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On my laptop, at boot there's a half second during which the whole screen turns black, only to display the logo again.
It seems like a tiny detail, but given how other distros have it working, I'm wondering why we can't get exactly the same result!
I would enjoy the minimalist experience of a black screen continuously displaying a small logo, with no flashing or flickering at all, from the moment the manufacturer logo is replaced by the arch logo to when the desktop is displayed.
In case anyone doubts it's possible, some examples: - https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Flicker_Free_Boot - https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/07/ubuntu-flicker-free-boot - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Flicker-Free-Plymouth
Has anyone succeeded on arch? What did you do? Is using Plymouth an absolute requirement?
Or has nothing changed since 2018
I've read all the guides, and I use the right kernel options like fastboot etc but there's still this troubling half second I want to remove!!

I am an international student in the US and I am going to graduate in May. I tried really hard in job hunting here but struggled to get interviews. I applied to over 300 companies and only get 2 interviews. I made one to the final round and still failed while the recruiter said that I was impressive but not competitive due to having no full-time experience.
I had two internship experiences and one of them was in the US. However, the company do not sponsor work visa, so I did not get the return offer. I also asked the school staff and SDEs to review my resume. Few of them made suggestions, only saying it is the lay-off and my international identity that prevent me from getting a job. Could anyone please review it again and give some feedback?
All in all, I received two advice. The first one is to attend LC weekly contest. I did 6 so far and my rating is between 1800 and 1900. The second one is building a Spring Boot project ASAP since I learned Spring years ago. Then I can try my luck on the small consulting companies, which only use Java. I have contacted one. I am told that I first need to pass the online assessment, LC medium interview, and Spring knowledge interview. Then I need to pass the training. Eventually, they will fake my resume to 'sell' me on the market. The salary is 53k a year if I am sold. If I am not sold or I left the company without working for their client for 2000 hours, I need to pay them 15k. To be honest, it does not seem like the correct path to me.
I am now only two months away from graduation. I feel anxious and barely sleep recently. I will be grateful if you can give me any suggestions. Thank you so much.

The song "Did you see the sunrise?" by singer Chogakusei was played, the rock and pop tones was sometimes powerful and heavy and sometimes warm and emotional then became epic when the climax plus with deeply meaningful lyrics blended with the dark and tragic atmosphere of the fateful battle between Langress and Lancerlord. They drew their swords and plunged them into the ground, then with all their hatred inside, they charged at their opponents to start this brutal battle. Langress and Lancerlord kicked each other in the stomach causing them to take a step back. But they continued to charge and Langress punched Lancerlord in the right chest. Lancerlord also immediately hit back with a punch to Langress's right shoulder. Langress only moved a little and quickly kicked Lancerlord's left thigh. Lancerlord also immediately punched Langress on the left cheek, but received another punch to his jaw. Lancerlord backed away a little but suddenly kicked Langress in the chest causing him to back away. But he quickly grabbed his leg and spun him in midair. Lancerlord immediately drew the dagger from his right holster to stick it on the floor as a fulcrum and he simply kicked Langress in the face in midair. Langress backed down and Lancerlord stood up easily and he instantly charged at him again. Lancerlord kicked the dagger on the floor at Langress but he caught it just in time and lunged forward to stab Lancerlord. Lancerlord punched Langress directly, but he dodged it and stabbed him in the right biceps. But Lancerlord quickly caught Langress in the face and smashed him to the floor. The impact was so strong that the floor collapsed and they landed on the floor below. Lancerlord pulled out his dagger on his biceps and threw it away then repeatedly slammed Langress savagely on the floor but he kicked him in the face with a hook kick causing him to fall backwards. Langress immediately stood up, all the wounds on his face healed instantly and he kicked him in the face, pushing him further away. Lancerlord stood up and lunged forward then swung his right leg at Langress. Langress also swung his right foot at him. Their two knee guards collided and fired sparks. They came closer and punched each other in the face. Langress and Lancerlord endured their punches but still stared at each other angrily. They took a few steps back but Langress immediately activated the left mechanical gauntlet and sent a shockwave punch at Lancerlord. Lancerlord crossed his arms to block and he was pushed back while everything behind him was blown away. Everyone was talking about this sudden tremor, some people in the surrounding buildings were filming the battle going on between Langress and Lancerlord. Will looked up and whispered nervously:
"Oh no, I should've known how bad this was going to be."
