Oh what is a good deal exactly? Everything is fucked.

Iran should do that since he’s worried about it and blabbering in a senior moment.

I’d have loved to vote NDP but Singh was weak, not my fault. Avi is running away from center, finally ending the slide Layton started.

Too bad most people here don’t realise their party is full of people just like her.

Woof!

Qwant and Ecosia teamed up to make a European indexer/web crawler. They’re still using Bing to pad the result quality for now but slowly phasing out reliance on Bing from what I understand.

Still, they also push AI so can use this argument:

https://www.qwant.com/?llm=0

Ecosia have to use cookies unfortunately to disable AI overview:

https://www.ecosia.org/settings

It’s the same experience no matter how I consume it personally but we’re all different. I’m just an anxious person in general.

Gave up on bluesky but when I was there…if I opened the Catch Up feed it was fine scrolling down for awhile until you reach the average likes score on obese man dick pics and spread asshole shots mixed with furry inflation porn, vanilla adult cartoon, and then 1 naked lady.

So I disabled adult content because nobody tags anything pornographic properly so word filters were useless.

May the wind be at your back DODI, and the sun upon your face.

Nothing. Variety is the spice of life.

For the past 2 years I’ve been using concentrates via 510 carts in Canada, unscented/no flavour additives. Before that I used a dry vape with cheaper pre-ground flower, but short battery life and maintenance got annoying plus dosage control is worse. Smoked before legalisation.

Basically showing each other our favorites.

Very jealous lol.

…DVDs are cheaper overall. …Most of it is garbage that I’ll never watch, so there isnt much value in streaming for me anymore.

When going the legal route, can’t argue with that logic fair enough.

…What games do you and your friends play mostly?

Mixed bag we’re all variety gamers. Much like online gaming for us it’s just an excuse to show up and talk. Lately it’s been Sega Genesis emulation and getting through the harder USA version of Streets of Rage 3. A lot of shoot 'em up arcade titles via MAME. A ROM hack basically a combined version of all N64 Mario Party games into one. We were taking turns playing Death Stranding 2 in the winter. Xenogears before that, again with a hack this time just QoL features and a better English translation.

Thunder, but only because Lemmy doesn’t support user tags. It’s nice to not accidentally interact wirh a shit head because you forgot they were a shit head.

Otherwise the mobile website is perfectly fine without an app.

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.hjiangsu.thunder

AI isn’t isn’t remotely on the same level as either of those things.

High on their own supply. Common human weakness, fuck I wish it weren’t.

Over time my strategy flipped from HTPC being my old desktop builds to becoming the newest build in the house that I do everything fun on. Since my friends still visit for local multiplayer, I have a bunch of 8bitdo controllers and arcade sticks. I primarily use them too yep.

Trackpad keyboard is great for general navigation/web browsing. The joke is there’s very little competition in this form factor. Also have a cushioned wood lap desk with a proper keyboard+mouse. Mouse heavy gaming. Quake Brutalist Jam 3, Nova Roma, HMM: Olden Era, and Toxic Commando I brought out the lap desk for most recently.

This is all Stremio’s fault 😅.

What was your motivation to start buying DVD again? I went all in on digital a decade back after being the guy who owned every major (and some flops) console dating back to the 1970’s for so long. Pirate all in, software emulation all in. I bought a NAS. I hate subscriptions and minimise those. Never sold off vinyl or my movie collection however. Still buy vinyl but no new movie purchases in said decade.

Lucky! The combination gives me anxiety attacks these days. I can have one or the other but not both idk why.

For the mystery “natural flavours,” mass spectrometry was used. He got the essential oils and their quantities down: lemon oil, lime oil, tea tree oil, cinnamon oil, nutmeg oil, orange oil, coriander oil, and a natural pine–like flavour called fenchol.

Was still missing coca. Then he realised they were basically tea leaves and the mystery flavour was actually tannins, which are non-volatile, so using mass spectrometry tannins won’t show up. He found wine tannins are commercially sold in a water–soluble powder form, and this was the key pretty much.

This mix then had to be heated to blend/mature the essential oils, and then left to sit for 24 hours before being used in the final recipe to exact match the flavour profile.

LabCoatz for those interested but he never said anything about zero sugar that I can recall so when it comes to difficulty I have no idea since I’m not a chemist.

It has a use. Tasty fizzy drink with basically no calories, and caffeine fucks with my cannabis high. I get Canadian store brands tho.

I’m kinda pissed the Coca Cola recipe that was recently reverse engineered was the sugar version instead of zero.