The Iron Giant

I was wondering if anyone would mention it! By far one of the most influential animated films of my youth, might have even been the reason I continued to enjoy animation past my childhood.

It flopped in theaters because despite test audiences loving it, Warner Brothers dropped the ball on marketing and nobody even knew it was in theaters. But from what I heard it gained a massive cult following, and I remember it being shown every holiday season for years as a kid.

After all these years, the final “Superman” still gets me…

I’m so happy to see this reference, you have no idea!

But forks take effort… I kid, even I’m not that bad.

The weird thing is that directly visiting the same communities that I’m subscribed to on my feed which are hosted on other instances results in them loading up incredibly fast…

I thought I was the only one.

I studied computers down to the transistor level. I know many of the different cells in the immune cascade. I’ve researched child psychology.

But ask me to explain what a car’s transmission is and the only thing in my brain is dial-up tones…

Can something count as a shitpost when it’s so relatable?

This comment is highly underappreciated as a source of entertainment

zefrank fan confirmed

Great, now I gave to check for hidden cameras, this happened to me yesterday.

Genddy Tartakovsky’s Primal. The show is visceral and intense and forces you to acknowledge that you and anything around you can lose everything in the snap of fingers, for no real reason except “thats just how life is sometimes”. And it does this despite having no comprehensible dialog.

So I’ve done a Linux install on a 4GB Chromebook, with 16GB eMMC storage, and what I learned is that it really depends on what you use the machine for, and which distribution you run. If all you’re doing is word processing, managing emails, and browsing on YouTube, you can absolutely run Linux comfortably with 4GB, provided you pick one of the leaner Linux distros. For reference I ran Gallium OS, which was a Xubuntu flavor specifically tuned for lower end Chromebooks.

ETA: In comparison, I had a relative who bought a laptop off those TV sales networks that had a similar CPU RAM and storage setup, except running Windows 10…it ran slower than a snail, and one day it had a Windows update that was too large to fit on the combined RAM and page space. The poor woman couldn’t use the computer because the update forcibly ran in the background and consumed all her memory every time she turned it on. So yeah, you can’t game on Linux with only 4GB of memory, but I am confident that I can do a major OS update on it at least.

Finally an actual shitpost

Felt this in my chest…had a window of my life where things were so rough I was basically ordered by my therapist to take seek medical treatment for both, and even with treatment existing felt like a chore…couldn’t even will myself to look at memes when I woke up. Basically just laid in bed with my eyes closed for half the day for a while. Getting to the point where I could properly take care of myself again was very much a recovery process.

I was incredibly lucky that I had just started a new job when that happened and was full remote for the first few months, so a lot of that time was just supposed to be spent passively learning.

The ADHD/depression combo can be an insidiously detrimental co-morbidity, peeps. If there’s even a hint of that happening to you, ask for help. I had no clue that’s what was happening to me and was lucky that I was in therapy already when everything went down, because my doctor caught it right away.

Saxophone. But not always because it’s smooth. Because sometimes it ROCKS…

https://youtu.be/7QFNAtnUDJ8

…Or because it’s crazier than anything you’ve ever heard!

https://youtu.be/BARAHLk-8dk

Not really, we tend to have a “main street” where all the popular businesses are lined up, but otherwise a lot of towns are pretty car-centric.

Thanks, I try. ;)

No! You’re not allowed to have fun with AI!! AI bad!! sprays you with spray bottle /s

Personally I find AI use in silly, unserious scenarios like this perfectly fine. While I think that it’s a shame that there will be less of a culture of “spending a ton of time and effort just to create a silly meme in Paint for Internet Points™”, I think the point of memes is for people to express themselves informally in good fun, and how they choose to do that is up to them.

What I don’t like is when people try to use it to generate an entire art piece and then sell it at the Louvre as something they made from scratch, especially when they generate it to look like another artist’s work. That’s not “in good fun”; that’s fraud and theft at the same time.

I don’t hate the tool, I hate the people who misuse it.

Big words coming from the most hideous and deformed rabbits I’ve ever seen.

Understood, thank you!

Also thank you for your lovely write-ups on the weekly blog! They’re my primary source of news on the Raku language development, and something I look forward to each week.