Lancerlord stood up and patted his left shoulder then said arrogantly:
"Hmm, technological weapons? When did you learn that?"
Langress turned off his gauntlet and replied:
"If they work and other than guns, I'll use them all to kill you."
Lancerlord said:
"Then use this."
Lancerlord drew dual short swords from his back and Langress immediately drew dual long-bladed daggers from his back. They slowly moved in a circle while taking a stance then immediately charged. Langress swung his left dagger at Lancerlord but he immediately parried and slashed his chest with a quick slash. Langress immediately turned his dagger down and stabbed it down, but Lancerlord was able to block it with his left sword. But he pressed down hard and hit him in the left shoulder. Lancerlord grunted and swung his right sword to hit Langress's left shoulder. He quickly made a slit along his shoulder before being pushed away. Both of their wounds healed instantly when they were separated for a few seconds but they still charged forward to continue fighting. Langress and Lancerlord swung their weapons at each other quickly and continuously. They slashed and parried with equal speed at the same time and their blades sent out sparks and powerful shocks on everything like the whole building was shaking. They didn't need to say anything in battle because their every attack was all their emotions and words. The people who were filming the video couldn't believe their eyes at their incredible speed that seemed impossible in front of their eyes. Langress swung again and hit Lancerlord's left collarbone while he thrust his sword into his left chest. Lancerlord slashed upwards rendering most of Langress's right body inactive while he stabbed even deeper, paralyzing his left arm. But they immediately healed all their wounds and slashed at each other to everyone's surprise. This time Langress and Lancerlord slashed faster, harder and more violently when they didn't take the shit to dodge anymore and kept taking all of each other's attacks. Their wounds were crisscrossed all over their bodies with each slash and when they pushed each other away, the wounds instantly healed and they continued to slash wildly at each other. Langress and Lancerlord thrust their weapons hard at the same time into their opponents' chests and punched each other in the face and backed away. Langress and Lancerlord breathed heavily after several powerful attacks and they were drenched in sweat. Langress and Lancerlord pulled the weapons of their rivals stabbed in their chests and threw them away. Langress wiped his mouth and said:
"What? Are you exhausted?"
Lancerlord replied strongly:
"No, I'm working even harder. You know I've been waiting for this day for a long time."
Langress said:
"And I was hoping that day would never come!"
Langress took a silver knife then activated it to split five smaller knives and then launched at Lancerlord. Lancerlord quickly noticed and dodged immediately. Five knives flew behind Lancerlord but they suddenly turned their heads and flew back towards him. Lancerlord sensed the movement of the wind so he turned in midair to dodge quickly. Langress continued to launch ten more knives and there were a total of fifteen knives focused solely on Lancerlord. All of them pointed at Lancerlord and immediately charged. He dodged quickly while using arm armor to shield and parry. The knives slashed quickly and unexpectedly when Lancerlord wasn't paying attention and he was suddenly stabbed by three knives in the center of his chest and broke his breastbone. A knife flew towards Lancerlord's face but he immediately slid down to dodge and raised his left leg at Langress. He fired the dagger in his left holster at him. Langress dodged it easily but suddenly the dagger exploded right next to his face. The three knives on Lancerlord's chest pierced his body and destroyed his lungs and a heart cord and he spewed blood. Langress emerged from the smoke of the explosion with his right half of his body and face badly damaged but he was slowly recovering. Langress said mockingly:
"Explosives? Great trick!"
Lancerlord looked up and found his remaining dagger so he quickly crawled to it. Silver knives flew and stabbed along Lancerlord's legs and back but he didn't scream in pain. Lancerlord caught his dagger and threw it at Langress. Langress learned from the previous attack and quickly kicked the dagger away and it exploded in a nearby building injuring several people. Lancerlord dashed through the smoke and caught Langress and pinned him down. He grabbed his collar and punched him in the face several times. Silver knives kept stabbing him in the back but he gave no shit. Each of Lancerlord's punches to Langress's face seemed to pour out much of his anger into his arrogance. Lancerlord punched and screamed in despair and suddenly for a second he stopped with a face full of pain with his bloody fist. Langress suddenly understood something but he immediately activated his right mechanical gauntlet and punched Lancerlord in the chest. Lancerlord was punched away and his chest bone was broken, he spewed blood and slowly fell to the ground. Suddenly Lancerlord regained consciousness then spread his wings and floated in midair. Thousands of people around became surprised by Lancerlord. Will thought to himself:
"It's over, the existence of the underworld has been exposed."
