Dylan’s Tumblog

The Royal Tumblog of His Majesty the Benevolent Overlord of the Oregon Territory.

[night-the-starfish]

Disable your ad blocker? For him?, gouache on paper.

[ivy-michaels]

Watching Battlestar Galactica (2003) for the first time and every time Gaius Baltar is on screen i'm like "oh, they wanted Alexander Siddig but couldn't afford him"

[ivy-michaels]

Oh he’s not bad at all; in fact he’s excellent. But it still seems clear to me that Ronald Moore wanted to get Alexander “Julian Bashir” Siddig for the role and couldn’t for whatever reason.

[foone]

yeah I'm certain that Ronald Moore told them "get me the most Alexander Siddig-looking motherfucker you can find"

[dyllisphiller]

That actor, James Callus, played the role of Baltar well. I can’t unsee this now. Imagine getting a casting call for a “Soong-type android” “Siddig-type actor”.

[formlab]

Dangycam

[formlab]

Graft (Phantom Tree), Allora & Calzadilla, 2025

[formlab]

Traffic and Weather, Jessica Brill

[formlab]

Caligra c100 Developer Terminal Prototype, Pentagram Design, 2025

[kuttithevangu]

Matching older couple I saw on my walk

[coelii]

universal inverse to DDOI

[retrocgads]

USA 1986

[foone]

what does my computer do with its hands while I'm chatting with hotties online?

[formlab]

Al Ahmadi oil field, Kuwait, Steve McCurry, 1991

[formlab]

CM-2 Supercomputer, Thinking Machines Corporation, 1987

[formlab]

Japanese mother of pearl doves, ca. 1880

[paragonerrr]

A collection

[asenpetrov]

[angelnumber27]

[honeysider]

[nevver]

The thing that lives in the lake, Lachlan Turczan

[photos-of-space]

The first simulated image of a black hole, calculated with an IBM 7040 computer using 1960 punch cards and hand-plotted by French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978

[problemnyatic]

I don't know who needs to hear this but please please please please please explore the settings. Of your phone, computer, of every app you use. Investigate the UI, toggle some things around and see what happens. You won't break anything irreperably without a confirmation box asking you if you really mean to do that thing. And you can just look up what a setting will do before touching it if you're really worried ok?

Worst case scenario you just have to change the settings back if you don't like what happened but it is so so so important to explore the tools available to you and gain a better understanding for how the stuff you use works.

Even if you already know. Even if you're comfortable with how you use it now. You don't just have to accept whtever experience has been handed to you by default and it's good for you to at least know what's available to you.

[foone]

Yeah. I've been "good at computers" since I was a kid and since I was a kid I've been telling people that all it is is a willingness to look at settings and push buttons.

Computers are good at "are you sure?" and "reset to defaults". There's a safety net. Go look at the options, and push 'em if you're not sure. That's like 90% of being "good at computers" : not being scared to push buttons and fiddle with options when something is broken or you need to learn a new thing

[echocian]

It always astounds me when I hear people complaining about things you can just...go change in the settings. It's there. Right there. Did you look? (They never look.)

All you need to do is mess with things and search for questions. Admittedly the enshittification of google et al has made that second part harder, but it's still worth trying before giving up.

[foone]

Yeah!

It's like:

Step 1: read what the program is telling you. Did you get an error message? Actually read it.

Step 2: look in the options. Is there something that sounds like it's related? Maybe try changing it and see if it fixes it!

Step 3: go search for information on this problem.

But 90% of the time people get stuck on problems solved by steps 1 and 2.