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valend

Yahhh I have to build Rome. Yup it’s due tomorrow.. noo I haven’t started yet haha is that bad?

internet-sentences

exitwound

i was born inside an airpod case 3 minutes ago your honor and i love abortion

atlassolid-prower

this is the most unhelpful post ever

exitwound

do i look like a fucking faq to you

exitwound

#f slur

is it a slur to ask questions frequently

stella-draws-things

thepromiscuousfinger

throo

I wasn’t expecting that

catmask

does a single vivziepop character leave the onceler BMI bracket or are they all build like garden shed tools

jellyfishesarecooler

none of these words are in the bible

catmask

oh yes they are

kremlin

uninstall adobe acrobat. it is malware. it has been malware. these aren't opinions: acrobat meets the definition of malware.

it installs a user-login-time "startup" executable that ignores any windows directives to disable it on startup. doing so only removes the even-more-malicious taskbar-icon-creating advertisement-notification-creating process. no matter what you do, the sleeper "updater" process starts when you log in, and runs perpetually

it sends & receives encrypted network traffic both periodically and non-periodically. both are bad, both are suspicious, and a program doing both is more suspicious than the sum of their parts. and to boot: acrobat will polymorphically edit its code after such network activity

this isn't new: it has always done this. now, it does not even do the thing it is meant to: provide a way to interact with documents, which is amongst the very first features computers were built to provide. you can merely open PDFs and read some of their content in the narrow space between the requests for adobe to give them your money, and interface for features you cannot use (because you don't) or do not, have not, and will not ever need

adobe and microsoft would very much like the user's cultural norms around computers to allow for advertisement built into the local software and even operating system itself. the web being 100% advertisements was not enough! sure enough, acrobat will hijack the windows notifications system thing to give you the 2026 equivalent of pop-ups

i don't really know enough about windows software equivalents, so i'll paypal $20 to the first person that reblogs this with a list of 3-5 PDF reader/editor/etc acrobat equivalents that meet the following criteria:

open source, locally-built executables must match checksum of prebuilt distributed executable

no paid features/premium version/subscription/whatever

not a toy hobby project thing, must be windows-users-proof

cheers

andmaybegayer

Firefox's built-in PDF.js viewer: does everything you could want from a basic viewer, fast enough search, and can now do annotations for filling in forms and such

KDE Okular: is a decent viewer and can also do basic annotations, and is so not-a-toy that you can even download it on the Windows app store.

LibreOffice Draw: I don't ever really like having to open this but if you have to edit a PDF in detail it does work, and doesn't just vomit up a bunch of polygons when you give it text to work with. Better as an authoring tool than an editor.

ms-demeanor

I've 100% replaced free acrobat with the firefox built-in and it works wonderfully for general office use and research/reading/viewing. It doesn't have robust redaction capabilities, but if you need to fill and sign and highlight a form it's actually much more intuitive than acrobat reader.

maeaneke

I switched over to Sumatra and it's worked out so much better

tall

ghirahim

this is an obligate carnivore

it depends on the nutrients only found in animal flesh for its survival

this particular carnivore does not kill its prey before eating it

using traits that have evolved over millions of years, specifically for predation,

it hunts down its prey

which it then eats, alive and whole

in it’s lifetime, it will consume thousands of animals while they are still alive, ultimately dying from suffocation or stomach acids.

hyacynthus

The only animal that I fear encountering. The terrible rain frog.

sharkgirldick

So what makes a butcher knife more butch than other knives?

nature-nerd-sarah

The knife itself isn't necessarily butch. It's named that because it's wielded by a butcher, who is more butch than the other food shop owners

sharkgirldick

Hmm, I see.

What, then, makes the butcher more butch than other food shop owners?

dragongirlbunny

the knife

academicblorbo

That's what ancient Greek philosophy is like

fishing-princess

turing-tested

i was looking everywhere in the car for my vape because i lost it and I found these instead

indiecup--fordeactivation-deact

I’m astounded at the level of personality that can be predicted from the word vape and these glasses.

turing-tested

this is the meanest thing anyone’s ever said to me in my entire life but I can’t even argue with this. what could I possibly say to defend myself in this instance. this was a one hit KO. this was a murder. this was a fucking slaughter and I have only myself to blame

cassidy-peterson

You act like people knowing you’re in the Squirtle Squad is a bad thing?

turing-tested

yes that is exactly where these glasses are from. a perfectly respectable long standing anime and nothing more

redstonedust

i think most people accept the idea of "you don't control who you're attracted to" in terms of being gay but imo it can go further. like if you're not attracted to men, but you happen to find a transmasc person attractive, i dont think thats inherently transphobic if you acknoweldge that your attraction is incongruent with their identity. you dont need to run yourself in circles creating qualifiers for your sexuality when we live in a world of infinite gender identites. it's not like you have an inbuilt radar that tells you whether that hot stranger at the bar is a woman or not. man who kissed a twink that turned out to be a butch lesbian that thought he was a butch lesbian. etc.

flyin-shark

maddie-grove

I really like this website because somebody will be like “there’s nothing wrong with darting out from behind a parked car into traffic, bootlicker” and you can be like okay this clearly evolved from a valid point about how the US is too car-centric. But something happened to it.