I’m in a pretty bad fucking mood but I kind of figured that was more my problem.

Maybe next time they’ll lose by even less! That’s about the best progress I can hope for in this country in my lifetime.

A couple of multi-millionaires would pay you to stop and then you’d implode.

Still a net win for everyone else though, I support this.

I’d take it. Truly mastering any single skill is almost certainly beyond my ability anyway.

I’m only okay at some things so being okay at all things is a total win.

Soak in some gorgeous views and learn about your local waterways. Reconnect with the land around you.

Good advice while those things last I guess.

A republican majority lead by an authoritarian effectively ends any possibility that climate change can be slowed or reversed within any of our lifetimes. Don’t think of it as the hottest summer on record… think of it as the coolest summer of the rest of your life.

He’ll executive action everything and bypass the legislature entirely. Who will stop him? The courts?

Bazzite works so well out of the box that I don’t even have to think about drivers.

Maybe not a genuine fear but as a kid when I imagined what might be lurking in the dark it was aliens. On a farm out in the country, in the house at night with curtains open you’d just see darkness outside and the starry sky. Sometimes I’d see that green reflective glow of animal eyes in the dark or something moving out in the fields. Walking through the farm at night the space beyond the doors of the big shed loomed dark and ominous. Who’s to say there aren’t watchful eyes of intelligent creatures, curious and malicious, ready to grab you at any moment.

Lemmy is definitely the most pain in the ass service that I self host. Most annoyingly when something goes wrong I can’t just go on Lemmy until I feel like fixing it.

I got a pizza steel and it’s been a game changer. Now I make full sized pizzas at home and they are delicious.

Linux has been easier to install than Windows for a while now, particularly with all the goofy hacks you have to pull out just to make an offline account on Win11.

Well it may not be accurate or effective, but at least it’s expensive.

I thought we’d already collectively settled on the tinfoil hat.

House of the Dead: Overkill on the Wii.

Genuinely has a great (and hilarious) soundtrack.

Maybe if Apple was giving it away or donating the money from the sales, but as it is they are just profiting off it.

It’s definitely a glorified DLC that was stretched into a whole game. The new things are mostly good but 80% is just exactly the same.

Cloaks would be cool. I know that’s more of a fantasy aesthetic than a medieval one but they are cool enough that it shouldn’t matter.

The Asus Transformer Prime.

It was an Android tablet circa 2011, right at that time they were actually making 10" Android tablets. I bought one as soon as Android Honeycomb launched which had an improved UI and lot of new tablet focused features. I bought the optional keyboard/battery attachment and planned for it to be my tiny laptop replacement that could also play emulators and be used for reading comics. I wanted to like it so bad.

It never really panned out though, a large majority of which was because of the faulty Nvidia Tegra 3 chip. Awful performance issues, terrible wireless connectivity, overheating, battery drain and nonexistant software updates from Asus. I ran custom ROMs trying to squeeze it as much as I could but that meant I was constantly tinkering with it and having yet more problems. Eventually I even broke the screen (my fault) and painstakingly went through a whole botched screen replacement before finally deciding that it had been a huge waste of time and money and sent it to it’s grave.

I’ve even seen arrow keys that use Up, Down, Left, Right and it makes me sad.

Rimworld! Probably my favorite game ever actually.