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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • Just from top of my head and from what I have to use at work:

    • Dolphin vs. Explorer - Dolphin is sooo much better and useful it’s not evwn funny
    • Notepad++ vs. Notepad - day and night, even though Notepad got an overhaul in W11 it’s still piece of shit compared to Notepad++
    • literally any foss player vs. what MS offers - be it VLC, SMPlayer, MPV, anything is better than windows built in crap
    • ImageGlass, Nomacs, Gwenview, etc. vs. MS Photos - same as above, windows picture viewer is now worse than ever while open source alternatives get better and better
    • and plenty others, like Linux vs. Windows, lol



  • When I was young it used to be like 15-20 a year, most of those local, some of those with my band. Nowadays, it’s more like years apart between my visits anywhere. Not only there are way, way less happening in general (at least where I live), but family, other hobbies and keeping things quiet after busy work week has higher priority for me.



  • Morrowind is clearly and by far the best TES game ever made. It’s old and it shows, but this doesn’t take anything from the quality of the game. It has one of the best executed and most interesting worlds in any game I’ve played, it has great main story that is still just a scratch among other stories hidden throughout the Vvardenfell, and lastly the soundtrack… It’s epic when it needs to be epic, it’s calm when it needs to be calm, great melodies very well tied to different areas and parts of the game, it’s just awesome.




  • I’m no expert, but I’ll give you my two cents. I play bass guitar and there are two types of connectors between amplifier and speaker cabinet. First one is plain barrel jack, second one is Neutrik. I’ve been talking with local amp maker and he said something like this: "jack is fine with low wattage, but with more power you’d do better with neutrik - it has much larger contact area " So I believe this is similar problem. We were speaking like 400-600W of power where jack starts to be worse. How about vacuum cleaner or kettle? Or similar appliance that can do 2kW… Small contact and higher drain means more heat generated in that spot.


  • I’m no genius, far from it to be honest. But I went through most parts of high school without studying because I somehow remembered stuff being talked about in class. I just recalled how the teacher said required thing and what they were connected with. It was enough to get average grades.

    Uni was a bit different. I had huge problems with classes focused on just memorizing stuff. Lectures was not mandatory and most teachers were terrible at explaining stuff so I ended up missing most of those as it gave me zero benefit.

    To pass the exams I had to really understand some basic procedures where applicable (math, economics, etc). And I mean really understand to what’s going on and why, not just memorizing equations. Once I grasped the basic concept it was often quite easy actually (I wasn’t aiming for As) because everything made sense out of sudden.

    That’s why memorizing heavy classes were such a pain for me. There were usually no such “basics” where you can build upon. I had a classmate which was exact opposite of me. She could memorize a whole lecture book over night just by reading it once or twice. And I mean memorize like basically she could start to finish it word by word. Did she know what she was saying/writing? Often times not, but as long as the exam was written, she had straight As because she just wrote whatever the teacher wanted to be there. IDK if she had photographic memory or what, but it was completely mind boggling to me, exactly like your roommate is to you. Maybe they function the same?