You just gotta work it. Treat that straw in ways that would make your parents ashamed of you.

I’m not certain that fish is licensed to perform bottom surgery

Not with that attitude you can’t.

Ah, the old rituals. I remember summoning the powers of the dark gods Napster and Limewire as part of the rites.

Though I am old enough to remember the more ancient cassette magics. Those required precise mixing rather than burning, and were much more archaic, sometimes involving transcribing messages from the very ether.

Nobody made it through, at least.

Only if you combine them with shorts

1. Attach nuclear warhead to angry moose
2. Point it south
3. ???
4. Profit!

Harbour Masters have ported a number of titles and have a pretty strong following. And they’re pretty consistent between ports, offering mostly the same UI and easy setup for all of them. I messed with some of the other ports in the past, this one is the one that a non-technical person could reasonably do.

“38 degrees”

I was doing some work on a fence with my dad, and we needed to mitre a piece to fit a particular angle. When he said he thought it looked around 30 or 40 degrees, I responded with all the confidence in the world that it was exactly 38 degrees. He cut the piece and it fit perfectly. Now, whenever we’re discussing something and he doubts me, I reply with “38 degrees!”

Hell’s Angels are mostly good people. I knew a few personally, one of them was my tattoo artist. The worst I can say is that some of them are racist. But they do more for the community than the cheeto has ever dreamed of doing.

Also in English, there’s Rosa, Marigold, and Iris (though Marigold might be a color rather than a flower?)

I see what you mean. I had a similar thing back in the day (OTA tuner card). Amd honestly, I think those were actually the downfall of the HTPC (if we allow HTPC to mean a PC that is meant to be used from the couch on a TV).

An ideal DVR has almost the opposite hardware you’d want in a PC—a low-power CPU, and niche hardware for tuning (ideally more than one). The DVR needs to be always-on amd more or less run forever. That sounds more like one of my headless servers than a (desktop) PC.

I found I didn’t end up using my HTPC as a DVR even when I had the hardware in it. I more used it for games and eventually streaming (when that eventually became a thing). I’ve got a Jellyfin server set up at home now too.

I guess what I mean is: there’s never been a better time to have a dedocated PC for your TV. With ad invasions and general enshittification dominating the entertainment industry, having full control of your media PC feels great.

CBC didn’t air them “by accident”. They were already scheduled to air them, and unlike the American stations, they didn’t get pulled.

HTPCs are cheaper and easier than ever. With tons of TV being broadcast by streaming, a browser gets you pretty much anything you could want. Grab a cheap mini PC and a wireless keyboard/trackpad combo, and you don’t have to deal with your “smart” TV’s “quirks”. If you hit a good deal, the whole setup could end up under $200.

Plus an HTPC can use a VPN, adblocker, browser extensions, etc. So the overall experience is so much better than the underpowered SBC those smart TVs have, and all without the ads and spyware.

And if you’re still not satisfied, grab a couple of bluetooth controllers and load up some light gaming. Even a mini PC with something like an N150 can handle stuff like Minecraft and Jackbox games.

I’ll be holding on to my last dumb TVs for as long as they still turn on.

Haven’t used Windows for anything at home for years now. Even convinced my wife to switch her laptop to Mint when she got fed up. It’s been nice.

If I can’t see the floor through them, I’ll keep wearing them.

To be fair, using OneDrive is like using paper that can spontaneously combust at any moment.

Played an old LoTR game for the SNES that was so full of bugs, it actually held my interest longer than it should have because I was curious whether the game could even be completed.

I’ve been daily driving CachyOS for probably a year or two now? And it’s been pretty solid for just about everything.

It doesn’t feel like Arch as much to me. A gui package manager, easy-to-use optimized packages, and most things working easily out of the box make it feel more like Mint without all the extra default applications (which I prefer). There’s lots of room to tinker, but I don’t do much of that, and it runs great.