had a friend

Good call on that.

It can be hard to stop associating with someone who you called friend. But sometimes it needs to be done.

I used to have a friend that I’d always have to pick up when we would hang out at my place (they didn’t have a car). Either I’d pick them up or a mutual friend would who was also hanging out that day. We both had the same routine for the guy without a car.

We’d text them 30 minutes before we left saying we were leaving in 30 minutes, text them when we left (which was a 20 minute drive), and then we’d text them when we got there. They’d not be ready for 30 minutes or more a lot of the time. Eventually we told them that if we wait 10 minutes we’re leaving without them and not hanging out that day.

The first time I left without them I got a text an hour and a half later from them saying that they just came out and wanted to know where I parked. Literally 90 fucking minutes after I left they messaged me. The text that they sent me when I got there was “Awesome! Be right out.” And they expected me to wait 90 fucking minutes for them after that.

We left without them over a dozen times (not consecutively) before we stopped hanging out with them for different but related reasons. A complete lack of mutual respect and a complete lack of respect from them towards others.

I haven’t spoken to them in years and it still makes my blood boil at times thinking about them.

The main issue with using batteries for load balancing is the massive resource investment required for them at a grid level, BUT that’s more of a concern with lithium based batteries due to a number of factors. Sodium batteries use way more easily accessible and abundant materials.

NGL I’m hella fuckin hyped about sodium batteries vs lithium batteries.

Hell yeah

I can’t wait to see this headline again but about a bigger battery somewhere else

The kind of mind that seeks to be better than others at all costs

Voting without being politically active does do fuck all. But not voting ensures that the people you really don’t want to win can do so without any pushback.

I want to get off of Mr Bones Wild Ride

Seriously though this is why being politically active AND voting is God damned important.

It really is a beautiful country with a bunch of really beautiful landscapes, but unfortunately due to their government I wouldn’t dare go to it.

Kinda like Florida, beautiful state with a bunch of beautiful beaches and fantastic weather but due to political reasons I wouldn’t dare visit.

Edit: Spleling

Another reason to not go to China

Typical Boomer

It works great

Literally able to us the WiFi in a metal barn 50 yards away on the otherside of a garage

It doesn’t faff about

Mowing the field at her place my phone will stay connected to the WiFi basically the whole time, the only WiFi blind spot that I had to fix was on the far side of her property where there’s 2 metal barns, a garage, and a wall of her house between you and the broadcast equipment.

It’s a small farm and yeah it’s Ubiquiti hardware though I don’t think they sell it anymore. The last time I looked through their website I couldn’t find it again.

Though here’s the Amazon link

Basically this thing is located on one end of the property and on the other end there’s a nano station hooked up to a router because there was still a WiFi dead zone that she wanted covered. But given that that spot was inside a metal barn on the otherside of another metal barn I wasn’t surprised.

Hell the high power WiFi equipment^‡ I installed at my Grandma’s house had warnings about keeping a few feet clear of it when powered on due to health concerns and that’s just WiFi equipment. I can’t imagine the dosage of gnarly from a 2m powered dish.

‡ I installed that equipment because she wanted WiFi on all 10 acres of her property and she didn’t want me to install more stations around her property. Now she has the broadcast equipment in her garage with a tape line on the floor like it’s a Goddamned radiation research facility lol

They do grow really funky like that but not in nature

Basically they only grow like that if regrown by people

Didn’t know anything about this, looked into it, yeah those tig ol’bitties look like they want to escape pretty bad.

Thank you for providing the link to the Tumblr post BTW

Why? Because they have different standards of what they find attractive?

Different strokes for different folks friend

I’d so much love for webp support to increase

It’s so much better than sending jpegs to people

Oh yeah it was a typo but it was autocorrected weird, the keyboard on my phone has definitely been making some odd choices for corrections lately.

At least it’s better than search results via Google, those have gone to shit lately

Funnily enough my phone corrected it to Lazer when I typed laser the first time

Just another fun quirk of the Google keyboard on Android lately, autocorrecting words to the incorrect spelling

I second Linux Mint

I installed it on my Grandma’s PCs not too long ago and even she enjoys it. She’s almost 80.

We are having issues with her printer but it’s one that has known issues with Linux in general (it’s a fancy Epson laser printer, scanner, fax machine combo with bad Windows support) but I’m hoping to rectify that soon.

I would say the GUI reminds me more of Windows 7 than 10 which I really dig

Edit: spleling