Lancerlord tore off the torn shirt on his chest and said proudly:
"Hmm, that's all? Not worth an ant"
Langress retrieved all silver knives and replied:
"Then let's continue!"
Langress raised five silver knives and hurled them all at Lancerlord, they split into twenty-five smaller knives and flew at him like lightning. Lancerlord raised two explosive knives and hurled them at Langress's silver knives. Several silver knives immediately flew away but a quarter of the knives were destroyed. The knives surrounded Lancerlord and he activated the eagle's metal talons in his boots. As the knives flew at Lancerlord, he raised his right foot and swung it around to repel them. Lancerlord quickly used metal talons to knock all the silver knives out with just a few kicks. Langress immediately spread his wings and launched at Lancerlord. Langress retrieved five silver knives flying around his wrist and shouted:
"LANCERLORD!"
Lancerlord didn't care and just waited for Langress to approach. Thinking he was busy, Langress lunged forward and swung his knives at Lancerlord, but he dodged by surprise and stabbed him in the right hand with eagle talons. Langress tried to break free but Lancerlord spun in midair and tore his right hand apart, disabling the silver knives and destroying his right mechanical gauntlet. Langress spat out blood and said angrily:
"Damn Fuck!"
Langress quickly activated his left gauntlet and punched Lancerlord with a powerful blow that sent him flying through ten nearby buildings. Langress slowly regained his new arm after realizing his right arm had been taken by Lancerlord, he said:
"Fuck! That bastard."
Langress quickly picked up all of her silver knives before they fell to the ground. After counting down to nineteen working knives, Langress put them in his coat pocket and grumbled:
"Damn it, if he finds out about this knife control ring, it'll be exhausting."
Langress looked over and saw his legendary Alpha God Sword, but he said:
"Geez, it's fine to get you back, but it looks like you've got a new owner. Sorry Alpha God, but I have Devil's Blood."
Langress took out the vial of holy water and poured it all over himself, he said cunningly:
"Let's see if he's afraid of holy water. He's a pureblood vampire after all."
Lancerlord rose from the rubble and he was able to grab Langress's right hand. He took his silver knife control bracelet and put it on his right hand. Lancerlord looked over and saw that he was in the room of a guy watching Yugioh, who looked a bit taken aback by Lancerlord. The guy said in confusion:
"Uh? Who the fuck are you?"
Lancerlord licked his lips like he had a new dinner, and he replied:
"Hmm, let's have a snack."
Lancerlord immediately rushed forward and grabbed the man, then he raised two sharp fangs that were plated with iron and bit him on the neck. The Lancerlord brutally sucked all of the man's blood leaving him as thin as a rake and mercilessly tore off his head. Lancerlord threw his head out the window and wiped his bloody mouth then said excitedly:
"Langress!"
Lancerlord spread his devil wings and launched back to Langress, he was full of energy again and ready to kill again. Lancerlord arrived and landed heavily on the ground, he looked up with the Alpha God sword in front of him and Langress after. Langress stood strong and defiant, he said arrogantly:
"Is it about time? Another decisive match."
Lancerlord replied:
"Yes, but we need to deal with this first."
Lancerlord controlled the silver knives tore open the pockets of Langress's coats and threw an explosive knife that destroyed them all. Langress said dejectedly:
"Really? I spent a lot of money on them."
Lancerlord replied a little exhausted:
"I don't care, you just need to get rid of those bullshit things."
Langress pulled up the Devil's Blood sword and said excitedly:
"Well then, I'm out of tricks. Pick up your sword and don't complicate things any further."
Lancerlord picked up the Alpha God sword and replied excitedly:
"So this will be the end of us? Die in hatred and anger."
Langress raised his sword and said:
"No, Hell is waiting for us. We'll be fighting forever down there."
