everything is possible in excel… someone wrote a DOOM clone in excel.

I once worked at a company where someone hacked together a PO generating tool in excel 10 years prior and it just kind of stuck around even though the company grew into a billion dollar market cap public company

Calling parents who can afford to help their kids out as the new “aristocrat” class is a bit of a stretch.

I got a huge help with my down payment from my parents. But they are by no means “landed” wealthy class people. Years later they barely had enough to retire and i’m trying to help them where i can.

Dont let the 0.1% distract you by shifting blame to other working class people. Yes, people who got big help from their parents, but we’re not old money.

There are gonna be lots of applicants from the Intelligence Institute of Texas…

“I had the best water quality results in history, i really did… They were tremendous!”

Just get rid of the regulations. Now 0% of the water has failed testing! 100% safe!

The flip side of the headline: “How society is grappling with older drivers refusing to hang up their keys”

Probably not what you want to hear, but I think exiftool + bash script really is the way to go. A few years ago I had a similar need and searched for hours online… I ended up hacking together a “good enough” bash script that reads all the dates of my pictures and does some stuff. It took 30 mins of reading some basic bash scripting basics. Way less time than searching for a tool that probably doesnt exist.

In 2024, you can probably just ask chatgpt to write a quick and dirty bash script for you and it might require another 10mins of debugging/begging chatgpt to fix its mistakes

Europe is not designed for oversized cars.

Too many drivers are selfish morons and will manage to cram their oversized vehicles into any space without consideration for the safety of anyone outside their own bubble. Doesnt matter if the city was “designed” for it or not.

I was just in Bellagio Italy last week. For some reason, cars are allowed to drive through the medieval city center through extremely narrow roads packed with pedestrians… Which is OK if you’re driving a fiat 500… But this oversized jeep cherokee drive right through town, with barely any space for pedestrians to move aside. I’m not sure if it was a lost tourist or a local resident, but drivers should not be trusted to pilot such a vehicle through crowds with so little margin for error.

Not excusing the behaviour but I’d bet it’s the amount of traffic people often sit through directly contribute to

You’re not stuck in traffic… You are the traffic

Where’s dave chappelle in all of this? Isnt this in his backyard? Isnt he a trump supporter now?

Doesnt mean it’s dead. Some projects are in maintenance mode

How many new features does a bible need???

AndBible updated 2 months ago for me on f-droid

The github doesnt look dead to me

Yes. Mounted network drives.

I think a lot of the shutdown hang problems went away when i switched to systemd automount

I’ve bought and paid for every civ game since civ3…

I even paid for civ4 twice. Boxed CD and on steam… And now you’re going to treat me like a criminal with shitty DRM??? Welp, i guess i’m not buying Civ7, Sid…

No more turns…

I assume moderating the reviews would be a significant challenge for the project.

Are google maps reviews even moderated? I’ve found them to be complete trash for years now

Just bots and influencers giving 5 or 1 star reviews for everything

It’s 2024… Please fix the AI…

Biggest weakness in every civ game is the shitty AI that requires massive cheating, and terrible diplomacy (constantly making ridiculous demands, then getting mad and denouncing you if you dont hand over the goods)

If you asked an alien who had never seen a car before, “design a vehicle that carries one single human for 90% of the trips and sits idle 90% of the day”, they would never in a million years come up with something as hideously oversized and wasteful as a modern car…

I know lemmy has a gigantic hate boner for LLMs, but if you plugged this scenario into a good one (probably not the bog standard “free” chatgpt in bing) you’ll probably get a very entertaining conversation.

My bank used to complain that my browser was out of date. I wrote an email to customer service explaining to them that:

A) debian’s “out of date” browser actually includes all up to date security patches. B) simply reading the browser agent isnt really security. I had simply been spoofing my browser agent to get around their silly browser “security” policy

They removed the browser check 2 weeks later. Not sure if it was because of me

If buying isnt owning then piracy isnt stealing