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You might need a time machine for these, though.

They probably have nice dishes they use for the cup of garlic sauce when you dine in.

I ordered a side french onion soup with a burger to go once. The soup was a mess obviously not intended to be served in a dish other than the one it’s baked in, but still delicious.

Up to that point, I was looking at the description in disbelief, but burst out laughing when I read “greek salad”. The hand cookie bit was just realistic enough to get it in the uncanny valley (the photo looked like an AI cookie hand, too… Actually, it might still be, I don’t know if that photo was from the lady that made them or added for the memenm, it says she produced photos in the meme… Really wish voyager’s comment UI showed more than just the one comment I’m replying to like RIF), but the greek salad put it well into absurd territory. Just imagining people biting into their over the top cookie thing and then making a wtf face at the combination of flavours in their mouth, though it would be even better if the initial surprise and disgust gets replaced by a confused look and then a “well played, not bad” because it works.

Lol I literally just had a greek salad earlier today but didn’t even think to check how it tastes with chocolate chip cookie, so who knows, maybe it is good.

Make mushrooms a main ingredient for the king’s crusty, cheesy foot fungus.

How usable did it end up being? Like would he frequently need to change disks? Or just during startup?

It does but your comment didn’t say that outright and people who just avoid deep friers because they don’t want to deal with the oil probably don’t make assumptions about deep friers making it easy to deal with that stuff.

I didn’t realize deep friers were more than fancy pots with stoves and temperature control built in and baskets so you don’t have to fish the fish and chips out with tongs. If I had more space and less fat, I might even have gotten one now that I understand they can also help manage the oil.

Probably better to get a rice cooker, though.

Our whole nervous system is a big neural network that extends through the entire body. There’s additional networks at each of our organs and muscle groups. They are already known to contribute to finer control of the organs, eg the brain doesn’t need to send signals to each individual heart muscle for each beat, the heart’s “brain” can handle that on its own. Reflexes and muscle memory can be handled more locally, too. Same with stress level, your liver might decide you’re irritable because of all the alcohol it needs to process.

But at the end of the day, it’s just a massive self-learning neural net that can encode other things. If you play a music instrument, maybe your finger neurons store more of the memory of how to play specific songs than you’d expect. So if you’re an expert piano player and lose your hands but replace them with prosthetics that can easily outperform normal hands, you might not be able to play the songs you could expertly do before. Hell, maybe even foot tapping along with a beat means that part of the experience in hearing or remembering some or all songs involves neurons in your legs.

You’d still feel like you, but parts would be missing. It’s not very well understood to what extent, but it does look like there is an extent, and not just for the gut “brain”.

The ones that you need to refrigerate are better than the ones that you store at room temp, in general, at least.

The UI of 7 plus the kernel of 10, and the marketing approach of XP, would make a windows that might come close to being as good as linux today and certainly wouldn’t be enabling linux to steal even a few % of market share.

And before that, there were games that spanned multiple floppies. Plus, floppies were less reliable, so there was a higher chance one of the disks would fail to read, leading to the Retry, Fail, Abort menu.

They were only 1.44MB so a 50GB game would take like 40k floppies.

Yeah, I’d consider time from boot to login prompt to be a useless metric. You could design an OS to show a prompt before anything else to “win” this pointless race.

Boot to usable is the only one that makes sense.

Ok, one case where boot to login is useful: you want to boot up and walk away for a bit, so less waiting for a login means you can login before walking away. Though, personally, I find RAM training takes a long time these days if you’re not waking from suspend, so still think boot to login is moot.

What seasons have good nuking weather?

Ah mine is always left plugged in, guess it can depend on use case.

To take it a bit further, I found at least cinnamon and KDE to be familiar enough that you can use your “discover how to do things on windows” skills for figuring out many things.

And once you get a handle on the repository software, it can also be easier to find and install new software when instructions direct you to a terminal command that doesn’t exist. KDE even does a search and says what needs to be installed when the command isn’t found. On windows, you need to download shit from some random website (which always sketched me out that someone could take advantage of that trust by making their malware behave as expected) and their search can fail to find something already installed on your machine, let alone figure out what you want to do if the name is a common word.

Can you give some examples of basic features that weren’t working with your dual monitor setup?

KDE might also help with this btw, as while I didn’t have any glaring issues with dual monitors in cinnamon (on Fedora), it improved overall when I switched to KDE. Used to have to change the audio output to my TV whenever I enabled it, now it happens automatically (plus the option to disable my HDMI audio if I preferred the “keep the same audio when switching to a different video output” behavior).

Only issue was that it didn’t work correctly the very first time, followed by it suddenly working the next time when I was intending to troubleshoot it.

Imo, KDE handles dual monitors better than windows even, especially if your secondary monitor is a TV you enable and disable depending on what you’re doing. Two clicks to toggle it, it handles different scaling seemlessly across the monitors (iirc, windows would “pop” to the scaling setting of whatever monitor they were mostly showing on as you moved them). Mouse cursor visibility improves when shaking the mouse, so it’s easy to find it on a giant screen.

Yeah, DHTML popups aren’t much different from the old popups that used to plague the internet. The only real difference is that I haven’t seen them used maliciously like the old popups were to be super annoying, but even “good faith” uses were all “hey, stop what you’re doing and do this for me” without any shame that went along with a real person doing that in a store.

I look forward to the day someone gets an AI to block this shit (on the assumption that it’s more complicated than blocking the old style popups without interfering with legitimate DHTML and needs context awareness).

Yeah, that was an unexpected nice thing about switching to Linux, though also the whole point. Like I knew that I wanted to take control back over my computer and OS, but I was surprised at just how much nicer it is when defaults are set without any profit incentive. There just wasn’t “spend time disabling MS attempts to get me to use their other software” or “dig deep for how to change a setting MS would really rather you don’t change” periods and it made me realize that that was where I’d spend a majority of the “computer maintenance” time on windows.

Don’t ban aftermarket exhausts completely, just the ones that optimize for loudness or dirtier air.

I’d like to see devices that detect when a car is running too rich or lean (bad cases I can smell right away, so it should be detectable at a range), along with enforcement and seizing vehicles where they deliberately mess with those, especially if there’s a switch or function present that can switch between legal and illegal modes to pass emissions tests and then go back to spewing out unburnt fuel or a much higher number of nitrous oxide compounds.

Windows comes with its own set of challenges in the form of wanting things set up differently from how MS wants them set up and not wanting to be nagged about using their shitty programs and services. I got to the point where any time the OS or software initiated some kind of contact with me, it would annoy me even if it might have been helpfull because I’m so used to those being from the marketing department.

Like I’ve noticed that Linux can do things without annoying me even if that thing used to annoy me on windows just because I don’t have that expectation that it’s trying to sell me something.

What even is the benefit of getting the users who don’t even give a fuck about any of the things that are useful to learn (and have for those who did learn enough to use them)?