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• Post #4500723

  Sellers in the Ontario housing market are delusional. You're going to lose money at this point outside the GTA, get over it #ontario

• Post #4499576

  Run operating systems so old that they can't catch modern computer viruses or spyware. It also helps if they don't have browsers that can access the modern internet due to the lack of HTTPS support

• Post #4436825

  After upgrading to Kubuntu 26.04 LTS my screen brightness stopped being adjustable. The only way I found to fix it was by modifying the `GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT` entry in `/etc/default/grub` to: `GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_backlight=native i915.enable_dpcd_backlight=0"` So if you're having this issue, hope this is helpful #linux #ubuntu #kubuntu

• Post #4424240

  While I was working at a vision science lab studying the effects of spatial distortions on perception in VR, I was once tasked to decommission an old experiment. It was a rotating room that was used to study visual cue conflicts on perceived body orientation. However, something seemed familiar about it, so I asked my supervisor why that may be and he said that they presented it for a kids show which turned out to be Popular Mechanics for Kids The first picture is a screen shot from that episode...

• Post #4383424

  Banks really don't like self-employed people when it comes to loans. Steady income for six years, but they would prefer if I worked at a company which is actively laying people off. If I took those Apple and Meta jobs I was offered (to work on 'metaverse' stuff) I would be screwed right now

• Post #4281047

  Reddit nerds love to give a civics lesson as a counter argument too why it's impossible for certain government officials to lie. Always besides the point, but it shows people are having a hard time shaking their conditioned normalcy bias

• Post #4254344

  Prototyping Cairo/Pango support for graphics rendering inside PsychoPy

• Post #4242451

  Reviewing vibe-coded PRs is slightly demoralizing. Not a one-to-one match in terms of effort between the contributor and I

• Post #4207876

  Who would have thought the neo-cons would be the ones leading the way on de-carbonization? Sure, cratering each other's refineries is a bit extreme, but at least they're getting results. Now, we're only a few weeks away from the post-petroleum world we dreamed of

• Post #4206968

  There are whole ass skyscrapers full of people, other than those that clean the restrooms, who do absolutely nothing to better the human condition. Just business for the sake of business

• Post #4172348

  I wonder which hardware I built for previous employers is still in use. If not, I hope they open them up before scrapping them. I wrote some corny stuff hidden inside them for my wife which might give someone a good chuckle

• Post #4093188

  First batch of "Midnight Snack" cherry tomatoes from the backyard garden #gardening #tomatoes

• Post #4063362

  How many trillions are we dumping into trying to replicate the mind? Money would be better spent on the ability to share and organize ideas rather than generate them

• Post #4012467

  I'm pretty sure the people complain about "historical inaccuracy" in Nolan's 'Odyssey' probably are cool with '300'

• Post #4012410

  Today I need to perfectly sync the audio and video for webcam responses in PsychoPy. I thought I nailed that but it seems a bit hit or miss so far

• Post #3989194

  Found a music mix CD my sister burned 25 years ago and it's great! Been my work soundtrack this week #cd #music

• Post #3963248

  My cat figured out what finger pointing means. Point your finger in some direction and he turns to look there without fail. He thinks he's people, lol

• Post #3962671

  I believe data retention rates for CD and DVD have been greatly underestimated. Haven't gotten a read error yet for a collection of CD-R discs stored in a poorly insulated room for over 25 years

• Post #3935640

  I hate ads so much that I go out of my way to avoid products and services shown in them

• Post #3916568

  There must be a firmware bug in my DVD drive. It seems for single layer discs the speed settings are incorrect. So it ends up sounding like a Dremel while writing even though it shouldn't be going past 8X speed. Brasero seems to just crash out and the disc get ruined

• Post #3886485

  Americans are quick to forget how much help we provide fighting their forest fires

• Post #3861744

  If found an old model rocket catalog in a drawer. I looked up the model I had 25 years ago online and they still sell it (HeliCAT.) I didn't stick with the hobby because shooting off rockets over 500 ft in a school parking lot close to houses was sketchy. By some miracle I never lost a rocket to a roof or backyard

• Post #3857835

  Woke up feeling like I smoked a pack last night, bleh

• Post #3787830

  Optical drives are widely considered inferior to flash and cloud storage, but like every technology they would have gotten better if we kept using them

• Post #3725250

  In 2018, someone high up in the display industry told me 8K HDR television would be common by 2020. Also that VR headsets would exceed visual acuity limits soon These were possible outcomes back then, the technology was there already, but big tech didn't see it through

• Post #3717630

  I like watching bees in the garden. Although I can't prove it, they really seem to love what they do

• Post #3679894

  $100B for pitiful fleet of submarines to 'defend' the arctic, sheesh. The mean time-to-obliteration for those subs would probably be measured in femtoseconds in a real war Didn't the military get the memo that drones and sensor arrays are in vogue? I hope we're not just transferring large amounts of tax money to prop up companies the PM's hedge fund buddies might be heavily invested in

• Post #3677987

  Finder in the dock showing "Application Not Responding" for a while now even though all the instances are awake I wonder what's that about

• Post #3671678

  Picture taken this morning of some wildflowers growing in the yard

• Post #3658223

  My grandmother is over 80, yet if you give her a crudely drawn map to a destination in Toronto, she'll always find her way there. I'm a GPS abstainer with a certifiably excellent spatial sense and I certainly cannot pull off a similar feat