Every day, over and over and over… I have to keep actual glass cleaner in my car and spray the windshield occasionally—like at stop lights by sticking my arm out the window—because not even the “bug remover” windshield washer fluid works well enough. You need something strong like ammonia to loosen all the protein.

Note: I don’t live in a city.

I’m too dumb to figure out bandcamp. The only album it wants to show me is Mønk.

Turns out, that was just the first search result on DDG. I searched again and found a different album, but I’m finding it impossible to navigate to a list of his albums from any one album page.

Try it. Either I’m really fucking dumb, or this website is terrible.

https://theloniousmonkmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-classic-quartet-remastered

Stripping out everything other than the main URL, just redirects back to the last album I looked at.

https://theloniousmonkmusic.bandcamp.com/

If I go to the main page and do a search and tap on the artist listing in the search results, I still just get the one album:

https://theloniousmonk.bandcamp.com/album/m-nk

“View all merch” shows several versions of the one album I’m looking at. “Visit community” shows nothing because I’m not logged in.

Searching for “Thelonious monk underground” produces one result that is not Thelonious Monk.

Bandcamp’s usability is fucking garbage.

I don’t know anything about Thelonius Monk. I tried to find this album visually in YouTube music. Is this a real album cover?

I found this:

So I used TinEye to search your posted image and got zero hits. I was wondering if it was an official variant or some fan art.

This is why I didn’t read it.

If you start a successful socialist society out in the middle of nowhere, they will find an excuse to burn it down. They say you’re a cult, and you’re holding people against their will or some shit. And you do drugs. And have “illegal” guns.

South Korea is the leading consumer and producer of farmed Codium (commonly known as cheonggak)

Search for that.

The full name is VScodium. https://vscodium.com/

Codium is a genus of edible green macroalgae.

Please don’t force touch design in me!

The Making of Pretty Lights’ New Album: A Color Map of the Sun

That appears to be one of multiple documentaries about the musucian.

However, this post was about the album art. For a second I thought you meant you liked the cover artist, and there was a doc about them, until I kept reading. I would have loved to see that.

I have not. I use Fusion for CAD and CAM for a CNC router.

I’ve been learning GIMP to replace Photoshop in preparation. So far, so good, but there are still things about GIMP I just dont get. Like, it’s seems impossible to paint onto a fully transparent layer because the paint tool doesn’t modify the mask as it goes. I don’t even want that layer to have an alpha channel, but it seems like you have no choice if you want a transparent layer.

If you try to paint on a transparent layer, you just get… nothing. It’s so trivial in Photoshop to make a new layer and just paint into it, and I can’t figure it out at all in GIMP. (I really should ask in a forum, but I also feel like I shouldn’t have to.)

Being able to script in Python to simulate Photoshop actions is both awesome and crappy. It’s awesome because of how powerful it is, but crappy that I can’t just whip up an action in seconds to make a quick, repeatable edit.

I guess I’ll have to use a VM to run Autodesk Fusion. ☹️

That’s not comparable. The situations are quite different. Let me explain:

In your example: Windows. It’s basically the “default” operating system. Billions of users. Some of those billions are kinda dumb and will type in a command or delete a folder because the Internet said so. Ok, so you ruined the day of some dummy with a practical joke. Not particularly funny, but whatever, it’s just some dummy.

In the Linux example, here’s how it goes. There’s an alternative OS people can try out. People who are fed up with Microsoft. They install Linux for the first time, and what’s their first experience? Some practical joke ruins their day. These are the people we want! The good ones. The ones brave enough to try out Linux, and their first experience is a dumb meme that ruins their day, or week, and totally turns them off from the Linux community.

This is not the same as pranking some dumb Windows users.

That’s not googling, that’s ducking. Besides everyone knows you should get that kind of answer from ChatGPT.

Shit like this is why desktop Linux will never be mainstream.

Jewel of Open?

Everything I’ve seen and read says exercise won’t actually change how many calories you burn in a day. It’s still super healthy to do, but does not replace a calorie deficit.

Your anecdote seems to support that. You burned up all your blood sugar by biking 10 miles and then almost passed out. So now you’re just going to laze around for hours burning fewer calories than you would have during that time had you not exercised.

I’ve dieted before and always embraced the “eat your exercise calories” idea. Exercise is good for your body, but any calories spent doing it should be eaten as extra food outside of your normal calorie goals.

Yeah, like this:

https://youtu.be/6v1qNVZmofI

Congrats?

Consider taking up scuba diving. It normally requires active ear pressure normalization (Valsalva maneuver), but it sounds like you’re one of the rare people who will have a wonderful time never having to worry about that.

Why not change countries? I think about doing so all of the time because fuck the USA. Goddamn shithole country. But I, too, have million reasons not to. -_-