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Cake day: June 30th, 2025

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  • I went with Mint recently as an initial attempt at linux. It’s clearly not the right distro for me, even a little bit of effort and I would surely find a better option. Still, my bar for success was just “better than windows”. I hit that easily, so I’m very happy and probably going to coast on Mint for quite a while.

    It’s so nice not having forced updates, or “Yes/Remind Me Later” popups, or stupid AI features I constantly have to turn off like I’m playing whack-a-mole. My OS is just the same every time I log in. You hear that?… Silence…



  • Thought today was the perfect weather to take my ebike out and enjoy nature. After two hours of drama servicing it, started it up and there’s a power distribution error code. An hour into trying to fix it myself, I gave up and spent 45 minutes jamming it into my tiny car. Called around and all the repair joints are booking out to July.

    April 25th is bullshit.








  • I had to go through the Atlanta airport shortly after the “4 hour wait” stories started hitting. I showed up 3 hours earlier than normal to be safe, and when I got there they had every station manned and ICE was basically just waiving everyone through. Took me about 2 minutes to get through security.

    Kind of illustrates how pointless TSA is in the first place, but I’d rather have had that four hour wait than have to be within 50 ft of ICE.



  • So there several restaurants near me with those xiaolong bao dumpling that are filled with pork and soup. At each place they’re the star dish, and the waiters love to tell you all about how you are supposed to put the dumpling on one of those terrible spoons and puncture it, so the soup will leak out and you can have two discrete bites, one of soup and one of dumpling.

    But, like, they’re big savory gushers. If you let them cool a bit and eat them whole in one bite, it’s like a big flavor explosion. I don’t understand why it’s so popular to downgrade that experience, to the point where the waiters tell you it’s the “right” way. Maybe my mouth is bigger than average or something.








  • Once I was in the bathroom of this upscale theater following a Shakespeare play, when a very sharply dressed older man who exuded an aura of intelligence came in and approached a urinal. He dropped his pants and underwear all the way to the floor, raised his shirts with both of his hands and held them above his exposed nipples, then pushed his hips as far as he could into the urinal to piss hands-free. The incongruity of what I was seeing left me stunned, and made me forget to pee until he had completely left the bathroom.