Which is older, Tetris, or Chess? /s

Seems sweet! I’ve been enjoying Sker Ritual lately

As a huge zombies fan who has skipped every game since BO3; I kinda hope they never make a good game that I feel like I want to play ever again… Because it won’t run on Linux and I don’t want to dual boot or get a console 😅

James Hoffman did a cool decaf project to compare decaffeination techniques. I don’t remember the results 😅

I remember the flop, but since Proton and Steam Deck have been waiting for them to try again. In many ways it might be bad marketing and just adding a “2” to the name would probably help. But in other ways, it might just be them being transparent? Same with the controller. Like they’re owning their past and saying “we still want this, and the time is right this time”

Yeah, the Steam Machine was the name. It came out before Linux gaming was really a thing if I recall. Before Proton. So I think they just expected game makers to make Linux ports?

Old laptops make fantastic home servers.

I agree 100%! Butt I’m joking about a façade of optimization. Making code confusing and hard to interface with by making up custom data types. And for more context, their main project is a UI that takes >10 seconds to load and uses 2+GB of RAM. But at least the UUIDs in the SQLite DB are stored as hex instead of strings 😅 (even though I think everything in SQLite is actually stored as a string under the hood?)

I do still admire the desire for optimization - but it might be some sort of coping mechanism to ignore the insanely unoptimized bits of the project

I have a coworker who does stuff like this and it’s always low-benefit optimizations that cost the team time to interface with - but I do still kind of love it

I’m currently trying to figure out how to use RSS for this reason.

Well, how’d everyone do? I had to order some magic cards so I stayed up until midnight to do it lol. I also need to replace a pvc pipe under my kitchen sink so that waited until today and I’ve been getting water from the bathroom…

My wife told her family and all of them are very enthusiastic to join (20 ish people). Unfortunately I still have trouble convincing my family that Trump shouldn’t be allowed to do illegal things

Are we that degenerate already??

Since I’m dramatic I burned a bunch of things my ex gave me in my parents’ backyard. Years later I noticed my brother had a metal necklace with some discoloration. It was one I burned lol. I felt too weird to tell him.

I didn’t figure it out… Haven’t gone back to visit. But the water definitely could be part of the issue - it’s well water that’s super high in Sulfer so it smells like a hot springs. I didn’t really notice the smell unless I was showering. But I didn’t consider what it’d do to the coffee!

Thanks! No Asian markets in my town… Don’t love being so reliant on Amazon 🙃 Anyway, I looked up the Korean morning coffee and I guess it has an egg yolk, pinch of salt, pine nuts, and a couple drops of sesame oil. And you either leave the yolk intact and have it like a prairie oyster at the end of your cup, or you stir it in as a kind of creamer. I don’t have pine nuts, but I tried both methods without them this morning - prairie oysters are not my favorite… And then you have an egg aftertaste instead of a coffee one. Mixing the egg made the drink very rich, which made me imagine strong chocolate notes. Feels a lot like breakfast in a cup, which I think is by design. Probably adds a good amount of nutrition. But I don’t think it improves upon plain black coffee. Kinda just a different drink. Fun to try, I’ll try it again after I pick up some pine nuts.

I’m excited for the Vietnamese egg coffe - I watched a couple videos and it looks super fun

It’s called a BruTrek and is a local product for me. I was hesitant to pick it up in case it was garbage but at least at my level, it’s been great. They seem like coffee nerds and the packaging convinced me. My wife has a fancy electric grinder for her espresso and we compared the two (as best as we could) and I don’t think there was any difference that could have been more than my pouring inconsistency. Years from now I might experiment with grinders that are known to be excellent though 😁

It’s actually a local product! Very happy with it. Unsure how much inspiration it took from the 1zpresso but they seem super similar.

Haven’t tried roasting but I feel like I’ll want to someday. The little research I’ve done says it’s complicated. Or at least can be complicated. If I ever have enough land, I want to grow some coffee plants and process them completely myself.

I also haven’t tried an aeropress but have been thinking about it. I’ve wondered if it’s actually a good camping solution, and I know people love them

Looks like mine are called Booge but there are a bunch of different styles that might work well for suits. Mine are hollow so you can run a string through, some have keychains, some have elastic loops. Not sure if you plan to keep them in the suit pocket or attach to the hanger or something.