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You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me, 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

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Lidl

Curry (powder) is tricky because it can contain so many different things. The cheapest (and Lidl is always the cheapest, despite colorful packaging) usually sucks.

Poor couch 😥

One can also have endless arguments about the color turquoise. Is it rather green, or rather blue? Same as teal I guess.

Wer nie im Bette aß
weiß nicht wie Krümel pieken

I love how you got back at him. Firstly, chance of being discovered is close to zero. And since he’s already into hot sauce, he’d never admit that this one’s too much for him. So either he eats it all up and you get to revel in seeing his red face, or he throws it away and you got one over on him for preaching about food waste. Nice.

Is that the guy who had sex with his socks on?

Sticking their cameras (phones) where they don’t belong. Pointing fingers or openly gawking at you: look at the locals, they’re so picturesqe (Me thinking: hey, I wasn’t even born in this country)!

I’m only half a nerd.

Alphabet and Meta.

They have a stranglehold on the internet that should never have been allowed to develop in the first place.

But reading the other replies I guess my kneejerk reaction is a bit egocentric. Surely others are more important because they fuck up people’s lives directly, not just via the internet.

As in “I wish I could stop but it keeps pulling me back”?

I had that with a few kid shows, recently The Amazing World Of Gumball.

Movies will eat battery no matter what.

Make sure your device and the OS support hardware decoding - since you want to transcode them to 720p anyhow, I’d say h264 is your best bet. Don’t try to compress them too much; my guess is that battery will be more expensive than storage in your off-grid scenario?

FWIW I recommend going Linux for this sort of stuff. You simply have more control. It would be cool if there’s a phone that supports full Linux; maybe check PostmarketOS’ supported devices.

I recently thought about repurposing a TV box or whatever they’re called - it’s possible to install Linux on some of them. Maybe check out Armbian. Of course you’d still need a screen then.

We’ve always been here.

TBF, the US government spouting that shit is somewhat new.

Speak for yourself. Whenever I hear the vague “they” I ask who exactly that is supposed to be. Sometimes in earnest, sometimes I just sarcastically throw it back at them: They?

But as far as I can I try to make sense of what people are trying to tell me.

BTW a PhD does not protect one from being nuts, please perish the thought.

In the case you mentioned I’d really like to know why they said it wasn’t true anymore, in addition to who “they” are.

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Who the fuck thinks Steve Jobs was a hero during his lifetime?

Rhetorical question, I know these people exist.

I’d like to disagree here. Most people think he was good for the UK and Europe during WW2, but definitely not beyond reproach. Very few actually revere him. Just some very old racist Brits would be my guess.

That said, the UK still has a lot to answer for wrt colonialism especially in India.

James Dean

Not even sure he wasn’t a villain during his lifetime already; but it’s easy to adore someone who died so young.

Ah, a “smart” TV

[as the other guy said, use your TV as a PC screen and let the computer do the screaming]