So the blue and white thing is a fleshlight? Like, the husk of a fleshlight? I’ve always assumed they came with some soft internal padding, but do you just buy the cylinder and fill it with whatever?

Ok yeah but, what is it made out of? Is that a cup with steel wool stuffed inside? Plastic cup? Silicone? What was the original purpose of the blue-and-white thing? Was it a fleshlight that they stuffed with steel wool?

It winning was really surprising to me. It was fun for like 15 minutes. I guess… people like it? It’s a meme? Idk.

What is this used for? It’s steel wool in a cylinder right?

I’ve been playing Fire emblem mods on it. The GBA games were the golden era for me.

Thanks, saved a lot of hassle.

That’s a crazy story.

Chromecast

Do not feed pineapple pizza to an Italian.

“Barely” feels a little unfair. But the games that do require tweaking do tend to require doing a fair bit of research. Often rather daunting research.

I second this. I use GNOME with extensions instead of KDE, but that’s just personal preference.

I used Pop_OS! for about a year before moving to Fedora. I got a new AMD video card and needed the latest kernel drivers. Fedora has the rolling release model that got me what I needed, and since it’s one of the “big 3” upstream distros, I know it’s reliable.

I didn’t know about it either, but when I heard about it before nitro fueled released I knew what they were talking about.

It was more of something I felt but didn’t fully grasp at the time. Like a “boost as much as possible and the boost gets way better” thing.

All true, one small caveat. If GoG went down, you would still have all your games as long as you downloaded the installer.

But then again, you could just copy the installed files around. That works for most games. So it’s close to the same.

They absolutely were. There are even videos describing it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od-OQGOXtfY

I know right? “The Karters 2” on steam feels very similar though!

CTR did have that. I don’t remember how it compared to Mario kart though.

CTR had much more depth.

CTR also rewarded you for understanding the mechanics more. Some boost pads gave you a boost with a higher top speed (blue flame). If you knew how to maintain a boost, you could maintain that blue-flame boost indefinitely.

It’s just that to do that you had to hit nearly every boost pad, triple boost at nearly every corner, and avoid all the obstacles (including touching walls). It’s hard to maintain it, but even maintaining it for a little bit can really launch you towards the front.

CTR had two methods of play:

1. Casually playing a kart game and using fun items.

2. Learning the mechanics of nitro reserves to maintain a high top speed for as long as possible.

You start at 1 until you realize 2 exists.

Oh shoot heck dang, time to fire this up!

Yeah I’ve been waiting until it’s updates stop breaking backwards compatibility. It’s sounding better and better as time goes on.

Translation: “I run immich in a virtual machine, which I can manage from a web browser. The photos themselves are stored on a different device which gets backed up to a remote location twice a day.”

So why run immich in a virtual machine instead of in, say, a docker? Wouldn’t that be way less overhead? (Or is immich the only thing you’re hosting?)