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I do wish it came with images as it’s not always clear about what’s being described. Will need to review it in depth. 🙂

Yeah, Reddit results on Google seem to include posts pulled from other threads sometimes. Something with Google’s crawler, I’m sure.

There are some odd ones on that page. The chicken one describes the chicken running off the dinner table. I do wonder if some of those weren’t used more for amusement than anything

Most of my porridge is simply oats soaked in water overnight 😛

Though, I have made rice pudding in the past, which is tasty, and cream of wheat, which I enjoyed. 🙂

Made jambalaya yesterday, which turned out delicious. Wasn’t able to find a good deal on shrimp so I just used extra sausage instead. The recipe called for andouille sausage but I didn’t feel like going to separate store just for that so I used habanero sausage. I also swapped out the jalapeno pepper for a habanero and added extra garlic. You can never have too much garlic. Got to keep the vampires away somehow!

The only issue with cooking with habanero peppers is that I need to take a full shower afterwards to get the chemical off as hand soap doesn’t seem to do the trick.

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ifixit is a good resource for tools, parts, and repair guides. However, they do focus mostly on more modern stuff. I do wonder if there’s a site that focuses on vintage tech. Definitely trying to find out!

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And Heinz is on the list as well so they probably have ketchup somewhere on the grounds.

Never got into hot sauce myself, even though I like spicy food. The sauce always tasted off to me compared to simply cooking the dish with hot peppers. My jambalaya recipe calls for jalapeno peppers but I may opt for something a little stronger as they’re a bit mild for my tastes.

Yep, it’s odd on the surface how various aspects of the circuits can change depending on configuration but it helps to go deeper. Let’s take the capacitor as an example. In series, it’s an inverse sum. In parallel, it’s additive. Why the latter? It essentially creates a larger plate area as the charge depends on the size of the capacitor. Think of it as making one large capacitor.

Voltage is the same across different legs of a circuit while current differs. While the loads can affect the current running through, the potential of the block is the same throughout. Think it as holding two balls in your hands with the arms being of equal strength. Each arm has the same potential energy but the throughput differs depending on weight of the ball. Hopefully that helps 🙂

There’s also the issue with the drinks getting watered down, cheating the customers, but adding other stuff to them is definitely a problem. Don’t drink alcohol myself, though 🙂

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Started watching anime again the other week as I was getting tired of other stuff 😛

Been enjoying it. Don’t know why but it’s hard for me to connect emotionally with other stuff. Can’t even connect to old stuff even if I do enjoy watching it.

Going to plan to watch Code Geass again soon. It’s always a good one, essentially a social commentary regarding Western imperialism. Highly recommended.

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Currently on PopOS but I’ll probably switch to openSUSE if things get too annoying. Fixed most of the annoyances by switching to Cinnamon, though. 🙂

I’d recommend Leap for the VM. While I love Tumbleweed, it is a rolling release so it tends to change more often. That can be a bit of a drawback if you’re not using it regularly as you may need to do more updates. Very nice though not having to update to the latest OS version every few years, which essentially reinstalls. Never was a fan of how Linux distributions did their upgrades so I generally prefer rolling distros

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Doing some exploring and came across this nifty directory: https://www.royalwarrant.org/directory

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Yep, it’s all very confusing but gvsbuild looks like it should take care of most things. The key is to tell it to build gtkmm as it’s supposed to take care of the process of building the dependencies. Let me know if I need to clarify anything, much of this is from what I gleaned while reading the source code for gvsbuild. 🙂

This process won’t need WSL as it handles everything using Windows tools. 🙂 Chocolatey will need to be installed as that’s apparently what everything uses for the process. This current bit is figuring out how best to set up the CI. At some point, I would like to visit the pros and cons of using MinGW instead on Linux but setting up the build scripts for that would be a pain and using anything other than VS on Windows is just as painful to set up. Spent many hours trying to get them working right for school back in 2009 before I said to hell with it and did all of my compiling on Fedora. 😛

I’ve never used Mint (or the WSL) but it looks like openSUSE is available, too. openSUSE is nice. Unless you’re referring to using a VM. In which case, it’s been decades since I played with them. 😛 Looks like QEMU and Virtual Box are the go-tos these days. Make sure you turn on the IO virtualization options in the UEFI when you get the new system! They help immensely. Still recommend openSUSE. 😛

Sounds good. And no rush! As we know, I’m moving slow at the moment as I try to sort out some personal stuff but I’m getting there. 🙂

Just setting up gtkmm is a big task. Almost all of the large projects that used it switched to Qt recently. In my package manager, there are only four applications that depend on it.

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I think my notes are ready for a test run if anyone is up to it.

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Have a similar issue with purging elephant ears. I’ve tried just about everything short of herbicide, which I’m not a fan of. I don’t want to poison the ground.

