BremboTheFourth

lol sorry but you might regret marrying a straight man :(

especially after what i just said about not sharing!

you mean other than jorkin it?
Food. Good god. I’ve been right on the line between obese and overweight for most of my life, but there was a brief period like 5ish years ago where I finally dropped like 30 pounds and got myself looking the way I wanted.

Then I started living on my own, and while that’s been really good for me in a lot of ways… oh boy, I went hog wild. I’ve always enjoyed cooking and baking, but not having to worry about hijacking the kitchen (or anyone stealing the fruits of my labor!) meant I was making all kinds of cookies, brownies, babka, breads, bagels, I’ve made croissants from scratch a couple times… eventually I memorized my brownie recipe and I got into the habit of, several times a week, making a “single serve” brownie by just throwing everything into one little oven safe bowl (sorta like these) and then eating the whole damn thing.

Last week I made enough dough for 3 pizzas, so I did one basically normal, and then inspiration struck. For the second one I made a southern-style gravy and used that instead of tomato sauce, and then the last one turned into a dessert pizza. Made a chocolate sauce out of cacao powder, melted butter, sugar, and honey, and then topped it with shredded coconut. Holy fuck, so easy, so tasty, both fresh out the oven and cold out the fridge. Highly recommend. But anyway I ate all 3 pizzas in 2 days.

Surprisingly enough my weight’s actually been trending downward this month. Maybe if I’m lucky it won’t have to be such a guilty pleasure for too much longer lol

edit, I keep forgetting to take pics of the stuff I make or else I’d post about it, but at least I did take this one of the dessert pizza

Plus lots of non Canadians are using .ca instances. Ask me how I know!

I’ve been using Linux for productivity for almost 10 years now, but have always been leery of gaming with it. I finally took the plunge and installed Bazzite on my gaming PC a few weeks ago, and it’s been great! … except I’ve got some niche VR hardware that only has Windows support and I’ve been unable to get it to work with Linux. So I’ve just been playing VR games on the old Windows 10 install, keeping it isolated from the Internet.

Unfortunately, now some of my games have updates that I’d like to get my hands on, but goddamn do stories like this make me nervous about letting Windows go online again. At the very least I’m expecting it to screw with grub, and at worst, there’s shit like what’s in this meme. Not to mention I’d probably get forced onto 11 in a few months. Fucking Microsoft, man…

so as long as it’s not wearing the tank top it’s cool, right?

No, they hate you. Vaccines didn’t become a populist issue by random happenstance. They’ve been pushing it for decades. They put RFK in power for a reason. They think they’re better than you, they think they can afford treatment for whatever horrible diseases they encourage to evolve in the general population, they want a weak and sick underclass they can exploit without fear.

The big difference is that hacky shit in Linux almost always happens because of oversights, whereas Windows actively fights you on things you want to do. This means that a solution that worked for some forum poster 10 years ago has a pretty good chance of still working today (if it’s even still necessary), whereas Microsoft would see that fix as a bug and try to “patch” it. You would never have the fuck around like this just to get your default browser to be, y’know, the default.

Not to mention trying to troubleshoot Windows always means having to browse through a half dozen forum posts of people having your exact problem, but the only replies are some IT script that takes 3 paragraphs to tell you to reinstall whatever program, with no follow up when that inevitably doesn’t work.

Would you mind linking your old account or some old comments? I’d love to have something substantive to show off to people who don’t believe how fascist Reddit is these days

Yeah, isn’t aging straight up caused by degradation during replication, like oxidation or something? I feel like being immortal would necessarily imply we fixed that shit

I’m too lazy to look it up right now but there have definitely been cheaters in Rocket League. The fact that it isn’t a shooter is actually made it easy to cheat in; when there’s no precedent for what cheating even looks like, how do you spot it? I remember a few years ago there was a whole scandal where it turned out someone who was famous for making trickshots had some kind of bot that was able to calculate exactly how to hit the ball midair and send it into the goal.

Not that I’d heard of. I did some searching and found a lot of mentions of an incident in 2016 where their server got hacked and uploaded compromised .isos for Cinnamon, but supposedly that was quickly fixed. And either way was a decade ago

If you ever need to reinstall, I would recommend Mint. The main branch is a fork of Ubuntu, but it feels far more polished in my experience.

Ah but you see, with the exhaust facing forward his ears can catch the airflow and use it like a sailboat

“Ah but you see, it’s not misleading at all! You really are purchasing a temporary license to watch the content!”

Considering how much leeway we give food companies to lie about how they label their products, I have absolutely no faith we’ll correct the advertising here either

I don’t think the “choosing a server” thing has been a serious roadblock for years, if it ever was. Most people just pick The Big One anyway. If they knew enough to care about distributing users properly among instances, they probably wouldn’t be intimidated by picking

While the letters are adjacent, I don’t think that was a typo. “Finna” is pretty common slang, just a variant of “gonna”

😦

I haven’t had ants, specifically, but I have eaten termites. Can I join anteater club?

I think the problem isn’t echo chambers as a concept, but as a constant. Having a space where you feel welcomed is so important, and the magic of the Internet has always been that if you can’t find that space IRL, you can probably still find it online. But corporations have realized that a feedback loop of things people want to hear is the best way to keep people on and looking at ads, so that’s what they push. It’s gotten to a point where the sites that most people spend the vast majority of their time on will automatically, algorithmically create those echo chambers with no option to turn them off. Many of them will refuse to serve any content at all if you try to log out or view things through a VPN. And it’s that enforcement of echo chambers that is really so dangerous.

Well, lucky isn’t the right word, but I’m glad those two kittens were able to stay. I guess the lesson is to try fostering the kitten first, without the expectation of adoption, just in case the current cat isn’t a fan.