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and if I don't do this, I can't work on the project I wanted to...

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computer conundrum 

I need an extra 200GB of space to be able to backup stuff to move back to nixos

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computers are bad 

...there isn't enough space on my backup thing for my home folder

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computers are bad 

sabayon fucking sucks, and I'm sick of it...

I'm going to grab a USB and switch back to nixos, because I've had enough of this

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computers are bad 

cabal: "you can't install this library you need for your project because you don't have the openGL library for C"

me: *checks the package manager*

*the openGL library for C is installed*

me: ... fuck

Today's animal is! Hespiornis. an early, and wholly flightless, bird highly adapted to a diving, similar to a loon. It had teeth towards the back of its mouth like many early birds. If, like loons, the ankle of the bird is embedded in the body wall than the animal could not have walked, and would have locomoted on land like a Phocid seal.

Artist is the wonderful john conway. johnconway.co/hesperornis-rega

what the heck... a file that I spent a lot of time working on a few months ago doesn't exist anywhere anymore...

I'm setting up a strawman by implying that any reasonable person might hold this view, but if you think that character encodings aren't political theguardian.com/technology/201 (repeated from last boost)

@DialMforMara these are all the vowels, excepting the special character ŷ which represents the sounds /jʉ:/ (as in the start of "union")

"We're pirates of the seven seas!"
"Which ones?"
"Uh, Mediterranean, Caribbean, the Dead Sea, the South China Sea (but not the North), Hudson Bay, the Sea of Tranquility, and the Holy See."

"...."

"Look, we get around, okay?"

(there are a couple of other shorthands used in the pages, because these are lecture notes, but should give you a good impression)

(ðer r a kypl o yþy ʃøthands ŷzd in ð pàjez, bìkoz ðìz r lekcy nöts, būt ʃūd giv ŷ a gûd impreʃn)

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2 (unrelated) pages written in my phonetic writing system for English

tû (ynrelàtd) pàjez riten in mii fönetik riitiŋ sistym fø iŋgliʃ

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