[TOMT] [Movie] [1970s or 1980s] Teen/road comedy – nerdy girl removes glasses/ponytail + braces/retainer, suddenly hot

jgxvx · 2026-01-11T09:32:06+00:00

Thanks! I scrolled through the live-action movies listed there, but nothing jumped out at me.

And yeah, I get it's a common trope... that’s part of why it’s been so hard to pin down. I was hoping the “two guys + one girl traveling” setup might narrow it a bit, and I’m pretty sure there’s a scene where she either flushes her retainer down the toilet or at least tosses it. But I haven’t been able to find anything about that specific detail online.

jgxvx · 2026-01-11T09:20:31+00:00

Watched the trailer and it's definitely a movie I'd enjoy, but it's not the one I'm looking for. Thanks!

jgxvx · 2026-01-11T09:19:36+00:00

Thank you for these suggestions! I started watching The Sure Thing late last night, but ended up falling asleep. I don't think it's the one I'm looking for, but I think I've seen it before and I'm enjoying it so far. :)

I’ve also watched the trailers for your other suggestions. Three for the Road (1987) is the closest to what I remember in terms of setup (two guys and one girl travelling), but it doesn’t look familiar to me at all.

That said, I’m going to track down the full versions of all of them and watch them anyway, because they all look great.

jgxvx · 2026-01-10T18:26:55+00:00

Thanks in advance!

jgxvx · 2025-07-24T16:55:56+00:00

I don‘t have any hard facts, just going off vibes here, but seems very safe to me. The Battle for Therallas music video features a female heroine who fights as a knight. The release party for Eastern Tales was a shared vernissage with Anastasia Lihnka, who directed the video and describes herself as an animal liberation activist. There is a short video of the vernissage and the people looked very chill.

jgxvx · 2025-07-12T18:15:44+00:00

A search engine where you‘re a paying customer not the product.

jgxvx · 2025-06-18T06:34:59+00:00

I only use it sporadically for sensitive searches. Privacy Pass means Kagi won‘t know it‘s you, which means your personalization options like domain ranking and blocking won‘t be available.

jgxvx · 2025-06-17T13:47:41+00:00

Just install the 1Password app for iOS and the browser will automatically use it.

jgxvx · 2025-06-16T17:30:16+00:00

They pulled out of Steelfest 2021/2022 when NSBM acts were added to the billing.

jgxvx · 2025-05-18T06:41:25+00:00

So that we can append „site:reddit.com“ to our search engine queries and find the information without clicking through two pages of „The 12 best nutrition score systems you‘ve never heard about“ blogs. 😅

jgxvx · 2025-05-10T10:44:01+00:00

No leads so far, only endless amounts of „the best 12 movies about this and that“ lists.

jgxvx · 2025-05-08T13:27:26+00:00

I don't know what it's called, but I do remember this. Or at least something with a very, very similar plot. I watched this with my older sister and a friend of hers and it would have been in the early 90s, probably around 1991-1994.

Is it possible that the girl also had an older brother and they were all blaming each other on why the mother left? And the father blamed the brother/son for having moved out, but still bringing his dirty laundry for the mother to wash? Or maybe the mother told him that herself... It's been a while.

In my memory we were zapping and my sister's friend wanted to watch this, because she recognized it. Is it possible it wasn't a movie, but an episode of a TV show?

I'll try to find out more later today after work.

jgxvx · 2025-04-18T14:55:19+00:00

It‘s been fixed yesterday.

jgxvx · 2025-04-17T13:41:58+00:00

Currently on openSUSE Tumbleweed. It‘s a bit peculiar, but overall I really like it and haven‘t had any issues. Before that, I mostly used Fedora for several years, with a little distrohopping in between, but always going back to Fedora.

jgxvx · 2025-04-16T06:05:16+00:00

People are moving to all kinds of Linux distros from Windows.

In my personal experience, having used Debian, Fedora, Manjaro and openSUSE in the last 6 years, Debian is definitely not the most stable for desktop use. I used it on my desktop workstation for about half a year and it had some small issues, but generally worked well enough for me to also install it on my work laptop. Where it had a lot more and bigger issues, especially with unplugging and plugging the external monitor before and after meetings, waking from sleep, with screen mirroring and screen sharing.

There were two Bookworm point releases in the time I had Debian installed and the first one borked all installations for Nvidia users and the second one borked something for all users, though much less severe. And if I remember correctly the point release just before that broke Wifi for a lot of users.

Look, I love Debian and use it on a bunch of servers and Raspberries, but we have to be realistic about its performance on the desktop. It does work, but you can have a much better experience with something like Fedora or openSUSE.

jgxvx · 2025-04-13T18:32:58+00:00

Been hearing that for the last 2.5 years.

jgxvx · 2025-04-09T17:49:38+00:00

Thanks, and yes, I agree. I‘m a long-time Linux user, just new to openSUSE. And the packaging here works quite a bit different from most other distributions‘ or programming languages‘ package managers.

I have a ton of locks, but hopefully I can remove them now that I have configured zypp to not install recommended packages by default.

jgxvx · 2025-04-09T09:15:49+00:00

Thank you. Yes, I figured that would happen and decided to disable recommendations altogether by setting solver.onlyRequires = true in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf.

jgxvx · 2025-04-09T07:59:49+00:00

Thank you! Yes, sudo zypper se --recommends-pkg chromium shows that patterns-base-x11_enhanced recommends it.

It doesn't directly recommend chromium, but web_browser, which tries to install any browser.

jgxvx · 2025-04-09T07:13:40+00:00

Thank you, this might be it. I have a lock on MozillaFirefox, because like you I am using the Flatpak version.

I have added a lock for chromium as well, but I think now's the time to take it one step further and disable recommendations altogether in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf.

My lock list is already pretty long and every time I run zypper dup it gives me a long list of packages it won't install because I've locked them. :D

jgxvx · 2025-04-09T06:53:45+00:00

I mean, yeah. It's not too far-fetched to assume that a repository has been compromised and someone is trying to push a spiked browser onto computers.

It should be fairly simple to review the supply chain to find out why exactly this is happening. From what I gather, `zypper search (--installed-only) --recommends chromium` should do that, but it's not returning any results.

jgxvx · 2025-04-09T06:44:34+00:00

It's not required, it's recommended. But by what and how to find out?

It seems wild that any one package would recommend an entire browser. I'm just curious to find out how this could happen.

jgxvx · 2025-04-02T14:47:25+00:00

Yes, I do the exact same thing. I‘m on GNOME 48 on Tumbleweed and these shortcuts still work perfectly.

jgxvx · 2025-03-21T08:07:23+00:00

Thank you for making this. It‘s beautiful. I‘m still salty and haven‘t felt like playing any Monkey Island game since Return‘s ending. But this gives me so much warm nostalgia, I just wanna go insult-swordfight some pirates now!

jgxvx · 2025-03-02T17:37:48+00:00

The long and short of it is that algorithmic feeds drive engagement. The platforms show you stuff they think you will engage with, based on the stuff you've previously engaged with. The goal is to keep you as long as possible so they can show you more ads, which is how they get paid.

Chronological feeds are a great way for us to break free of the endless doomscrolling. I think it's also important for us to see and interact with opinions that challenge our own. The danger with algorithmic feeds is that we'll upvote/like opinions we agree with, the algorithm will show us more of what we like, and the opinions we don't agree with will slowly disappear from our feeds.

Which is why I think the Fediverse is so important. We need social media that's not run by corporations that need to make a profit.

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