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it is new layout day for me! well, sort of. rework of my existing layout, now using a really nice bitmap TTF based on the VT220's character generator ROM and some CSS to simulate a few properties of the VT220 (such as the brighter intensity for bold and the slightly darker intensity for italic. and of course some different intensities of blur used as a sort of cheap CRT phosphor bleed simulation.

I am actually a bit miffed though because I'm not a web dev by any stretch but about 30 minutes of playing around with CSS resulted in a better looking VT220 simulation than any terminal I've found will do. good work w3c and browser layout engine programmers!

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rip

can you get like THC oil on its own and refill carts or are you stuck buying new ones like we have to up here? for dumb and bad reasons weed vape products have a significant additional tax in BC to like encourage retailers to not sell vapes to teenagers (who can’t legally buy weed or nicotine products anyways so it’s kinda moot)

I bought a tropic lemon cart the other day and it’s nice. super relaxing and I’m not getting quite as much munchies as usual though I’m rapidly approaching a dairy queen and may be in danger of proving that wrong

e: the wicked temptress that is dairy queen defeated me once again

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warning: long and probably nonsensical post about UX and solidarity ahead

I'm of the opinion that that's more of a "tech user annoyance" than an actual problem. Microsoft Edge is just Chromium with a Redmond skin on top of it and considering the nightmare that is actually getting normal people to not fuck up their browsers and computers, having a standards-compliant and relatively sandboxed browser is honestly a good thing.

That being said I also have spent the past six years dealing with the various blends of dipshittery that normal every day computer users have to deal with, and as a result I tend to look at operating system design as a holistic meta-system where you need to give the "power users" the tools they need while also making sure that Jim-Bob Q. Chunderfumble Jr. doesn't turn the PC he needs to use to scan delivery receipts in for 8 hours a day into a nonfunctional bitlockered and adware-packed mess, because while ol' JBQ is getting paid minimum wage to receive packages it's going to cost the big mighty capital three or four times that to go get some non-uniformed dick like myself out there to fix the problem, and it's going to take a few hours, and big mighty capital is going to look at that and wonder who they can fire to make up for it, it's going to be ol JBQ and his friends because big mighty capital hates the littlest of little guys more than anything else.

It may be the weed talking but I guess my point is that making the number one most used operating system on the planet idiotproof while leaving the power user tools available behind the curtain is a genuinely good thing because it makes it more difficult for human error to be used as an excuse for billionaires to ruin the lives of comrades yours and mine alike because the billionaires don't want to settle for having to give up the five hundred grand that would normally be spent on their winter Ferrari.

tl;dr when presented with a complex interface, the average person is likely to accidentally break things in unprecedented ways because the myriad switches have a lot of complex interdependencies (stay tuned for my talk about why programmers are horrible UX designers), and bad people will exploit this to ruin their lives, so condensing the user interface into more simple standard chunks is a good thing

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Click for big.

Currently on the turntable: a translucent red pressing of Colin James' eponymous debut album (1988). Absolutely phenomenal blues/rock album with some wonderfully soulful bluesy instrumentation and guitar work.

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I've finished up two weeks of overtime so tonight is a combination of high quality British Columbian cannabis and higher quality Irish Bushmills triple distilled whiskey and classic films

first up was Project 4K77, a re-scanned and restored theatrical print of 1977's Star Wars, one of the greatest films ever made. with 4K83 (Return of the Jedi) completed but 4K80 (The Empire Strikes Back) still in progress due to film damage I have moved on to MASH: A Film/Novel About Three Army Doctors. this is the film that is the direct predecessor to the eleven-season television show and it is an amazingly dark comedy about war, the draft, frontline medicine, and how to give exactly zero shits while saving lives

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i'm trying to get through the end of this cart and hooo boy the last dregs of oil are just all nasty and making me cough like I've been shoving two packs a day into my lungs with a jim beam chaser or six for 50 years

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yeah, time for the replacement



it comes in a hard plastic case with friggin' foam protecting the cart. I'm impressed with the build quality



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A traditional late 20th century Canadian comfort food is Kraft Dinner with an all beef hot dog or two cut up into rounds and mixed in. Use a good solid slab of butter when you mix in the cheese sauce packet to make it creamy without needing to add more than a splash of milk, then slice up the hot dogs while they're still fresh and hot being from being boiled and then mix them into the mac and cheese.

You have now experienced Canada.

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Effects of vapor exposure to Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in the Maine Lobster (Homarus americanus)

"what's your job"
"I hotbox lobster tanks"
"..."
"no, really, it's more humane that way"

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