Buddahriffic @ Buddahriffic @lemmy.world

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Tbf that could have been done by tenants who figured the landlord would use that damage to argue they should lose their entire deposit despite not costing nearly that much to repair properly.

Not that it wouldn't be plausible that the landlord did it themselves or hired someone who didn't know what they were doing but were willing to do it cheap, like Ricky.

I've been coming to the understanding that "bourbon" is like champagne in that it doesn't describe a type of alcohol so much as alcohol of that type produced in a specific region (though with the caveat that there might be factors about that region that also means boubon is a distinct type of alcohol due to those factors). If that's accurate, wouldn't it mean that "the American bourbon industry" is redundant like "the French champagne industry" would be? All Bourbon is American.

The problem with imperialists is that they might say they are happy with whatever the current concession is on the table today but will still want to expand their power beyond whatever limits it currently has tomorrow.

It helps you become more innately aware of your speed. Gear (which you know either by remembering which one you last shifted to or by touching your shifter) and rpm (which you know by ear and responsiveness) are enough (once you become familiar enough with the vehicle) to have a good idea of how fast you're going without even glancing at the speedometer.

Also engine braking gives more control over speed and I'm used to doing it, so can add the action to emergency situations without having to think about it so much.

Though the comparison is different when the paddle shifters are involved. I still prefer stick shift over that semi-auto style, but see that as more of a personal preference than technically superior. If anything, semi-auto is probably the superior one.

Though I'd also add the caveat of the technical differences between all three not being significant overall in practical terms. The biggest difference is probably just that driving MT takes additional skill that not everyone has or is comfortable learning/using. Which is nice as an anti theft feature but can be annoying if you want to trade off driving but the other drivers can't drive your vehicle.

It's not like you can use that time freed by automating gear shifting for something else.

It's a tool, yes, but personally, I like having more control over tools I use. I'd choose a cordless drill that I can set the torque control myself over one that doesn't have that option.

Glass would also be better for heating it to melt crystals.

Yeah, I had a hobby in high school of test driving whatever sports cars they had at the various dealerships in town. I didn't look like a bum but I was obviously a teenager. Worst case was the Mazda dealership that told me to come back another day before I could test drive a miata.

Most of them just let my friend and I take it out on our own, though the most expensive ones I drove were the WRX and Maxima (and the sales guy joined for both of those).

Actually, the worst was the Toyota matrix, where they didn't let me drive it at all but ride while the sales guy was driving. But that was after they let us take a celica out, possibly even because of that car being used for joy riding, since I saw others taking it out, too.

Do we really need to define things in terms of what the average person is capable of? Especially when the biggest barrier seems to be "willingness to put a small amount of effort into learning a simple process"?

A surprising number of big names on there.

And the major action item is to do some internet videos with whatever video games are popular with those millennial kids these days playing in the background. Shot in Nancy Pelosi's beautiful home--oh nm, she doesn't want any dirty YouTube filmographers in her home but W is willing to let them use his ranch and his copy of EA Football Game 202425. See if we can get Joe Rogan to make a guest appearance, and we're sure to recapture the millennial under 30 crowd!

Oh good, the corporate sponsorship money arrived, let's split that up and go home. Don't forget to set aside the King's fifth!

Next step is to start thinking, "if this object wasn't in this pile, where would I look for it next?"

It sounds like you might have some network places set up for windows to use but that are no longer reachable (or something along those lines) because that shouldn't be taking so long so you might have things timing out in the background.

Or your internet is slow and it's taking a long time to communicate with one drive or send its screenshots of your document to their creep department.

Or maybe a print driver that no longer exists still has an orphaned entry in the registry and it spends some time trying to locate it.

Or malware has set up hooks for any new window that pops up but the print to pdf dialog is set up in such a way that it churns very inefficiently on that window specifically.

I joke but any one of those might actually be what's going on.

