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@tk A RAV is exactly the kind of vehicle that takes any fun out of driving. Reliable as all heck but definitely not gonna reach out and poke your soul into feeling anything during a drive like other cars would.

@tk they have a way to generate an app-specific password as a token for stuff that uses IMAP, I make use of it for an old address pretty regularly

@mer mid implies median, and median is not mathematically the same as average, so is it worse to be mid or to be average?

How’s the fediworld doing today?

@SuperDicq locally or were they just cached remote users?

@kaia bull market for the horny

@SuperDicq Would you offroad the miata?

@tk and the 3 wise men followed the pozidrive in the sky until they found the manger

@kaia that case design looks like it came straight out of halo 3 though

@kaia @grillchen @mangeurdenuage per distrowatch, while the last versioned release is quite a time ago, there appears to be a rolling release model now under the name ‘grimoire’ with both a stable and a test branch

@tk attack pattern is the same as crazy hand in smash

@Houl did they patch that XSS issue that was as easy as calling a vote yet?

@kaia third door with the strider from half life 2

@SuperDicq I think standard bulbs are now federally mandated to be some LED or CFL drop in replacement for incandescent here, and had just assumed that applied to all categories of bulbs so I’m glad to be proven wrong. I really don’t like LED string lights as much in holiday decoration, the cooler colors just don’t have the same color balance and it leaves trees and windows looking a lot more blue. I find that to just be a lot less cozy feeling to enjoy in the cold weather.

I thought incandescent lights were banned altogether but to my surprise and delight you can still get string lights that are incandescent. Picked up a single string from a large home improvement store and my window at least looks nice now.

@icedquinn I built up a lot of what I’ve got mostly through bins at places like FYE trying hard to get rid of their blurays and thrift shops that have large DVD/bluray racks with stuff that gets overlooked. It’s a very record crate style experience, which started from holding a movie night for friends years ago. At this point I get more bespoke stuff off amazon but that’s when it’s something specific I’m interested in, and it’s mainly just to rip it and throw the disk into a binder. It’s easy to get a libredrive at this point so even UHD bluray is pretty simple to pull, just time and space consuming.

What I am running into now is, as a result of many last minute attempts to save failing drives, some of those files are showing just how lossy they can get, with weird keyframe issues throughout. I just recently realized that one of the first TV series I did this with is suffering this issue and might have to go digging to find the original source discs and rerip. The bigger the file, the more likely it gets caught up in bad disk sectors in times like that, so the recent issue I had with a bad Toshiba drive means I have to rip a large 5 season series over again for the same reason (and that’s one of the infuriating ones, labeling those episodes the first time took a solid week since they were tracked on the disc non sequentially and the first season was all one video file per disc).