AlligatorBlizzard

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In addition to air conditioning becoming widespread, Walt Disney World opened in 1971. There was very little in Orlando prior to that due to not being on the coast - it's miserably hot and doesn't get the afternoon breeze off the ocean like costal cities.

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm honestly surprised this little shit hasn't become a cop yet.

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Disappointingly it's just going to be a good rainstorm when it reaches the upper midwest. A friend of mine, another Florida expat who now lives in Wisconsin, flew to Tallahassee to ride out the storm because of how much he missed it, lol. (His job might be paying for him to be there too, but he definitely volunteered.)

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 169 points 5 days ago (14 children)

I was kinda worried when I saw the subject line of the email.

Steam is actually pretty decent, by company standards.

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That... actually explains the logic of this lawsuit for me. I still disagree and think they're overly litigious fucks, but I think I might understand a less malicious argument for it. If someone mods a see 'n say to have a different audio track and slaps some new stickers on it, that's still a see 'n say, right? The mechanism is fundamental to the product - a see n say is the spinning wheel -> random noise and Pokemon is video game where you throw balls at wild not-animals to catch them and use them to battle people. There's a difference between a toy that's heavily inspired by another one and being an edgy five year old with a firearm sticker pack who gives them to the cows and chickens and sheep.

I really have more of a games as art philosophy though, and I'll just point to the works of Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp to make my argument here, my edible just kicked in.

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Beat me to it. I had a sex wax car air freshener for a while, common enough in Florida but I'm sure it confused people here in Minnesota.

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In this case, Kroger is a grocery store and I'm pretty sure they don't run a gas station - I'm almost certain the machine in the picture is actually a self checkout.

I'm originally from Florida and that's what I do. Although the light rail is a bit interesting sometimes.

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So many forks, lol.

Winamp go fork yourself!

 
 

A left ear, a right ear, and a final front ear.

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I blame rtxn@lemmy.world's comment for giving me this idea.

 
 

I have mixed feelings on the pronoun use, but having read some of her autobiographical writing I don't think she would have taken much issue with it. This piece is more focused on her work in computer engineering, so I felt it was appropriate to post here.

 
 
 

I have an HP Stream 11 that I want to use for word processing and some light web browsing - I'm a writer and it's a lightweight laptop to bring to the library or coffee shop to write on. Right now it's got Windows and it's unusable due to lack of hard drive space for updates. Someone had luck with Xubuntu, but it's been a few years and it seems like Xubuntu is no longer trying to be a lightweight distro for use cases like this.

My experience with Linux is very limited - I played around with Peppermint Linux a bit back when it was a Lubuntu fork and I used Ubuntu on the lab computers in college. I can follow instructions to make a live boot and I can do an apt-get (so something Debian-based might be best for compatibility and familiarity) but I mostly have no idea what I'm doing, lol. I used to do DOS gaming as a kid so having to do the occasional thing via command line isn't going to scare me off but I'm not going to pretend to have knowledge I don't. I'm probably going to go with Mint on my gaming laptop next year but I suspect it's not the best choice for my blue bezeled potato (although I might try it anyway).

 

Be prepared to restart your day.

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