Plausible to within 1/5 of a plausibility unit.

Yep.

Thanks for writing that out. I’d never quite groked why it (and similar wording) sounded wrong: reducing a person to an adjective.

“This jacket looks ridiculous”.

Guy walking in with hat: “Uhh…”

Why do all their jackets look three sizes too big?

Obviously they need room for all the medals, but they could at least tailor them.

Well I grew up on a farm…

That’s the Wizard of Oz.

You got that from “I grew up on a farm”?

If you’re going to rip something off, choose something no-one knows.

Farscape flashback.

Gold.

Perhaps it’s just whelming.

This is why Lemmy is as close as I get to any social media.

It was literally the tag line for Windows 98 I think!

The gag was that it just (barely) works.

No-one who buys a PC with windows preinstalled gets any choice at all… and had the preinstalled malware cme with it.

Ali I see is a “pretty butterfly”

DFQOH

I can’t work out what this an acronym for. Please help!

Yes it is. Pick a newbie friendly distribution. Say Ubuntu.

IMHO Windows is only “user friendly” because it’s preinstalled on most PC’s.

User friendliness comes with experience.

Amazing. I get there’s some atlassian bullshittery behind that.

There’s also a draw.io (diagrams.net) plugin for intellij and probably eclipse.

There’s a (global) trend to have actual bank branches cashless. It’s purely a cost saving “innovation”.

Having only a drive-through ATM is a little weird though.

I love it when actual experts chime in! Especially when it improves my understanding.

My source was me: working in my country’s equivalent to the BBC, just not specifically in the studio part. So, kind of second hand, slightly corrupted, fun facts gleamed from colleagues.

Yeah, just a mis-read or typo of the word is by far the simplest explanation.

TIL fungi domesticated everything else on earth.

I, for one, welcome our new mushroom overlords.

Teleprompters are also phonetic. So some words are mangled to be pronounced quickly.

It’s entirely likely that what he actually read of the promoter was something like “PAN-TEES” which only “groks” once said aloud (reading and speaking are quite separate parts of the brain BTW).

Edit: it means that news readers are just inefficient text-to-speech systems implemented in wetware.

I’ve used coreos happily on homelab bare metal.

PXE booting it with cloudinit/ignition automation for provisioning.

It’s make for an excellent VPS.