Perfection. (Waves in Minnesotan)

Are those Sour Cream and Onion Arribas? Those are delicious.

Nah, somehow the Robert’s court will find a way to rule that it’s only legal for republicans.

I bet you don’t even know what a bicycle looks like.

Prove me wrong:

I think the transcript gets this wrong she kind of muddled her words and the quote I think was: “isn’t a coverup at all.”

If you really hate yourself, you could swap it out with plain Greek yogurt. It wouldn’t be good, but you could do it.

The other half of the package is for decoration on the top. You break the cookies in half and try to put them in a decorative manner.

An actual recipe I grew up having in Minnesota and still occasionally make for events.

Cookie Salad

Pot-Luck, Salads Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients:

• 2 (3.4 ounce) packages instant vanilla pudding mix
• 2 cups buttermilk
• 12 oz whipped topping, thawed
• 2 (11 ounce) cans mandarin oranges, drained
• 1/2 (11 1/2 ounce) package fudge stripe cookies

Directions:

• In a large bowl, mix together the pudding mix and the buttermilk.
• Fold in the whipped topping.
• Mix in the mandarin oranges and optional pineapple chunks.
• Crush cookies and mix in.
• Chill until ready to serve.
• Decorate with any remaining cookies.

Notes: French Vanilla pudding is especially good Some like to add 1 ( 20 ounce) can pineapple chunks, drained as well

Sometimes jokes where the punchline are based around absurdity will simplify or ignore the nuance of reality for the sake of a joke.

I just set up a Asus ZenWifi BE14000 to replace an old eero setup. I like it so far and haven’t experienced anything weird. I liked that it didn’t gate all the traffic shaping, new user notifications, and security behind a subscription paywall.

Does it smell like VCR Head Cleaner?

Seems like a perfect place to figure out tweaks to increase my Angband framerate. My current install is really pixelated. ;)

As a related aside for those with Kobos, http://send.djazz.se/ is really nice and a good hidden gem.

Very easy, if you are the “all my metadata must be perfect” type person then it plays well with Calibre, if you are a just “put it on I don’t care” , all you need is a web browser and WiFi connection or something that recognizes a flash drive including tablets/phones.

The point about DRM is more that for stores like Amazon, you can only remove the DRM anymore if it’s on a physical Kindle connected to Calibre with the right plugin. That doesn’t work on multipurpose tablets like the boox.

Koreader works great on kobo, installing is a minor effort.

If you haven’t already, take advantage of the fact that your Kindle still runs and use Calibre to remove the DRM from any purchased books from Amazon, it’s by far easier when you’ve got a physical device

Depends what a little bit on what you’re looking for. As a disclaimer, I am a Kobo user. Whether you go with a single purpose device or a multipurpose device like the boox depends a little bit on how focused you want to be able to be. I like my dedicated E reader because it makes it harder for me to just pop over into some other application to “I’ll just check something, quickly” because for me those never end up quick. Kobo has a good store, with a nice interface and the DRM is easy to strip. It also works well with side loading DRM-free content.

A boox would give you more storefronts to choose from but you’re more locked in to whatever DRM those stores choose.

I don’t have an easy answer. Amazon was the 1 ton gorilla in the room so that was the one I was familiar with, but I will try to update this comment as I find information out.

Kobo: Seems like it’s yours to keep without resale or transfer rights. (https://download.kobobooks.com/learnmore/kobo1_pdf/Kobo_eReader_Terms_of_Use.pdf)

Google: Yours to keep provided the authorized agent and Google themselves maintain rights to provide it. (https://books.google.com/intl/en/googlebooks/tos.html)

B&N Nook: seems to be more in line with Amazon (https://www.nook.com/services/cms/doc/us/en_us/legal/nook-store-terms.html#ItemsPurchases)

Smashwords: seems more like ownership without transferability. (https://www.smashwords.com/about/tos)

Exactly!

I think the first user is supposed to be a jelly-filled doughnut, and the second a danish.

According to the terms, when you purchase a Kindle e-book, you are buying a license to access the content rather than owning the book outright. And the only reason they made it explicit is CA law AB 2426. So you can “access” it on any device that can display their content, be it an app or hardware device, but you can’t possess it via a download for example. (I find this all to be bullshit, I’m just stating Amazon’s position on the topic)

https://www.ereadersforum.com/threads/amazon-clarifies-kindle-e-book-purchases-youre-licensing-not-owning.4831/

This is a big part of why I have a kobo, the files are easy to scrub of the DRM but I’m still getting an easy way to throw money at creators I value.