Lancerlord replied arrogantly:
"So come here! we'll die as foolest of the world!"
Langress was equally excited:
"Come here! My old brother."
Langress and Lancerlord charged at each other and delivered a slash to their stomachs but didn't dodge and took all the damage. Then they immediately turned around and slashed once to their right shoulder and then another to their left shoulder. Langress and Lancerlord pressed down their swords and they looked closer, more fiercely eye-to-eye. Lancerlord said angrily:
"So you really want to fight?! After everything we've been through?!"
Langress replied angrily:
"Yes, that's what I crave the most! The Betrayer!"
Lancerlord says out loud in anger:
"Don't say that name before me!"
Langress and Lancerlord slashed down and nearly halved their bodies but they quickly recovered and Langress punched Lancerlord in the face causing him to fall back. Langress quickly dashed forward and slashed at the Lancerlord's chest. He also quickly circled around and slashed at Langress's back. Their slash broke each other's ribs and spine, but they recovered instantly. Langress immediately turned around and slashed at Lancerlord's head but he dodged and was only cut off half of his neck. Lancerlord slashed at Langress's face making his face look like it was split in two. The two once again recovered and slashed rapidly at each other. Each of their slashes destroyed each other's bodies, but their healing was so fast that within a second they were able to heal all wounds and fight again. Lancerlord sliced off Langress's left body exposing both his brain and heart and they were still beating but he pushed back to reconnect the severed body and sliced Lancerlord in half from his stomach. Lancerlord immediately spread his wings to push himself back to his lower body and then stabbed through Langress's mouth through his head. Langress also immediately thrust the sword up through Lancerlord's lower jaw into his right eye. The two stepped back and quickly healed their wounds, then charged forward again. This was a battle between two immortals and neither one would win. Langress slashed down Lancerlord's chest once, then quickly up again and another slash on his left shoulder. Lancerlord slashed at Langress's hip then quickly slashed his right chest and then half of his face. Sword versus sword, blood versus blood, eye versus eye, fangs versus fangs, hatred versus betrayal, two opposing ideas clashing and brother versus brother. Langress and Lancerlord fought like two wild beasts, like the two most miserable, like the last two remaining of the glory of their race, like they never wanted to fight each other or like they always wanted this day to happen. Did they really hate each other or just had not accepted the truth? Langress and Lancerlord slashed at each other's chest again and they spewed blood at the same time. The two backed away and Langress immediately activated the left mechanical gauntlet and charged forward, but Lancerlord quickly grabbed his hand and shouted:
"Not so fast!"
The Lancerlord crushed Langress's fist and damaged the mechanical gauntlet and it exploded creating a huge explosion that sent them both far away. Lancerlord was badly burned and flew through a block of houses far away. Langress was equally badly injured with both his left arm exploding and he flew over one or three small buildings and then a very large corporate building. Langress flew straight into a meeting room and scared a lot of people. He spat out blood and said gruffly:
"Fuck off!"
Everyone quickly ran away and Langress sat up. The apartment building where their battle was had exploded and rocks were flying everywhere. Will had rushed to evacuate everyone from there and suddenly he saw a piece of the wall about to fall on a person. He quickly pulled out his Eagle Eyes Beta Pistol and shot at that piece of wall. Seven smart bullets instantly destroyed it to save the person and Will quickly recovered all ammo quickly. Will put away his pistol and said:
"Oh no, do I have to run through two more blocks?"
Will was running on the street when he saw an alley through the opposite street, he said:
"Great, shortcut."
Will ran into an alley but suddenly he stepped on the wrong cat's tail. He was so scared and quickly scratched Will's face. Then, because of the pain, he accidentally kicked a trash can and the lid hit him in the face. Before the pain was gone, Will stepped on a cardboard box making it difficult to walk and collided with three other trash cans. Then, when Will was lucky to get out of that alley, he stepped on the concrete road and got his foot stuck there. Will cried out in pain and tears:
"Oh Lord, why am I so unlucky?!
But luckily he made it to where Langress was.

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Hey all
Wanted to ask if any of you annoholics play on Linux, and have managed to get 2205 running?
Every time I boot it from Steam it launches the Uplay launcher and can't connect to anything. When I launch from windows it throws up Ubisoft Connect and launches fine.