Yeah, this is the impression I got when he talked about spending so much time training for the problems, especially the bit where he said it was all about hoping you've already seen and memorized the problems while pretending it's the first time you've seen them. That's the whole point of obscure problems like that: to show how you can handle a new problem.

I've interviewed for technical positions and I don't even really care if you get the right answer as much as I care about how you approach the problem.

Shit like this will just make it harder to figure out who the real programmers are and separate them from the people who are only there because they know tech skills means money but didn't actually develop any tech skills because they were too busy gaming the system. I don't want to hire someone who spent hours memorizing things they think I want regurgitated on command. I want to hire someone who can understand the overall picture of what's going on and what needs to be done because it's interesting to them.

They said that in the broader context of saying they don't think American cheese deserves the hate it gets. It was qualifying their defense of American cheese by saying they aren't just blindly defending any criticism of America but honestly like the cheese.

They say the two happiest days in a boat owners life are the day they buy their boat and the day they sell their boat.

If you want to check out a new truck that you don't own, just go to a dealership not looking like a bum and they might even let you drive it.

I haven't had that experience with spam/scam calls. Mind you, I'm in Canada and the do not call list has teeth here, though that only applies to spam. But spam/scam call frequency doesn't appear to be correlated at all with how recently I've answered another call.

As much as I understand not wanting to talk on the phone, I don't get this mindset. Why not just answer it to find out who they are and what they want so you can make a more informed decision about whether you care what they want? You can always just hang up if you decide you want to be doing something else. Or "something just came up, gotta go" and hang up. Why does it need to be such an ordeal in the first place?

All it had going for it was the over-short-sold theory, which was sound but not enough to prevent the billionaires from just adjusting the way they play the game. The idea to become a focal point for gaming (instead of just a place to buy games and other shit) might have worked but I never saw any changes at all in that direction in any gamestops I visited. Just shelves full of products I only kinda want. And a lot of space dedicated to funkopops, which I don't understand why anyone wants. Does anyone even still want them at this point? I don't think I've every seen someone buying one.

I just did the switch myself on a new PC and getting gaming working wasn't even that hard. I picked fedora cinnamon.

Difficulties I had:

1. When trying the initial live boot, it failed checksum... Because windows fucked with the drive after it saw the utility that wrote the image to it left it "unmounted" (and autoplay would had also fucked with it if I hadn't turned that off ages ago).
2. Wired ethernet wasn't working. Wifi does work, currently using that until I get around to working on that again, though it might just work now that it's updated.
3. After installing steam, many games said they were windows games only. Had to enable a setting inside steam to get it to just run them all via proton. Only tried two games so far, but haven't seen any issues yet. My saves are usable on the one game I was already playing on windows.
4. Optical audio wasn't working. Worked around that by plugging in my soundbar to usb, though I've also confirmed that the analog port does work. This one might also have been resolved by updating.
5. Had to set up permissions for steam to use my games partition instead of my home dir for installing games, though I think this was because I missed a step during the install.

It took more effort getting YouTube (well porn but apparently the same issue affects YouTube) working (netflix just worked, quality seems to even be better, like it doesn't seem to default to a low quality stream before moving up as the video plays like it would in windows). And even that was only because the desktop I picked didn't use the same software as instructions for enabling 3rd party repositories and I for some reason decided to search for a GUI option instead of just running the command I could have run from the start.

The only difficult part is that with all of the available desktops out there that do things a bit differently, it can be hard to find solutions specific to the one you're using. Like I might have caused some future issues by installing gnome-software since cinnamon uses a different tool for that. But at this point, I feel like making the jump to a different desktop (or even distro) will be much easier, so don't feel like I'm committed to the one I did pick.

Which is so much better than windows because on that platform I had to struggle to not be committed to things I didn't and wouldn't pick. And it made me avoid updating often because I didn't want to commit to whatever nagware ms added this time to try to get me to use some software I wasn't interested in using.