Been watching Great British Bake Off recently, the ethical editing is really refreshing.

When I was a kid, the woods near our house went alongside a hill at the top of which was a road, and this one hairpin turn was a popular spot to throw bottles over. So the cool place to hang out for us was a huge, colorful, mountain of broken glass.

I can’t justify a new car because I barely drive mine, but I still need it for a few edge cases, but I hate it because I bought it new just before some big features like back-up cameras became popular, but selling it would be a fool’s move because it’s in great shape since I take such good care of it and never drive it but it’s so old they would only offer a pittance.

Eternally torn between selling everything and becoming a hermit who lives in the woods and ramping up my consumerist whore game to get the best new thing.

Song-based radios for new music discovery on a service where they don’t silently drop huge swaths of music from my curated “liked” list. Tidal, Qobuz, and Bandcamp failed to meet this requirement in different ways.

Spotify isn’t even good, but I don’t have another real option yet.

I used Tidal for a few months, then found out it had silently removed ~10% of my music from my “liked” list. Completely unacceptable. They should at least keep a list of titles so I can go back and fix it. People say all services do this, but I’ve been keeping an eye on it and Spotify hasn’t done it since I hopped back.

Qobuz was painful to use and new music discovery was hopeless. No idea if they were removing tracks too.

Bandcamp seems cool, but I prefer to listen to music via song-based-radios, so that’s a no go.

Not sure what I’ll do if I have to drop Spotify again over ads.

My grandpa recorded absolutely everything on VHS in the 90s. He had so many bookshelves full of movies and shows he meticulously catalogued. I wanted to ask him if he ever actually watched any of them, but I didn’t want to break his spirit.

They make a name for themselves by offering quality goods and service at competitive prices. Frankly, that is a rare thing, despite the promises made by capitalism. For people who are sick of every company making them pay absurd prices for straight up garbage, it’s refreshing to see a company not yet enshittified.

They have lots of hit items, but personally I always stock up on their top tier yet cheap jerky when I visit.

Based on this thread, it sounds like people with enough brainpower to know what pronouns are don’t eat there anyway, so this might actually make Chile’s money.

Proton feels like they really want to be Google, but don’t have enough market share yet to enter the “removing ‘Don’t Be Evil’ from the mission statement” stage.

Yeah, I can handle incompetence. It’s the malicious exploitation that was getting to me. I don’t feel that any more with Linux. Give it time, I guess.

If you have an open drive, dual-boot is a easy risk-free way to try it out without losing anything. Of course, after trying the linux install for the first time a few months back, the only reason I opened Windows was to pull files off of before I wiped it.

Pro tip: If you dual boot, don’t just wipe the windows drive when you’re done with it without a plan. I erased my boot loader and my PC didn’t know where linux was any more and it was a whole thing.

I tried playing a game outside steam for the first time yesterday. Two hours of trying to fix the stuttery low frame rate, missing textures, and crashes using Wine.

Then I found out there are really simple apps that use Proton just like Steam does, and you “open with” and it just works.

If someone I knew told me they asked an LLM to generate their password, I would no longer talk to that person.

One thing I think he missed, in my experience, is many of the critical dimensions may be in the user manual as a drawing. For example, the hole spacing for mounting the drives is standard so either the mount or the drive manufacturer might have called out the position and size. This would be way better than measuring, especially if they are using metric and you dimension in inches.

Great vid though.

I’m not convinced this isn’t an elaborate attempt at gaslighting me to think this game existed.

I don’t care if you seed or not, but if you’re torrenting then you’re seeding a little bit while downloading. Quitting quickly doesn’t mask you completely. It might pay to look into your options more.

There might be a way to shut off uploads entirely, though iirc torrents are designed to stop if you do that.

Every time I played a Pokemon game throughout the years, I thought “This time I’m going to fill the dex!” But there was always some you just couldn’t reasonably get so I always gave up. Big disappointment, it’s really the reason I didn’t play the last few.

It’s impressive you managed it in Gen 6.

If we press the EM dashes hard enough, no AI model will ever use them again. Then, we can prove we’re human with EM dashes.

If the Predators thought it was an honor, why kidnap them? Surely they would come willingly?

I just feel like if they were acting honorably, they would have invited the victors instead of kidnapping them via what I assume was a cowardly ambush (based off the fact they have no memory of it), and freezing them until their loved ones were dead.