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decimation: one wonders about
the
touchscreen drivers
too
decimation: with a reasonable and open bus, it would be simple
to plug in an fpga card if one wanted
to use
decimation: and
they are still 'fundraising' as far as I can
tell
decimation: it appears
to me
they have been 'prototyping' for about a year
decimation: well, I would give novena a hell of alot more credit if
they actually shipped
decimation: I just want
the spec and docs (with
talmud of errata)
decimation: it pisses me off
that one cannot buy a 100% nda free x86 system
decimation: they probably hired some
taiwanese code monkeys
to write drivers with
the nda'ed full docs
decimation: asciilifeform: only google knows
the right bits
to flip I guess
decimation: I've been
tagged with supporting a 'palo alto' vpn
turd box. I'm pretty sure it's bsd
decimation: but in
the case it wouldn't openbsd anymore
undata: shovel out shiny
thing covered in ads and spyware
undata: that's
their move; buy
things
that can be bought, snatch
the free stuff
undata: asciilifeform: perhaps,
though restarting it without jiggling anything always works
undata: yet
there are no bad blocks
to be found
undata: I'm pretty sure
this one has a hardware issue; / remounts read-only sporadically
undata: the
thinkpad brand is dead
undata: asciilifeform: nah,
that would give you a kernel config for gentoo proper
undata: asciilifeform:
tried doing a localyesconfig on
the Chrome OS?
mats: asciilifeform: seen
the latest on 'Ubuntu Core'? piles on piles of shit.
mats: mircea_popescu: cool. i appreciate your patience, still working on picking up latin and romanian. and maintaining
the other languages bouncing around in my head.
mircea_popescu: jesus
the fruits in
this country, i can't get over it.
mats: whatever
the dudes
talk about, i suppose.
ben_vulpes: what i really want is
to listen
to strong female characters
talking about...what
to strong female characters
talk about?
mats: ;;google Bechdel
test
mats: their characters are shallow, and apparently don't pass
the Bechdel
test.
mats: they do alright, generally, but chicks i
talk
to about it aren't happy with how women are portrayed in
the show
mats: the last episode was
terrible.
they should've avoided all commentary about feminazis in
the media
undata: mats:
the newsroom is a good show
mats: i lost
the battle in giving up
TV. i haven't picked up anything new
though, so
thats a win, i guess
mats: if you enjoyed Ghost in
the Shell, you'll probably like Psycho Pass.
mats: things i do watch: Homeland,
The Newsroom, New Girl, Sons of Anarchy, Psycho Pass
BingoBoingo: The UFC sucks because
the matchups aren't competative.
mats: meh. i don't watch sports on
television.
undata: at least
the UFC has very little pretense about
that
undata: BingoBoingo: mats: or just accept
that what we're doing is watching people fuck each other up
undata: ah Orwell already
treated it as "war is peace"
undata: I need a word for
this. It's such a common Americanism.
BingoBoingo: Prolly, or go back
to
the doofy leather
things
BingoBoingo: Even
though
the players aren't allowed
to do
that anymore because it is "Targeting" and justifies suspending
the SEC sacks leader mid game so Alabama won't have
to suffer
the possibility of a close game.
undata: BingoBoingo: heh,
they even use
that animation of
the
two helmets colliding
undata: probably not a profession
that selects for intelligence
to begin with, and it runs a high risk of frontal lobe injury
BingoBoingo: Yeah,
they get
that access
to so much money so fast
mats: > Sports Illustrated estimated in 2009
that 78 percent of NFL players are bankrupt or facing serious financial stress within
two years of ending
their playing careers and
that 60percent of NBA players are broke within five years of retiring from
the game.
mats: yeah, what is it, like
two in
three NFL players end up broke after leaving
the league?
mats: yeah, and joining
the military.
BingoBoingo also might have suggested
the derps were racist for hating
the football
team because it is one of
the most prominent means by which young african americans can achieve upwards social mobility
BingoBoingo may have called out fellow students for hating on
the Football
team, by suggested
they we hating
the way
those young men expressed
their gender...
BingoBoingo: Because when
they are in
the majority
the social justic derps oppress, just less competently
BingoBoingo: Well,
the university
training wasn't much other
than social justice derping as a minority.
BingoBoingo: Well, I'm already a university
trained librarian.
The rest is just getting a vague idea of what
the law shit means
mircea_popescu: the more interesting
tyhing is
that BingoBoingo is practically becoming a field-trained paralegal.
undata: looks like I made
the right choice