Isn’t VirtualBox an Oracle property now? Fuck VirtualBox.

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Good for him. Also, I bet Trump appreciates being recognized for his entire body of work, not just the presidency.

Lol! I’m glad you picked on that. I won’t badmouth them, but the user experience does that for them. That guy from the party must hate himself, haha

I was at a party about fifteen years ago. A guy introduced himself and we gabbed for a few minutes. Then he asked what I do for work (IT sysadmin at the time) and I told him and asked the same. He said he was in sales for a tech company. I asked which one, and he stepped close and whispered, “Oracle.” I could see he was prepared for me to bring the hate. He saved himself when he told me he was actually leaving for a gig at Dell. Later, I learned from the host that he made that part about leaving up because he felt bad. I later learned he went to work for Nutanix. Poor guy hated his own employer, and it was obvious.

This. Try not to get hot and bothered from a kiss. I fail this test every time.

Be like, “I’ll just do this quick thing – oh wait! Suddenly I’m breathing harder. Oh! Their hands are all over me now. IT’S ON!”

You might be looking at the ping in-game, which is only showing your ping to Epic servers from the GfN rig. Your round trip to the rig itself is a factor, as well as the latency to encode the frames before streaming to you.

Still, if its playable for you, that’s awesome.

Good catch. I don’t usually see SAS as /dev/sd* so I assumed. Almost the same cables, though *usually better made.

The lag makes GFN playable, but I’m only able to laugh and make call-outs to my team. it’s better than nothing, but it is very disappointing to press the emote key and hear it play on my wife’s (Windows) PC in the same room before I even hear it.

But in a pinch, GFN connects you with friends.

This is the only way. Use something like privacy.sexy or similar tools to remove all bloatware, phone home and auto update cruds.

Let’s say that you were able to find a way. Epic could then ban your son’s account for suspected cheating/hacking.

It’s not possible (I tried like you) to get further than the party selection screen. Matchmaking kills the game instantly. When I contacted Epic support, I was politely warned that their system would very likely classify my attempts to run on Linux as a bannable offense.

I second this. SATA cables are cheaply made and can present issues that seem to indicate drive failure.

Same. Burns my nose and feels gross, like leaving conditioner in my hair.

The stars saved us time and went straight to jail for sexual assault.

But even at 5$ a piece, and if 1/5 work decently with Linux, you are looking at like 45$ / working piece, or even more if someone is refurbing it

$25

($5*5)=$25

I’m not awake yet, but one of our maths is off. I’m only 45% sure it’s not mine.

You cannot for example just get rid of your US citizenship - you have to pay to get rid of it…

I wanted this to be false but I see that there is currently a minimum renunciation fee of $2,350. I assume there are likely other consulate fees that may bring it closer to $2,500 at the very least. What a scam.

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the one where Fry and Bender join the army for gum and get sent to fight balls

The Elders tell of a young ball much like you. She bounced three meters in the air. Then she bounced 1.8 meters in the air. Then she bounced four meters in the air. Do I make myself clear?

…Or to post on shower thoughts

In case you don’t want to give NYT clicks. https://archive.is/a4hDO

Sydney Charlet had no job, rent due on an Upper West Side apartment, and an idea.

She had just moved to New York from Los Angeles and brought her Tesla Model 3.

She learned quickly that a parking spot on the street was not guaranteed and that the city’s alternate-side street cleaning schedule, which usually sets aside a 90-minute window for the city to sweep each side of a street on a rotating schedule, does not make parking easy.

Drivers must either move their cars, sit in them and watch for the street sweeper, or face a $65 ticket.

Ms. Charlet, 29, turned her idea into a side gig and posted it on TikTok.

“I’ll sit in your car for the fraction of the price of a parking ticket,” Ms. Charlet said in a video, as she waved a business card calling herself “The Car Sitter.”

The video was reposted and in comments and replies, New Yorkers took the occasion to share their own parking tales and misadventures.

Even if you’re not hiring someone like Ms. Charlet, anyone who has tried to park on New York’s streets knows that even when a space isn’t pay-to-park, it still comes at a price.

