TVA

It’s like on my old Nvidia SHIELD, an update rolled in and all of a sudden there are ads on the homepage. Some people were ok with TV/movie ads being on a TV/movie device, but, why the hell would I want ads for content only available on services that I don’t have? If they’d at least only given me ads for the services it knew I was subscribed to, I would have at least been less pissed off since it could have been useful.

Reached out to Nvidia and they say there isn’t anything they can do, it’s built that way by Google. By no means do I just blindly accept that that was accurate, but, it’s still bullshit that with a basic update all of a sudden the nature of my device was completely changed (imo) and I’m expected to just suck it up or work around it with 3rd party launchers that weren’t as polished.

Dunno if it’s gotten better/worse in the last couple years, mine died and I elected to not replace it with another Android device.

Is this you? If so, my wife wonders what camera and software you used!

I was the same and then I rebuilt a server that originally took me forever to get up and running with all it’s weird requirements and had it going in docker in like 30 minutes with my old settings imported in.

I still compartmentalize individual programs into their own VM/CTs though, even when using docker.

Still have no idea how to package one together myself though.

“We interviewed ourselves and we all agree that we’re great!” –DNC, apparently

A couple people have suggested power tools … I’ll add that whatever battery platform you wind up going with (I went with Ryobi … good enough for my purposes), also pick up an adapter that’ll use the battery and give you AC power as well. Having an adapter that’ll power anything up to 150W has been a godsend.

I’ve also got a bunch of flashlights/lanterns that use the same batteries … super convenient if we lose power and it’s great when we go camping too.

I’ve got a “battery charging station” that’s just a plastic shelf, when you come in from the garage and it’s got the Ryobi batteries charging, but also our USB charging packs, rechargable AA/AAA/etc… batteries, and it’s also where we keep a lot of the tools so it makes it easy to find things in an emergency.

-=-=-=- If your house has a sump pump but no battery backup (and I’d actually recommend the ones that are FULL replacements … so, you’ll basically have two pumps in the sump, one of which is connected to the battery system), I’d definitely recommend you getting one before you need it.

-=-=-=- For myself, my AC unit has two capacitors. One burned up the first weekend we were in the house and one burned out a couple of years later.

The first one, I didn’t know anything at the time and it cost a bit more than $600 (we thought we were getting screwed [and we were], but, it was 110deg F with fans running, so, we weren’t in a position to argue and the tech knew it). It’s a $20 part if you just buy it online and many times it will physically deform when it breaks, so even with no knowledge you might even have a physical indication that it’s broken. Go to your AC unit, give it a thorough cleaning (youtube the process) and then look up what capacitors your unit uses and buy a spare set and watch a quick video on how to replace them … super easy. It’s likely you’ll pay < $40 for however many you need and you won’t have to deal with a massive bill for a $20 part that you’ve just got to match up the ports and then move the blade terminals from one to the other AND you won’t have to deal with a hot house while you wait for a replacement since you’ll already have one and you’ll just have to buy a replacement for your spare, but, even if that takes a month to ship, it won’t be a worry.

-=-=-=- A GOOD tape measurer. I’ve got a great Milwaukee one that has a magnet on the tip and it also holds without bending for a decent distance and it’s been glorious … always sucks when you’re trying to measure something and the tape is just flopping around not able to hold its shape.

-=-=-=- There are a lot of studfinders out there, but I’ve found the ones that work the best basically just have a magnet that finds the nails/screws that are holding the drywall on. Once you’ve found a nail, you’ve found the stud.

They’ve got a novella in the same universe too!

Livesuit

Lestat

After finishing Interview With A Vampire and finding out Lestat is the main character of the rest of the series, I was like “well, at least the first book was good, I don’t know how I’m supposed to like a book with this douche”

Shortly afterwards: [[Arrested Development meme]] I don’t care for Louis

He is a federal employee, no?

I think he just assumes other people are as irresponsible with the nations purse as he is.

Funny how that is only a thing when they’re running a “practically a Republican” ‘Democrat’ and not when someone who’s actually a leftist starts getting some approval.

It might help to know that Mark Twain was satirically using that word to juxtapose its offensive nature with Jim being the ONLY good adult in the book. It wasn’t simply “a product of it’s time” or anything like that.

I’m not saying to belt it out loud and proud while reading the book, but at the very least Mark Twain was being deliberate on his usage of it and it wasn’t to be malicious and was in fact to highlight the humanity of Jim in the face of his oppression. Some will say that Twain fumbled on his execution by making Jim a characature of stereotypes, but, at least it was just mindless racism, for what that’s worth.

