Nah, 3.1 tiling wallpapers are where it’s at. That’s peak nostalgia. Especially the ones where you clearly ran out of colors and the gradients were really choppy.

I can see that fedora was very popular back in the day.

Whereas fractions are entirely clear to every American. Like, which drill but is biggest: 7/64, 3/32 or 1/8?

That’s a common problem with these titles. If you want to make them short and snappy, you’ll either end up with something vague or straight up incorrect.

If life doesn’t get in the way, you could consider getting to bed early. Just steer clear of movies, games and the entire internet. Those things have a tendency to mess up grand plans like this.

Haven’t seen one about that yet. Potential PFAS sources are literally everywhere nowadays, so I’m not entirely sure how concerned should I be. Many coffee machines have plastic parts here and there, so the paper is probably the least of my concerns.

The fact that boiled coffee in a pot contains high levels of the worst of the cholesterol-elevating substances, the diterpenes cafestol and kahweol, is already known. It’s even mentioned in the latest Nordic nutritional recommendations, where the advice is to reduce or refrain from drinking boiled coffee. However, a regular drip-filter coffee maker, which uses a paper filter, manages to almost completely filter out these cholesterol-elevating substances.

Sounds like I won’t be using an espresso machine or moka pot very much in the future.

I see an angry space kraken.

The effects of alcohol can be seen in various biometrics too. For example, in has a negative impact on heart rate variability, resting heart rate, deep sleep, restlessness, duration of sleep and sleep efficiency.

source: Pulse blog

Initially, I imagined it’s a cozy cottage in the middle of nowhere, but then I remembered that Switzerland exists. You could totally have some shops only a few tram stops away.

Getting some old computers ready to be sold. Installed Debian on an old one that probably won’t be able to handle W11. Probably not worth much, but better sell it while it’s still worth anything at all.

Also realized I have a some spare SSDs I could use somewhere.

Quick, switch the bat-signal on!

But, but… I saw it on TV. It has to be true.

LOL. I’ve seen that happen many times. One of my classmates also did that intentionally every now and then.

It was a different country, different system etc. so USA specific things didn’t apply. I totally get it why everyone here seems to be so outraged about it, but in this case, it was mostly harmless fun.

Here’s how it usually went. You make some close up noises, and watch how other students start packing even though we’re nowhere near done yet. The point is that you only make the noises, but don’t actually put your books in your backpack. People react to that noise, and assume that everyone else is also packing up already. You have effectively triggered an avalanche. Some people eventually started heading for the door, and that’s when the teacher realized what was happening, and had to tell everyone to calm down and take a seat.

I read that with “sports” as a verb. Took me a while to realize that “Apple Sports” is the name of the app.

That is true. However, spending one hour is way too much. Maybe something like 20 minutes three times a day for two weeks would be better. That way, the impact stress would be tolerable and necessary muscles would have enough time to grow. Sadly, that sort of thing is fundamentally incompatible with the way vacations and ski resorts work.

Regained energy? Please elaborate.

Same. Had to look it up to figure out what people are talking about.

Never tried that before. Normal squid is pretty chewy and tastes like 50% cardboard and 50% meh, so was it the same or even worse?

I’ve heard many times that “alcohol is worse than smoking pot” or “they’re about the same”, depending on who you ask. Never smoked pot, so I can’t speak from experience there, but booze never caused me any of the weird stuff I read about smoking.

Sure, drink a lot, and you you will run into some nasty problems. Also seems to hold true for the people who smoke way too much. I know some people who have been smoking for years, and their brains are clearly fried to a crisp. Then again, if they had been drinking instead, who knows how bad it would have been. Probably very bad.

However, smoking once can apparently have some unexpected results, whereas drinking once… Well, if you have just a few drinks, you should be relatively fine. If you drink a lot, you’ll wake up the next morning in someone else’s house with a stolen traffic sign next to you. Oh, and the Unexplained Party Injuries, embarrassing photos, hangover etc. Now don’t get me wrong, there are some serious downsides.

It’s just that smoking seems to have some truly bizarre downsides. Maybe it’s all about how much you smoke.