Until I upgraded to Linux Mint recently I actually DID use a Soundblaster card (modern one from 2018) to drive my super nice headphones and speakers

Too bad mint weirdly hated it despite recognizing it, but the new speakers have a fine DAC so…

Eventually either the IDF will find all of the hostages or Hamas will release them. Then it will end.

Lol, good one.

what an apostrophe is normally used for, to show possession

As someone who has learned bits of multiple languages I’ll push back on this: contractions are an apostrophes main purpose in both English and every other language, it’s the possessive use that’s weird. (I should be clear that I’m counting languages that use an apostrophe to denote a gutteral sound in the middle of a word as being basically a contraction, as that’s generally what they get kinda pronounced as in English)

I bet if you Google it then it’s gonna turn out the possessive is an ancient ass contraction

the United States has a functioning railroad system outside of passenger service

“We have a functioning car if you ignore that the gas pedal doesn’t work!”

Passenger rail is part of our rail system AND the topic of OP for anyone who can read. Its terribleness is in many ways the freight systems fault (at least Amtrak specifically) so it absolutely loses points on the functional scale since usually things that function well don’t actively damage other related things

Masks somehow are very offensive to people.

Somewhere deep down they know that they were wrong and that those death numbers are partly on them. Many of them knew people who died and are likely the potential connection in the chain that killed them.

Rather than realize they were wrong and try to make up for it they turn incredibly hateful towards it in extreme denial. If they admit masks work then they admit they killed their friends and family for nothing

I’ve got a server I’m mass downloading anything I or my wife can think of and quite a few obscure movies and shows aren’t on the major sites in any form that has enough seeders to actually finish

So, Usenet it is, at least until I’m mostly done.

If I was huntig for it all by hand I’d probably not bother but I’m using the Arr stack for automation so

Vice: bad habit, especially used as a form of escapism

Not what it means. You’d also have to prove it’s a bad habit even if it were the meaning

my vice is alcohol

Also not a vice unless you’re a weird ass prude

You don’t need to be defensive about it

Pointing out your holier-thsn-thou attitude is stupid because you’re straight-upwrong about something isn’t being defensive.

You don’t like it, that doesn’t mean it’s immoral to do it

Genocide

That’s it? That’s what makes him sooo EVIL?

You realize how awful you sound, right? Genocide isnt evil to you?

because if you get tRump again

Irrelevant. Criticism of Biden doesn’t automatically mean support for Trump, so fucking sick of seeing that stupid claim

smoking it stinks up the whole block/park. You need to get a handle on that.

Sploofs and vapes

it’s a vice

Oh, you’re one of those. No, it’s not.

Vice: immoral or wicked behavior

All the salty downvoters mad because they personally find somethig immoral when it’s not. Stay mad

Sweet cream is the base of ice cream. You use that to flavor, adding vanilla or chocolate powder to a sweet cream base will give you those ice creams.

Milk ice cream is sweet cream base and then add milk flavor. I think they use condensed milk to pull it off, but it’s weird and the US doesn’t sell anything like it at any kind of scale to my knowledge, and I’ve looked

The other guy is mostly right, but that’s not exactly the same thing.

It’s like… Concentrated milk? Think they add condensed milk or something, its like milk, but more. Like the cream stuff from ice cream shops, but more.

It’s… Weird. I love it

When my wife and I stayed in Osaka we were one street over from Amerika-Mura, and hidden in that place was a small shop selling “ice dogs”:

Glazed hot dog buns with milk (vanilla isn’t the defaultfor white over there) flavored ice cream scooped into it.

Absolutely amazing those were

It’s only normal if you’re regularly doing iffy things like messing with drives or changing OS shit via terminal without thinking about what you’re doing, Ubuntu is a pretty stable system

You should definitely be using TimeShift, it comes pre installed on Mint (which is a derivative of Ubuntu) so it should work or already be on your system

5 years in

Batteries last far longer than that, to the point where every warranty I’ve seen is 10 years minimum

Range anxiety is still the biggest issue for EV adoption

Only because people keep making false claims like:

the supercharger network is the only practical option right now

Hey now, I’m an angry man because of my horrible ADHD and my inability to just do things

I don’t even like cocaine!

down voted by people who think any Kraft ceese is real cheese?

It is, you’re just using the FDAs god-awful definition from over 100 years ago that only cheese made in the specific traditional way is “cheese”

Kraft singles are American cheese: typically a cheddar and Colby jack mix with 2 specific chemicals added to allow water to stay in the mixture better. Boil them together, spread thinly and let harden.

Kraft singles have more chemicals and a more complex process so they can get as thin as they do, but they’re cheese by any normal person’s definition.

here’s a great video by NileBlue on the subject

It’s also how content creators literally create chapters: put the time codes into the video description

That’s a native feature of the platform

I can’t SS it because it’s covered in like 2 inches of dust and dead as fuck but my old pixel tablet was the same way

But what happens if you have an annuity and need cash noooooowwwwwww?