A few years back, I dug out about a hundred pounds of ginger roots as they reproduce like crazy and they’re already coming back! Clearly I missed some roots. 😛

Our heat and drought are so bad that we’re having an issue with plants dying. Planted a whole bunch of trees last year but half of them died due to the weather 🙁

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Yeah, I’m not exactly sure how practical musical encryption would be but could be a fun research project. 🙂

They’re actually making some progress on turning thoughts into images and text in the lab. Currently, the image generation is very fuzzy and lacks resolution but should improve as the lookup tables get fleshed out based on brain activity.

I mainly stick with ext4 as the file system as it’s the most stable. Probably should try out Btrfs at some point but I haven’t gotten there yet 😛

Did some basic research on the storage costs for the 200 TB of data. It’s pretty expensive! 10,000 to 15,000 USD annually. Seems a bit much to host a Minecraft world 😛

Yep, used to HexChat over here. Looks like development stopped some time ago, though. srain does look interesting but development is slow as the author had life intervene a few years back. Most of the other graphical IRC clients which are still maintained use Qt for the GUI, which we know I’m not a fan of 😛

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Had some interesting bits come in the last few days.

First up, we have what was once a chaotic Minecraft server: https://2b2t.place/1million

Don’t download the world: it’s over 15 TB!

And the program that gave birth to Comic Sans is now open source: https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source/

On that note, I recently checked more IRC channels I used to frequent and those are all dead. Makes me sad 🙁

IRC channels for open source software seem to still be going strong, though.

And here we have a breakdown of the computers featured in Jurassic Park: https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.html

Amazing attention to detail! 🙂

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Had an interesting dream the other night about a topic my mind referred to as musical cryptography. The concept was that you could, in theory, hide data streams in music using a specific combination of instruments as the key(s) to decode the data. The example given in the dream used a specific series of instruments to translate the notes into something resembling human speech, thus decoding the message.

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Ren and Stimpy was a lot of fun. I’ll need to see if I can watch it again as it’s been a while.

Here’s some more of the songs: https://movieweb.com/ren-and-stimpy-best-songs-ranked/

They also used a lot of classical music.

Did they ever do a holiday episode? I honestly can’t remember.

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They’re working on a Moonbase for our moon but it’s on the surface, as far as I know. There’s been proposals about using the lava tubes on Mars if we ever get there. One thing I never see mentioned outside of books is tunneling into the space rocks themselves. Granted, it’ll depend on the hardness of the material and stability.

Yeah, the article does mention that it varies based on various variables at play. We have tea kettles that can be set to certain temperatures based on the type of brew, perhaps it’s time for coffee machines to do the same?

I’m still using the tea ball. Nothing fancy but it does the job. I just go to the local coffee shop when I want something fancy (as rare as that is) 🙂

Either one would do, just looking for something more to do 🙂

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New coffee research: https://www.gearpatrol.com/food/physics-of-fluids-study-paper-9-bar-espresso-standard-research/

Not up to tracking down the original source but the gist of it is that your espresso machines are likely using more pressure than needed, with the rest being wasted

Need some ideas for a new hobby, too. 😛

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It definitely livens things up!

Ouch. Definitely want to be careful with handling them.

Scientists are still talking about traveling to Titan. Not a bad idea at all but current propulsion technology would make for a long trip.

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More stuff that is unavailable over here. 😛

I love British films and shows and find them of much better quality than the drivel we’ve been churning out since the 70s (granted, some of our older sitcoms are pretty good). The problem? Not even BBC America shows them! Will definitely need to check out BritBox when I can

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I’ve got my own small list of stuff I’m not allowed to do in TCGs:

1. I’m not allowed to play with the cards upside down
2. I’m not allowed to make designs out of everything that’s in play
3. The playmat does not count as a card
4. I’m not allowed to blow everything up by turn four (even if it’s funny as hell)
5. I’m not allowed to balance dice on my head
6. I’m not allowed to balance the cards on my head

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Yep! Calvin ball shows up all over the place! I do think the section on politics is a bit of a stretch, though.

Newgrounds was an interesting place back in its heyday. Fun animation section, too.

Fun fact: Adobe Flash was used to make Friendship is Magic

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Here’s the original. Looks like it was last online in 2025. A shame that the page is no longer available!

142. “Calvin-Ball” is not authorized PT.

Nothing wrong with Calvin Ball! It’s good exercise and the rules change constantly!

Lots of good stuff in all three lists! Makes for a fun browse when there’s not much else to do 🙂

Really miss the days when that kind of thing was more common on the Web.

Haven’t read that one but I’ll check the library. There’s also an alternative theory that viruses caused it all with rogue infections. Fascinating stuff!

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Fond memories of The Evil Overlord List. Glad to see that some of the versions are still online after all of this time 🙂

And then there’s also Skippy’s List

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