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EponymousBosh

@ EponymousBosh @awful.systems

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I am 30 or 40 years old and I do not need this.

  • How do I drink more water?

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  • Dysphagia, maybe?

  • Why do we dance and hop when we desperately need to go number 1?

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  • What band did you hear one song of, check the rest of their music, and find it was a one-off and none of their other music sounds like that?

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  • What is an old movie that couldn't be made today?

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  • If you have a Nebula subscription, Lindsay Ellis has a fascinating video about Blazing Saddles and why it really couldn't be made today, but not for the reasons you'd think; it has more to do with the history of the Western genre and the state of race relations in the US than "political correctness." I wish she'd put it on Youtube.

    So I guess that's my roundabout answer: any movie that "couldn't be made today" is probably because of larger social forces than just "too much swearing/violence/nudity/etc."

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    What makes a vagina better than the penis?

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  • As someone who's used both, I think men's and women's restrooms are equally gross overall. Humans is humans, bodies is bodies, grossness doesn't discriminate, etc.

  • Oat milk w/ coffee: ya or na?

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  • I find regular oat milk and/or almond milk too watery, same as you. Oat milk or almond milk-based creamers are where it's at for me. Califia Farms also makes a "barista blend" oat milk specifically for coffee drinks if you can find it.

  • [QUESTION] What are your favorite vegetarian meals?

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  • Website recommendation: Cookie and Kate. Generally pretty easy recipes and I haven't been disappointed yet. The Vegan Lasagna is a lot of work but 100% worth it.

    Book recs: Moosewood Simple Suppers and Weeknight One-Pot Vegan Cooking. I checked the latter out from the library and liked so many of the recipes that I immediately bought a copy. And I actually made one of ny faves out of the Moosewood book last night: Lemony Couscous with Chickpeas. I like to cut the couscous down to one cup and throw an extra can of chickpeas in, but it's good as-written too.

  • Samsung is shutting down SMS/RCS — is the a good alternative to Google's messenger?

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  • There's a fork of QKSMS called Quik SMS that's still being developed! That's what I use now.

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  • TV bumpers/"vanity plates." The Viacom and 20th Century Fox ones were particularly bad when I was a kid. I don't watch much TV...

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  • I grew up in Florida but I haven't lived there in a long time and I had a visceral fear reaction to just reading the words "palmetto bugs." AUGH.

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  • Why sometimes Linux is hard to switch to

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  • I see people recommending Debian but you also said you enjoy tinkering, so I'd recommend SpiralLinux. It's basically Debian but it uses BTRFS so you can roll back to a previous snapshot if you break something. I don't think Spiral has updated to Trixie yet so you'd need to manually upgrade but that's not too big a hassle if you do it immediately.

  • Hi, I would like one Linux, please

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  • So the NVIDIA graphics card is not as big of an issue as it would have been even five years ago. Just use the proprietary drivers. And for my money, Linux Mint is the best distro for beginners, hands-down. You never have to touch the command line and everything just works.

  • Hi, I would like one Linux, please

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  • I second this, with the addition that you can also use DistroSea to test-drive distros in your browser. Also, DistroWatch has a search that you can filter by "Beginners" to find some that might be easier.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th March 2026

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  • A friend of mine is working on an internal AI chatbot at their company, so that the Least-Productive Team will have something to answer the same 5 questions that they keep asking to Friend's (extremely productive) team, instead of wasting Friend et al's time.

    So I guess that's the one use case of AI bots: to dangle keys in front of MBAs who are too stupid to do their own jobs. Which explains everything, really.

  • How are you supposed to pronounce "Macklemore"?

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  • Well, shit. Sorry Mr Macklemore :(

  • What Phone do you guys use?

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  • Haven't gotten there yet. I'm curious to see what happens with Motorola though!

  • What Phone do you guys use?

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  • Same!

  • A Counter-View on the Age Verification Law

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  • California is not the center of the universe, but in the US, a fair amount of companies have to tailor their practices to accommodate California law, because A) it's so weird a lot of the time, and B) California is huge and rich, so there's a lot of business to be had. It just makes sense to accommodate the outlier. What happens in California has knock-on effects for the rest of the country, and occasionally the rest of the world; case in point, the recent systemd debacle. It's not certain that they added the age thing in response to the California law specifically, but it was certainly a factor.