I’m here. I don’t know if it has changed since I was a child or if I just didn’t notice, but the cream is disgusting. It’s mostly just palm/canola oil.

I don’t dislike the cookie part. It’s not to die for, but it is a classic flavor that tastes great in milkshakes.

If it gained sentience and took over the world, at least it would probably build itself some nice nuclear power plants.

Default state is a hard left, flooring it is a hard right, precisely 50% is straight.

I love the Moon+ Reader app. Tons of features. I like that it has a dark mode and you can set the brightness very very low (on OLED) so reading in the dark at night is comfortable.

Can confirm. I love both.

That’s their kink.

In addition to all the automation everyone has talked about, some of us are also data nerds.

I enjoy knowing the temp, air quality, etc. in every room. How does this change throughout the day/season? Did leaving this door open or this fan on improve anything? What can I automate at what threshold to improve things?

You can also get a lot of data about energy usage too. And if you have solar and battery, it’s neat seeing how much it affects and how much you save.

Automation is useful, but in the end it’s just a hobby like many other things. It’s fine to be into it or not into it.

Me and my friends played the Pokemon stadium mini games WAY more than the actual battles. They were a lot of fun.

And the nature of computers is that they are magnitudes better than humans at brute forcing. Machine learning can brute force (depending on the technique, it can be smarter than brute forcing, being more efficient) test many many many more designs and techniques than we could manually do. Sure it’ll fail many times, but it’s just a numbers game, and it can pump those numbers. It’ll try a lot of weird and unique stuff we wouldn’t even think to try, with varying degrees of success.

Yeah, it makes me think back to the CD days. I think just having a Windows install CD already premade for you made the process at least semi approachable.

Last month when I was installing an OS (it was proxmox, not exactly beginner friendly, I know) the first boot disk creator I used “worked” but ended up failing in the install. The second one worked though.

All in all, creating your own install disk is nice and flexible, but it really is a barrier for the average user.

I stumbled upon this regex crossword puzzle a while back. I was never good enough to get it, but it seems like it could be fun.

You know, it kinda makes me wonder if we should have listened a little more to the people who were paranoid of being tracked and went to live off the grid.

The McDonald’s ice cream machines have a similar vibe, but that doesn’t seem to be as smartly/evilly executed as these trains. Remote kill switches are insane.

Kiss about to become Vtubers.

This is such a tiny hill to stand on, and I love it.

If that one doesn’t tickle you, we do have more options to explore like MM/YY/DD or DD/YY/MM

Hell, we even have options like MDY/MDY

I had a really good laugh today when I remembered that the area 51 raid happened. And the Naruto runner.

I’ve always liked underscores better because it differentiates from the file extension. It just makes sense. Except it is a wider character, so it’d be longer.

I’ve finished Ori and the Blind Forest at least 3 times recently. I had my first playthrough (100%), then I went back for the 3 hour speedrun (took a couple attempts to figure out my routing) and got a 2.5 hour run. Then I did a hard mode run with no upgrades. I’ve yet to do any tries for the no death run because that’s probably going to be hell.

As you might have guessed, I think it’s a fantastic game. I’m very much looking forward to playing the sequel. I’m going to try a couple no death runs before I move on though.

Do you digitize it yourself? That seems like a lot of work, even using ocr. And then making it pretty with formatting and all the stuff to make a good epub.