ETA: To actually answer your question though “n-word” gives all the context you need, no need to say the word, it’s history is strong enough to be fully conveyed by “n-word” in almost all contexts when being spoken by a white person especially.

I haven’t bought anything pre-built besides an Alienware laptop a decade or so ago, so, I have absolutely no idea what OP is talking about with:

• crystal-facet enclosures
• overall showiness

My cases are clean and I guess you could see the font on the video card if you looked into the case, but, the RGB just shines out and you don’t really have a reason to look in. The other two gaming systems I have in the house, I disabled the RGB and again, I’m not looking into the case frequently, so I don’t know that tacky fonts even register on my radar.

Keyboards/mice - again, RGB is all that’s really noticeable and that can almost always be turned off.

So, my guess is people don’t care for OPs prompt, but it kicked off their desire to talk about the only bit that is actually noticeable and that’s the RGB, if they didn’t disable it.

ETA: And that’s assuming people actually read the whole two sentences that OP wrote and didn’t just stop at the title.

Agreed & my problem with “least bad candidate” or “blue no matter who” is that someone like Trump is the inevitable outcome when that’s the only thing they’re running on. Many of us have been voting “the lessor of two evils” for our entire adult lives and all its done is continue allow the right to get even more batshit insane and then the Dems follow right behind, just being less crazy and happily taking advantage of minorities for votes (but, look at how they actually treat Trans people when it matters, all of a sudden it “doesn’t poll well” to continue treating them as people).

They just expect to get votes because “we’re less shitty than the other candidate!” as if that’s the only thing that matters as they continue to give in to Republican whims at the slightest sign that actual work will need to be done to oppose them (can’t be too obstinate, ya know, you might offend the fascist voters you’re trying to court!)

They had weeks of forewarning for Rowe vs Wade being overturned due to the leak and had NO PLAN at all to oppose them when the news dropped other than “give us some money so we can continue to do absolutely fucking nothing to fix this”, no unified message, nothing’. Say what you will about Republicans, but the second women and black people started being treated like people under the law, they started thinking to the future and were determined to make sure they could roll that back no matter how long it took.

ETA: I’m not saying don’t vote or both sides are exactly the same. They’re not at all the same. One is clearly better than the other, but the one that’s ‘better’ won’t actually fight to keep you having rights and will only fight back just the minimum amount to keep donations rolling in from individuals while actively trying to court the rich and corporations for their donations instead and I really hate the lack of good options we have.

To make it worse, it’ll quickly get figured out and people will be calling in “oh my God! he’s trying to kill me”, get transferred to a person and be like “so, it’s 3pm in a Saturday and my neighbors are playing their music too loud!”

Con Air … why? No clue, I would have thought I’d go with Lord of War, but Con Air immediately popped into my head when I read the question, so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

‘Nuke it’ or ‘microwave it’

I despise the ones where it’s basically like “get on the bus, we’re having mandatory fun!” and then you get going and it won’t finish until 2 hours past your quitting time, but it’s totally cool, because it’s a good time!

OTOH, I’m not at all interested in sports and I’ve had a good time going to a baseball game and once a company took me to an arcade which was a lot of fun. Alcohol provided by the company.

For me, as long as quitting time stays quitting time, I’m more or less happy even if I don’t actually like the event, but if you keep me away from my family, I’m unhappy and I can’t imagine how pissed the people who pick up their kids from work/school/etc… must have been.

Looks fine for me with mobile app, Interstellar, fwiw, not even a little bit blurry.

I called Comcast and it was horrible

human, operator, GET HUMAN, person, technician, for fucks sake! Bomb? Give me a fucking human!

Nope, nothin, mashing 0 on the keypad also did nothing.

I don’t like marijuana at all for myself (tried it twice with different methods of delivery) and found it to be extremely unpleasant.

I don’t see why that should affect other people’s ability to choose for themselves to enjoy it or not though. Why should they go through rehab just for enjoying something that’s not negatively affecting them?

If I’ve had pineapples personally negatively impact my life, should I get to say you can’t have any?

COVID was easy mode and we (Americans at the very least) failed. If we can’t handle something that’s highly infectious with a pretty low death rate we’re definitely not going to handle highly infectious + high mortality rate without a lot of people dying first and even then, it’ll still be “left wing propaganda”, I’m sure