Underwaterbob

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[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

Not mine, but a friend of my dad's would talk about the time he was an "asshole bagger". He worked in a slaughterhouse, and his job was to cut a circle around the anus and pull up all the bits that might have poop in them and bag them up. He lasted a day.

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm partial to the inept/surprisingly-effective assassin guy Quark hires to help him trade the Vorta guy for Moogie.

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I got curious and went Wikipediaing. The guy who played him died two months ago. Now I feel like a complete ass for dissing him at all.

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I've come around a bit on Vic. In my current DS9 re-watch, I just got to the episode where Nog goes to live with him in the holo-suite and he helps him overcome his trauma. He's way less lame (and creepy) than when he tricks Odo into dating real Kira by telling him she's a hologram.

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I only recently found out he was Brunt as well as Weyoun. And had no idea about the others. (I still haven't gotten around to Enterprise.) What a talented guy!

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Science fiction is going to age poorly. A lot of it is already hilariously dated. Look at most of Star Trek. They're flying at FTL speeds through space with artificial gravity, teleportation, lifelike androids, and replicator technology, but their screens absolutely suck. More and more of those inconsistencies are going to add up over the centuries and make things ridiculous after a while.

The number of new things that people enjoy dwindles with age. Just about everyone agrees that the music that was being made when they were teenagers is the epitome of the art. Are you going to be able to enjoy anything when you're 2563 years old?

The older you get, the faster time apparently moves. Having grown up in the 80s and 90s, on some days, even "The year 2000!!" still feels like it should be the future to me. I can't imagine what even a few centuries would do to this phenomenon, let alone a millennium or megaannum (I had to look that word up.)

On the upside, presuming I'm the only immortal, I'll be the only person currently alive to see if they actually finish that performance of Organ^2^/ASLSP in Halberstadt.

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Vic Fontaine. A lame, self-aware hologram introduced in season 6 who gives relationship advice mostly.

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 17 points 2 weeks ago

Say what you will about the chaebols running the country and the rampant corruption, Korean roadworkers are incredibly fast and efficient. There's never some guy standing around doing nothing.

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago

In the 90s, "gay" had become a catch-all term for "thing I think is stupid". I've heard LGBTQ people intentionally unironically use the term in this manner.

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's not so bad. They were these pre-cooked things you were intended to just chuck in a deep-fryer for a few minutes. "High Liner" brand. A Canadian staple since 1899. Haha!

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's common practice in Korea. They sell ramyeon (Korean ramen) as snack food in bags like you'd get a bag of chips in NA.

 

So, my work machine was getting long in the tooth. Occasionally not booting and requiring me to jiggle memory sticks or tighten CPU cooler screws. It was a DDR3 machine with a Xeon E3 1230V2 with 8gb of RAM (and oddly enough an RTX 2060.) The fans were getting pretty loud, too.

I had a Ryzen 2600x and 16gb of DD4 from my home PC lying around, so I bought a cheap mainboard, tore the old one out of the case, attached all the hardware to the new mainboard - including the SSD with Mint installed - and BOOM! It booted first try without issue. Even going from Intel to AMD, DDR3 to DDR4. My mind is blown!

I can't imagine how borked my machine would have been if I'd tried that with Windows.

Now, what do I do with a still-working Xeon and mainboard?!?

 

Surely, this can't be a coincidence.

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