I've tried installing Connect hoping it would sep in instead of Uplay, launching the game through Connect itself, and tried a million (4) different proton versions and it always launches UPlay.
Every other anno game works fine, and they all throw up Ubisoft Connect, only 2205 is giving me jip.
Note - I have the steam version of the game, it's already connected to my Ubisoft account. I've already asked on the official forums but been met with radio silence. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you!

Hi, I'm looking for some ideas here. I need some good travel music first and foremost. Personally I like playing playing soundtracks from Westerns, think Ecstasy of Gold and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Then there's of course some tracks from LotR. What other good soundtracks of standalone works do you use and recommend for that epic journey feel?
I'm going to basically build a playlist and put it on repeat, but hopefully it will have at least an hour.
The upcoming session is going to be a race against time as the party has to cross 37 miles of mountains and thick forest to get to a dungeon and retrieve a specific item in tims. It's going to have lots of navigation checks to find the best route, various dexterity or strength checks to pass through sharp rocks without hurting themselves or to climbs cliffs without falling. I also plan several different encounters for each section of the road, and will randomly roll which will happen. Do you have any tips here? One of the players can fly, so he will be exempt from many of the dangers, what can I do to challenge him besides strong winds?

Hello hello.
Okay quick confession: I’ve never actually listened to a season of TAZ. I tried with the first few episodes of Balance, but by then I was already so burned out on MBMBaM (like, 2 or 3 eps a day for a few months) that it didn’t draw me in.
Anyway, I figured I’d have a look and see how long it’s been since the last time I listened to an episode of MBMBaM. According to Spotify, I stopped listening weekly halfway through Episode 529: Throw Me in the Dumpster Behind the Applebee’s When I Die, released on September 30 2020. From there, I’d occasionally listen to a minute or two before bailing and made it all the way through Episodes 553, 554, and 564 before giving up altogether the following week, in June 2021.
0:00 – MaxFunDrive ad read by Justin is basically “I’m not gonna waste my time or yours trying to explain why you should support MaxFun, just give us your money!” and honestly, I love laziness disguised as frankness.
0:44 – I feel like they would have quietly removed the “Travis insists he’s a ‘sexpert’” line a while back but they left it too late and now there’ve been enough weird Travis Moments that it’d make people assume something scandalous was about to surface if they changed it.
1:02 – My music tastes are a little eclectic but mostly pretty basic, with a big emphasis on upbeat alt and indie pop, so I should enjoy the Montaigne song, but nope! At least I never liked the old one much, so it’s not a downgrade.
[Obligatory semi-relevant anecdote: I took a solo trip to Melbourne a couple of weeks ago as a little birthday present to myself, both to visit some friends and to go see Carly Rae Jepsen in concert, since she wasn’t coming here to New Zealand on her tour. Probably the best concert I’ve ever been to!]
1:54 – Already tensed for the incoming Travis intro bit
2:10 – Okay it’s a “we have to raise enough money to save the podcast from being demolished by the local billionaire” joke. And he’s called Dr Guhart (sp?). Fine. I know that premise has been a touchstone of Western pop culture for decades, but I wonder how much longer it can last. Are younger Gen Z kids making jokes about having to win a ski race to save the rec centre? What’s the modern equivalent? Make a GoFundMe that’s immediately drowned out by all the cancer patients? Camp out in the replies of MrBeast’s tweets trying to convince him to monetise your plight?
“[I]f we don’t raise a bunch of money, he’s gonna turn our podcast into a place where they grind up puppies into sausages.” Travis is really good at making his setups sound rehearsed and unnatural. I don’t need a great acting performance when someone’s doing an improv bit on a podcast, but please don’t make it sound like you cycled through every possible combination of evil act and innocent victim before landing on the one you thought sounded the most comically cruel.
2:58 – “If we raise enough money we can legally murder Dr Guhart.” Okay I like this one better.
4:00 – Not to be a killjoy or anything but Dr Phil is a) irrelevant and b) awful. I don’t need a 30-second bit about him with no punchline.
