keepcarrot [she/her]

Read the instructions, but also sometimes windows defender or whatever helpfully deletes suspicious files that you need.

Unrelated program, but cracking solidworks required removing every trace of the student copy I had installed (well, registries and program files at least)

I hop on to TOR, but it’s pretty much the only thing I go onto TOR for. I got some soviet industrial manuals

I have to ration disk space and internet here is typically not amazing

Having no money and deciding that shouldn’t stand between me and media I wouldn’t pay for anyway. Also my local college’s DC++ network, where someone had about 20 TB back in 2006 (which was a bit of a culture shock after having been banned from watching most TV during childhood).

I remember I downloaded the FFG Rogue Trader in 2008, and it was just Twilight with the troll face watermarked on each page. That was a long road trip.

But also yes

I wonder if I can set up an image AI that only takes images from big company copyrights (with some weighting), also advertising

What if libraries served drinks. Or quiet pub. I’d be jazzed. That said, I wish libraries were more conducive as social spaces. I know they run events sometimes, but in general time I feel like people aren’t approachable

Now she is a queen, as dark and beautiful as the night

Doesn’t quite vibe with the post, but with the title: More industrial software and operators manuals and stuff. I’m honestly having a hell of a time finding them.

Haha my first thought

Thanks! My brief adventures into the TAFE library and my university’s library’s website searches were unsuccessful!

I’ll keep it in mind. It’s so weird how gated it is

I can’t find copies of Australian standards books :(

Kind of interesting. I wonder if I’ve helped keep any odd torrents alive

I am bad at coding and it is a skill that I do not think everyone can achieve to a professional level, thus telling people to “learn to code” is similar to telling them to “just hustle”, “hit the bricks and hand out resumes”, and other flippant stories that mean you stop having to think about poverty.

That said, I do believe the narrative actually was true for some people at some time. Maybe in the 90s and early 2000s if you were able to cobble together a computer from bits your university was throwing out and you had internet access, you could punch well above your weight. But that certainly was never true for everyone.

(I like to be optimistic about people’s ability to learn things, mostly hampered by access, time, and lack of interest, but I went to a boilermaker’s course recently to learn how to weld and none of those kids were going to learn how to code even if they were interested, whatever their other skills were.)

Ah well, we know what you meant 👍

I am a data hoarder and endorse this message.

*wind (whoops)

Me, reading the news: “I wonder if its that same aircraft”