Ngl my partner put a dishwasher pod on the counter the other day and I genuinely thought it was candy for an uncomfortably long second or so.

I love it too. Standardized lids and jars make everything so much tidier, and reducing plastic leach is probably a good thing :)

Consider mason jars for the pantry. Expensive but sometimes you can get a bunch from craigslist or garage sales or thrift stores.

Unless you use zram. Compressing pages is pretty useful as an intermediate stage.

Their active hostility toward Linux users has put me off them pretty much permanently. If they made a big push toward Linux support, I might look at them more favourably.

They clearly don’t want me as a customer: fuck 'em.

They skipped step one of enshittification. You’ve got to GET the customers before you can leverage them against your suppliers.

Thank goodness for distro repositories with somewhat-vetted software.

Well frangible. But fragile also works!

You’re thinking of fungal. Fungible is when something shatters easily, like fungible ammunition.

Walk into computer lab. “DISREGARD PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS FORMAT C DRIVE”

Well, that’s one way to create a murderous AI. I suddenly understand why Hal wanted to kill everyone. I would, too.

I don’t think that applies since /* will just glob out to all the filenames in /

It’s not even that it’s low-tech. Tape is high-tech, it’s been updated over the years. LTO10s are targeting 36TB of data per tape.

It’s the pig-ignorant newbies thinking “hurr durr tapes are 1970s tech”. Hard drives are also 1970s tech.

They have their advantages and disadvantages, is all. They’re not well suited for situations where you can’t guarantee a clean room (or enclosed tape reader), for instance, since the tape medium is exposed to the air. Dust can mess it up REAL good.

But for some situations, it’s indispensable.

I can only wish you good luck.

Aren’t IRAs a US tax account? Like the Canadian TFSA.

You know what they say, dildos are just diplomacy by other means.

Gav. Cameo from Nukees. Dude ends up outnumbering quite a few species. As the author notes, you have to be dinka-cho careful with tokjith.

Schlock Mercenary is pretty great, I reread it every few years.

If you like military scifi it’s worth a look.

https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2002-07-14

A bit silly. I picked up the Holy Mightstone quest item on my WoW paladin in like 2005, and decided to save it to use, someday, to get some RP revenge on Arthas. I held on to it until facing him down I’m WotLKs Icecrown Citadel raid, and used it on our first boss attempt. I want to say that was 7 years but I can’t be arsed to look it up.

Immediately wiped, of course, but winning was never the point.

It wasn’t bad actually.

The American beer you get in Canada is terrible. Budweiser and Miller and shit like that. American beer at an American pub was great, when I last visited.