https://blinqblinq.com/starlink-latency-and-ping-times/

And basically all frozen chicken in US stores has been pumped full of brine. That includes raw chicken parts that look otherwise unprocessed.

Go buy a clamp stretcher. Life changing!

That’s been a core value of the academy for decades. It’s a religious cult disguised as a military academy

Grotesque.

Named windows 365 because that’s how many days of the year you’ll pay for it (and hate it).

Please keep your dogforsaken chocolate chips out of my waffles, tyvm!

Working at my wealthy father’s fashion magazine… weird

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First and foremost, it doesn’t matter at all that it was made in 2019. It plays every video I’ve ever thrown at it and it’s still getting updates.

Second, it’s very easy to replace the launcher, as already mentioned in the thread.

Third, a general purpose computer would almost certainly be more powerful in absolute terms, it would also be much worse in terms of usability for the specific purpose of playing videos and acting like a tv appliance. I’ve used HTPCs before and worked very hard at making them comfortable to use with a TV. No matter how hard I tried, they were always clunky. As soon as I got the shield, I never contemplated using an htpc again.

This painfully stupid and also hilarious

I agree. I’m very skeptical about their claims and so far I can’t find any evidence of 3rd party verification of anything. All the “news” about their batteries is just glorified press releases.

In the context of lithium-ion batteries, “solid state” means that there’s no liquid electrolyte, rather than meaning there are no moving parts.

Twilight Zone by Rush

Twilight Zone by The Manhattan Transfer

Both!

Can we not link to nazi coddling sites like twitter please?

If you want silliness and pop culture references, Dungeon Crawler Carl should do the job

Buuuut a permit is a fish, not a crab!

Do yo want something like this?

CrowView Note-All-in-One Portable Monitor

It should be noted that the OGL stuff for D&D is included in the free part, along with the ORC licensed rules from Paizo for Pathfinder 2e. I think there are one or two other systems included as well but I’ve never looked at them.

The Closing of the Western Mind by Charles Freeman. It’s almost 600 pages of very information-dense prose but very well-written. It’s genuinely fascinating but I can read a dozen pages and spend a month or two thinking about them before diving in again.