Until I upgraded to Linux Mint recently I actually DID use a Soundblaster card (modern one from 2018) to drive my super nice headphones and speakers

Too bad mint weirdly hated it despite recognizing it, but the new speakers have a fine DAC so…

have you ever considered not being a dick about things?

Says the guy actively laughing at people he thinks are dumb for using words he doesn’t understand.

the constant hashtags and the way these people write most certainly makes the dense sections difficult to parse

Just ignore the hash tags, imagine they’re a silently pronounced letter.

Do you just like, burst into flames when you encounter dyslexic people?

No, because I am one.

Motherfucker you commented on how the buzzwords make it an impossible to understand word salad and thats what I commented on.

Now suddenly your problem is that a symbol before the words is triggering dyslexia for you so hard that you find it odd that non-dyslexic people can understand it? Pick one

Sorta, it’s more like having your rich parents pay for everything but the “rich parents” is your employer, which is just the corporation you set up to run everything. They usually use a company credit card as their daily use card and leave it to AP to manage

The exact details are of course prickly as fuck but that’s a really basic overview of the idea

Eventually either the IDF will find all of the hostages or Hamas will release them. Then it will end.

Lol, good one.

I’m sorry, but what? All of that is perfectly straightforward and understandable even to someone not steeped in AI buzzwords

Everything said boils down to “we added more AI with a longer memory to some accounts here. It’ll also use a couple of fields from your profile to shape it’s responses better”

Like, it’s really simple tech speak, not buzzwords at all?

The things they do daily (food, travel, clothes, haircuts, etc) are expenses of the charity because they work for them and are the “image” of it

Dump their money tax-free into a charity and then use it to fund themselves anyway

He doesn’t need to control the UN to do what was claimed.

You have no idea when they got COVID. If it was well after Bill’s bullshit then yeah, it’s at least partly his fault.

what an apostrophe is normally used for, to show possession

As someone who has learned bits of multiple languages I’ll push back on this: contractions are an apostrophes main purpose in both English and every other language, it’s the possessive use that’s weird. (I should be clear that I’m counting languages that use an apostrophe to denote a gutteral sound in the middle of a word as being basically a contraction, as that’s generally what they get kinda pronounced as in English)

I bet if you Google it then it’s gonna turn out the possessive is an ancient ass contraction

the United States has a functioning railroad system outside of passenger service

“We have a functioning car if you ignore that the gas pedal doesn’t work!”

Passenger rail is part of our rail system AND the topic of OP for anyone who can read. Its terribleness is in many ways the freight systems fault (at least Amtrak specifically) so it absolutely loses points on the functional scale since usually things that function well don’t actively damage other related things

Masks somehow are very offensive to people.

Somewhere deep down they know that they were wrong and that those death numbers are partly on them. Many of them knew people who died and are likely the potential connection in the chain that killed them.

Rather than realize they were wrong and try to make up for it they turn incredibly hateful towards it in extreme denial. If they admit masks work then they admit they killed their friends and family for nothing

Diminishing Returns is the concept on a broader scale here

Ie: the more you add the less you get from adding, to the point of it becoming a complete negative

In Photoshop paint, it’s a single tool.

I think the real reason so many people hate GIMPs flow is that it doesn’t match the free paint tool that comes with every Microsoft OS since before I was born.

This would help explain why people who have never used PS even 10 years ago would regularly bounce off GIMP for making no intuitive sense

I’ve got a server I’m mass downloading anything I or my wife can think of and quite a few obscure movies and shows aren’t on the major sites in any form that has enough seeders to actually finish

So, Usenet it is, at least until I’m mostly done.

If I was huntig for it all by hand I’d probably not bother but I’m using the Arr stack for automation so

And you don’t see how your comment is one of many reasons crypto isn’t the future of money?

Vice: bad habit, especially used as a form of escapism

Not what it means. You’d also have to prove it’s a bad habit even if it were the meaning

my vice is alcohol

Also not a vice unless you’re a weird ass prude

You don’t need to be defensive about it

Pointing out your holier-thsn-thou attitude is stupid because you’re straight-upwrong about something isn’t being defensive.

You don’t like it, that doesn’t mean it’s immoral to do it

Genocide

That’s it? That’s what makes him sooo EVIL?

You realize how awful you sound, right? Genocide isnt evil to you?

because if you get tRump again

Irrelevant. Criticism of Biden doesn’t automatically mean support for Trump, so fucking sick of seeing that stupid claim

smoking it stinks up the whole block/park. You need to get a handle on that.

Sploofs and vapes

it’s a vice

Oh, you’re one of those. No, it’s not.

Vice: immoral or wicked behavior

All the salty downvoters mad because they personally find somethig immoral when it’s not. Stay mad

Sweet cream is the base of ice cream. You use that to flavor, adding vanilla or chocolate powder to a sweet cream base will give you those ice creams.

Milk ice cream is sweet cream base and then add milk flavor. I think they use condensed milk to pull it off, but it’s weird and the US doesn’t sell anything like it at any kind of scale to my knowledge, and I’ve looked

The other guy is mostly right, but that’s not exactly the same thing.

It’s like… Concentrated milk? Think they add condensed milk or something, its like milk, but more. Like the cream stuff from ice cream shops, but more.

It’s… Weird. I love it

When my wife and I stayed in Osaka we were one street over from Amerika-Mura, and hidden in that place was a small shop selling “ice dogs”:

Glazed hot dog buns with milk (vanilla isn’t the defaultfor white over there) flavored ice cream scooped into it.

Absolutely amazing those were