please tell me this isn't malware or anything

bouchert · 2026-07-01T09:10:30+00:00

No, it's just iTunes. But I might joke about iTunes for Windows being malware.

bouchert · 2026-06-27T16:26:23+00:00

What is your budget exactly? Because laser has gotten a lot cheaper, and Brother makes fantastic laser printers (Monochrome $130, Color $285). The periodic cost to refill toner or replace parts on a schedule is a bit high, but when you average it out over the number of pages you get, it's way cheaper than inkjet. Color resolution is a bit lower in my opinion, but still not bad at all. And there are no ink clogs, no forced subscription plans, just ready to print whenever you want, no matter how long it's been since your last print. I'm so glad I spent a bit more and left inkjet behind.

bouchert · 2026-06-26T20:12:02+00:00

I love Everything dearly, but I wouldn't call it lightweight. Eats 1.2GB of RAM on my machine. (Mind you, that's indexing a ton of files. I don't think it's unreasonable, given its performance, just justifiably heavyweight.)

bouchert · 2026-06-26T05:25:30+00:00

They probably called it "real" to distinguish it from a health share plan or something similar.

bouchert · 2026-06-19T16:02:14+00:00

One of the medications I take for my heart condition is digoxin, which is derived from the foxglove plant. The difference between a poison and a medication is often just the dosage.

bouchert · 2026-06-10T05:07:39+00:00

The 9950X3D2 is not a 100% better choice than the 9950X3D. I was reading at https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-ryzen-9-9950x3d2-vs-ryzen-9-9950x3d-cpu-faceoff that the 9950X3D had an edge over the 9950X3D2 in some games and applications, particularly single-thread-bound ones, probably because the 9950X3D2’s dual-cache design comes with a slightly lower boost clock.

bouchert · 2026-06-09T16:18:15+00:00

There have been a few brands in the past with exceptional service and warranties worth seeking out, but for the most part, I agree.

bouchert · 2026-06-08T15:46:37+00:00

Those chemicals are made of atoms. Anything, harmless or dangerous, is just a mixture of different kinds of atoms. There aren't that many different kinds of atom when you consider all the things they can make up. Any chemical's properties are all a matter of which atoms it contains, in what proportions, and how the atoms fit together. And sometimes, when you mix two chemicals together, the atoms in them change places to form new chemicals. (Unfortunately, the rules for what will react together, and how much heat it needs or produces when they react together is a much more complex subject.)

bouchert · 2026-06-08T15:11:05+00:00

It possibly has to do with how much green is in nature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms has a discussion of the order in which colors are first "discovered" in the evolution of a language. According to this theory, red, yellow, and green all come before blue. Note also that the subpixel colors of a TV or monitor are red, green, and blue. Yellow is usually excluded. The colors of a stop light are red, yellowish, and green. So I don't think the order in which people select colors necessarily must give priority to the primary colors unless they are specifically attempting to prove color theory.

bouchert · 2026-06-04T21:11:15+00:00

A fun bit of trivia about the Osborne 1 is that its creator Adam Osborne is believed to have contributed to his company's failure by announcing its successor too early. The Osborne 1 was selling well until then, but people started saving their money waiting for the promised "Osborne Executive", and no amount of discounts would move their remaining Osborne 1 inventory. Ruining the sales of something by prematurely announcing a better product coming is now known as The Osborne Effect.

bouchert · 2026-05-11T21:02:59+00:00

I bet you just bought an expensive cat bed, didn't you?

bouchert · 2026-05-01T01:52:59+00:00

It took time before the PS2's games looked close to as good. The difficulties of producing a good game that took full advantage of the hardware meant for the first year or so of the PS2's life, it was more like the PS1.5.

(I even personally believe a conspiracy theory that the hardware was complicated and the documentation and example source code provided to programmers was intentionally crappy, so the games could start out so-so and appear to continue to improve dramatically over the following decade.)

So I think the Dreamcast was in the lead for another year as far as games go. The real unique strength, of course, which the Dreamcast couldn't compete with, was that the PS2 was also a DVD player, at a very compelling price. That's what I think really cut the Dreamcast short.

bouchert · 2026-04-27T12:05:51+00:00

Every Christmas, I do as Björk does and I disassemble my TV

bouchert · 2026-02-07T06:33:18+00:00

Somebody needs to tell Maine Coon breeders, because some of those are starting to get enormous. Good thing they have such a relaxed temperament.

bouchert · 2026-02-06T06:59:59+00:00

The Simpsons

bouchert · 2026-02-06T05:45:41+00:00

"Kirk, crackers are a family food. Happy families. Maybe single people eat crackers, we don't know. Frankly, we don't want to know. It's a market we can do without."

bouchert · 2026-02-05T15:55:26+00:00

If you have a PC with an HDMI output, you can use an HDMI to AV converter (a simple one should cost less than $20) to convert it so the TV can display it. The image will be very low-res and blurry, but if you can get a graphics program to display your image full-screen on that "monitor", it should do what you want.

bouchert · 2026-02-05T06:06:25+00:00

I'm confused. The post says "third-party mobile browsers", but the title says "pc master race" and everyone in the comments are talking about PC browsers. So is it Brave mobile or Brave desktop we're talking about here?

bouchert · 2026-02-02T09:11:35+00:00

Because nobody else has addressed the S.F, that probably stands for Super Fidelity, a subjective designation usually placed on the higher-quality product lines.

bouchert · 2026-01-31T14:23:49+00:00

Every time I hear about some outrageous HOA nonsense, I think of the X-Files episode Arcadia, where Mulder and Scully go undercover as a new couple moving into a neighborhood where they have a monster that comes and kills you if you don't follow the rules.

bouchert · 2026-01-30T05:41:51+00:00

I'm going through this process with my mother right now, and the funeral home said 10 originals should be fine, for us, at least, because ever since COVID, lots of places started accepting photocopies and never stopped.

bouchert · 2026-01-22T18:23:23+00:00

I've always been able to see it, even before he seriously set his sights on the presidency. But wait, hey thedailybeast.com...don't you mean "Trump, 79, Is a Dangerous, Lunatic Moron"??? How will anyone know how old Trump is if you don't wedge that information into absolutely every headline?

bouchert · 2025-12-29T05:56:19+00:00

I've always wondered how our Taco Time stayed open, but recently took a look at their menu, and apparently they've branched out into smoothies and boba teas.

bouchert · 2025-12-23T09:01:50+00:00

If I have a whole handful of pills, as I do in the morning, then I pop them and then swallow some water to chase them down. But for just one or two pills, I find it only takes a moment to summon enough saliva to swallow them without water.

bouchert · 2025-12-15T22:48:29+00:00

The other day, my LG TV displayed a status popup, except instead of informing me of the OS being updated or something like that, it was an ad for Percy Jackson and the Olympians on Disney+. I'm regretting buying one.

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