settings? vaat?.. you vaant settings? Vic..? He make 'em plenty settings. Oy !

@puzzles 🧩 my wallet. (also sometimes called 'thick rubber band')

Now I know we are screwed by AI. WriterWrobot™️: "Alright, now this is a comedic challenge I can get behind. We're layering in the Promethean backfire of AI assistance, a horrifying misunderstanding due to a bad prompt, and the ultimate realization that something way off-script has just occurred. Here's how it plays out: . . . So I go in for a colonoscopy. No big deal, right? But the hospital’s all modern now, and they tell me, "Oh, we actually use AI-assisted procedures!" I’m like, "Oh great, a robot’s gonna know me better than my own wife." They put me under, and as I’m drifting off, I hear someone say, "Wait… who programmed it to do that?" Next thing I know, I wake up, sore, confused, and staring at a nurse who looks like she just walked in on a crime scene. I groggily ask, "Did… did everything go okay?" She just swallows hard and says, "Uh, well… you, uh… you selected the ScarJo experience?" I blink. "What?" That’s when the doctor bursts in, shaking his head and muttering, "Rectum? Damn near killed 'em." Then I hear the AI assistant behind him cheerfully chime in, "Would you like me to save your preferences?"

@Noshole The aforesaid doppelganger was perhaps spotted in this clip wherein David Lynch mentions Kubrick's 'Lolita'. (also, don't forget the 'Barbie's Friend'-franchise. It/they could literally/figuratively go to the moon!)

speaking of crickets, there's something appealing about learning about 'cricket', upon cornychat. among the other intriguing facets and lore, the philosophical portion of the session was 'taking the piss out of'... false dialectic of 'offense' vs 'defense'. Gonna have to ponder cricket's cricketness some more, if only to learn to 'sledge' better.

testing the new feature that posts from corneychat!

Sure, sliced bread is great when toasted. But when you're entirely off-grid, there are a few more components required before toasting can commence. I say off-grid. Actually, I now have a pretty smart glass-fiber line that does pretty smart internet things, given the right configuration. That, and a bunch of other stuff (clean clothes anyone?) happen with these, my current (anyone?) seven special components, sort of from the bottom: Battery charger and its magic box that auto-switches if'n I need charging (I don't.) Mid-left: car-type DC fuse protection thingie. Top: charge-controller by Epever that just works (as opposed to crappy ones that break). It connects to a couple of 400w solar panels and the lithium battery and does nifty stuff (including feeds to my 24v DC frig. [which in turn feeds me]). To the right is a 24v lithium battery that is expensive and requires some config. fiddling – but after that, relieves one of the maintenance and more primitive aspects of lead-acid batteries (reckoned to charge on for 10 years+ to boot). The little heat-sink-looking thing next to it, is where I step down the batt's 24v to 12v to power a water pump, some now widely available DC light bulbs that are 4w for good light, as well as my fiber-optic-box-thingie (tech term), and a mobile travel router. Both of these use negligible amounts of electricity (and yet, they much desire a stable 12v which the lithium battery and transformer deliver admirably). Anyhoo, fellow web developer Vic kindly inquired about if I document this version of the development rabbit-hole, which I don't, so here it is. It's really quite similar to the sometimes rewarding, always challenging, world of troubleshooting and deploying software (read: you learn to cultivate patience). And when it works, you get to eat toast and shower and post to nostr and stuff.