In the early 2000s, Cynthia Russo, then a stay-at-home mother, would pile into her Toyota Tercel with her 1-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son to deal with alternate-side parking on the Upper East Side.

In those days, Ms. Russo’s schedule was built around avoiding a ticket she said she could not afford.

To make the time bearable, one of her two older neighbors would keep her company and they would pass the time baring their souls.

“I used to tell my husband it was like ‘car confessions,’” Ms. Russo said. “My kids were in the car the whole time — they were oblivious.”

The neighbors opened up to her, and it came naturally to Ms. Russo to listen, she said, but she never told them why: She had previously been a therapist.

Bash Halow, 60, a business adviser who lives in Chelsea, hit on an idea in a moment of desperation. If he sees an open spot on the opposite side of the street, he offers a person on the street $20 to hold it for him while he circles around.

One day, several years ago, that person was an older lady with a push cart.

“She unhesitatingly agreed,” Mr. Halow said. “Six minutes later, as I rounded the corner to grab the spot, I see this guy trying to park in the spot and the lady standing in the middle, not budging.”

The woman used an expletive to tell the man to get lost.

“I’m saving this spot for my friend,” Mr. Halow recalled her saying. “That’s what really touched me.”

He paid her at least $60 on the spot.

For others, great parking spots come easier but cost more than money.

Will Simon, 55, who lives in Park Slope, some years ago came upon what he called “a perfectly good parking spot.” The problem was that it was occupied by chunks of concrete from a hole that Con Ed had dug in the street.

He took a few minutes to move the concrete and scored the spot. But Mr. Simon said that he, in general, has never seen parking as a chore. He said that people who complain about parking bring the suffering upon themselves.

“You should have to earn your cars,” Mr. Simon said, adding that the city owes him and other drivers nothing. “I’m able to store a 5,000-pound hunk of metal on public property.”

For those who can, it may be easier to just ditch a car.

Stuart Campbell’s wife racked up parking tickets when she was a flight attendant living in Greenwich Village, he recalled.

“Eventually her car was impounded — an old Hyundai, which was not worth much,” Mr. Campbell said. “When she went to retrieve it, she discovered the fines and fees were higher than the value of the car, so she never picked it up.”

At 9:30 a.m. on a Thursday morning in August, Brian McBride, a sanitation worker, parked his street sweeper in Cobble Hill in Brooklyn. Alternate-side parking had just begun but he waited before moving his mechanical broom down the choked streets.

Anthony Saporito, a superintendent at the Sanitation Department, said drivers get a five-minute grace period after alternate-side parking rules begin before department workers start sweeping — and ticketing.

Mr. Saporito followed the sweeper in a Sanitation Department vehicle with a clipboard of blank tickets perched on the dashboard. He pointed out the two, then four, then dozens and dozens of vehicles that had failed to move.

“If that car wasn’t there, he could have just had a straight run,” Mr. Saporito said of Mr. McBride, who, though deftly handling the sweeper, could clean only so much of the curb around a single parked car. “But no, he had to cut out. He probably missed about 10 feet on the back of the car, and he probably missed 10 feet on the front of the car.”

Every parked vehicle, except one with a permit for people with disabilities, got a ticket. The road, littered with leaves even in the dead of summer, kept its dusty appearance compared with the gleaming, wet asphalt where the sweeper had just passed with its whirring brushes.

Mr. Saporito wrote tickets, printing foot-long slips from a machine attached to his hip before stuffing them under windshield wipers with a neon orange envelope. The Sanitation Department issued 515,582 alternate-side parking summonses in the 2025 fiscal year, which ended on June 30.

“A lot of people will say, ‘You know what? I’ll roll the dice and I’ll get a $65 fine once every couple of weeks rather than having to pay to put it in a lot,’” Mr. Saporito said.

In neighborhoods filled with longtime residents, people remain “rule followers,” Mr. Saporito said. It’s the newcomers who push the boundaries.

“Now, I can’t tell you how many times when I was a supervisor here, I’d pass this car and it would say: ‘If you need me to move it, here’s my phone number. Call me. I’ll come move it,’” Mr. Saporito recalled.

He pointed to the gold badge on his chest and said: “Does this say ‘Mom’? You want me to do your laundry, too?”

tl:dw?