The hero we needed

Is that Bhutlerian Jihad stuff from Dune, or… What is that? I know I recognize it from something I’ve read.

Edit: typo

I move to dry herb vape in January 2025 and haven’t looked back. My doctor recommended it when I mentioned chronic headaches 70% of the time I smoke.

The pocket sized ones I’ve tried have real trouble keeping up with a draw that most smokers are used to pulling. You need to slow way down. The one desktop model I’ve seen is a bit less wispy, but that format isn’t for me.

I have the Arizer Air Max and the YoCan Hit 2. I like the Air Max for at home use, and it has a removable& replaceable battery.

The first thing I noticed was they don’t feel like you’re getting a hit because the “smoke” is so wispy compared to combustion. But you still get way high.

The second thing I noticed was that I no longer cough or get headaches from puffing.

Edit: I forgot to add that I settled on 180°C - 184°C as my operating temperature. I started much higher at 202C, but it tastes much better at lower temps, lasts longer (more puffs per use and battery), and sometimes the higher temps were coating the backs of my teeth with stickiness that made my tongue dry for days.

It was frustrating, leaving the 🇺🇸 behind with our materialism, having ditched all “meta” stuff since Cambridge Analytica, only to find that finding housing, ordering food, calling a taxi, contacting the postal service all was on Facebook/Whatsapp/IG.

I couldn’t even view the village council mandates at our new home without it. When looking for housing, agents kept sending links to FBMP listings. I’d ask for photos and get a link to a FB gallery. I stuck to my guns and didn’t use it, instead asking agents to email me pics and friends to show me things, but I got a lot of eyerolling, and it made everything much more difficult.

Wikirabbitholes are fun

Your typos and use of commas betrays you, fake study

You aren’t familiar with the middle east variant of the Fender Stratocaster?

I think the article says an anonymous source shared their discovery, which 404 then asked Trail of Bits to verify, which they did. I would love to see more, but I don’t see a scrap of data on the claim yet.

So cute!

Time for some nail clipping before they start tilting their digits on their sides.

I was fed formula. I have no allergies.

“Hello, Borg collective. Tell me the best way to stop the assimilation of my planet.”

“Uhh… Rotate your shield modulation. That buys you a LOT of time!”

We are in agreement

Great follow-up to the previous comic

Despite it being technically illegal… Go figure. This administration harassing outside of the law…

Not a historian, but wasn’t that boom hugely from war profiteering and the fact that none of the bombs went off in the USA? Our factories were all spun up and ready to go while most of Europe was rebuilding. Oh, and the decimation of German and Japanese industrial or technical powers.

But to your point, many graphs showing how much wages have flattened disproportionate to production do show that the period in question was a better time for the average worker.

I GET IT!

Agreed. Even Mint is better, though I’m messing more with Fedora through Nobabra presently. However, if I needed stability, I’d be using MX Linux, based on Debian Stable and updates vetted.

Baier-Lentz said that he’s “shocked and sad” that the industry has not embraced generative AI, noting that the gaming business has previously pushed new technology forward.

Faster, cheaper, more capacity and capability. These things are pushed by the gaming industry. At first it was color monitors. Then it was gaming controllers, then sound cards, then video cards, then 3D cards, etc., etc.

Generative AI has so far just been an embarrassing show of C-levels thinking they just hired Skynet to replace their creative staff, then ending up in the news for their incompetence.

Look. “AI” rn is just auto complete. There may be an application for machines in doing some menial tasks, but most of the rest of the tasks (writing, animating, post processing, voicing) are currently done by humans, and those humans rightly oppose being replaced.

I don’t update my Keepass db often enough to need syncing. Maybe every other week or so I just pull the latest backup from my desktop from backblaze b2 to my phone, or if I change something on the phone, I send a copy to myself using signal “note to self.” Then I manually merge the databases.

Pretty low-tech.

Touche