(nice pivot, but I gotta go with what I know!)

The omega you want to be:

The omega you are:

(oh sorry, but) I’ve heard this argument before. All I can say is that in my experience, when the system is out of memory, it kills some process (e.g. the UI) which upon restarting resets the networking

If you are who I think you are, we’ve probably had this discussion before. Even with an always on VPN, if the system runs out of memory it will kill the VPN first before the browser. In a perfect world the traffic would still be routed into a dead tunnel. From what I’ve seen, once the VPN is killed, the tunnel device is gone and the default route snaps back to wlan

Then you can exclude the VPN app from OOM.

I didn’t know about this feature. what’s the config?

Also, if you have a limited RAM smartphone and your VPN is operating in userspace, then all it takes is for one really large image to grace your smartphone screen for your OS to go into out-of-memory kill mode. What’s it going to kill? The foreground app you’re trying to use, or the background VPN app.

In my experience, the VPN goes down before the browser does. Mounting a swap on your phone is not the worse solution against this, but the UI starts to get really unresponsive.

I was homeless in Brussels once. Someone stole my backpack with my passport in it, and just like that I was stateless. It was over a weekend, and the embassy to my home country was closed and wouldn’t open until Monday.

No food, no money, no water, I had nothing to do. I walked all over that city, really got to see every interesting corner of it. It’s like 5 different countries smushed into one, and you can see french/german/british influence almost everywhere. There’s an overpass that cuts right through it at one point, occupying nothing underneath and that’s where the migrants gather on Saturday mornings to host their wares in this long unyielding impromptu market.

I slept in their parks, talked with their police (who didn’t believe my story), and even struck up a conversation with a random Canadian I met at the train station, who fitted the stereotype to a T, and gave me money so I could get by another day, asking for nothing in return.

When Monday rolled around, I took a nice leisurely stroll to the embassy and got an emergency visa, ready for the long bus trip home, and genuinely sadly bid farewell to that beautiful crazy mess of a city. It shares a special place in my heart, bureaucracy be damned.

I thought it was pushed away by the explosion and the trails were powder mixed with air coming off the tyres or something. Kill me?

As much energy to put a man, whole, in space

Oh yeah. I guess I was just sold by the tyre trails coming off the black car. It’s a nice touch.

Buzz Aldrin’s name backwards is: Nird Lazzub

Leonard Nimoy’s name backwards is: Yo, min! Dr. Ano El?

Benedict Cumberbatch’s name backward is: HG Wells, Cthulhu Balthazor

Holy shit I got this one:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhfvCiu8bEc

I’m trying to work out if it’s real or not. It’s from 2013, so I guess VFX wasn’t so great back then, but then… where? and when? and why?

Edit: I’ve been duped by mediocre graphics, don’t worry I’m writing my will as we speak.

You do not need some sort of vow of poverty to be a true leftist.

helps though

Not true.

(You’re on!)

The Omega you want to be:

The Omega you are:

The Omega you want to be

The Omega you actually are

Guys, can’t we all just get along. You’re upsetting the Gammas.

https://www.keshiheads.co.uk/

A fansite for Takeshi’s Castle

woah I love this. No navigation bar needed, you just zoom and scroll at will to whatever takes your interest

Pathetic motorways

https://pathetic.org.uk/

This look like a successor to RoadToNoWhere

https://web.archive.org/web/20071017115032/http://road-to-nowhere.co.uk/index.html

Doesn’t exist. I was also surprised that this was not NFC-related tech, but google/apple-specific.

I guess it makes sense - you need some kind of authority to validate/take blame for transactions (outside of the hot mess of block chain), I had just always presumed that the tech didn’t need much to work.