodon.social/@verge/112571252769186651
Need some lights for my bike, I see they're all USB rechargeable now and the dynamo-powered ones are scarce and have crap reviews
I mean I figured in the twenty years I've been out of biking, what with LEDs and such, the new lamps would draw so little juice you'd hardly even notice the jenny was engaged, maybe it could even charge up a wee battery or supercapacitor on the downhills, but instead it seems we're all taking our lights with us and plugging them into the wall?
@ifixcoinops Oh, and the dynamo charges little capacitors in the lamps, giving you a couple of minutes of (somewhat dimmed) light when you’re not moving. great for stopping at traffic lights in the dark!
@ifixcoinops Back in the early aughts I used to work in a bike repair shop at the uni.
About half the bikes that came in were having trouble with burned-out bulbs or with their dynamo. I used to keep a few spare bulbs around for the rear light on my own bike, because those broke all the time.
When LED lights and hub dynamos arrived, all that just stopped. These simple technologies have made bikes 50% less annoying in just a few years.
And we are back online. There was a problem with the hardware we couldn't fix on our own so we had to wait for a technician to fix it for us. Now there will be some lagging because of full queues for a while. #mastoadmin
I´m getting notification spam on my laptop: Some program is constantly sending assorted notifications like "virus found", "Gmail account suspended for spam", etc.
This is in Firefox on Debian Stable.
It´s all bullshit of course.
When clicked (I know), the notifications take me to [random_subdomain].enhancesecurity.co.in.
How can I get rid of these notifications? I´ve already installed Ublock Origin, which doesn´t seem to be helping.