tiredofsametab @ tiredofsametab @kbin.social

Canadian-American software developer living in Japan since 2015. Into garde

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there's a youtube vid out there somewhere explaining why (a) sticks of butter are different shapes in different part of the us and (b) factories that they're made at. I can't remember who made it, but you might be able to find it. I had no idea US West Coast butter was different.

I don't mind that epic, etc. exist; I mind the exclusives. When Epic first launched, they didn't have payment processors in a number of countries so there was literally no way to legally play the games for people; that's super shitty.

Yeah, my mom's whole side of the family has issues like that. Dad's not as much, but I may have lost the genetic lottery in that bit. Best of luck to you with your issues as well!

It was a tongue-in-cheek comment hoping to spur some conversation about alternatives. I don't know what virtue would be signaled here. Also, I'm still awaiting official diagnosis but a DNA test mentioned I was likely to have celiac's, my dad recently got diagnosed with it, and I've always had issues after eating nearly anything, so no wheat for me for now.

Do you have any non-dessert options?

die unless $keyword == "unless";

That would be some shit if Japan stopped being rabies free because of human bites.

I find google better than ddg the vast majority of the time... and google sucks

MSI has a Windows utility to control the fans as desired. I don't think there's a BIOS boot menu, but I will check.

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Fan curves are apparently in "Hardware Monitor" because that makes sense. Blah. I still have to tweak more, or maybe Linux is just running hotter on my machine, but improvement has happened.

I didn't realize my BIOS could have a boot menu pop up because the splash screen disappears instantly. Problem solved. Thank you!

I bout a new HDD and installed linux mint. Works fine except for two major things. Related to the post, I cannot get the bootloader to find windows 10 no matter what I do. I might try to swap the windows drive to sata slot 1 and see if that (a) still works for windows and (b) gets grub2 working. For now, I have to go into the BIOS and mess with the boot order there to switch.

The second problem, not related, is there doesn't appear to be any fan control software that works for my MSI motherboard's CPU fan (lmsensors doesn't see any sensors related to it) so the fan constantly runs even when it's fine in silent mode on windows with regard to temperature. I have trouble with certain sounds (and trouble hearing over background sounds in general) so this is actually more of a dealbreaker than the bootloader.

my head canon: 100% baking powder with an image projected on it to look like a cookie

I had a mouse where one was vertical and the other horizontal, but I seem to think the horizontal scroll was oriented horizontally. Having googled the mouse in the picture, it says one is programmable and suggests it starts with volume.

I don't think I understand unless you're expecting me to buy some router and network cards that natively support fiber to go from the modem (which is fiber in from the pole outside).

Japan currently doesn't have this in the more normal sense. That Japan is still super high-tech is more of a PR move. I literally had to send a fax to get my current internet (though it is fiber-to-the-home).

Where Japan is innovating is in robots and also its crossovers with an aging population. Possibly also some space stuff.

But for an everyday person, I don't really see anything that doesn't already exist somewhere else. I was raised in the US and have been living in Japan most of the last 10 years.

I already have screws, bolts, and rods in me. I'd probably have thousands of staples and/or stitches. No healing means no scarring, so there may be some benefits in other ways.

We are getting more and more stuff, but they often have a really shit UX. We can do some stuff on PC since the "My Number" card system, but that also requires installing all kinds of software, only works in certain browsers, etc.

Typing from my Tokyo fiber-to-the-home connection now. They ran it off the pole, installed a little thing in my house, ran the fiber to the modem they make me rent, and it works like a charm.

We have trains out to hubs in the countrysides here as well. Generally, they only run hourly the in a lot of the countryside.

Eh, we separate a lot of our trash, but what actually gets recycled (and whether you consider incinerating waste to generate electricity as 'recycling') can be disappointing.

I live in Japan. My wife and I recently went to visit my family in the US and I hated every minute of the toilet situation.