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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I’ve been vegan for a little over five years now and I take the same multivitamin I used to take, plus a B12 supplement.

    Now I happen to have JUST bought a new bottle from Costco the other day and looking at my receipt it was… $14 for 360 tablets (a year’s supply). So over the last five years Big Kirkland has sucked a hefty $70 out of me for being so gullible.

    If only I didn’t have this wool over my eyes! Your conspiracy theory has to be the worst I’ve ever heard.


  • Your wishlist sounds almost identical to mine. As frustrating as the limitations of streamers are, they are easy to use. HDMI CEC makes single remote setups possible, easy volume changes, input switching, etc. Apps are vetted so they “just work”.

    As for casting, most platforms support running Miracast or AirPlay receivers. Google is the stickler here that won’t let you run a Google Cast receiver (or at least I haven’t found one) and also doesn’t implement Miracast on Pixel devices. It’s such a shame because I vastly prefer casting the URL to the TV and letting it source the content than mirroring my phone all the time.



  • I’m inheriting a cat (long story) and did some basic research into the possibility of a vegan diet. It seems that while it is possible, like your links suggest, there is no easy way to do it. I looked in thr local stores and while I have found vegan food for my dog, they don’t have anything for cats. A few online specialty places but the food is so expensive it is off the table.

    I’ve switched to trying to find the lowest impact food but even that information is hard to find. I hope that it gets better and this small market gains traction, but it’s not really at a level right now where thr average person can make a switch.






  • We’d need a suitably powerful APU upgrade in order to make running a 1080p screen viable. Most of the reason the Steam Deck performs as well as it does is because games are only rendering at 720p.

    My wishlist for a Deck V2 would be a

    • Higher res screen (if it makes sense as I mentioned above)
    • Higher refresh with VRR (partially handled by thr OLED 90hz but no VRR)
    • Second USB-C port supporting USB4
    • Fingerprint reader
    • QoL improvements like smaller bezel, modern wireless chipset, etc.

    AND a Steam Controller v2 as a companion with the exact same buttons/sticks/touchpads as the Deck.





  • It’s a very slippery slope. Clearly land/business owners, race, gender, etc are not the way.

    Political fluency? A test to see if you’ve been following current events and can answer basic questions? The positives would be a more informed pool of electorates, but it would also substantially diminish the amount of voters, exclude those that have grievances but don’t have time for politics, and the questions could be manipulated by the current government to exclude voters likely to vote for the opposition.

    I also don’t know what the answer is. I’m leaning towards this being a symptom of dysfunction rather than something that needs an easy workaround. If we can actually tackle poverty and bring education up people will be much more likely to vote rationally, but I don’t know how we get there WITH thr current system we have.


  • I’m in the same boat as you. Don’t like where Windows is going so I’m going to try to switch before 11 gets forced on me.

    I’ve got Fedora KDE Spin on a mini PC that I am trying to use as a workstation while my main Win10 PC handles gaming. I have a Steam Deck so I know I can do a large majority of my games on Linux, but I’ll probably have to figure out a dual boot or virtualized thing of some sort for the titles that don’t.

    I’ve got a few years to figure it out before Win10 stops getting security updates.