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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Personally, I like having a full fledged PC connected to my TV. Currently I’m using a Beelink T4 running Ubuntu. The PC is under my direct administrative control, so no surprises with ads or other things.

    Power consumption may be slightly higher than an NVIDIA Shield or Roku, but at 24w at full tilt for the Beelink it cannot be that much more.

    The same Beelink machine comes with Windows 10 as well, if you’d rather have Windows.






  • My (53m) idiot older brothers (61 and 59 respectively).

    The oldest decided to scam me and the middle brother out of our shares of the family farm. It’s not a huge amount of money, but the fact he did what he did is enough.

    My middle brother informed me, at Thanksgiving 2 years ago, that he was a member of the oath keepers and that essentially he was the new patriarch of the family. All of my political beliefs are bullshit and I had to subscribe to the right wingnut bullshit he adhered to. Military this and guns that. The stupid fuck was in the army for 6 years back in the 80’s.

    Haven’t spoken to either of those assholes in years, nor will I ever again.







  • I just deleted my 11 year old account completely, having using Power Suite Delete yesterday to delete the data on it.

    My parting comment in the deletion dialog was thus where it asked “Help Reddit Improve”:

    "Reddit Management does not suffer from Imposter Syndrome.

    Imposter Syndrome is when a fully capable individual feels as though they are not able to perform a job or task.

    Reddit Management does not suffer from Imposter Syndrome, because that is EXACTLY how you should feel about yourselves.

    Incompetent and incapable."


  • Ok, for some reason your text didn’t show up when I initially looked at your post and I missed you saying those are laurel bushes.

    They tend to zone 6 to 9 although one variety (Portuguese I think) is 7 to 9. So I’m going to assume you are south of Kentucky.

    Most laurels require trimming and a lot of it as they are hedge bushes. So the closer you plant other things, the more you will need to trim. My suggestion would be at least 3 to 4 feet out, at the minimum.

    I’m in a lot colder clime so let look to see if anything in my garden would work for you. Irises and Lillie’s are great And bloom at different times.


  • A lot of Mods might be looking at all the work they have put into their communities over the years and think “I can’t leave all of this.” Which at this point, given Reddit Corp’s behavior, is a sunk cost fallacy.

    It’s time to jump ship, or learn to live with the new reality. Which is really the same as the old reality, the thin veneer of civility has just been stripped away. This is Capitalism and it always turns out this way. Just look at how many products have been ruined, because someone, somewhere decided they needed more money. Anyone familiar with Hasbro’s heavy handedness with Magic the Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons knows what I am talking about.