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Huh. I hadn’t realized that they stopped making the TSI.

I loved my '09 TDI & '12 GTI. Sadly traded in my golf for something that was more capable in the remote trails and forest roads as I frequently go camping in the mountains and the Golf was holding me back from that. My wife recently picked up a used TSI, and that’s been fun to drive, but not nearly as fun as the GTIm

Why would I give an app screenshot permission? That is such a security nightmare.

Go right ahead. My comment history will dictate otherwise, but again, you’re account age combined with your behavior here, makes you seem suspect.

Yawn, I’ll say it again

Ok, 1 day old account spreading doomerist defeatism.

For your own privacy, and the privacy of everybody else interacting with you.

When you share a YouTube link, if you don’t remove the si=ID, anybody that clicks on that link will then be associated with you. It’s one of the tools Google uses to track your internet usage.

We’re talking about Brittain idiocy right now. Not everything needs to be about how much more idiotic the US is.

I disagree.

Rewrites can happen due to new feature support.

For examlle: It’s entirely possible that a synchronous state machine worked for the previous needs of the software, but it grew to a point where now that state machine is unable to meet the new requirements and needs to be replaced with a modern fam with asynchronous singals/delegates.

Just because that system was replaced doesn’t mean that it wasn’t maintainable, wasn’t readable, or easy to understand. It just wasn’t compatible with the growing needs of the application.

Have you heard of this new thing called thr “K-Shaped Economy”?

It’s this gross thing where corporations have realized they bled all they they can out of us pleebs and are now resorting in sucking off the rich.

It’s missing the arm that has the gun pointed at themselves.

Looks like his name is Dow Jones to me.

I’m glad to hear that you don’t have a family, a pet, or other unit that you need to support other than yourself, and do not have an illness that requires medical insurance in a country that requires it for care, that a capitalist can exploit you for.

The rest of us, we are not so lucky to be as chronically unattached and healthy as you.

https://techworkerscoalition.org/

Unfortunately for her, he’s wearing polkadot instead of heart boxers.

Buddy is feeling great with himself and isn’t looking for anything at the moment.

In Seattle, during the summer solstice, sunrise is @ 4:30am with full daylight by 4:50.

Starting things an hour earlier is cutting into sleep time.

<insert almost live sun skit>

It’s 2026. Are people still that puritanical that they care about somebody else’s sexual activity?

The places I’ve lived in the last 15 years have been extremely sex positive, which was a slight shift in mindsets from where I grew up, which was slowly coming this way.

Is there a sudden resurgence in this behavior? Is it part of the man-o-sphere bullshit?

I’d recommend CachyOS over SteamOS on non-valve hardware. As much as I love SteamOS on my Deck, it’s highly tailored to the hardware, and has some limitations. But that comes with caveats I’ll cover later.

I also find Bazzite to be too locked in, and complicates how to do things that aren’t managed, for a general gaming desktop. If it’s a media center PC Bazzite can be great, but can easily feel locked in if you want to start adding TV apps or Kodi.

That said, for a beginner friendly Linux distro I’d point most users towards Mint or Pop!_OS depending on their use case. If the user has a high technical knowledge and capability, but lacks Linux experience, I’d point them towards CachyOS, their docs, and the Arch Wiki. Maybe Garuda if they want to additional bundling and update management tooling.

Vista was overall “ok” when paired with hardware that could actually run it. Biggest perk was that for a small window of time, it was the only OS that had DX10 support outside of community patches to emulate DX10 in XP & 2K

UAC was implemented in an extremely overbearing way that trained users to ignore any critical system pop-ups.

Aside from that, many of the core systems were unoptimized, and when added on that many hardware partners under spec’d the entry level machines that were being sold with it, the OS performed far worse than it’s predecessors.

I don’t have kids, but I had heard that people with kids and dogs had noticed that their dogs were watching Bluey too. So I started putting on episodes of Bleuey for my dogs when I’d have to go run errands. Yep, I’ve now watched quite a bit of Bluey, and it’s a damn good show.

I hate bottle episodes. After watching “Fly” I came away still hating bottle episodes, even if they are done well.

Best bottle episode ever, imo, was done by Community. And still, fuck bottle episodes.

Thankfully, I don’t use Tidal for music discovery. I luckily have a lot of people I’ve met over the years that love music, perform themselves, work for venues, or are crew for artists. That plus indie radio like KEXP and NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts has kept me exploring for new music via recommendations from those areas.

I use Tidal for high fidelity music with a more acceptable artist payout than Spotify.

That said, I’m slowly working towards going back to the old days where my massive CD collection rips (i still have those binders too), direct purchases of high fidelity content sitting on my network share, and records aremy primary source of listening pleasure. The only problem here is acquiring the hardware to scale thanks to the AI boom buying up all the production lines of consumer grade hardware, and business class storage drives having gone up in cost. Technically I can afford it, but I could also spend that same money and buy tickets to several local shows for both my wife and I, which will support the live music industry and artists more directly.