Hyacin (He/Him)

“Movie released in 2024/2025 beats movie released during pandemic at box office”

What makes headlines these days boggles the mind.

I saw 3 just yesterday, and personally I thought it was the worst one so far?! But my now 14 year old son disagreed and thought it was the best one so far. Metacritic seems to agree with him too.

I don’t know, maybe I was having an off day or something. I felt like it was aimed at a slightly younger demographic than the last couple? Like, pre-teen at best? I didn’t get that feeling from the first two.

I know this doesn’t rest in my hands alone.

It does not rest in your hands at all. NO ONE can or will stop ANYTHING until THEY want to. And they have to REALLY want to. Just going to rehab once or twice doesn’t indicate that specifically. I was in rehab with someone who was there because if he didn’t “do something” his work was going to fire him. I don’t think it was his first - I know it wasn’t his last, he was in there again while I was still in aftercare. That was 12 and a half years ago now … I just found out a couple months ago that he died, drinking.

The real kicker is he’d completely reset his life - he’d moved 6 hours away from here - HE WORKED AT A TREATMENT CENTRE - complete “success” story on the outside, but clearly there was some shit going on inside that he wasn’t talking about or dealing with.

We can’t fix other people. All we can do is be there if and when they reach out for help, and hope for the best. It’s sad, but it’s life.

I have a Flag Smashers shirt… go figure, they speak to me.

I was putting it on a couple days ago and I paused and thought about it, and suddenly realized the immensity of the propaganda - the great Captain America destroying the evil socialists who think resources should be shared by everyone, and that nationalism is a barrier to truly having ‘one human family’.

Blew my mind it took me this long. Also made me wonder if they were dug up from long ago comics when America was openly and blatantly monitoring and persecuting socialists and communists (specifically picturing the scenarios and time illustrated in Oppenheimer). Haven’t had a chance to dig in to that part yet, but I will right now!

I said this to my father in 98/99ish when we were already updating to four digits anyway and he told me I was crazy.

We’ll see who has the last laugh.

lol, saw title, came to say ffmpeg, read body, it’s your prime example!

I can’t remember what flag or feature it is I’ve more than once found myself having to build from source to enable, but there is one!

I’ve been in that same situation, except they refused to serve me at the drive through.

Same. But I was drunk enough and bothered enough by it to go flag down a cab for the sole purpose of going through said drive through.

Holy crap, I forgot this was even a thing … I was awash with memories and feelings as soon as I read the title.

It was M.A.S.H. for me … parents watching reruns, I think, as I’m not that old.

Personal?

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My homedir is a HUGE MESS.

Work?

~/src/<site>/<project>/<repo>

i.e. ~/src/github/mirantis/docker (not real I don’t imagine, just an example)

~/src/bitbucket/INTERNALPROJECTCODE/coolrepo

#1 - quitting drinking. I’d have been long dead by now the way I was going. #2 - starting meditation. I’m still not sure how I went 30-someodd years in this body prior with all that noise in my head.

A peanut with a top hat and a monocle selling you other peanuts, to eat.

Same! Wow, that is a bit much :-(

If you have Hue bulbs (and maybe some other now, haven’t looked in a while) Sleep as Android can do that too!

I came to say Sleep as Android as well. Been using it since we were submitting bug reports on Google+ (anyone old enough to remember Google+ ? lol) … absolutely love it.

Amateur stills.

alias update='sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt dist-upgrade -y && sudo apt autoremove -y'
alias update-and-reboot='sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt dist-upgrade -y && sudo apt autoremove -y && sudo reboot'
alias update-and-poweroff='sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt dist-upgrade -y && sudo apt autoremove -y && sudo poweroff'

In the middle of getting my wisdom teeth pulled. They had to like, take me off the laughing gas, but then feed me air or o2 or something for a bit to make sure it was cleared out of my system enough that I could EXIT the dentist’s office and proceed down the hall of the office tower to the shared washroom … while still doped up on the other pain stuff and whatever else was going on (I think they had to shove some gauze in there to keep me from bleeding all over myself or something) … fun times!

I’ve been very happy with my Monoprice “Blackbird 4K DisplayPort 1.4 USB 3.0 4x1 KVM Switch, 4K@60Hz, HDR, YCbCr 4:4:4, HDCP 2.2”. I run an ultrawide at 3840x1600 @ 144 Hz, or HDR at 120 Hz, G-Sync both, and it works wonderfully. It took some effort to get all the required devices using the same connections - went through quite a few “USB-C to DP” cables from Amazon that had to be returned because they couldn’t do the high refresh like they claimed … but once I got everything set up, it’s worked like a dream, 3+ years and counting now I think.

I tried it. I tried just opening lots of tabs. I tried grouping tabs. Open tabs strewn across 3+ devices, “to read later”, until eventually some months later I just give up and close them, having lost interest or simply seeing a need to close some of the overflowing tabs.

My only solution to this problem - as BAD as ChatGPT is and as much as we hate it - feed the thing I’ll want to “read later” straight into ChatGPT RIGHT THEN, and just read a summary of it.

I’ve been doing this for a couple weeks now and so far, so good.

We have the same case! Twinsies!!

Found the other audiophile.

With you mentioning Logitech in the post, I’m not sure you actually want “audiophile” speakers or just ‘good computer speakers’, but the above list gets my audiophile thumbs up. I’d throw Klipsch The Sevens and The Nines into the mix too.

Hrm, I’ve got a $6k set of Klips I put together about a year or so ago and they all have grilles.

I’m looking at a ~$20k set of SVS Ultra Evos in the next few months, they’ve all got grilles.

Everything else I’ve explored and considered in the ‘window shopping’ that has led me to the SVS - Paradigm, higher end Klips, PSB, Wharfedale, JBL, all in around that same price point, also all had grilles.

Are you sure the pictures you’re seeing are not just making a point of showing you what is under the grilles, but they do in fact come with grilles?