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Whenever somebody posts about a glory hole I expect to see this one, but it still makes me laugh every time

Seems these days the Republican way is "if we can't find evidence we'll create some"

Mine has a few plastic bits fail but I was able to 3D print replacements

My old Brother color laser is still going strong!

I just installed SteamOS on a mini PC that costs about half what the Steam Machine does (and less than the Deck under current pricing), and runs on an AMD 7840HS with 32GB of RAM in a form-factor that's the size of 3 stacked pieces of bread.

While that APU is likely powerful than the Steam machine's with its dedicated VRAM, I did test a few games and it definitely outperforms the Deck and the higher system RAM makes it potentially more versatile than either.

I've got a collection of games that are either:

• Games I liked but wouldn't want my kids to play
• Games I liked and my kids will likely like
• Games I liked and my kids likely won't like
• Games I liked and my kids initially don't, but dammit they're going to give it a try anyways despite the dated graphics or sometimes cheesy plot-points

People can be great in some ways yet fallible or bad in others, particularly when looked at through the lense of time.

Follies and achievements should often be looked at with the perspective that we've had the opportunity to learn a lot from both.

I'd kinda love to see a comeback for optical given the supply issues for flash memory, but I'll about that a custom USB ROM stick or SDCard style carts for PC would be kinda sick

What data exactly is it going to upload? There's a finite amount of data that can store and I'd imagine with the chip/storage costs on the rise no manufacturer is going to be using a larger onboard storage device. They're all too damn cheap for that

A lot of those people (racist supremacist etc assholes) were also fucking "the help", and even back then I'm pretty sure it wasn't considered socially acceptable to fuck animals, nor would anyone ever expect progeny to happen from such. That kinda defeats the argument of non-whites being another species or non-human etc, so it's more "they're not human when it comes to rights but human enough for everything else"

I kinda feel it does make sense, though perhaps not so strongly as the parent indicated. Young brains are more malleable - that's pretty much a known thing - and learning at a young age sets in high knowledge and patterns of learning that follow us through adulthood.

If one learns a certain thing from a young age and it's pretty much been driven in multiple ways - indoctrination whether intentional or otherwise - that's a lot of stuff that's been set pretty hard. Even it somebody is actively aware it's bad it can be hard to adjust one's inclination towards a certain way of thinking.

I'm not trying to make excuses for racism - because frankly a lot of those people don't even try to adjust their thinking - but breaking free from one's upbringing is not a small hurdle and I'd put it in similar terms to breaking a bad addiction.

I got "one way" reflective film for the window that gets the most sun exposure and it definitely makes a difference, ones provides privacy during the day while still letting me see outside