It’s wild how much my dogs like carrots.

It has a few other changes than just the DE from what I understand, but you’re not far off.

Highlander 2?

I agree, but I imagine they will start saying that a pristine “empty” phone is clearly suspicious and a sign that you already deleted CSAM, terrorist messages, <insert boogeyman here>. If I wasn’t in the US, I’d do my absolute best to never step foot here.

Ug, that sucks. We’ll probably never see it then.

Seriously, where is the Kung Fury sequel?

As long as it wasn’t during the Scrappy doo era, god I hate that little bastard.

Other con: Unless you have a new home with pristine wires, the speeds of MoCa can vary anywhere from 2.5Gpbs to 6Mps. It also gets very tricky if you have still cable TV in your home because many of the set top boxes use MoCa and they directly interfere with using it for internet (though you can sometimes get it working with filters, my experience was poor). MoCa is still far better than something like Powerline adapters, which are another option for not having to run new cables/lines.

I just manually clean up the tags/directory structure and use rsync. I have tried a few other things, but they always end up being more trouble than it is worth for me.

Same here, but I just realized how much I loved the Thai and Indian level of spice and now I’m the weirdo whose home garden is 75% “super hot” peppers.

That’s pretty universal at Thai places. There’s hot and then Thai hot.

This has happened to me repeatedly at Thai places and it was honestly infuriating the first few times it happened. Luckily, I found out that at Thai places they usually have a spice tray they can bring out on request as long as you are eating at the restaurant instead of takeout. It became my common thing to expect to do so after my first bite when eating at places. At home I have my own dried peppers so I can make food as silly hot as I want.

To be fair, I did exactly that the first time i went to an Indian restaurant and it was fine. The reported spiciness was why i went though and it was great.

He just using the old “Argument from Authority” logical fallacy. I’ve worked with tons of people, even those that did in fact “know their stuff”, that thought it was perfectly valid to dismiss others because of their experience being more extensive than others. Ironically, after I’d prove these people wrong in serious matters (usually several times), I somehow got added to the nebulous authority whitelist in their head. I don’t want to just be believed became I’m dammit, believe me when I’m correct and provide evidence!

Not the person that commented, but this fear does stem from a real thing years ago related to, I believe, Amazon Fire TVs that were using some sort of mesh functionality to get data out. It was not wide spread, and now I can’t find any links about it, but I did at the time when I was worried about it and I was trying to find more information. If I am not mistaken, this was a feature that Amazon actually patented, so I don’t think it would have become common anyway. I know that without a good link this is just heresay, and that’s fine to leave it that way since I don’t think it is still happening anyway. If anyone else can manage to find a link, please share it hear as it is interesting and can show that it isn’t likely a major concern.

Sceptre was still offering some non-smart TVs that were quite cheap and work fine. They aren’t going to be super impressive in technical specs, but they work just fine. It might be worth considering a soundbar or speakers though, as that is one place you can feel the quality difference.

The only thing worse than a ghost is an upper class ghost always talking down (haunting down?) to you.

How many bottle caps do you think my dried Trinidad Moruga Scorpion peppers will go for? I bet the ghouls will love them!

I think that if it came out today it would be nothing and fade away, a subscription would never have happened. Notch got very lucky that his particular game, out of the many similar games at the time caught on and was given the time to expand and iterate. Not that Minecraft didn’t become quite cool, but I wish Zach from Zachtronics that made the game that inspired Minecraft (Infiniminer) had gotten more success from it. Then again, if he had, we might not have gotten all the wacky and cool games he released later.

Yeah, I did think about how to make it in any way viable as just a mental exercise and came to a similar conclusion. If I didn’t enjoy getting my own veggies and fruits I’d probably just stop. I mostly started because I love very spicy peppers and was unable to even buy them most of the time. I eventually started growing all sorts of things of course, you can’t survive on superhot pepper pods for long, and if you could, you may not want to.