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by theothertimcook 9mo ago
You can buy very cheap emulation boxes/handhelds from AliExpress pre-configured that will happily run everything up to PS1/n64, people have different opinions on this as they come bundled with roms and bios. The value proposition
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by theothertimcook 9mo ago
I know I’m not alone in enjoying the rituals and habits around coffee, whether I’m making it, or grabbing a colleague and going for a walk. Caffeine doesn’t hit the same way nicotine does, but then both are inferior to dexamphet/methyl
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by theothertimcook 10mo ago
Can definitely recommend the iOT version, use Chris Titus tool to setup Winget and other missing bits and it's as good of an experience as you can have on windows, actually uses less resources at idle than an Ubuntu gnome install
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by theothertimcook 10mo ago
Anyone talking Dungeon Crawler Carl NEEDS to give the audiobooks a listen, the voice acting is better than anything I’ve ever listened to.
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by theothertimcook 10mo ago
It’s been under siege for years with human slop, it used to require a combination of skill, will, and means. Podcasting was always doomed to die at the hands of platform inflation, the signal/noise ratio has steadily been worse for yea
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by theothertimcook 10mo ago
It’s only trying to keep up with the torrent of insane shit a not insignificant portion of Australians are spraying on Facebook…
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by theothertimcook 10mo ago
Was it though? I don't know how you definitely prove that? Telling people to keep an extra bit of space around them, cover their face holes with a mask, and wash their hands was hardly the authoritarian nightmare some people made it ou
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by theothertimcook 10mo ago
This is really cool, I hope Jolla and Sailfish can thrive where Canonical, Pine64, Purism, and others have fizzled out.
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by theothertimcook 10mo ago
I’m just completely dumbstruck that my home state in particular QLD is spending million on social media advertising is adult crime adult time laws to the cheers or sky news addicted boomers meanwhile they’re continuing to eviscerate public
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by theothertimcook 10mo ago
There are ads on Reddit for a secure age verification system that uses your bank account to prove you're over 16. The current trend with authoritarian moves in Australia, law changes targeted young people, whether to prevent them from
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by theothertimcook 11mo ago
Same is a great part of the culture. I'm also in the same boat but more out of laziness and hating being greasy. Definitely wish I'd been more sun smart when younger though.
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by theothertimcook 11mo ago
Our media is completely captured, Murdoch's companies have near total dominance, we've managed to avoid most of the total culture war brain rot that's taken over in some countries but there's a bottomless and well fund
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by theothertimcook 11mo ago
Well I had never heard “whoever you vote for, the government always gets in” but it perfectly sums up Aussie politics, you're spot on, it's a power sharing agreement between two right of centre status quo preservationists.
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by theothertimcook 11mo ago
And despite said coup continued to brown nose the regimes behind it!
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by theothertimcook 11mo ago
The sunscreen thing is atrocious, about 7 years ago I bought a big expensive bottle of LeTan spf50 waterproof sunscreen, had a big day at the beach but applied and reapply diligently following the instructions. Burnt to a crisp, I emails th
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by theothertimcook 11mo ago
I like that too, one day I'll look it up.
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by theothertimcook 11mo ago
not an MD or shrink Depression is interesting because it exists and a state, feeling depressed/down and a condition Major Depressive Disorder, this is pretty common knowledge. The things you have tried all work in varying degrees for
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by theothertimcook 11mo ago
Big old hole in the ozone layer right over North East Australia, I see dark skinned south Americans blistering because they spent too long in the sun. Legend has it why Aussies call the English Poms, short for pomegranate, because they come
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by theothertimcook 11mo ago
Australians will sit and watch their health system shredded, multinationals running off with trillions in resources and pay zero tax/royalties, our poor quality housing and gridlocked cities rank amoungst the most expensive in the worl
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by theothertimcook 11mo ago
It's not a cure but it will definitely help kids with suboptimal executive function. My primary school had a run club at the beginning of the day we'd hit laps of the school between roll call and 1st session, iirc we had 10 minute
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by theothertimcook 11mo ago
These are not all iconic voices, people definitely but what about: Bootsy Collins, Snoop Dogg, Gilbert Gottfried , Arnie, Christopher Walken, Matt Berry.... Imagine the cast of Futurama voice acting the Bhagavad-Gita, or Vincent price readi
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by theothertimcook 11mo ago
DDG really is and has been the best thing to happen for search in a very long time. Every other privacy respecting alternative service I’ve tried and tango’d with has eventually given way to old/bad habits but DDG has been my go to for
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by theothertimcook 11mo ago
Endless OS on a ex corporate box/laptop could be a good option. https://distrowatch.com/table-mobile.php?distribution=endles...
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by theothertimcook 11mo ago
“the Victorian government introduced extra land tax for investors, amounting to about $1,300 a year for a property worth $650,000. A levy on platforms such as Airbnb and expanded taxes on vacant properties and land came soon after.” Along w
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
Picked up a fugly colour Lamy Safari on clearance, really satisfying to write with, have to give it extra time to dry before you close notebook but worth it. Might try one of those Chinese knockoffs
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
This seems to be the way to go. Do you rate/have you tied the KDE Linux distribbaed or arch?
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
100% I know people still using ME money from 20 years ago
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
100% poo tier.
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
Plan all they want, Snap is trash, gnome is painful and for someone who was sused to using one version of windows for a decade updating to a different animal version every year or so is a head fuck.
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by theothertimcook 1y ago
I daily'd an n100 box for a year for browsing, admin and light media. Had a second running Plex headless. Using stripped down versions of win iot, they were fantastic. The oem keys are legit fyi.

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