That little difference becomes very important in road cycling… I personally always recommend used road bikes. New, you have to spend many thousands. But I’ve seen superb used options (e.g. carbonfiber, ultegra or nowadays even 105, decent wheels and handlebars) for under 1000€.

One will have to spend a little extra to replace a couple parts, but it’s still a fraction of the new cost. My first good road bike was third hand and I was cycling competitively.

A bike just for weight loss or something similar can be cheaper, of coarse. But serious road cycling is often trickier, you’ll want carbon fiber at least. YMMV though

Touche, I see your point. Ultimately, I think his claim about etiquette is still nonsense, though, especially given your latter point. But I won’t hold this against him, you’ve convinced me that his may be an authentic perspective.

It’s a quote post, not really a reply. That is very normal for popular accounts on bluesky/twitter. One is sharing something with one’s own, likely smaller audience while adding context, not necessarily really replying to the famous OP (viz. Jennings), as one can’t expect an answer. It’s an easy way to interact with and share posts from larger accounts on micro-blogging sites.

Jennings is on a micro-blogging platform, he should know to expect this (ironically, know the etiquette). Idk, him then going to such an extreme extent of publicly humiliating the other user (though the username is not visible; at least he does that), especially given his large fan-base, feels unnecessarily harsh.

Not to mention that it’s a quote post, not a direct reply. Quote posts on twitter or bluesky are not really intended as replies, but rather someone adding context to something they want to show their own following. Jennings is on a micro-blogging platform; he should know the etiquette. His post feels like an immature attempt at revenge and makes him seem very unpleasant and rather self-centered.

That has to be it somehow! But it happens with all books now… and a different book I tested was 1,200 hours when I started it.

But at least I know aliens aren’t trying to send me messages now :P thanks

Is this a crazy coincidence or are you psychic?!? The picture in the post is from the Sorcerer’s Stone! I got sick and nostalgic, and started listening to it.

I think it’s a little shorter in reality though, compared to what audible claims here…

You’re 100% right about Rowling, she’s gone off the deep end in a bad way.

I’ve tried everything and I really really really can’t use Google. It just never gets me what I want. DDG works ok, and is usually my default because it’s fast and simple.

Recently (1 or 2 years) I’ve found Brave search to be fantastic though. You may want to disable the AI search summary (it’s better than Google’s or DDG’s ai stuff, but still ultimately ai). Now, I find myself reaching for brave search when I’m doing more serious searching. I have both DDG and Brave saved as search short cuts in librewolf. Highly recommend.

Good for you! And happy new year!!!

I am a small indie artist. I earn nearly no money from streaming services, but I do from Bandcamp, SoundCloud (though fuck Soundcloud, they also suck), actual LPs and CDs sold, etc.

If someone decides to listen to my music over Spotify, or really any streaming service, they are also “stealing” my music. Because I get no money from that, and listening to my music over those platforms strengthens their monopoly (this mostly applies to Spotify).

I need to publish my music on Spotify et al (fuck you discogs) for discoverability, because they have an evil fucking global monopoly, but the moment anyone finds my music there, I would ask them to listen to it elsewhere.

It will literally benefit me, and indie artist, more, if you bootleg my music instead of listening via streaming services, as this weakens their monopoly. Seriously.

I have a different job, I don’t need to live from my music right now, so the stakes are fairly low for me. But it still sucks to see streaming services ruin independent music like this. I would ask everyone to bootleg music, and then support artists like me through Bandcamp (especially CDs and LPs) and donations (or merch, though I don’t have any), if you appreciate the art.

I don’t expect anyone to immediately buy niche music they don’t know, so bootlegging until you become a fan seems reasonable to me. I’ve discovered many of my favorite albums like that, eventually buying LPs online and donating to the artist; that is far more beneficial to those artists than listening over any streaming service (including the slightly better tidal and Amazon music).

/rant over

HOLY SHIT I GOT THE SAME THING!!

I’m so sorry for being a little late but I have to go to the store and get a new phone for the rest of the day it’s just a little bit of a euphemism… etc.

Clearly we’re being brainwashed.

I’m sorry for being a little late but I have to go to the store and get a new phone for the rest of the day it’s just a little bit of the day it’s just a little bit of a euphemism for my parents and I have a lot of stuff to do with the kids and I don’t know what to do with the kids and I don’t know what to do with the kids and I don’t know what to do with the kids and I don’t know what to do with the kids and I don’t know what to do with the kids.

I think it got a little broken towards the end.

I took a single-semester Linux course and had the terminal down pat.

Out of curiosity, what exactly do you mean by this? It sounds a little like you’re implying mastery of the rather vague “terminal.” Do you mean everything in the terminal? Or just a common shell, like bash? Or some common cli tools?

I ask because it seems like you’re suggesting that you can master the unix terminal in just a semester while you learn new important things that affect your workflow in your office suite regularly. I agree with you in regard to the office suite, but vis-a-vis the terminal… I have spent my entire life working in it, and, while I’m very comfortable, I still learn new things that affect my workflow every week at minimum.

But I fear that I’m misunderstanding you here, which is why I ask.

More blankets don’t help the moment you get out of bed in the morning. The apartment was unheated for much of the winter during my teenage years, so I usually wore two pairs of thick woolen socks and thick woolen PJs (along with a thick duvet and several blankets) so I wouldn’t freeze to death the moment I got out of bed. The period between rushing out of bed and into an 8 ply woolen bathrobe was still painful though.

Em dashes are considered informal, I have had several professors scold me for using them in academic writing. Like contractions.

I don’t know about breaking spaghetti, but putting them in a too small pot can ruin them. As my mother always used to say, “let the pasta swim! They must swim in the water!!” (Imagine in a strong Italian accent).

If you don’t have enough water the pasta doesn’t release enough starch (or something like that) and gets a bad flavor and texture, not mention not mixing well with a lot of sauces. Always use a bigger pot than you think you need with Italian food.

Edit: I was once at a German relative’s, and I kid you not, she had no pot of any kind. Nothing. So I ended up making spaghetti in a Teflon pan. Did not taste good.

But you’re supposed to cook everything five minutes too long, by which point everything will taste about equally over-done. Welcome to school-cafeteria training!

It was sooo bad 😭😭 not even faithful to the original, let alone even remotely entertaining.

I had philosophy exams in highschool where I had to write upwards of 2000 words in under 2 hours lol. 650 is like a long lemmy comment.

I will download this image and share it. I will do my part.

Transport Fever 2 🙏, only time I ever spent 50€ on a game.

They’re releasing 3, so there might be a second time soon…