Snailshock is pool, but with snails, with dice for extra moves, and cards to mess with them.

Is that better?

(I also don’t know why only the nouns were capitalized.)

😂

What’s “rapo”?

Wel I’ll be!

WikiDiff says it’s simply misspelled, and quotes very old examples of “farewell”.

https://wikidiff.com/farewel/farewell

Fucking kittens don’t know shit.

“The best defense against an unhinged world is a good party with an unhinged leader.”

• Republicans, probably.

There’s an edit icon next to the comment so you have that going for you.

They think it’s AI generated.

It’s Candy Mountain, Charlie.

They can hire me for $1M to write some basic code that gives stock answers when someone says “Thank you”, instead of running it through the LLM. Think of the savings!

I’m worth the $1M because I’m clearly the only person to have ever thought of this. /s.

KeePassDX. I don’t see a reason to change.

On Android? I think that one’s PC only.

Fusion 360 is fantastic. It’s free for non-commercisl use. I’ve been using it for years and have zero complaints. It’s polished and powerful.

People complaining about it for ideological reasons have a point, but I disagree that it’s in some sort of “enshitification spiral”. It’s exactly as usable as it was 5 years ago. There are very few features locked behind a paywall, and they aren’t important to the average maker.

You can even use Fusion to run a CNC router. For free! With all the polish of commercial software.

Everyone I know at my local makerspace uses Fusion. I don’t know a single person who uses FreeCAD. A couple people use TinkerCAD. There’s a very large community of Fusion users and getting help is easy.

I am 100% in favor of FOSS. Give FreeCAD a try. I used it years ago because it had a plugin to make convolute gears with a couple of clicks. But don’t shy away from Fusion just because of all of the haters on here. Give it a try yourself. I think you’ll be impressed by what you get for free.

Eh. I go where my people are. Hard to break the network effect.

He’s 7.

So easy a 7 year old can do it!

Fun fact: People abbreviate it “heli” or “copter”, when in fact the two parts of the word are “helico” and “pter”. (Think: helical or pterodactyl)

Try pronouncing it helico-pter, and pronounce the P and make it rhyme with “tare” as in pterodactyl. You’ll sound like you have a French accent, or something.

Back in the day, your ISP would have a Usenet server. Maybe they still do. I haven’t looked into it in a very long time. It would be something like nntp://news.timewarner.com, and you would add that to your email client of all things, because newsgroups were glorified email lists. Your email address was your identity, and you sent messages to groups. The protocol was different, but you were basically sending emails. Then your message would be shared to news servers all over the world. A giant peer-to-peer network. It worked a lot like Lemmy, sort of. Not really.

If ISPs do host news servers nowadays, it’s going to be censored and definitely won’t be hosting petabytes of binary files. If they host binary files at all, they won’t be particularly fast to download, and will probably be limited to images and such.

A modern usenet provider costs money per month because they host all of those files, with very long retention times. Years and years. Plus they have insane download speeds. Do you have gigabit fiber at home? Cool! Enjoy downloading these files with a full speed direct download. That’s what the provider gives you. Access to the “real” Usenet, for a long time, with excellent download speeds. This costs real money, so you pay for this service per month. Providers have different tiers of service, too, with various limits. It’s like picking a phone plan.

Second, you need an indexer. A different website that tells you where the files are. Otherwise, good luck finding them. Imagine trying to find a specific meme on Lemmy by just browsing all the meme communities and scrolling and scrolling. The indexer is a search engine for these files, neatly organized categories. Indexer websites cost a one-time small fee per year.

You download “nzb” files from the indexer. Those small files contain a long list of all the files to go download. You see, every binary file available for download is split into dozens of small RAR files, or some other format. So, thing.rar, thing.r00, thing.r01 thing.r02, etc. The nzb file contains metadata for the download plus a link to each of those files in whatever newsgroup they are in. I imagine whole seasons of individual episodes can be stuffed into a single nzb file, too, but I’m just guessing.

You use bespoke software to manage the downloading and rebuilding of all of those pieces. An nzb file will open in this program to manage the download. There are FOSS ones available, I’m sure, but also paid ones, and even ones for phones.

(If I got parts of this wrong, please forgive me. I have never used any of these things. Well except for newsgroups way back in the 90s.)

Soon™

I buy e-bikes with money. How is that going to change?

Turns out that’s not even the title of the article.

I Rode the New Specialized Levo 4 and Here’s Why I Think It’s Gonna Change the Way We Think About E-Bikes Forever