Post Race!

[Shaggy Hiker]

I have only known one Fritz in my life, and his last name didn't seem at all Germanic. Kind of English, really, but that doesn't mean much in the US. So many immigrants anglicized their names when they arrived here. A friend of mine found out that his Italian surname got shortened, and he restored it.

[wes4dbt]

Didn't know him personally but I remember Fritz The Cat. That was a long time ago.

[Shaggy Hiker]

You never know a cat personally. It's always impersonal, at best.

That's not actually true, but cats do want you to believe that.

[Peter Porter]

I've never met a Fritz, but had plenty of tech go on the fritz.

Luckly for me my Fritz!Box has never gave me any problems.

[wes4dbt]

You Brits need to learn to hold your horses!! https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/r...rmy-rcna149113

This from the country that lead "The Charge of The Light Brigade".

[Peter Porter]

I feel bad for that bloodied horse. He must've been the one that ran into a bus after getting spooked.

[Shaggy Hiker]

That's a lot of blood, and seems so bright it looks arterial.

[Shaggy Hiker]

This keeeeyboard is a mess. The worst key is the e key, but others are repeeating, as well, though none as bad as the e. I think it might be due to it being a gaming keyboard with very twitchy keys. Either that or it's duee to me typing like I was using a hammeer.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Switched the settings. Now I'll see whether or not it is better. Thus far, it does appear to be. The repeats seem to be due more to my spelling, but not entirely. I have gotten an extra e three times so far, though I corrected them.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Now for yet another test, but I need to type something that ends in an ee. Hmmm, that key is still being problematic. It's better, just not quite fixed.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Well, it's the keyboard itself. Even turning the repeats down so far that backspace barely works, the e gets repeated far too often. It's only the e, now, so that's an improvement, but a new keyboard will be forthcoming.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I'm thinking that the keyboard just needs a good cleaning. Removing the e key and cleaning that out appears to have gotten it working better. Not perfectly, but far better than it was.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I'm sure everybody wanted to know all that.

[Shaggy Hiker]

What I'm curious about is what happened to Dilettante. He's gone mighty silent.

[Peter Porter]

Maybe Dil is on vacation or something.

[Peter Porter]

I'm thinking that the keyboard just needs a good cleaning. Removing the e key and cleaning that out appears to have gotten it working better. Not perfectly, but far better than it was.

The last time I cleaned my keyboard, I broke the '0' key from its numeric keypad, which I never use. I thought about buying a new keyboard, but I love the way this one feels.

[wes4dbt]

What I'm curious about is what happened to Dilettante. He's gone mighty silent.

My guess is his new companion requires his full attention. From what he said she seemed pretty high maintenance.

[Peter Porter]

My guess is his new companion requires his full attention. From what he said she seemed pretty high maintenance.

Hopefully low maintenance soon.

[Peter Porter]

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[Peter Porter]

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[Peter Porter]

A new video generating AI called Sora is amazing and scary at the same time!



Sora videos have a lot of flaws, mostly with limbs, cell division like behavior of animals, but OpenAI will probably iron out most of the bugs while they work out safeguards to prevent misuse before making it available to the public.

I can't wait to get my hands on this! I just hope OpenAI doesn't charge an arm and a leg for access.

https://openai.com/sora

[Shaggy Hiker]

Here we are in the last day of April, and we may have gotten a frost last night. It's hard to know when to plant certain things around here. I'm trying to be strategic with planting, though, and thus far my strategy is working. The strategy is to not have any crop mature while I am off hiking and can't harvest it.

[wes4dbt]

Here we are in the last day of April, and we may have gotten a frost last night. It's hard to know when to plant certain things around here. I'm trying to be strategic with planting, though, and thus far my strategy is working. The strategy is to not have any crop mature while I am off hiking and can't harvest it.

You might want to add an additional week or two to your equation. Good chance you'll be recovering from an injury.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I can still pick beans.

[Shaggy Hiker]

We have a chance of snow to the valley floors, early next week, so waiting a bit seems like a good plan.

[Zvoni]

Just LMAO

I'm not sure there is enough dope in the world to get through such a movie

[gaouser]

Loloolololololololololo
the loword!

[gaouser]

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[gaouser]

BIOS stands for Basic Input Output System

[gaouser]

A Commodore 64 can interact to Windows 11 using its port on the back

[gaouser]

[IMG] is just <img>

[gaouser]

gaouser is mix of 2 words that i wont tell first one

[gaouser]

what are 53 guests doing here knowing they cant post

[gaouser]

shell32 is not important, throw it away

[gaouser]

Windows ^xp

[gaouser]

sup is both a tag in HTML and a word

[Shaggy Hiker]

what are 53 guests doing here knowing they cant post

Reading.

Way to post in the style of the post race, though. Good show!

[dilettante]

What I'm curious about is what happened to Dilettante. He's gone mighty silent.

Things settled down for a change then WHAM a breakup. Five days later the crawling back began and things seem on track to normal... if you can call any of this normal. I can't account for how this has continued so long in light of the chaos shot through it and the number of people telling me I should run.

[wes4dbt]

Things settled down for a change then WHAM a breakup. Five days later the crawling back began and things seem on track to normal... if you can call any of this normal. I can't account for how this has continued so long in light of the chaos shot through it and the number of people telling me I should run.

Glad to hear from you. At our age running is probably not a good idea. lol

[Shaggy Hiker]

Yeah, limping is more our style.

Still, it's good to hear, really. Your silence was becoming ominous. It could have been that you were delirious, but even that could be either good or bad.