3D effect gave me massive headaches, and was more like looking in a fishbowl to me.

I’ve had a “new” 2DS XL since 2019 and it’s fine. It’s really not bad and the top screen is fine. My only complaint is with the battery life (it uses the smaller regular 3DS battery) and the downfiring speakers.

I use utterly unique and very long passphrases for the most important stuff (banking, mortgage servicing, email, etc.), 2FA for those and most other things, and just throwaway crap passwords for things I don’t care about (web forums and most everything else).

Toss on some mushrooms, spinach leaf, and a bit of ground beef or sausage and you’re good to go.

This article writer has some weird fuckin’ priorities. And is still only getting halfway toward common sense.

Every accusation is projection.

No illusions on my part. RAID5 NAS with periodic disk archive backups.

• Books
• Audiobooks
• Retro game ROMs
• FLAC music collection
• Movies, TV, and anime series

Got what I need locally and intend to keep it that way. I’m sick of sites like Amazon with “Buy Now” buttons that are really “rent now via restrictive terms and only via devices we approve until we decide you no longer need access.”

Did he actually say that?

Weird. I wonder if quality is regional. I have a pair of Skechers sneakers I’ve had since 2023 that are still in goods shape, as well as a pair of boots from 2022. The sneakers are kinda worn at this point, but not to the point they need replacement yet. And I’m not exactly easy on my stuff, I live in a rural area and the terrain is rock and soil mostly.

I’m finding it weird how quickly my brain just accepted the switch in the comic.

I’ve found sketchers to be great. I wear wide and double wide, and they always fit to size.

That doesn’t work for the ESP, 1-20 on that one is for espresso, extremely fine. Normal coffee starts around 20-21. I’ve found 25-26 to be good for pour-over, it’s a medium fine there, especially at 25. Not sure about french press, I haven’t experimented yet, but it seems like going over 30 it starts to get less consistent. At around 38 I had chunks mixed in with grounds, and some of the chunks were so large they were like 1/4 to 1/3 of a whole bean.

There’s some great modern jazz coming out of Japan these days. Check out the likes of:

• Hiromi Uehara (and the Trio Project)
• Takuya Kuroda
• Sinsuke Fujieda Group

Also, UK too, check out the Ezra Collective.

Plenty of modern jazz out there, it’s just not mainstream anymore.

Edit - forgot about Ibrahim Maalouf. Dude is incredible on the trumpet. Between him and Kuroda, trumpet jazz is alive and well.

That’s a protected class. What the fuck?

Yeah, the hopper bounces around a lot. Not like vibration but literally shaking and bouncing. I’ve double checked and it’s all assembled right. Encore says it’s normal, but I’m not a fan. Already considering aftermarket solutions to stabilize it AMA make the grind more consistent, I don’t care if that makes the grind a little finer overall.

I also bought a hopper bellows, but it doesn’t seem as necessary, the grounds retention isn’t nearly as bad as my old Capresso. I might pick up the single serve hopper to try.

Actually, a lot of modern games on Windows suffer from micro stutters and frame hitching because it’s often compiling on demand if shader compilation isn’t built in upfront in the game. A lot of games run smoother on Linux with proton because of the shader precompilation.

I buy 2 lbs bags from an online roaster, they’re generally $32 a bag now (up from $26 - $28), though they often have discount codes and do points for discounts and free shipping as well (and they ship free over $50, which works for me as I buy 4 lbs at a time).

I’m embarrassed to admit I don’t remember all the details, but yeah,

Full Metal Panic is probably my favorite series ever and it pisses me off they won’t release the final chapter in anime. They literally released the first half of the end, we’re like “we’re not getting cancelled, totally gonna finish it” and then disappeared.

It’s not even finished in manga either. The only way to get the end of the series is via fan-translated light novel.

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, for the original PlayStation. All these years later it’s still an amazing standout.