George W Bush came to speak at my high school, BEFORE he was President; this was just on the campaign trail.

Aside from getting a chance to speak to him (“to the rank”), what image has remained with me 20+ years later was leaving school later and looking back at the sight of these men running back and forth on the roof of my school carrying HUGE guns as part of the security. It really resonated with me that I while I was shaking that man’s hand, I very likely had one of those giant rifles aimed at me…just in case.

And, this was just on the campaign trail.

He scammed everyone and will face no repercussions because all politicians are terrible.

I’ve just tried it. I can type these things and do searches, view the videos, whatever.

I will note, however, that my TikTok settings are very customized, even being on iOS. I’ve gone through every single setting, both within the app and within the iOS settings, and I’ve turned off anything and everything that can be turned off. TikTok sees virtually nothing. So, maybe I’m not blocked because all TikTok knows is that I’ve got an iPhone, I may or may not be in the US (I keep on VPN), and that I’m Trekkie who enjoys ASMR videos at night, but that’s about it.

Okay, you’ve sort of convinced me to jump into this game.

I’ve had it on my list for a long time, but these days, I’m so skeptical of anything that sounds like convenient praise, so I spent five minutes reading through your comments to make sure you were legit and not some AI bot made to pimp the game.

Manor Lords sounds a lot like the game Banished, but the dev of that game has long been radio silent and it won’t be getting updates. Manor Lords, however, sounds like what Banished would have become if it were continued and evolved further.

PR, so you’d have to build Wine manually to make this patch work, but still incredible progress.

My hope is that within the next year or so, we’ll get some of these major Windows/Mac only apps running without having to run through virtualization.

Running windows is like playing with an action figure. You take it out of the box and it does what it’s supposed to. Linux I consider more like a Lego set. Sure you have to put some stuff together before you really play with it, but it’s YOUR creation by the time your done with it and you can modify to suit your use case

I really love this analogy, and plan to steal it for future use.

It’s not that far off, honestly.

How??!? She died!

J/k, I played Max straight and still let the whole town get blown away.

I’m intrigued that this story seems to keep going on forever, apparently. Are they going to turn this into some Assassin’s Creed sort of franchise, where we get a new one every other year?

People are slow to adopt an OS update that makes their phones worse??

That’s odd, right? Downright puzzling.

Slightly better than my path.

I bought a house this year, also age 40. To get there, I took a job with a large soulless corporation that is slowly destroying all of us, and then borrowed against all my retirement to get my down payment money.

I just keep saying, “At least I have a house…”

But, only after not getting an answer from Copilot.

That’s what I have and I love it because it feels solid to use. I bought an expensive Backbone because it was marketed pretty well, but it just felt so flimsy that it had to be returned.

But, my long-time sole password of TrustNo1 should be good right??

Smiling Klingons? He looks like he doesn’t even care about honor!

It is literally called Intro Skipper and it requires the Media Segments API as well, if memory serves, because you can do some customization to help define the intro and outro that isn’t auto-recognized.

E.g., I created my own Mass Effect “show” that I loaded into my Jellyfin, and I don’t have a true “outro” for my episodes, so it just defaults to “Next Episode” with 30 seconds left. But I did create a specific intro for the “show”, and without it being a legit TV show, the intro automatically picked up the intro across the episodes and gives me an option to skip.

I can’t speak to Kodi, but you can check the project on GitHub: https://github.com/intro-skipper/intro-skipper

That intro is the reason why I added Intro Skipper plugin to Jellyfin. 😅

Won’t somebody please think of the economy?!?

Ah! This is very likely it. I can see all my past comments if I tap on the Comments link. I guess the other comments that fall off are less than >50, so maybe there’s some cutoff.

Devs: If we could tweak that, I know that I would appreciate it.

Man, can’t have nothing!

I would actually recommend Michael Crichton for an 11-year-old rather than King.

Jurassic Park, Sphere, Congo, Andromeda Strain; all fantastic novels that will be interesting without traumatizing a young reader.

I read King’s The Stand at age 11, and about halfway through it, I literally remember thinking, “I might be too young to be reading this…” If you are set on introducing King, Thinner is all right, but I think King’s writing is really best for teens (like 16+) and older.