Mastodawn

If I was feeling extra spicy, I'd say that £-for-£ we probably get more educational benefit of it sitting on a server being used by all of two people in an obscure CS module than we do having a Vice Chancellor.

Schrödinger's Prat 8h ago

Got an email from a business analyst about my use of some open source software we have. Now, I don't use it. It's kinda rubbish (it's "very open-source-brackets-derogatory").

But, also, it's FOSS. There'll be a server cost to hosting it, sure, but I struggle to believe that this cost is anything but a rounding error on the heinous quantities of money undoubtedly being thrown at AI. And if the licence for the proprietary equivalent was yanked, I'd rather have it as an option even if it is shit.

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Schrödinger's Prat 11h ago

Back in't day, when I was opening a 300 page thesis with something like 100 ChemDraw objects in it, on a netbook of all things, I addressed this problem by filling a document wallet with dry ice and putting it underneath.

This probably contributed to it fully will-not-even-power-on dying a year or so later.

Schrödinger's Prat 11h ago

Rendering some 4K videos while also trying to upload the completed ones, and Clippy just popped up to say "It looks like you're trying to turn this laptop into a frying pan. Would you also like me to launch Chrome to finish the job?"

Schrödinger's Prat 1d ago

Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫1d ago

We have the ampersand, &, as a short form for the conjunction "and".

I think we need an ampersbut as a short form for "but".

I propose the Tamil number 10 character, ௰ , because it looks like a butt. Lowercase omega, ω, would also do.

Schrödinger's Prat 2d ago

I'm not tech support, but I do have a key to the Cave of Wonders. So I got in early, set some people up with a better monitor, microphone and some camera options so 8 people didn't have to crowd around a laptop for a Teams interview...... and the interviewee didn't, in fact, turn up.

👍👍

Schrödinger's Prat 4d ago

The sun is shining, kids are running around the park, someone has their window open blasting summery music in the background...... If movies have taught me nothing else, something very, very, very bad is about to happen.

Schrödinger's Prat 5d ago

Attack on Titan is just The BFG for weebs send toot

Schrödinger's Prat 5d ago

Stevan 5d ago

Email from VPS provider: "...the global memory shortage has been driving up hardware costs across the entire hosting industry. RAM and SSDs are more expensive than ever, as AI corporations are consuming a large portion of production capacity... we must pass on parts of these increased costs."
That's bad enough, but they've paid for literally the world's supply of memory and disk with money that does not actually exist, while we have to pay for what we already have with money that does exist.

Schrödinger's Prat 5d ago

Every night before he goes to bed, Chuck Norris checks under his bed for gay marriage.

Chuck Norris does pushups until failure... to stop gay marriage.

Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer, thankfully the only thing that makes him cry is a gay marriage.

There is no chin behind Chuck Norris' beard, just the quivering fear of gay marriage.