Sounds like some kind of medical condition, I’d look into that. Eyesight, dyslexia etc.

I’d say most people who use a desktop PC in the first place also use it for content consumption, probably even primarily. Definitely an “and” situation, not an “either/or” one.

Smartphones make productive or creative activities difficult and brainrot activities very easy.

Isn’t this typically said by gangster rappers, anyway? Lots of them have fake personas, and if it’s real their hustle is often crime - not exactly something to aspire to, and there’s already tons of discussion about the questionable messages of gangsters rap.

But also, I’d definitely be more motivated to work my ass off if I was living my dream, like most music artists are doing - not necessarily for money, but for being able to continue to live my dream, and make the most of however much time I have as a professional artist.

Prevailing message in media … well … most of the music I listen to doesn’t have vocals … I do consume a lot of fantasy content (books, games, TV shows/movies), where “get rich or die trying” is definitely a thing, though a lot of it also has more lofty motivations such as saving the world (which at least in games usually needs material wealth to accomplish), or the protagonist is just fighting for their life.

IDK about the sun, but The Sun definitely is!

It is also possible that a deeper, underlying trait might be the root cause driving both wind farm opposition and conspiracy beliefs simultaneously. A general disposition to distrust others, for example, could make someone highly susceptible to both phenomena.

More likely, both of these are caused by rightwing ideology, as rightwing propaganda promotes both belief in conspiracy myths and wind farm opposition.

Yes, my vermouth is being stored in the fridge the entire time between unsealing and drinking.

Dry vermouth is a bit of a meme in cocktail enthusiast circles. The mainstream opinion is that it needs to be as fresh as possible to make a good cocktail, and it definitely loses a lot of flavor in the first weeks after unsealing. But to me, that full punch of wormwood herb is a bit much, I much prefer the more muted flavor of fridge-aged (oxidized) vermouth. I think part of that “as fresh as possible” stance is that people used to store unsealed vermouth outside of the fridge, often for years at a time because people were drinking their Martinis with only a few drops of vermouth. And even with freshly unsealed vermouth, most cocktail enthusiasts still tend to prefer low amounts of vermouth in their Martini, which to me suggests that they don’t actually like fresh vermouth that much.

Alternatively I could just try a few more different vermouth brands until I find one that I like from the start, but Dolin dry is delightfully cheap and Noilly Prat is the only dry vermouth that you can actually buy in physical stores where I live.

Diminishing returns applies pretty universally, it’s just a matter of finding the point that’s good enough.

Professional wine tasting seems like a scam anyway. Somehow, professional wine tasters are unable to tell red from white wine in blind tastings that hide the visual information.

• afternoon cappuccino is great (Italians disagree)
• sweet-and-savory is tasty af (pineapple pizza, cream cheese with chocolate/nougat, steak with ketchup)
• sweet alcoholic drinks are great, actually (but they should still have taste - use high quality ingredients and keep the ratios sensible!)
• 2 months-old dry vermouth (fridge-stored) tastes better than freshly unsealed dry vermouth

I can kinda see that for when he was younger, but even back in 2016 he was mostly an old fart with incoherent rambles and fugly face makeup. Also, I think this face with the pursed lips he often makes wasn’t really a thing in his younger years, or it’s just way more blatant and offputting with his old man face.

Hm, immutable distros change the game quite a bit. I don’t see how Debian could match that without introducing an immutable version of Debian, so it’s not really something that the people in charge of the upgrade process can solve.

Which distro would that be that does seamless major release upgrades?

IMO, it’s fundamentally impossible to make this seamless, especially on a fixed release distro.

Why the hell would you want major release upgrades in unattended upgrades? This is exactly what most people specifically don’t want their OS to do.

That’s cool and all. But, to give some context as to where I’m coming from: for the last 2-3 years or so, I receive automatic major release updates in the background. Sometimes, it takes me up to a week before I even notice it. I wish to see the day that Debian is released from its UnattendedUpgrades shackles and can ascend into pure bliss.

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You can easily disable or uninstall unattended upgrades, and I would definitely have noticed if Debian’s unattended upgrades automatically did major release upgrades on its own …

I’m too paranoid on security to consider that 😅. But I’m glad it works out for you.

IMO that’s not an issue at all, both Debian and Ubuntu are very good about providing security updates for their oldstable releases. Maybe your desktop environment or text editor isn’t going to receive updates anymore, but I have a really hard time imagining a relevant scenario where that makes a difference for security.

It still mystifies me that people consider Trump charismatic …

True, there are legitimate reasons why most people use Ubuntu or a Ubuntu-derivative on desktop, rather than straight Debian.That said, last time I did a major release upgrade on a desktop Debian system, I did maybe half of these steps and it still went without issue. The only issue that ever comes up for me when I upgrade Debian or Ubuntu is that things change how they work and I need to redo some of my configuration to account for it, and I do so much custom configuration that it can be kind of PITA sometimes. But that wouldn’t be any different on any other distro.

two years feels like the sweet spot.

I’m a big fan of skipping over one major release when upgrading, that way I get 4 (Ubuntu) or 5-6 (Debian) years of bliss. Software like webbrowsers, yt-dlp or Signal that needs to be really fresh is better installed through pip or flatpak anyway.

TIL. That definitely puts me off, like WTF? How can you fuck up a perfectly upgradable Debian like that?

Toxic masculinity, heteronormativity etc.