Love my state and city. Minnesota rules.

Federal government can get fucked.

Buy a Steam Deck and get into Skyrim or something?

Well people can be in the designated area, and you’re right I can avoid that, but it’s not like the smoke magically stays in that area, too. It’s much easier, cheaper, cleaner, and generally more profitable for the business to just ask you to go out to the sidewalk or whatever.

I had the same reaction as a smoker. It’s really not all bad, and as a now non-smoker, it’s great to not wake up the next day to the clothes I wore to the bar smelling like an ashtray, so I now understand the complaints.

And it saves you, the smoker, money because you’re not chain smoking sitting at the bar anymore.

At the end of the day, though, a beer drinker sitting next to a wine drinker is a bit different than a smoker sitting next to a non-smoker, so the whole “you’re already at a bar!” argument is pretty disingenuous and doesn’t really go far with me.

I don’t smoke anymore, but when I did a lot of these types of bans came into effect, and even as a smoker I really came to appreciate it. When I did finally quit, it was nice to not have to deal with smoke everywhere.

You didn’t need to include the quote for your point to stand.

Ok, Millennial. ;)

Snark aside, my local library actually does offer digital access for those that want to use a phone or eReader as their primary consumption method. You should check if yours offers the same! Any effort that gets people reading and thinking is a good thing, in my mind.

Smoking isn’t sexy anymore. Stop it.

It’s alcoholic. I haven’t tried it myself, but it looks pretty much like any other soft serve cone.

It should be possible for a car to not run over people, too. That seems like a more pressing computing issue.

Can’t stop the signal, Mal.

I just searched and found one that looked good; there were a few different options.

Here is the specific one I ordered: https://a.co/d/fgXpNMJ

Enjoy!

It’s not because the Earth is getting warmer, though, right? It’s probably because Argentina has too many brown people and they all voted for Obama.

Right?

Guys?

Hello?

Thanks. Just ordered one for myself. Fuck bigots.

It’s an Athlon 64 3800. It has no encode or decode cores for anything, sucks for software encode and decode, and burns 90W to do so. An RPi5 is literally almost three times the CPU performance at like 1/20th of the power budget and would probably run Plex better. Recycling is the best option.

As much as I would love to see things repurposed, this thing is a dinosaur, and you’d be better off for both yourself and the environment to just recycle it and get a Raspberry Pi or something which can probably run circles around it at 10% of the power budget. You don’t need to keep something old to learn something new.

You should instead fuel your home with an open coal pit burning constantly in your backyard. ‘Murica.

!ukraine@sopuli.xyz

Fuck Russia and their American agents.

Harpsichord

Yes?

Rage against the dying of the light, always. But sooner or later the end will come for us all, and that’s the part that’s the hardest to accept on an individual level, in my opinion. I still get the occasional existential crisis.

Instead, be glad that you’re here now and do what you can to make the world better for yourself, your neighbors, and society as a whole while you are. That’s all any of us can hope to do. Leave it a little nicer than we found it.