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I've been to Silver Crest Donut Shop. Once. I was disappointed that they didn't have donuts, or at least things you could legitimately refer to as donuts. Or much of anything, really, except a dirty 70s Bunn-O-Matic and a griddle and some bread and eggs. The diviest of dive bars, a strangely seedy and disturbing place. A sort of place you really don't see any more. I'd say it was Lynchian, but more in the Black Lodge sense than the Double-R.

It's gone now. https://sf.eater.com/2024/7/31/24210535/silver-crest-diner-d...

I thought this was going to be an article about one of the classic banes of many a marriage, intestinal gas. Try vibe coding your way out of that one, Tom!

When I specced out my macbook pro M1 16gb it was entirely possible to get 32 and 64gb without any tie-in to CPU upgrades.

You're misremembering. The Macbook Pro M1 (2020) supported a maximum of 16GB, and the base Mx chips have never been offered in a 64GB configuration.

It totally would have been normal to have a custom shirt like that back in the day. I had a few.

In the late 70s and early 80s, there were custom "iron on" T-Shirt shops in most malls. They would have a wall of larger iron-on decals, primarily logos of sports teams and rock bands, but they also had custom letters, usually in the Cooper typeface. You'd tell them what you wanted, the size and color of your shirt and lettering, and they'd go in the back room and iron what you wanted on your new shirt for a few dollars. This was especially popular with youth sports teams in lieu of professional uniforms, families who wanted to match for a big trip (often with custom names like this), and, as you can see here, jokey custom workplace team shirts.

If you watch a late-70s or early-80s episode of The Price is Right, you'll almost certainly see contestants or audience members in these custom iron-on shirts - same font, same slightly disjointed look.

The left-hand text on Dave Compton's shirt is slightly blurry and unreadable given the resolution, not garbled. But it's not some AI nonsense.

DAVE

COMPTON

(King?) OF PACKERS

(He'll?) PUT IT IN ANY BOX

This isn't just a rah-rah team spirit shirt or something obscure, it's a peculiarly '70s innuendo combining thoughts about his job... and his sexual prowess. Sure, that kind of shirt would cause a modern workplace to, uh, send him packing. As they say, it was a different time.

Here's a thread on Reddit about one of those mall custom iron-on t-shirt shops: https://www.reddit.com/r/70sdesign/comments/hf6f0q/tshirt_ir...

Keeping in mind that I wasn't the interviewee and this happened over 15 years ago, there was apparently a combination of extreme secrecy about the organization and a massive disconnect between the largely military experience of the interviewers and the company's supposed product space. Partner left wondering "black ops or bullshit?"

I was hoping the comments would be full of similar stories, in which a demon makes a half-hearted effort to pull you into his clutches, only to be naively blown off, then not thought of again until his true nature was revealed.

Our story of this sort comes from when my partner interviewed at Theranos (!) long before the collapse or any public recognition, related the super-creepy interview process, and I was like "sounds like a big no to me." When the Theranos story blew up it was like "oh boy".

You read the parent I was responding to, no? You're reinforcing my point.

"Users who don't know about the feature can just use a pre-configured system like Mint Cinnamon and never know about any of these things."

> That's cause you're using a distro like mint which is using older builds of stuff.

The context here is that I was commenting on the parent's assertion that one "can just use a pre-configured system like Mint Cinnamon and never know about any of these things." Nope!

> It will continue to degrade for you unless you fully switch to a Wayland DM. Anything built on X11 is basically deprecated now and no one is building on it anymore.

That's my impression as well, and again, with the 2nd most popular Linux distro using X11 by default and with "experimental" Wayland support, that only reinforces my rebuttal of parent's claim.

Nope.

Linux user for decades, but headless since the early aughts. Decided to dip my toes back into the desktop space with Mint Cinnamon.

I can mirror or run lots of phone apps on Windows or macOS, but ironically, not Linux. I decide to run an Android emulator so I can use some phone-only apps.

I read up on reviews, then download and install Waydroid as the top contender.

Does Waydroid work? No. It fails silently launching from the shortcut after the install. Run it from the command line, and, nope, it's a window manager issue. Mint Cinnamon uses X11, not Wayland, and Waydroid apparently needs... Wayland support.

OK, I log out, log into Mint with Wayland support, then re-launch Waydroid. My screen goes into a fugue state where it randomly alternates between black and the desktop. Try a variety of things, and I guess this is just how it is. Google and try any number of fixes, end up giving up.

Yes, that's my old pal Linux on the Desktop. Older, faster and wiser, but still flaky in precisely the same ways.

Give it to someone you know who needs a laptop.

I hadn't run desktop Linux in several years now. (I've run it server-side for decades.)

Out of the increasingly loud outpouring of support for desktop Linux over the past year, I went ahead and installed some distros to get back in on the action. I came to four conclusions:

1) You can play games on desktop Linux now other than Tux Racer. Cool!

2) There's less weird X11-wrangling. Thank god.

3) It's otherwise still pretty much the desktop Linux I've always known and felt mildly annoyed by.

4) The current versions of Windows and macOS have gotten to be so unbelievably annoying for no good reason that a mildly improved desktop Linux now actually seems far less annoying than the mainstream options do.

Good job, Microsoft and Apple, for giving us the year of retreating in disgust to the Linux desktop.

"Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence."

- Hydration as a Behavioral Addiction (Immortan Joe, 2015)

Lede. It's "Burying the Lede".

I'm going to have to assume that for all intensive purposes this article doesn't cut the mustard.

Had ISDN in the mid-90s back when I worked for an ISP. Wasn't expensive from my telco, 40 1996 dollars a month and the cost of a Motorola BitSURFR Pro. Got dial-up bonding working on the ISP side. It could "ring through" one of the B-channels when a call came in and stay connected on the other. A wonderful time.