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Underwaterbob, to lemmyshitpost in Does Lemmy skew old enough for this one?

I miss Saturday morning cartoons. Sure, looking back, a lot of those cartoons sucked, (quality is on average much higher these days) but it was more about the ritual and the expectation. Saturday morning TV was for me.

Underwaterbob, to linux in Surface Laptop 3 running Kubuntu, such an improvement over what it was "designed" for.

I bought my wife an HP Stream 13 some years back. It came with Windows 8 installed. Which worked just fine until updates bloated it so much it literally took up the entire (paltry) SSD. Windows 10 came out and it offered a free upgrade, which would have been smaller. Unfortunately, every time I tried to do that, it just complained it didn’t have the space to make the switch. I rolled it back to an older Windows 8 and disabled updates to try and keep using it. It complained constantly. I finally deleted the shit out of Windows and installed Lubuntu. It’s worked since then without issue.

Underwaterbob, to upliftingnews in South Korea passes ban on dog meat consumption

a horse

They eat horse in Korea, too. It’s just not as widespread as dog, so no ban yet.

Underwaterbob, to mildlyinteresting in This is an Octobass

Overtones. Bowed string instruments have a lot of harmonics. I can’t imagine it sounds very good, but I bet it’s interesting.

Underwaterbob, to risa in Every time I'm trying to decide what new show I should check out

They’re not quite as terrible as their reputation. Yeah, they’ve definitely got some of the worst episodes of Trek ever, but there are good ones in there, too.

Underwaterbob, to memes in It really makes me cringe every time they talk about logic...

Well, do they believe the crazy bullshit, or are they just an opportunist looking to make connections? Church is lucrative.

Underwaterbob, to risa in Beware imposters...

I’m re-watching DS9 for the third time or something, but I’ve never seen anything released after Voyager except for the Abrams movie travesties. Am I still a Trekkie?

Underwaterbob, to linuxmemes in Linux mint = best beginner distro

It was weird. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS printed perfectly. First try, every time. Barring printer issues not related to the OS anyway. Then, 20.04 dropped, and I couldn’t print anything. For two years, I had to move files to the Mac on the front desk to print at work because it refused to print anything. Same printer. I tried a few fixes people had posted, but none worked for me, and most fixes were for HP printers and mine is an Epson, which no one reported any problems with.

Now, with 22.04, I get intermittent printing. It works more often than not, but I’d estimate my print jobs get randomly canceled about 30% of the time. Which is annoying, but not deal-breaking since I usually just push it through again, and it works. To be fair, it might be because of wireless printing, but I doubt it since like I said, 18.04 worked flawlessly with the exact same setup. I might just try out Mint sometime and see if it makes a difference.

Underwaterbob, to memes in Aaaaaand it's over

Which may be the case, but being immediately dismissive like you are isn’t exactly going to get them on your side now, is it?

Underwaterbob, to asklemmy in What is something good happening in your city/town/local area?

I live on Jeju-Do: a South Korean island with a population of ~700'000. Half of the registered electric cars in all of Korea are on the island. Anecdotally, just driving down the road to work, every third car I see is electric. We've got electric buses, scooters, and bikes all over the place too. If only we could stop the pollution blowing over from China (not that Korea is innocent of polluting their own air.)

Underwaterbob, to piracy in For those who pirate songs, how do you discover new music?

It requires a lot of filtering, but I find Pitchfork.com reliably has something decent in their “best new …” pages. Just don’t actually read the reviews.

Underwaterbob, to risa in How is this not the worst episode of DS9?

Never mind the ~500 year age gap between Dax and Bashir.

Underwaterbob, to risa in How is this not the worst episode of DS9?

Haha! Some DS9 writer read The Player of Games and decided they wanted to make that, and bunged it up horribly.

Underwaterbob, to asklemmy in What is your unpopular flim opinion

I agree with this to a point. It depends on your set up at home, vs whether or not you get decent seats at a theater and how crowded it is. I saw “Dune” from great seats in a mostly empty theater, and I don’t think any home set up could compare. I also watched “It Follows” at home late at night on a decent TV while my family was away, and I can’t imagine a better way to experience that one.

Underwaterbob, to risa in Sensors report that sanity levels in this sector are decreasing rapidly, Captain

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