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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • This isn’t meant for your house. From TFA:

    A hotel in Osaka bought the first machine and is preparing to offer the service to hotel guests, the spokeswoman said.

    Other customers include Yamada Denki, a major consumer electronics retail chain in Japan, which hopes the machine will draw people to visit its outlets, she said.

    “Because part of the appeal of this machine is rarity, we plan to produce only about 50 units,” Ms Maekura said.


  • Can’t say I’m proud of my reaction, but it is what it is.

    1. It makes the person look uncanny, which is naturally unsettling
    2. I can’t empathize with the decision to surgically change your body for whatever reason. So we’re less likely to relate to each other.

    It’s also really not that high on the scale of seriousness. It’s like the same weight as if I saw you wearing a Dallas Cowboys jersey or something.




  • If you’re primary interface to your computer is a shell, then why not do this in a shell too? You likely already have your DE setup to handle shells. It fits within all your styling (no weridness between qt, gtk, etc).

    A better question might be, why run it in a GUI? What are you actually gaining from doing that?