What's with the university qualifier?

I was taught to make fulminate of mercury in 8th grade PhySci class.

One of the standard things useful to know living on a farm. I suspect many of the things like that are looked down upon now.

Ever made your own gunpowder? Learned that from the boy scout that lived across the field behind the house. He got his merit badge, I had a shitload of fun.

Anarchist cookbook was okay, built in IQ detector and all, but it was just a primary level instruction manual.

With final exams.

That many failed.

Retired two years ago.

I'm at 200+ fine fat trout for the year so far. (about par, actually). Only keep 12 inches or larger.

My roommate got a smoker last month. Very tasty trout indeed.

I'm not as well off as I would be if I had waited until 70 (65 now), but I have a lot of fun.

And I still do my own coding. For no other reason than it's got to be MY code if it's my project. I do it for fun now.

AI is a pain at all levels for me. I don't want answers that aren't as good as SO, and no explanation. Give me SO any day. I read 900 plus words a minute, I'm capable of doing my own summaries.

(Has anyone else had CF problems because they can read too fast to be human?)

So, in closing, I too am waiting to see the benefits of AI in my life

And for some reason, Discord went to Klipy...?

Obviously you've never watched a cat at play, and maybe eating.

Probably a Linux nerd (on /.? The hell you say) that carried the xST vs xDT timezone markers before the brain caught up that "Standard" and "Saving" are both "S"

> next will be Jedi training school full of pointless teen angst.

Wasn't that "The Acolyte"?

> Heh, I've never heard that term before.

It's an acronym for "jack of all trades."

What, you mean you're not convinced to grab the no-name alpha-release "privacy browser" that cripples yourself if you don't let them MITM you?

It wasn't that hard - Netscape came on floppies, too.

I've been wondering for a while what the steganography potential for AI generated music might be.

The photo side is awesome. Video is more awesome. Hide a whole movie in a movie you can.

If I have 50,000 AI generated songs in my albums, am I ever going to be asked to provide decryption keys?

You know, 'cause it doesn't sound quite right?

Like SETI. uuuggghh..... Like disco.

Where's a cryptography geek when you need one.

I don't remember her being in a bikini, but my mind blanked from self preservation almost immediately.

I was talking about my fire tablets (8 inch, 10 inch).

You know, the color kindles.

In fairness, when they work, I haven't had any problems with formats (except pdf) and I use vlc for all my video and audio needs.

But randomly failing to read the sd card (top end SanDisk), requiring a reformat and recopying my library gets annoying, even if it's only every 3 months or so.

I'm sure the donated ones will be picked up cheap from Goodwill, and be used by someone more appreciative.

That's why I donate, not dispose.

You can shorten that list.

Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet are the only platforms now that protect my privacy and are the most secure.

The EFF told me so. Thank you.

I would have never figured that out on my own. /s.

Been trying to do that with my fire 8 for years.

It's been passed around to a couple of gurus, still a fire 8.

A friend gave me a 2024 fire 10. Gave it back to her for donation somewhere else. Won't see my sd card with my 80G library again. For the third time in 5 months

Pulled the sd card and it will go in the jar with the rest until I buy an android tablet I can root. Later this month.

Both kindles are headed for Goodwill.

I obviously won't miss them.

Mx25 Infinity on my 2008 hp G62 laptop. (Whoops, using xfce with gnome fork). Acting as a kodi server.

antiX26 on my i7 laptop. zzzICE wm. Daily driver.

PIOS on my pi3b. Xfce, jellyfin server.

All idle at less than 800mb. The jellyfin server doesn't have to do transcoding, serves up three streams at a time.

The kodi box is also the backup dev box, but with 8G of ram, I've never seen it at 50 percent.

The i7 is new as of 2 months ago. It's just shit fast compared to my usual. I'm still trying to catch up.

All of these Debian OS derivatives/compatibles I have run successfully and usefully from a 4G thumb drive.

I also ran Mx23.1 (wildflower) on the pi3b for about 8 months. Used it as my first kodi server. Functioned adequately if not spectacularly, and this is on 1G.

All run firefox as the default I believe.

Low memory options are out there and fun to use.