It’s about the followers of this guy.

There’s barely information about him in English, but he basically wrote quite a few books “decoding” words off shitty photocopies of photos of historic artifacts. He was largely a laughing stock, but he did get a few followers, mostly elderly with early onset dementia, but also notably a few of high profile personalities, maybe even a couple of Putin’s advisors.

For laughs, here are some of the most famous examples of his “deciphering” works:

• Here’s the sun saying that it’s a church of Rurik of varyags
• This one says that Smolensk is actually Moscow
• Or that Pushkin was a house cat
• That 9/11 was a god’s punishment (and also that martians are apparently dyslexic and only know 3 words)
• Or that a bunch of photocopying artifacts tell how great Russian warriors were

The dumbest shit I’ve heard throughout my year was at uni, from a physics professor, no less. He, with a straight face, was telling us that highlanders live longer because oxygen content is lower at high altitudes, and since oxygen is an oxidant, it makes people corrode away(??) faster and causes aging.

He was also a Chudinist, which is pseudo-science about searching the words RUS and names of old pagan gods in random, sometimes absolutely ridiculous places, like freshly crumpled A4 sheet or on the surface of the sun, and claiming it to be a sign of existence of greater ancient slavic race.

I once got into an argument with him because he was claiming that lifting an item in hands takes constant amount of energy, no matter how fast you do it. So I challenged him to a 5 minute plank… and he kicked me out from the class. But I didn’t care, as I soon flunked out of that uni because he wasn’t even the most schizo prof over there.

Всмысле блядь нет русских ботов? Я что для вас, шутка?

Get framework. It has 6 type-c ports, each of which you can breakout into something like 10 ports with usb hubs.

I don’t think that’s related. It’s more about why america loves pickups so much while the rest of the world doesn’t. But the SUV epidemic is actually global.

Just the other day I threw a brick into a car window that had a Z sticker on it. Sue me.

Is logitech still not allowing you full customization with presets saved on mouse itself? I’d expect that from the cheapest noname 5-button mouse on the shelf, not logiteck, I thought they got their shit together already given how much praise they usually get.

It’s probably because something your instance admins did. For me it didn’t show up either, so i looked at the link:

https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fi2IzTtY.png

And it responded with 429 “Too many requests”

But the url is clearly pointing to imgur, why the middle-man? Just urldecode it and here ya go

https://i.imgur.com/i2IzTtY.png

Still do. ADHD is still not recognized in lots of places and I certainly do, in form of vape. Tried lowering concentration only to find myself smoking at higher power and more often. Also, energy drinks, I don’t know what they put in them but withdrawal from them feels exactly like quitting smoking.

Grant NATO membership to what? The charred remains of Lviv?

This. The best you can do is encrypt your messages locally before sending. But then your email service provider still knows where you are, when and to whom you are sending the message to, and how long is it. And so does the recepient’s email provider and anyone in between. Best they can do is to promise not to keep that data. But it’s just that - a promise, which there is no way to verify.

For me it was the reverse - ntfs-3g was constantly corrupting my windows drives because apparently NTFS is incredibly complicated and it can only handle a subset of that. But, the last time I used dual boot setup was more than 5 years ago. Has this gone any better nowadays?

I was about to say the same, but then I remembered that I’m ignoring any business that use WhatsApp or Instagram as their sole means of communication. Fuck yeah I’m a petulant teenager, it’s their loss, not mine.

Feels lonely, most of all. I don’t fear the cops or ex-wagners I walk past every time I go to the store. It’s the radio silence in once popular channels whose owners were “disappeared”, and friends either in exile or too scared to even go out, that makes me feel devastated.

I’m more of a medovukha kind of guy, but yes, indeed, we do. Thank you for saying this

Barrel chest. Probably due to some lung condition that he had before

Oh yeah. Given how close the keys are together I might have tried to use dc and ss as well

Exactly! I rant about this a lot, but I know at least couple of people who run with laptops that have broken audio. As it turns out, installing sound card drivers is not really an option as the janky-ass drivers that the manufacturers put out nowadays can irreparably brick your entire system. It is beyond my understanding why recovery, restore, and even safe mode would even try to load them in the first place, but, apparently they do, and then crash before you could even do anything, leaving re-install as the only option.

Meanwhile, I rm -rf-ed my /boot directory the other day, and then df-ed a couple gigs of /dev/zero straight into /dev/sda. Got it back up running in just a few hours… of kicking myself for why would I do such a stupid thing.

Re-installs are for scrubs windows users. We don’t do that here. SSH from other machine, chroot from live usb, switch to TTY or even UEFI interactive shell. Fix your shit, and get to understand how it works while at it.

If you got compose key (linux, mac, windows with third party software), then those are trivial:

ë ñ ũ ü, and even åâăāãȧaąàáæª₂2²

Goes like Compose e ", Compose n ~, etc

But a thing to note that resulting letters are generic and not region-specific,

like that ë (U+00EB LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS)

is not the same as ё (U+0451 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IO)

Which might trigger spellcheckers or not even be displayed in certain fonts

There’s also apparently some weird combos like Compose+:) for ☺ and Compose+CCCP for ☭, but no easily available keys for greek letters unless you tweak configs…