hactar42 @ hactar42 @lemmy.world

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I took a similar path but eventually ended up on openSUSE for my desktop. I've been pretty happy with it. I can't think of a single issue that I wasn't able to quickly resolve. I even got CUDA installed and working in under an hour.

Nope! Still singing it in my head

When I was 6-7 years old my friend's mom would send us to the corner store to buy her cigarettes. We would use the change to buy candy cigarettes.

As someone who lived in a neighborhood without an HOA, I completely agree with this. I had so many bad experiences with the neighborhood without the HOA. Aside from people not taking care of their yards or houses, including one person who replaced their grass with laminate tiles, there were much worse things.

There were constantly cars parked up and down the streets blocking your view and making it impossible for two cars to pass. We had two neighbors feuding over parking in front of each other's houses. One of them decided to line the curb with cones. And the other would just leave their trash can out 24/7 blocking the curb.

I had a neighbor start a computer refurb business out of their garage. Which caught on fire at least 3 times. One time it caught on fire and there were so many cars parked on the street the firetrucks couldn't make it to their house.

The neighborhood I live in now has the perfect balance. The HOA is run by a 3rd party who does not live in the neighborhood. And all rule changes require a meeting and at least half of the residents need to be in attendance before it can be taken to a vote. This keeps one neighbor from taking things over and turning into one of those nightmare HOAs you always hear about.

We have a couple of them. Bonsai Lady is my favorite. She just randomly shows in different parking lots and sets up a stand to sell her bonsai trees.

We also have the Denton Spider-Man who is a good dude who just wants to entertain kids.

We don't talk about the conspiracy theory asshole who just takes up good parking spots to spread lies he wrote all over his car.

You're talking about the same company that charges a "convenience" fee for ordering online. Then if you decide to go to buy them in person you charge a "facilities" fee.

Trying to view them through your browser will bring you to this pop-up. And it says you can't use screen shots or print outs.

The only other option is to use a mobile wallet, but that prevents me from sending my friends their tickets, since I purchased them all together.

IMO, the early 90s was a golden age for movie effects. There was CGI but it was so primitive and expensive it was used sparingly. Like you mentioned that blend of practical and special effects was amazing.

Another great example of this is Terminator 2. They obviously used CGI for the T-1000 but then they actually flew a helicopter under a highway overpass, drove a semi-truck off a bridge into the LA river, and blew up an office building.

Well that's going to be in my head for the next month

I still get the theme song from it stuck in my head from time to time, and I haven't seen it since it originally aired.

Eddie Hazel is one of the best guitarist ever. For those not familiar just give Maggot Brain a listen. It was completely improvised and record in one take.

I have a 4 monitor stand that puts two of them on top. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DGSI5WS

I think this is a fake quote that somebody made up for an Internet comedy bit

You can tell by the pixels

This was the early to mid 2000s. I honestly don't remember the specifics. But I do remember the emails coming from somewhere in Eastern Europe, so it may have been some crap system on their end that treated each reply as a unique conversation. Which could be why our Exchange server kept replying.

I'm old enough to have experienced an Exchange server being brought to it's knees due to two out of office replies fighting back and forth with each other.

Had to look it up, he is the head of Threads

The original Alphabet cereal. Not this sugar coated crap they sell nowadays.

Also, C-3PO cereal from the 80s. I can't say I've ever found anything that tastes the same.

As a Philadelphian who has tried every type of pretzel I could get my hands on, I can confirm that no other pretzels come close to Snyder's of Hanover. Rold Gold are crap and taste like fake butter that has been burned.

I remember kids in my school saying it was a mixture of Coke and Sprite

Interesting fact, the reason some root beers have "bite" is due to them having caffeine. Most root beers do not have caffeine and since caffeine has a natural bitter taste, it makes those root beers sharper. At least this was the case for Barq's.