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[Yoink]

...Does the White House not have indoor plumbing?    

Ctrl +f and search for something that would only be listed in the actual recipe ie "tsp". Hope it helps in the future.

Good point! Although, one would still have to open and load the webpage in question, along with any ads their adblocker fails to deal with.   
Still a nifty suggestion, though.   

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[Iduno]

30-40 pound dogs are perfect. Big enough to play with, but no so big that they can pull you around or make your legs go numb laying on you.

Doesn't hurt that mine is a border collie who learned from a labrador. She's smart, and loves everyone.

[itisnotlogical]

The most vocal Linux users who are the most passionate about evangelizing are exactly the kind of people that make me not want to use any Linux distro ever again.

[methylatedspirit]

After being around computers for a decent portion of my life, I can now conclude that blue is my most hated color, especially at night. It's the color of eyestrain and poor sleep. I think red is the best color because it's about as far away as any color could be from blue while still being on the visible spectrum.

Seriously, though, who decided that blue was a good color on LED indicators on computers? Blue doesn't even mean anything. Why not just take a page from traffic lights and just use green, yellow, and red? We know what they mean, so why not leverage what we do know? The hell does blue mean? Sad? Is my PC sad because it's turned on?

[scriver]

It means the future is here

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[itisnotlogical]

My Linux problem is that, shortly after installing any new distro, I couldn't use my netbook's built-in wifi. I installed all sorts of packages and drivers and spent hours scouring forums and the Internet for any combination of commands that would make it work, but nope, it would randomly just come on and stop working when it felt like it. There's also the part where it broke the screen brightness control, so I had to have a terminal open at all times to brighten or darken the screen.

All of this is in the context of the fact that what little Linux software existed was almost all terrible. Nothing had any documentation, packages from apt or the software center would come with broken installs, basic promised features wouldn't work as advertised... That is, if I could get it to open at all.

But FOSS is great! In fact it's so great that when searching for Linux applications, I often get a recommendation to just use WINE. That's a hell of a selling point: the software sucks, so they made it possible for you to do extra work to get back the features you already had under other operating systems.

[Iduno]

The most vocal Linux users who are the most passionate about evangelizing are exactly the kind of people that make me not want to use any Linux distro ever again.

Man I can't even install a fucking 3g dongle no matter how many badly documented related cases I google. Even half the programs suggested to me in the software center (appstore) have issues installing. From all the distros I tried there was ONE that didn't have some serious issue like inability to dpkg reconfigure tzdata, keyboard layout handler unfindable, or the software center having a broken PW prompt. Linux is reeeeeaaaaally underwhelming.

And people refuse to help. Solutions are either to reformat and use a different distro that won't work with a different part of your computer, or to teach yourself how to program and create your own drivers.

[KittyTac]

I wonder if I should make a "things that made you bored today" thread...

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[Iduno]

If there was ever a time. Though isn't the lack of things what is generally boring?

Fair.

[Kagus]

Didn't we have a bored thread at some point? I know we had the "didn't feel anything" thread for a while

[Iduno]

Didn't we have a bored thread at some point? I know we had the "didn't feel anything" thread for a while

[Il Palazzo]

I've half my mind made up to start trolling parents with a line of physics toys. The first (and so far only) one would be a DIY electric train (batteries not included). It would come in a large and fancy box. The box would contain a couple nickel-coated cylindrical magnets and some copper wire. The instruction booklet would have one page, depicting the right-hand rule with no annotations.