👍Maximum Derek👍

I have an external DVD-RW on a shelf just in case. Every once in a while I need to bring it out and I wonder if a giant boulder is going to start rolling at me when I grab it.

Good to know. Thanks for the breakdown.

Our nearest Pizza Hut delivers via Doordash whether you order direct or through DD, but if you order direct its 30% cheaper. I’m not sure who’s eating the markup.

I recognized the name AU10TIX, because I half-joked on Lemmy about a potential mass doxxing of Xitter’s most vile users back in September when they announced the partnership. I assumed they’d be a target for ransomware/hackers, not that they’d just leave their admin creds out in the open.

If memory serves, 2010 ignited Jupiter by crashing Saturn into it. But you’d actually need about 250 Saturns (or 85 Jupiters) worth of hydrogen to get the job done. A lot of the moons would be within that new super gas giant’s roche limit even before fusion began.

The real commitment is when somebody like Plainly Difficult uploads an annual omnibus of all their videos for the year. I watched them all individually, then I watch them again in 9 hour form.

The US has a fantastic credit score. Being the world’s reserve currency helps.

Clearly that’s what blu-tack is for.

All those letMeGoogleThat links from the 00s have turned into Rick Rolls (figuratively speaking).

“Secure that SSD in a bay and get the faceplate off my butterfly, you monster!” -Buster

I’m taking note of that that combo feather teaser / ball track / butterfly toy. I think my big orange boy would lose his mind over that.

Just say your profanities aloud and don’t let them make it to version control.

In the first major software system I designed and helped build I was a little too open in my comments. For years after that software had entered sunset I’d still get Slack pings along the lines of: “This looks like a Maximum Derek comment: …” They were all diatribes about whatever was giving me grief when I was writing the code and they would all look perfectly at home in the script for 48 Hours (minus the racial or sexuality slurs).

In my defense we were working with PHP 5.3 at the time.

If you can wear sleep headphones the Sleep app for android will send it’s alarm to headphones. And it will ramp up the volume of the alarm over time. I imagine there’s something similar on iOS. I wear SleepPhones… they’re fine.

I particularly like how the Threadiverse dev’s and server hosts don’t count our posts and the work of mods as their value.

The onion is accusing Gen Z of being inhuman monsters now?

Fear of this is why I’ve never relied on free tiers unless there’s some kind of spend circuit breaker available.

I also did it at that time. I was afraid it was going to be an inconvenience, but its only come up twice in all that time.

For people considering it, you can request a short-term thaw any time you know you’re going to be doing something that requires a credit check. That way it gets refrozen without the chance of me forgetting to do so.

Dave Davies of The Kinks changed rock music with a razor blade. Distortion pedals existed but they couldn’t provide the same kind of fuss sound that we hear in “You Really Got Me”… but a year later they could.

Oxygen Not Included and Baldur’s Gate 3 for the 1 month out of the year I take a break from ONI.

The world will never know how close it came to ending, the day of the… Geranium Incident!

my pinkies havent been on speaking terms with the rest of my hand since the geranium incident. they refuse to do the work.