I had a few dozen fumos on my desk for several months to no ill complaint.

Sure, but then the wait staff expects you to tip at least 20% for simply being given one, and if you don’t you’re an asshole.

Worse still, the pattern does not continue like one would expect.

• Nominal: 2x4 – Actual: 1.5" x 3.5"
• Nominal: 2x6 – Actual: 1.5" x 5.5"
• Nominal: 2x8 – Actual: 1.5" x 7.25"
• Nominal: 2x10 – Actual: 1.5" x 9.25"
• Nominal: 2x12 – Actual: 1.5" x 11.25"

There’s just an arbitrary point where they decided to take an extra 1/4" bite out of it. I’m not sure whether that’s more of an effect of shrinkage from kiln drying being proportional to the original length or an effect of industry practice to mill smaller boards to eke out more cuts per tree.

And for the record, yes, I am aware the discrepancy is not entirely explained by shrinkage. They do a planing step after drying. But the shrinkage is a not insignificant part of it. They have to round down to the nearest convenient dimension from wherever the shrinkage stops.

If longer boards shrink more, the finished boards would necessarily have to be smaller. I question whether that’s the effect at play, though, because I believe there was a phase in the industry where that extra quarter inch wasn’t taken off, and they changed their minds about it later.

I’ve yet to see any open lemm.ee prejudice anywhere. AFAIK it’s the largest completely inoffensive instance and that’s exactly what I was looking for.

What?

This is a discussion about televisions.

can you burn a Luigi board?

I’m surprised I’ve yet to hear of a homebrew industry of completely cutting out the microcontrollers and soldering in a Pi or something to drive the raw display. I don’t predict it to be easy, but it doesn’t seem completely unobtainable?

Flashing a custom bootloader would be even better, but I assume that hasn’t been done because they got that shit cryptographically locked down at the chip level.

Ah. So it’s a gauge system. Like steel plate or copper wire thickness.

5-gauge ham.

yuyuko deka fumo

Piss is blood, in a sense. It’s the bits of your blood that get sieved out and rejected by your kidneys.

Normally those are the only bits supposed to be getting out. But if the filter is busted (kidney trouble) or if the walls of the storage tank it sits in after filtering become damaged (bladder trouble), you can end up pissing actual, unfiltered blood.

Alternatively, you ate something recently with a strong red pigment that can survive digestion, enter the bloodstream, get strained out by the kidneys, and collect in your piss in high enough concentration to turn it red. Beets are a pretty famous culprit.

They are public drinking fountains. These aren’t meant to be put in homes or private spaces.

America is absolutely filled with these things. They are everywhere. Public drinking access, no cups required, at an overwhelming number of public institutions. One of the extremely rare W’s of American public use infrastructure.

On the few occasions I’ve been to Europe, I’ve honestly been quite frustrated at the lack of them. I can’t just roll up to a place and have a quick drink, I’m apparently just expected to carry it with me on my person when I leave my place of stay, or buy a disposable bottle of something from a shop. Even if there are public faucet taps available, I guess I’m expected to be carrying a drinking vessel already, or stick my face under the faucet and slurp awkwardly from the falling stream?

I’m just baffled public drinking fountains don’t seem to be common elsewhere, to the point that there are several people in this thread questioning what they even are. I would consider them basic infrastructure for any civilized society.

The fuck? No…?

The US is clownish and backwards in a lot of ways but this is not one of them.

It hardly changes things, but I feel like Mario & Luigi: Dream Team deserves to be on that list, too. The concept and execution of Dreamy Luigi was awesome.

It’s a start!

I hope I’m not moving the goalposts too far here, but I do want to stress that if at any point in this process a consumer has to go out of their way to get the Linux experience, it will never compete. Every lowering of the barrier is progress, but there is a critical mass point we clearly haven’t reached yet.

I haven’t. I suppose that’s a large chunk of where the advantage comes from, isn’t it? New computers are expected to just come with the OS on them already. The entire process of installing an OS no matter whose you use is a completely alien concept to most people, and anyone who thinks it’s “not that hard for the average person” is daft.

Are OEM Linux installs even a thing? For like, ““real”” hardware, from ““real”” (read: mainstream enough to buy on a shelf at Best Buy) manufacturers? Those are what we need to be steering people to, IMO, if we ever want Linux to be competitive with Windows and macOS for an average person.

There’s “difficult” in the sense of a person’s reasonable ability to follow rather straightforward prompts, even if they don’t know what they mean. Linux installers are rather low difficulty here.

Then there’s “difficult” in the sense of how much a typical person will tolerate being rushed through a bunch of mystifying questions just to get through to the other side, particularly when an alternative option that doesn’t ask them at all is available. Linux is atrocious in that regard.

Really hot take: more choice is actively bad for people who don’t care. Which is far and away most of them. The kind of personality matrix that is attracted to Linux as-is tends to be the kind that wants everything configurable, and for the system to never assume anything, and let the user roll everything themselves. Most people are not like this and they don’t appreciate this “courtesy”. Giving them the option at all is the deterrent.

If you want to talk Linux installers that are on-par with the UX feel experience provided by macOS or Windows from a normie’s perspective, show me one that doesn’t ask anything of the user that doesn’t also appear in one of those installers. Not a single thing. If it does, that’s a speed bump that has no reason to be there. Because the person who is using it likely doesn’t have the answer, and if the correct course of action in that situation is, “It doesn’t matter, just use the default”, then why did it even ask? It should just do it.

I’m not suggesting we need to completely rob all installers of any choice, either. We can have a two-tier system, so people who actually know the answers to those questions can select the advanced install, and people who don’t care can select the streamlined install.

The dirty little secret about the mass market aversion to Linux is that people are genuinely not interested in or remotely curious about the inner workings of their computers. Those of us who like to immerse ourselves in it for fun are outliers. Any one of us who denies it has their head extremely far up their ass.

It’s similar to car mechanics. The vast majority of drivers don’t know or care how the machine works, they just want it to get them where they want to go. If it breaks, take it to the nerd who gives a shit. The more fiberglass cowls and covers you slap on top to hide the inner workings of the thing and automatic features you implement to abstract it all away from the user, the better, from their perspective. The damn car should just go. How it goes is not of any concern.

Linux needs to offer a similar experience if it wants mass market appeal any time soon. The alternative, trying to actually spark that curiosity in people to enjoy understanding how the machine works, is far too slow of a process to make any measurable movement of the needle of user adoption over time. Low barrier to entry isn’t good enough when zero barrier to entry exists and is already the standard.

Patrick Warburton is the only one on that list who was actually on board with the film in its small budget phase. The rest came aboard after the Weinstein Company stepped in to be the distributor.

Picking up movies that were already finished for cheap and then using industry connections and capital to forcefully inject more star power into the voice cast is apparently something the Weinsteins did several times. They did the same thing to The Magic Roundabout (marketed in America as Doogal).

Funnily enough, getting the Weinsteins involved with Hoodwinked! in the first place was a chance encounter made possible by Robert Rodriguez’s wife.

The scenes of Clooney as the President in Spy Kids 3 were allegedly shot by Clooney in a day in his own living room with a camcorder he just had lying around.

It’s basically a power strip:

but specifically for cables that carry Internet traffic instead of electrical power.

A more direct analogy would be a telephone switchboard (which is why it is called a “switch”), basically a computerized version of those old-timey operator ladies who used to sit in a room waiting for you to make a phone call, and they’d physically move a plug connected to your phone and plug it directly into the phone line of whoever you were trying to call. That, but for computers trying to talk to one another over network cables instead of making telephone calls.