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Happy Friday everyone. Hope your weekends are good and you all get the rest you deserve.

Jim boosted

"Stop using the same goddamn password everywhere!"

Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, 1972

Campus is at it's quietest in June. Although this ostensibly suits my grumpy introverted nature, I much prefer it when all the kids are about.

@bosak Wow. I remember reading about those split rims and how dangerous they were.

@Flick Blimey. Can you get a wrist support for it?

By this mentality, the entire shorts market would not exist. Investments go down as well as up. They even say that in the ads.

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There is actually a movie about how the banks got cleaned out (along with the rest of the world). Internet investors are such fools.

@jerry I can hear this in one of those fake drop-shipper YouTube ad story voices.

"This ransomware hacker used to work for big ransomware, but he discovered a way to sell ransomware for low prices. Now the ransomware industry wants to ban this"

It's only about 80F here but it's that horrific sort of humid where it feels like stepping into a sauna when the front door is opened.

@ownohmanny@mastodon.ie I don't know why it's so much in Europe. It's just over 1K here.

So you could actually - if a home user - save yourself a pretty penny by ordering with Windows and doing what you want with it once you get it.

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Looking at the Dell configurator for the XPS 13; they're being sneaky with the OS loadout. Time was Linux was free (for obvious reasons) now they are offering a ~$100-$150 dollar incentive to ship it with windows. dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-lapto

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