They do come out with good hardware now and then. Some of their higher end laser printers are reviewed well. At my job we have an HP laser printer that is older than the store that is still chugging along just fine while being used every day.
Their overall quality is so poor though that it is hard to trust anything they put out.
More consumer linux devices are good though.
Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts and Sword of the Stars 2.
part of Sword of the stars 2 is even now it sometimes gets so laggy that you can’t finish a game. You just at some point declare that you’ve snowballed enough and can’t be beat anymore.
Hundreds of hours.
Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts is at least getting better now that the devs have abandoned it and modders are taking over.
Tofu.
Pressing the water out, marinating for hours, then cooking properly so it’s delicious and not a rubbery mess is just too much hassle.
I remembered the book!
A brief history of vice, how bad behavior built civilization
By Robert Evans, very good book I highly recommend.
There’s one article I found.
Originally read about it in a book that I don’t remember the title of.
Foot fetishes routinely come up more historically when there is a larger std concern.
People hear about diseased junk and become turned on about other things.
If you look through history, when there are large STD outbreaks afterwards foot fetish content rose.
Our brains are wired to be turned on by other things when the bits are diseased.
When I’m waiting for a long loading screen I’ll often just shake the cursor while I wait and see how big I can get it.
Apparently during part of the sinking of the Costaconcordia they played it in one of the lounges.
I’m fine with having to pick between ads and paying for a service, but when there are ads when I paid not to see them…
I pay for YouTube premium and have for several years, but if I start seeing ads I’ll go to watching Nebula and listening to podcasts and cut out YouTube.
I’ve seen a couple vtubers use leap for hand tracking.
It would be another outrage lever to push in America between Maga and dems.
Pong. My dad had a old Atari pong system.
Gentoo was my second linux Distro ever some time in 2003 or 2004.
Installed it by printing out the full install doc, which was like 30 or 40 pages, and starting up a stage one install. I got through the entire install by following the instructions because the documentation was that good.
I remember having a problem and hopping on an irc chat to ask for help and people there being baffled about the basic level questions I was asking while having a working Gentoo install.
I have $25 wired IEMS that sound better than my most expensive Bluetooth tws sets. I’ve taken to just listing to podcasts and YouTube videos with my Bluetooth sets at work.
I used to be a big fan of Samsung, but over the past couple years it has become a do not buy brand for me. They keep doing anticompetitive stuff with their phones so my next phone won’t be one.
Start of 2024 my Samsung TV that wasn’t that old up and died. And my less than a year old Samsung monitor is flickering.
My watch 6 classic is my favorite smart watch I’ve ever had, but in order to get it working well on a non Samsung phone you need to go through a bunch of bullshit hassle.
Yeah, they’ve got a ton of great documentaries there, plus some other series that are pretty great.
If I had to give up YouTube I’d move to Nebula. It’s been growing and is steadily getting better.
I don’t use the system anymore but at the time the parts I had weren’t supported.
I got a bunch of rgb in order to set it all to purple on my desktop. But then I started using Linux full time on it so I lost the windows rgb software, and was too lazy to fix it. So it went from looking amazing to this ugly clashing thing for the last 3 years I used the system as each part eventually reverted to its demo mode.
Steam OS on Steam Deck. Fedora on Framework13 cause reliability. Garuda Mokka on Framework16 cause pretty and it just works.
May move from Garuda back to OpenSuSE Tumbleweed or CachyOS at some point.