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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Don’t ban aftermarket exhausts completely, just the ones that optimize for loudness or dirtier air.

    I’d like to see devices that detect when a car is running too rich or lean (bad cases I can smell right away, so it should be detectable at a range), along with enforcement and seizing vehicles where they deliberately mess with those, especially if there’s a switch or function present that can switch between legal and illegal modes to pass emissions tests and then go back to spewing out unburnt fuel or a much higher number of nitrous oxide compounds.




  • A man calls a waiter over to complain about his soup.

    “Waiter, there’s a hair in my soup!”

    “Shhh, not so loud or the other customers might get jealous!”

    The sous chef minding the soup was wearing a hair net but disturbed it to scratch an itch on his scalp. Upon discovery of this while reviewing the kitchen footage (nothing to do with the complaint, the owner was just a control freak), said sous chef was fired. Which coincidentally benefited the customer because it meant the sous chef wasn’t able to buy the last toy both of their daughters wanted, so the customer got it and won that year’s competition of “buying daughter’s love over divorced wife”, but later bit him in the ass when his spoiled daughter threw a huge tantrum because the Mercedes he bought for her 16th birthday didn’t have the right trim package.

    Of course, society was collapsing around them and this all became a moot point when the maintainer of a critical piece of software was put to death for daring to glance at a party member without even bobbing his head and even the best AIs couldn’t fix the bug that popped up the next day (because they also relied on that critical piece of software) and the LLC that did the hostile takeover of his estate refused to let anyone see the source code unless they paid a billion dollars, which they wanted to but payment systems also depended on that software, so instead society just finished collapsing.



  • Yeah, I used to have the mindset that either I loved or hated foods and would only want the ones I loved. But eventually, I realized that there’s a middle category of foods that I don’t go crazy for but aren’t bad, plus two reasons to revisit the ones that I still didn’t like: good cooking can make almost any food delicious, and tastes change as you age (and/or nutrition needs vary).

    I have trouble respecting picky eaters after that. As long as your body isn’t trying to reject the food entirely (and I do understand that some people’s bodies will reject things that mine is fine with), it’s just sensations that you can get past. It’s a mental block that if you can get past it, you’ll eventually look back and wonder what was so hard about it.

    Though my mindset plays a role. I like novelty more than familiarity (though ironically I don’t think we test our new things enough to really determine their safety… I like the new stuff but also side-eye it).



  • I’ve been enjoying Tales of Maj’Eyal lately. It’s a roguelike, though you can set it to give several lives or infinite lives. But I’ve been enjoying just going until I die and then rolling a different build. You usually only die because you get overconfident and I’ll leave figuring out the specifics of that to you :)

    It also has over 1100 achievements if you like chasing those.





  • Autosave requires the file be saved on onedrive.

    I was going to say that the only way to make it worse is if it showed ads while it autosaved, but autosave itself is literally an ad for onedrive.

    If you try any of the other decent options, some of them free, you might come to understand the contempt people have for word, because there’s nothing special about it that the others can’t do, and you have to put up with design decisions made because they have market dominance and can use that to push people towards other shit that makes them money.





  • BIOS and UEFI are collaborations between the mobo manufacturer and the CPU manufacturer. The CPU side of it includes things like microcode and code for moving the settings values into the registers (or other location) where they are actually used. The mobo side would be the UI itself and setting up the menus, as well as adding stuff for the other hardware components that need something set up at boot time.

    Fwiw, the gigabyte AM5 mobo I use has a responsive UI in the UEFI program, and displays at a decent resolution (though probably not the native one, 1080p would be my guess). Though the mouse might be more usable because it has hardware DPI selection.



  • Things don’t despawn in the real world. What was happening is the contruction workers were looting it after their raid defeated it. Those crane frame pieces add 1000 HP to their home’s structure each, so they are great items to have, especially if another crane were to spawn nearby and managed to use its [Collapse] skill on their home before a raid could defeat it.


  • Also AI could theoretically do an even better job at ad blocking and also block other annoying shit like autoplay videos and html5 popups (fuck any web dev that uses them without a user click prompting the popup, they are like the old style popups that were a cancer on the early web, only marginally better because they don’t try to bomb your browser/system like they occasionally would do back then).

    Though what I’d really like to see is a DOM designed to serve the user’s will rather than the webdevs’.