I’ve tried distro hopping occasionally over the last couple years. I keep coming back to Mint. It just fits my tastes and it works.

Sweet.

Yeah, and all the screenshots are just black boxes full of text!

Ah, that’s probably what it is. Yeah, I have a 2060, and a 980Ti. I only upgrade components if I really have to. And so far, all of my games run fine. So, unless there is a Fallout 5 or some really cool co-op survival game my friends insist I need to get, I’m going to be rocking my 2060 and the 580 driver for a while. Next card will probably be an AMD, anyway.

For real? That’s nuts! What did he do? My grandpa would have been at Saginaw Steering Gear at the time he would have gotten these. Which was then part of Delphi, then Nexteer. UAW Local 699. Same as I was for a time.

That’s pretty cool. I finally just updated to 580. Guess I’m a little behind.

I don’t like vinegar, and that’s the predominant taste I get from most hot sauces. So, I also buy powdered ghost pepper. It’s super handy, since my family has zero spice tolerance I can just add powder to whatever on my plate/bowl.

I’m intrigued by this.

It’s not the only thing… just an excuse. I have tons. I have a 3 year old. I don’t have any vacation funds saved. I don’t think my wife would enjoy the food the way I would. I really would like to go someday, maybe for a couple of weeks. Maybe in 5-10 years.

Oh yeah? That’s fantastic. Not that the barn was dilapidated, but that he was a fellow Hilda enthusiast.

I’d say it’s worth trying once. It’s quite delicious.

This is super exciting. I never got mine working right, I gave up and installed 86Box. It was easier to do a complete installation of Windows 98 than get some of my old games running in Wine.

Hmm… I wonder how onion powder would be. Onion is my favorite bagel.

Instead of putting it on toast, make a grilled PB&J. Butter it and cook it in a skillet just like a grilled cheese.

I’m thinking a dark roast in a Moka pot. Just some strong, good, bitter coffee. It reminds me of dark chocolate. Normally, I would just drink it black. But thinking of dipping buttered toast in it, I think maybe a sweet cream might be nice in it.

I have never tried it with coffee. I bet of it were a sweeter bread, it would be fantastic. But we are slowly circling back to dipping donuts in coffee.

Watching my designs come to life from CAD. The tooling I work on has hundreds upon hundreds of parts. I have had bills of materials that are 60 pages long. We have our own CNC machines, and an enormous industrial 3D printer. So, I get to watch my parts grow, and be released from blocks of raw aluminum. Then, slowly over the course of a month, the parts gradually come together to something resembling a machine. When air and power get plugged in for the first time and it comes to life? Magic every time. Those first parts are like newborns to me. Even if they are scrap/ugly. When they finally get tuned in to produce good parts every time, I’m always giddy. I made this. This is my baby.

I think the craziest tool I have had to design was roughly 2.5 x 1.5 x 1 meter. It made one part at a time. It had 25 “edgefolding” units, 7 slides, retractable skin pins, a retractable skin clamp, suction cups, grippers, two-stage vacuum for the skin, and three forms of heat. Hot air, hot water, and a big IR shuttle that came in and heated both the upper and lower tool and had to retract and close in 2 seconds.

I had one of those. It would always get shut in my car door. It was a pain at the office because it was longer than most of our coat hooks. And, it looked like I was from the '90s.

Butter that toast. Make super rich hot chocolate. Use some half & half in it, even. Dip that buttery toast in the hot chocolate.