SeikoAlpinist

Depending on the country, if they don't give special preference to speedtest.net, they might just block it.

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I'm probably the only person in the world who hasn't played Minecraft.

We have a family Minetest server runnning Asuna since Summer 2023. Usually based around just crafting different things. Even for a few months we just put on creative mode and built two huge cities about 8,000 blocks apart and sky train connecting them, and then a third underground cave city about 2,000 blocks away.

We've had major upgrades of both Asuna and Minetest within the past few weeks so it's pretty exciting.

The answer is Metallica.

And then second tier would be like Opeth, Blind Guardian, KoRn, etc.

But of bands formed this millennium, probably Mastodon, Motionless in White, Falling in Reverse, Dragonforce. So that probably covers "current."

Start with Strange New Worlds. It's the best new Trek in 30 years. You can find it on the Bay or wherever you get your videos.

If you aren't hooked by the end of season 1, yeah it's probably not for you.

Surprising that ThinkPads are only going to captive screws when Elitebooks had them 15 years ago.

Maresca

Every Linux user should try Slackware at some point.

It would be really cool if there were another 15 teams in Europe, with NBA rules.

And each team would have a rival in the Western and Eastern conference that they played home and home with.

And then the Euro champion would do a Christmas matchup with the NBA champion.

If they are competent with computers, they can probably figure out Ubuntu and maintain it theirself.

I left Ubuntu for systems I manage because I'm not smart enough or willing to invest time learning snaps, and snaps kept breaking Firefox updates and generally made Firefox unusable. Since I've been around a while, I found it was just easier to migrate my fleet to Debian and set it to look like Ubuntu with the dock on the left. This has been fine since 2022.

If it's something you would be partially managing, and they didn't like Mint, have them try Pop!_OS.

If it's a super simple, low maintenance desktop, just go Fedora Silverblue and it will stay solid and up to date until the hardware dies.

Hayward is also one of the greatest players in Butler's basketball history. He led the Bulldogs to the NCAA national championship game in 2010, narrowly missing a half-court shot as the buzzer expired that would have given Butler a title.

I hate that the AP article also started with this. It was debated to death 15 years ago and the myth needs to die.

That was never a close shot or a narrow miss. It only looks that way on television because you are viewing it in two dimensions from 50 yards out. The NCAA immediately marketed this shot to death because they needed a cinderella David vs Goliath story in a nasty era of basketball that saw the winner score a whole 61 points in a 40 minute game.

A undefended halfcourt shot is statistically made about 12% of the time for high percentage NBA players. A half-court heave in a game goes in about 3% of the time; however, this is generally at the end of a quarter (vice game winning shot) where the shooter is undefended. For all intents and purposes, I'm considering NBA statistics here because it's all we have to go on, and because there were multiple NBA players on the court that game, of whom Hayward was by far the best player.

Hayward launched this thing while running, defended, and time expiring, in a football stadium. It didn't softly clank off the back of the rim with the chance of falling in; it brutally slammed hard right into the backboard, and then only altered its trajectory as it popped the outside of the front left of the rim by chance.

That shot was never going in. It didn't even hit the inside of the rim.

This story takes away from an otherwise solid NBA career by Hayward. His best years were on the Jazz; he never recovered after that injury and was likely robbed from a hall of fame career.

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley was good because it started off with a lot of stuff I can relate to, but in a kind of neat Time Travel storyline set in the near future which is also great because I really only like Time Travel stories. Stuff like Khmer Rouge and refugee child growing up in the west and all that kind of stuff, all wrapped up in a strong female lead character. And then halfway through, the dude unzips his pants and it turns into a shitty Oxford Study romance where the strong protagonist is completely undone and turns into a colonizer worshipping story. Bullshit. I stopped reading and I'm still angry about it two months later. Fuck that story.

Also, Stations of the Tide was dry and I never finished it. I've tried 2-3 times. Swanwick is my favorite sorta-contemporary author but I don't know how that won so many awards. Am I missing something? It seems like everyone wants to herald that novel as great because they don't want to look dumb, but it's just all over the place compared to his later novels, much like Killing is My Business has a bunch of good riffs but is all over the place with no structure and nothing ever repeats so therefore it isn't as refined and memorable as Rust in Peace.