Heeee’s got the Tome of Whisperrrs!

No clue about specific deals but I’ll share a site that I found thanks to Lemmy that had some good deals when I upgraded to an 18tb HDD for $180 USD.

https://serverpartdeals.com/

It’s four wheel drive not four wheel stop.

I load and run two large fiber lasers cutting sheets of metal up to 1 1/4 inch thick.

They said 24 hours not 80, lol.

Painting was behind glass, the point is that in a climate change hellscape all this precious art is in danger. If all the people who read about a painting they’ve never heard of before get angry about “paint being thrown at it” they’ll really hate what’ll happen with extreme weather in a climate disaster.

No, we have rules on fair use and derivative works. Sometimes they fall on one side, sometimes another.

Yes! I knew it had to be mustard, didn’t think to check his nebula thank you!

This was a project by the soviets in the 80s as well. I know there is a well produced YouTube video on the subject, but sadly it must be named something incomprehensible like “the forgotten Russian project to turn night into day.” Because I can’t fucking find it.

Here’s a Smithsonian article instead. here

The gobbo was konsi.

Found the website: https://comicpress.socksandpuppets.com/character/konsi/

I have the ability to listen to whatever I want at work so I hardly ever fail to finish a book unless it’s really not pulling me in.

I wouldn’t go so far as to say it was nowhere near as good as the first two but it certainly was different and not in a way I found interesting. A bit slow to get to the point I guess is how I would say it.

Made me think about sentience more than the first two, though I don’t know if it alone provided enough info to really do anything beyond those initial moments of “huh, I guess that could be the case.”

I believe story graph either has or will have that feature. Or there could be monthly posts on books about it, should someone interested in running it show up.

Wouldn’t be a bad idea to have a bookclub on the fediverse really.

Added. https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/ricoberto

Got an 18tb from serverpartdeals for 160 I think.

If we are accepting non-dinosaur but ancient creatures, my favorite is the anomalocaris :) it’s just a goofy lil guy with a mouth snoot. Plus, they never say no to a snack. (They’re at the end.)

As for what features work, it depends on your model. Here is a breakdown showing all models and features. TL;DR the only thing that doesnt work for my model is the built in webcam as it is some proprietary chip or whatever. All other features work fine, typing cover pen and depending on the app the pen is recognized as having two different ends like for an eraser. I’m not much of an artist myself but I have messed around with Krita for doodling and Rnote for notes. I happen to be using Nobara as thats what ive got on my desktop and it has the linux surface changes built in. But you can poke around the surfacelinux subreddit (icky R site I know) to see what they use. OH, and last thing is that some linux distros just WOULD NOT install for me, i cant recall the details but it was a known issue at the bios level that kept me from installing Aurora. Keep that in mind if you go through with it and it refuses to boot and install lol. Feel free to ask more questions btw. :)

Running Linux on a surface pro 7+. Going fine. Google Linux-Surface. Note: some distros will have these changes builtin.

You won’t even have to ask if they use Linux, they’ll tell you.

Nobara btw.

YAMS.

https://yams.media/

Not perfect, but if you just want the ding dang thing to start so you can see what a working setup looks like, then bam. Use yams.

My lemmy app decided to not show me this reply, but that is already something I was thinking about but hadn’t looked into where to start. It looks like that will actually be perfect to just install and go so thank you!