Maybe I forgot about it. But I never normally just leave a window open on A.CC and just sit there.

It was on my laptop and out of the corner of my eye my brain is like "something moved on A.CC?!"

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Added CPU and load averages. Chart JS is pretty cool. The graph is interactive. You can click any of the datasets on the legend and it'll disable them.

I think I'm going to make a common interface so you basically just write a Python script that implements that (dead simple) interface and you can call whatever you want to get the actual statistics, and as long as you report them back using the standard interface, the main program doesn't care.

Zip Drives, dude!

It's the only one I've ever had apart from a brief interlude.

To be fair, you do that now

Cheers, all!

True, gotta practise for when I get older.

REE-sez. While you're down there, ask the folks of Louisiana the name of that winged insect that lights up at night as part of its mating ritual.

For a while, I thought it was going to systemd this thread. I'll go ahead and play the song.

Always called them "Fireflies" up north here in Canada.

And it's Ree-sez.

I think I must have been too young (or poor?) for those. They don't ring any bells. Manufacturing defects aside, they do sound pretty cool for their day.

Append:

Canada is a big place, similar to the USA, so we don't all speak the same. Accents on the West and East coast are more prominent (and different) than in the middle provinces (at least to me), and Quebec (and predominantly French communities in other provinces) can have a thick accent from their French-Canadian influences.

"about". On the east coast you will hear something more like "aboot" though in provinces like Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick.

Quebec is mostly French (well, when you get outside of Montreal anyhow). I don't think the west coast is much different as far as how they pronounce words compared to the rest of the nation. The main differences are Quebec and east of it and of course, in the Inuit communities to the far north.

Also, Quebec French is different from that you hear in France. It's the same difference between American and Canadian English and British English. My father is French and lives in southern Quebec. Very friendly people there.

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The following video is a news story about a black man who befriended KKK members and actually, over time, caused 25 of them to leave the KKK, and when they did, they gave him their robes. Amazing story about how you stop the hate with friendship, rather than more hate. This is a great man as far as I am concerned.

This is a link to a Facebook page video... well worth watching, especially with all the hate lately, this is inspiring.

https://www.facebook.com/cbnnews/videos/10159521469970393/

Hey, I'm somebody! I found an old HP Mini laptop in the trash today (don't ask why I was digging through the trash). It was beat-up pretty badly; the hinges were busted, the hard drive is totally obliterated, and there's no battery. I disassembled it and scrapped it for the working bits (keyboard, RAM, and the display). Not sure what I'll do with any of the parts just yet, but I'll add them to my collection of computer parts for now. I also found a super old hard drive from spring of 2000. Its capacity? Only 7.5 GBs (or so says the information on the back)! Not sure what (if anything) is on it yet. Not even sure if it works. I'll try reading it tomorrow.

I think you've mentioned your love for your new laptop a few times at least.

Laptop hard drives usually operate at around 5400 RPMs, so I'm surprised the hard drive would be the bottleneck. Any idea how low the RPMs is on it?

Also, what do you call those repair tools used to disassemble computers and phones? They're usually some kind of plastic and look nearly identical to guitar picks. Whatever they're called, I need to get some, because using a flat-head screwdriver just doesn't cut it anymore (too many little scratches).

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It's just a "prying tool" or "spudger", I guess.

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Are you a time traveler?