For anyone with a sewer system built for TP, this is an ideal workflow. Poops and poopers are not identical, and bidets are not magical. Trust but verify, friends.

peanut butter

This one absolutely turns on what kind of peanut butter you have. Jif/Skippy etc. shouldn’t go into the fridge. It was engineered, for better or worse, to be shelf stable and turns into silly putty if it’s cold. Most “Real” peanut butter separates like a mofo if it’s in the pantry, requiring frequent stirring, and many recipes will never quite be solid enough to spread well. In the fridge, they are much easier to deal with, though my latchkey Xennial ass still prefers the wondrous combination of peanut-inspired substances and mid-century food science.

I suppose there’s an element of preference as well. If !myinterest@instance exists and is limping along with 80 subscribers and a post once a month, is that less discouraging? Maybe 300 subs and a post every other day is adequate? At the risk of scope creep, maybe the answer lies in more data and options to account for the preferences of those new to the Fediverse. I concede I don’t have answers though, and I’m obviously putting less work into it than you are.

Fight the good fight, friend. I need more posts about old TV shows and niche hobbies, so we just need more decent people, however they arrive. :-)

I totaled it at 200k miles.

I hope the shopping cart that dinged your bumper was okay…

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IMHO, the APIpocalypse resulted in too many communities that died on the vine and discouraged their creators and few visitors. Funneling that energy into fewer, more general communities to build up views and conversations strikes me as a a necessary forerunner to a massive “Cambrian Explosion” type of thing. Subreddits, for the most part, naturally evolved because there was already a critical mass of users interested in the topic, not because the sub existed first and attracted the users. What would you think about a different approach to collect various subreddits and file them under healthier lemmy communities that are not one-for-one, but still relevant?

Sub : Community

• askreddit : asklemmy
• amitheasshole : asklemmy
• explainlikeimfive : asklemmy
• gaming : gaming
• pcmasterrace : gaming
• minecraft : gaming
• etc, etc.

Still Tuesday here, but I’ll jump in. Working on the CAD file for the 3D printed case of my next mechanical keyboard. For this one, I actually designed a super primitive PCB instead of hand-wiring all the keys, and it’s on its way from China. I’ll still need to wire the Raspberry Pi Pico myself, since I wanted to start by dipping my toe in to see if I could route the switches’ matrix and the mounting holes for the diodes I’ll need.

Do you find you are able to emulate much that can make use of the analog sticks? The RG Arc-S and -D have similar internals and a nice screen, but they seem to have been consigned to the discount pile for lack of analog sticks (and maybe being late to the game for RK3566 models). As a Genesis kid, I always liked the Sega controllers of that era.

NGL, a lawnmower deck is a clever platform. I assume this is their trailer.

I’ve never been attacked by one, but I’ve been intimidated by them on several occasions. Canada Goose DGAF.

Thanks. This product category has matured nicely from the days of the GP2X and Pandora.

I think realistically 5th gen would be the limit in the price range, right? Any recommendations on which are most versatile? I understand Android can be better for some emulators, and Linux for others.

Thanks! That class of device is probably where I’m leaning, having now poked around some other sites as well. Honestly, those issues are about what I’d expect from this pricepoint/feature combination, but they don’t seem like dealbreakers and sounds like it’s a usable SBC in a gaming friendly package, which is about what I’m after.

I think the SteamDeck might be overkill here. Something along the Miyo or Anbernic is what I’m thinking initially, but I have no idea what in this product category is worthwhile.

That was one of the posts that piqued my interest. Also think the Anbernic ones look decent.

Cool. I’ve always been intrigued by them. I have an Orbit Fusion out in the living room, with a button remapped to allow a grip closer to the classic 2-button Orbit. I just can’t quit that scroll ring.

How do you like that Ploopy? Did you assemble it yourself?

I can’t pull anything coherent out of this, of course, but there’s some fun bits and pieces floating in the brain stew there.

• The Hiawatha Crater is a 31km wide impact basin under a glacier in Greenland, but the meteor that caused it is estimated to have fallen almost 60mya, so “only” a few million years after the Dinosaurs took their big hit.

• There are often cross cultural commonalities in legends and other folklore, enough to merit a classification system, Aarne–Thompson–Uther, that while problematic in how it treats elements found in stories not common in cultures well-studied by western academics, is still very much in use in academia. Of course, most of this comes down to “humans being humans” and few scholars think its worthwhile to go on wild goose chases trying to find actual events inspiring specific tropes, to say nothing of this… erm… theory(?).

• As far as I can tell, there is no meteor in the Kaaba, but set into a corner is the “Black Stone,” a cemented aggregation of pieces of a large, likely igneous stone. As an object of veneration, it appears to pre-date Islam, as does the basic notion of the Kaaba itself, which was already a holy site for local religion when Muhammed came along. There is a broader tradition in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East of including large stones (“baetyls”) in temples as representations of gods. The Roman Emperor Elagabalus was born and raised in Syria, and when he became emperor he (among other much weirder shit) brought along the “god” Elagabalus, the local temple stone, and tried to insist it be worshipped in Rome as a deity superior to Jupiter. If there is one thing Romans of that era did not like, it was being told that other gods were better than than their own, or even anything other quaint provincial re-namings of the Roman gods. They didn’t necessarily need you to believe their religion (orthodoxy), but you sure as shit needed to to observe it (orthopraxy), and fucking around with the practice of the state religion is a very good excuse for your Praetorian Guard to finally stab the bejeezus out of you (and your mom).

• Finally, Pixie and Brutus is a pretty cute comic, if maybe a bit overexposed and SEO’d.

A lot of NYT games follow the crossword model and start easy on Monday and increase in difficulty over the week. That obviously doesn’t explain Saturday, though.

Yup. At this point, “locally installed, reliable, parametric modeling on Linux” = “FreeCAD, including Ondsel, and SolveSpace”. That’s it. Well, there’s code-to-CAD as well, which obviously retains parametric history, but goes about it very differently than a design tree.

For non-parametric modeling, BricsCAD and Plasticity enter the discussion. For parametric on the web, OnShape works very well but I hate their licensing scheme and the huge doughnut hole in their pricing model.