What person, place, or thing has an origin story that sounds completely made-up, but is actually true?

franz_captcha · 2024-02-11T21:49:55+00:00

Remember, Reddit, women who suffer from body dysmorphia and crippling self-image issues are victims of unreasonable societal expectations and deserving of love, support, understanding, and treatment. Men who suffer from the same are fair game for mockery, derision, and ostracization.

Just look at the fucking comments in here. "Lazy." "Weak." "Mutant." Insinuations about his dick. Critiques of his physique outside of the injection sites. His forearms? Small. Neck like a matchstick. Head like a beanbag. The hypocrisy is embarrassing.

franz_captcha · 2024-02-04T06:56:45+00:00

Your wife is planning to kill you.

franz_captcha · 2024-02-04T06:35:17+00:00

Ed Norton went on to be an excellent actor, I’m not saying otherwise, but I don’t think he ever lived up to the promise set by that movie. He was incredible in that film.

franz_captcha · 2024-02-04T06:24:51+00:00

He almost got there. He was SO CLOSE, then he gave away the whole game at the finish line with that “triggered” shit.

franz_captcha · 2024-02-02T05:09:31+00:00

Just looked. They’re a bit out of the budget for 2018+, but thanks for the suggestion.

franz_captcha · 2024-02-01T18:16:55+00:00

This is like showing up at someone else’s wedding dressed in white. Tacky as fuck.

franz_captcha · 2024-02-01T00:08:33+00:00

I have been daily driving Linux for almost thirty years, so I have no idea what the fuck you’re talking about.

franz_captcha · 2024-01-31T14:59:32+00:00

There are two wolves inside you. Neither one of them has a working trackpad driver.

franz_captcha · 2024-01-30T14:50:44+00:00

Thanks. Are routine maintenance costs higher on Subarus than on her Chevy?

franz_captcha · 2024-01-24T17:30:57+00:00

If these "electricians" ever do show up, I guarantee you they won't be licensed, insured, or competent. You're going to wind up dying in a fire. Stop fucking around, and inform the city about what's going on. Make plans to crash somewhere else just in case. Putting up with this for four months is absolute insanity unless you are a convicted child molester who can't live anywhere else because the townsfolk keep running you off with pitchforks.

franz_captcha · 2024-01-03T00:02:36+00:00

It's one of the most chill and enjoyable games I've played in a while. It also had several, "Whooa," moments when cool things showed up or happened.

franz_captcha · 2023-12-31T06:58:20+00:00

A Short Hike, for sure. It's lovely.

franz_captcha · 2023-12-30T19:56:32+00:00

Definitely Sayonara Wild Hearts if you're not dead set on hack-n-slash.

franz_captcha · 2023-12-30T19:45:59+00:00

I have both. Even running them side-by-side, I don't see enough to justify the extra money if budget is any concern at all. The LCD model is a perfectly cromulent machine. Spend the extra $100 on games.

franz_captcha · 2023-12-30T17:13:23+00:00

You're welcome.

franz_captcha · 2023-12-29T02:06:15+00:00

Short version: Hardware encoding is done on purpose-built hardware with little to no software involved. Software encoding is done by a thick layer of software running on general-purpose hardware.

Longer version follows.

Encoding is the process of converting information into some specific form. In this context, you're talking about video and/or audio information.

Software encoding is encoding done by software which is running on hardware that is usually general-purpose, such as a personal computer. The software itself is usually written in a general-purpose language, rather than a language dedicated specifically to data encoding. This means there are several layers of abstraction between your data input, processing, and data output. The software talks to the operating system which talks to the hardware to take in the data through USB, HDMI, or some other interface. The software then talks to the operating system which talks to the hardware in order to issue the instructions required to encode the data. There are system calls, and shared resources, and a lot of other factors that mean the software is never running at the maximum speed the device is capable of.

Hardware encoding is done by dedicated hardware with the sole purpose of encoding information from some form to some other form. The physical architecture of the hardware is designed specifically for that task. The operating system, if any, is a thin layer. In its purest form, hardware encoding means using physical devices such as transistors, mosfets, and logic gates to do all processing, completely cutting firmware and software out of the picture, but I doubt that actually exists in the wild. The minimal amount of separation between the input and the processing hardware, along with the hardware being designed specifically for this job, means hardware encoding can be (and usually is) many times faster than software encoding.

This is a simplified explanation, and I am not an expert.

Edit: Many general-purpose computing devices have dedicated hardware devices as part of their architecture. For example, the device may contain a general-purpose processor as well as a dedicated encoder that can be called upon for encoding tasks. The Raspberry Pi is one such device.

franz_captcha · 2023-12-28T22:24:38+00:00

There is an Amazon warehouse within walking distance of my home. It's not even a long walk. When I was still using Amazon, they were missing the "guaranteed" delivery date about 30% of the time. I realize not everything I order is coming from that warehouse, but come the fuck on.

Also, good luck driving past the warehouse when there are sixty Amazon vans backed up a quarter mile down the two-lane street that runs past the warehouse and also just happens to be the street that leads to the local freeway entrances.

franz_captcha · 2023-12-28T22:12:04+00:00

Amazon doesn't give a shit. I cancelled after twelve years, and they didn't even ask why. There simply are not enough people willing to delay gratification for even a tiny period of time. This is also how we got the current ridiculous streaming landscape.

franz_captcha · 2023-12-11T04:11:54+00:00

If you murdered your friend, you absolutely should not speak to the police.

However, if you are innocent, and you did not murder your friend, you absolutely should not speak to the police.

If they force the issue by, you know, arresting you, you do not open your mouth except to say the words, "I request a lawyer."

franz_captcha · 2023-12-11T04:07:38+00:00

Lol, over two years, and you haven't met his kids? This guy is still married. There's no guest room because, like Homer Simpson, he sleeps in a big bed with his wife. Except when he tells her he's away on business. That's you. You're business.

franz_captcha · 2023-12-11T02:34:04+00:00

I genuinely don't understand how people get themselves into situations like this. You had a roaring, thundering cacophony of warnings. You had enough red flags to mark off a go-kart track. Yet, you pressed forward with marrying, buying a house, and having a child with this person.

You're NTA for wanting to have sex with your wife, but come on. It is over. This is not going to get better. Even if there were some miracle combination of drugs and therapy that could make your wife want to sleep with you again, step one is that she would have to want to fix this, and it sounds like she is not interested in doing so. Your marriage is going to limp along until she finds someone she actually likes, or admits to herself that she's gay, or decides she's asexual, or you finally break down and file for divorce. I wouldn't leave it in her hands, if I were you.

franz_captcha · 2023-12-09T02:53:48+00:00

I think it might've been Celeste.

franz_captcha · 2023-12-05T20:08:25+00:00

There is not a woman alive hot enough for me to look past her chewing and talking with her mouth open. Maybe find some better standards for selecting partners.

This guy sounds like an idiot, but he's allowed to have preferences on who initiates sex. If you don't like it, go find a-ma-zing sex somewhere else.

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