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1·3 days agoOkay, thanks!
Who is the original artist?
Now this is much better than getting ads in your Start Menu.
1·19 days agoJames Howells. Quite a sad story. For those unaware, I’ll give you the short version:
In 2013, Howells mined close to 8,000 BTC and saved his private keys (which is like a password to get access to your BTC) to his laptop’s hard drive. Months later he absent-mindedly throws it in the trash. Next morning he realizes what he’s done and tries going to the local garbage dump to search for it. He grew obsessed with finding the hard drive. It got to the point where his wife left him and took the kids with her. To this day he’s still trying to get his local government to give him permission to dig through the city’s garbage dump.
Semi-rant
His plan to retrieve his lost crypto was doomed from the start. When the garbage truck came to pick up his garbage, it had its own trash compactor inside, which would have crushed the hard drive to bits, meaning the hard drive most likely died before it even got to the landfill. And even if the HDD wasn’t destroyed, the data on it would have likely been corrupted after sitting in garbage for 10+ years. And even if they managed to recover the data, if he tried to sell any of his BTC it would crash the market. He should have just cut his losses from the beginning and spent more time with his wife and kids. Now, this fool’s errand to retrieve the (likely-dead) hard drive will be his legacy.
163·20 days agoAnd if they ever run out of Toy Story characters, the Marvel universe has thousands of other characters…
Not to mention other Pixar film characters.
My condolences, that must sting.
Out of curiosity, what was the name of the company?
You may not have gotten rich, but at least you can say on your resume that your technique is in every decent CDN + compression tool!
Honestly I’m not sure why they discontinued Mint KDE Edition.
I’m so disgusted. This is just wrong, no matter how you try to justify it.
Because how are people supposed to enjoy the movie in that horrible CAM quality? At least wait for the WEB-DL.
Question: If I had money saved in a 401k or Roth IRA, what if I died before I retired? What would happen to the money? Would it go back to the government or to a close relative?
Text-based forums are probably not appealing to most of them
That’s a good point.
Right now, Lemmy seems very tech-focused - which is understandable, as it’s mostly tech geeks that use this platform. I’d like to see a wider variety of interests here, more things outside of technology/Linux/Star Trek/etc.
If we want Lemmy to become more popular, we need to appeal to the mainstream Internet users.
The original title was “South Park: All Hell Breaks Loose”, but the MPAA wasn’t comfortable releasing a movie with the word “hell” in it. So they renamed it as a subtle penis joke.
“Can you hack my ex-girlfriends Instagram?”
Or, “I have an amazing idea for an app…”
- South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
- The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)
Krusty: So he’s proactive, huh?
Network Executive Lady: Oh, God, yes. We’re talking about a totally outrageous paradigm.
Writer: Excuse me, but “proactive” and “paradigm”? Aren’t these just buzzwords that dumb people use to sound important? Not that I’m accusing you of anything like that… [pause] …I’m fired, aren’t I?
Roger Meyers, Jr.: Oh, yes. [gets up to leave] The rest of you writers start thinking up a name for this funky dog - I don’t know, something along the lines of, say, “Poochie”, only more proactive!
Krusty: Yeah!
— The Simpsons S08E14 “The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show”