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Cake day: May 29th, 2024

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  • only the feds can prosecute federal crimes, afaik. this administration won’t let that happen. any federal prosecutor that wants to take a shot is gonna get fired or pushed out a window the instant their intent becomes known.

    the dipshit would have to venture to a state with non-conflicting laws on the books, break them in some spectacular fashion, and that state would have to have an ag willing to go down that road and prosecute.





  • some cheap all-in-ones i’ve worked on have hdmi in and out.

    one of 'em i have here is an old atom celeron dell aio with 1600x900 native screen but on its hdmi input, it’ll run at 1920x1080. and yea, running that instead of its true native res sucks about as bad as you think it would–but it is still ‘usable’. the real sucky bit, though, is the pc has to be on in order to switch it to hdmi in.

    a lenovo aio that went through here a couple years ago had to be rebooted to switch it from hdmi input mode (acting as a standalone monitor) back to pc.






  • i just use repurposed PCs. cost (or lack of, rather) is the prime factor.

    the main playback ‘device’ is currently a 6th gen laptop that runs lid down (doesn’t support turbo boost, so heat isn’t an issue at all), and an old wireless kb/trackpad for a ‘remote’.

    storage is a hodgepodge of usb hdd, 2.5in hdd, and desktop systems. usually only one of which is being used (powered on) at a time.

    i just use a text dump out of ‘everything’ for my ‘catalog’ and have numerous vlc playlists saved. i looked into things like jellyfin but the work involved in normalizing directory structures and filenames would be nightmarish.




  • when i first started doing this years ago in the early versions of firefox, the back button was bigger than the rest.

    but i’ve long since gotten used to it. and i like it a lot better in the middle than way tf over on the left side. it’s closer to all the other stuff up there (such as the extension buttons, which i use frequently) and to the scroll bars–which are largely unneeded with scroll wheels or touch these days, but i didn’t have a wheely mouse way back when.

    the only thing that would take me up to the top left was the menu bar, but i don’t use that much anymore with the hamburger menu on the far right, so the menu bar is off (alt brings it back).

    re-enabling the separate search box is significant. suggestions (the ones that transmit keystrokes to the search engine) are disabled in the address bar, but not the search box.

    the button to bring-up the sidebar is logically placed–above where the sidebar appears.

    the bookmark toolbar, which is not visible here because it’s set to only show on ‘newtab’ has the bookmark menu icon on its far left before the bookmarks themselves, and the ‘most visited’ smart boomkark is re-enabled up there too.