I used to cringe every time I saw an itasha car. But hey, not my car. If it makes them happy and it’s not disproportionately negatively affecting others’ safety, then it’s actually kinda sick.

I couldn’t do it myself. I also haven’t been into anime for several years, but I do love me a JDM neoclassic.

I own a '97 Honda. The last owner had LEDs in it. The lenses weren’t designed for LEDs, they were designed for halogens. So one of the first things I did was revert the headlights to halogen bulbs. And they work perfectly fine. I drive in a suburb so the streets are already fairly well lit. I don’t need to cast a beam 5 miles out to see where I’m going.

Also, it’s that soft yellowish white light. Not that harsh daylight bluish light everyone and their mom is obsessed with. I don’t get it. Anyway, the best thing you can do in 99 times of 100 is to consider what equipment you have and stick to OEM spec.

My monitors are over a decade old and are still perfectly fine. I’ll upgrade to 1440p/144 Hz when I start seeing dead pixels or some other failure.

They have DVI ports and all my stuff is too new for DVI so I’m on the adapter diet lol

My cat just has to be present in the room. The dog don’t give two squirts of piss about that food until the cat is in the room, at which point the food is suddenly at extreme risk.

In the year and some change we’ve had our dog, the cat has never gone within five feet of the his food bowl.

It’s 10 PM. Do you know where your ten millimeter wrenches are?

Imagine dual booting Windows lol

Not how my experience went. You read the books, you got the points, and (assuming you were doing well in every other aspect of the class), you got an A. But if you struggled with reading (as I did in school), you got poor grades despite the fact that your grammar, writing, and spelling were otherwise excellent. Very rarely did I get a teacher who rewarded reading; most of them punished my failure to read.

Was this made by my wife? Are you her? She really has to know all the minutiae of the flow before deciding whether it’s worth going with.

Not a dig at her, btw. It can be frustrating to deal with in the moment (I’m more go with the flow than she is), but when we get there and everything goes smoothly, I genuinely appreciate her already having it figured out.

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Idk about you, but I feel a great sense of freedom using Linux.

In terms of “many versions,” my advice: Mint if you loved the Windows UI, Ubuntu if you want regular updates, Debian if you want rock solid reliability. That’s it. That’s all you need to know if you’re new to Linux. Skip everything else until you’re comfy, or if you like it, stay a while. There is nothing wrong with either of the three. You’ll learn to hate Snap on Ubuntu, and once you do, just install Debian.

Ever short a car battery? Even 12 volts gets pretty scary pretty quick when you send it at like 700 amps.

To elaborate, CrowdStrike’s target audience is commercial and government entities, not individuals. Most individual users’ machines were not affected. Individuals are generally using something like Norton, Kaspersky, AVG, or just Defender on its own.

His name is Sherlock. Here’s a different post of him. He’s mostly Pit Bull, but he also has some Chow Chow, Boxer, German Shepherd, and Husky.

The adoption fee at my shelter is $150 for dogs. Dogs are chipped, fixed, and up-to-date on vaccines. The day my wife and I adopted our guy, they were taking a hundred bucks off the adoption fee for large dogs. We walked in expecting to adopt a small dog, but the one we wanted to meet was adopted out and left ten minutes before we got there. So we went and looked at the other dogs. And then we stumbled across this big guy in the back of his cage, head cocked to the side, ears way too big for his head, not making a sound. My wife tells the staff she wants to meet him. We spent a whole 90 minutes trying to coax him out from under chairs. He was terrified.

Naturally, we took him home. And here he is an hour after getting there.

He stayed under my desk for the next three days.

He goes to the park once or twice a day, daycare once a week, and was in weekly group training for four months. He is so so so much more confident now. It’s been just the most rewarding thing watching him come out of his shell.

Bonus: Here he is a couple weeks ago being murdered to death by one of the puppies at the park.

We’ve had him for about a year. He turns 2 in a few months.

Okie here. It’s hard not being all the fuck about sports. I like football. I played football in school. But it doesn’t constitute the majority of my personality. My granddad ALWAYS has OU games on. It doesn’t matter if they’re #2 or #22 or got beat by Kansas. It doesn’t matter if they’re playing in the Rose Bowl or the Clorox™ Toilet Bowl. He’s practically consumed by it. I don’t understand it. I love going to the games. You go for the long walk in a loud crowd to end up inside and overpay for a shitty beer that gets warm in five minutes (because it’s 97 degrees), and after enduring all that, your guys might still lose. It actually kinda rocks.

But I prefer concerts. I get to dance to my favorite songs and watch my favorite aging 90s rockers put on a show for cheap because they haven’t been big in 20 years. A concert hardly goes south. But nobody shows up to the water cooler on Monday and goes, “How about that Weezer concert?”

It gets pretty awkward having to tell people you didn’t watch the game because sports is just not important to you.

If it takes more than 4-6 hours to drive there, high speed rail is the clear choice. I’m someone who has been on several 10+ hour road trips, and driving for more than a few hours at a time sucks. You waste up to an entire day just driving. Even if it does take the same amount of time, it’d be nice to nap or read a book in that time instead of focusing on just driving. It’s mentally and physically exhausting.

Especially I-70 in western Kansas and eastern Colorado.

Appreciate the advice. I change the filter every month on the 21st and clean the coil each March. We have really drafty early 70s windows.

Might get my refrigerant checked.

It’s been baking here the last couple weeks. We finally got some cooler air and some rain yesterday. Something like 73°F last night as my wife and I waited outside the restaurant for our valet driver. I was wearing a long sleeve button down and wasn’t being murdered by heat. In early July. It was a miracle. We just kept asking each other what is this weather?It’s only supposed to be 85-90 degrees for the next several days. It’ll be nice for my air conditioning to not have to struggle to keep it cooler than 80°F indoors

September is only a couple months away. I can’t wait.

Ah yes. 9 PM, when the heat index is still 100°F.

Here’s yesterday’s peak heat index across Oklahoma. It being 99° isn’t the problem. It feeling 10 degrees hotter is.

It’s the AC for me, especially. When it’s 35-40 degrees and swampy outside, the weather is downright dangerous, especially for physical activity.