Oh, I do that too, of course. But then after a month I give up and use the brush. Then a day later a new stain appears and the cycle continues.

I just wanted to comment that factoid about the toilet brush. Hoping someone would chime in and admit they’ve never owned one!

Oh, of course!

It turns out that in some parts of the world, people have not heard of toilet brushes.

Where does that put Judaism? Just a bare Linux kernel without the rest of the OS?

I wouldn’t be looking at any of that, where’s the smartphone showing dumb memes?

I’ve been rewatching Community recently and it definitely fits the bill. It has incredibly good writing.

But more than that, Community gives me the impression that is has an infinite budget. Not a ridiculously big budget like some shows and movies do… an infinite budget. The difference being that they don’t waste a cent. There isn’t a single thing on screen that doesn’t serve a purpose. No ridiculous effect or expensive crane shot added in just to flaunt their budget. But if an episode’s script actually called for a particular shot to be done, they would move heaven and earth to make that happen. That’s what it feels like.

In my head I compare it to having unlimited vacation days at work. Case studies have shown that workers take fewer vacation days when they can take as many as they want, compared to when they have a set number per year. So in the analogy, a show with a set ludicrously high budget will use every last cent of it even for pointless frill, whereas a (hypothetical) show with an unlimited budget would only use however much money is necessary to create the show. Somehow, Community became that show. … It probably has to do with how frequently they actually went way over budget in practice.

I fucking love Community.

This is fantastic. Thanks for posting the reddit link, which has now been edited further:

EDIT 2: Apparently I also owe an apology to the small (but vocal) contingent who really wanted this to be minotaur smut. I’m doing my part. Now get typing.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

And the linked thread is basically a writing competition that the author is hosting with a $100 prize. The title is “Announcing the 2026 Beefhammer Prize For Excellence in Minotaur Erotica”. Lovely!

Not American. I know he didn’t handle it well and spread misinformation, but how much worse did the USA have it compared to the rest of the world? We all had it rough regardless of our leaders, so can any of it really be attributed to him?

To be clear, I think he’s incompetent in so many ways and is perhaps the worst thing to happen to world politics since WW2. I’m just saying covid was out of everyone’s hands, how different could it have really been if he handled it better?

Possibly. If you have the option to use DisplayPort instead of HDMI, that should also resolve it today.

I think it also depends on what distro you’re using. On Linux Mint Cinnamon, which still uses X11 by default, I haven’t been able to use the highest refresh rate of my monitor. But the experimental Wayland support did it without issue.

Later edit: I think you have to compile the whole Linux kernel with the patched amdgpu driver. The GitHub repository for it is linked in the article: https://github.com/mkopec/linux

Edit: I shouldn’t comment before reading the article… This whole comment is irrelevant. Keeping it up for posterity.

End-users generally use the amdgpu driver in the Linux kernel. When it’s ready, it’ll be merged into the kernel and your next kernel update will have it. If you’re on a gaming-targeted distro, they usually get kernel updates pretty fast, so you won’t have to wait long after it’s ready.

Or TL;DR: do nothing, keep your system up to date, you’ll get it eventually!

I think you have it backwards, their consciousness ends years before death.

I generally like what he does, but sometimes he crosses lines that I can’t really forgive. Cheating in a multiplayer game against unaware players is not acceptable. https://youtu.be/os4DcbpL0Nc

He literally describes it as “bullying some nerds”, and you know what, that’s 100% accurate and I hate it.

To the best of my knowledge he never repeated this stunt, so maybe it’s forgivable, but he still did it while obviously completely aware of how wrong it is. Gross.

His other videos that I’ve watched are fine.

This is a good one!

I imagine “snews” would be pronounced kind of like “snooze”, so it’s funny that it’s intended to be the polar opposite of an alarm snooze :)

OP posted the two pages in the wrong order, so you (and I) saw page 2 before page 1.

Well, sort of. They’re not for secutiry, that’s for sure. They were originally about making it harder for automated bot requests to go through and overload the server. ReCAPTCHA then started turning it around to make OCR better using machine learning, which is commonly agreed to be a Good Thing since it helped digitize old books and things like that. But of course, this in turn made it possible for bots to get past the CAPTCHA, and everything spiraled from there.

At some point everyone kind of forgot the real point of a CAPTCHA, and it’s now much more of a free training data generator and much less of an obstacle for bots. But it still can prevent complete rookies from making thousands of requests per second with a simple python script, so it does serve a little bit of that original purpose.

Love this webcomic. Original source: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/014.html

It’s an open-source comic. The Krita project with all the original layers is free to download, and the SVG and text for the speech bubbles is hosted on git so it can be translated to many other languages. I’ve never seen a webcomic do this before, it’s really neat. And of course, the artwork is just beautiful!

It’s an awesome comic.

If you watch enough Only Connect, this becomes trivial :P

If they’re as useless and ambiguous as they are in English, we’re doing fine without them, thanks :)

I’m sure all languages get proportionally similar amounts of flak, but crucially it’s in their own language. You don’t see anyone making fun of Korean because you (presumably) don’t speak Korean and don’t go to the same kinds of forums where such mockery is more likely.

Source: I speak Hebrew and we make fun of Hebrew all the time.