7:40 – Twee Travis comes to the table, in what I can only characterise as his 20% baby voice, with the classic “you don’t have to tweet it; you can just go back to the old-school tweets where you just whisper it to a bird and then you let the bird go and then the bird comes and finds us and whispers it to us.” I am 90% sure he’s said this exact joke (?) before and it’s never been cute or funny!!!
8:25 – Justin’s pre-question bird question feels like something they’ve already discussed several times already but I don’t know if I’m just wired to hear everything they say as derivative.
12:40 – Question 1: How do I show off my yo-yoing skills to my colleague, who introduced me to the hobby, now that he no longer yo-yos?
Seemed kinda promising at first with the stuff about Riverdance yo-yoing, but there were a couple of not-so-comical misunderstandings between the three of them. Justin makes a reference to 'nipple-height as a shorthand for the exact thing they're all talking about and Griffin assumes he's being suggestive for no reason.
16:54 – Question 2: Can I sit in front of the CostCo TVs and just watch an entire movie? Is there anything wrong with treating CostCo as a low-cost movie theatre?
Being repetitive is the most unavoidable of the podcasting sins, but it’s wild to come back to MBMBaM and hear that the questions are still “I want to do a slightly weird thing in public. Am I good?” and Griffin’s immediate response is still “There’s nothing stopping you except the unspoken social bond of our shared humanity.”
24:30 – Ahhhhhhh Travis is trying to sell me on their bonus content. He starts with the $5 level and then passes over to Justin, who was not listening closely enough to know what had and had not already been covered. Never change!
27:27 – They make a joke about how the unedited naming ep stretch goal is worse than seeing how the sausage gets made but they don’t even call back to Travis’ stupid puppy sausage bit. Amateurs!
27:36 – At least they’re self-aware about the BYOP pizza party stretch goal being a bit shit. Not surprised to learn that it was Justin’s idea. Never change!!!
30:30 – “Brown recluse bite. Almost died. Didn’t. Can’t?” Okay this got a wry smile out of me. It’s been said time and time again on this sub, but Justin has a lot of comedic talent as soon as he bothers to put in a teensy bit of effort.
30:38 – Oh boy it’s time for my first ever Wizard of the Cloud segment.
31:10 – WikiHow to Run a Teddy School
This concept has no legs. Griffin’s angle is basically just “Isn’t this crazy??” and, I mean, yeah I guess so, but without a personal anecdote or question to latch on to there’s nothing here for me to find entertaining. From previous episode threads I feel like this is how it always goes, right? A deliberately ~wild~ WikiHow is chosen and then the brothers react to it like “damn, this is wild”.
35:42 – Travis has never seen Paddington or Paddington 2 and I hope he never does because he doesn’t deserve to.
38:55 – Justin and Travis both balk at the absurdity of expecting teddy bears to pass a toy to each other when they’re inanimate objects and Griffin rightfully points out that they’ve been talking about the concept of Teddy Bear School for several minutes now and this is an issue you probably have to make your peace with before engaging with the topic.
39:15 – They double down on this as if they don’t understand how children’s make-believe works. Yes, you’re going to have to physically move the bears yourself! The WikiHow writer is playing in the fictional space of Teddy Bear School. Are they seriously expecting the article to read “using your hands, manipulate the bears’ bodies and limbs to simulate the actions of walking, talking, eating, and playing”?
Griffin concedes the point because he wants this to be over. I don’t concede but I agree that we need to get out of this comedy black hole.
40:19 – Question 3: How can I eat soup powerfully during my lunch hour instead of looking like a peasant? (??????????????????)
Yeah baybeee! This is the MBMBaM content I crave! I love these cart-before-the-horse questions, where you can tell the listener started with the desire to submit a question – any question – and then scrambled to contrive a problem in their life that they could shape into this high-calorie, low-nutrition comedy slop.
It’s a food question, so it’s guaranteed to get a little bit of interest from Justin. The premise is vague enough that it’s easy for Travis to interject with something irrelevant and uninteresting in the name of being wacky. It’s a social dilemma that isn’t really a dilemma at all, so they can hopefully tie it up at the end by gently letting the listener know that they don’t have real problems.
Justin starts off in a strange direction by suggesting that the only way to eat soup powerfully is to eat it quickly, like a starving runaway taken in by a kindly stranger, which is so clearly incorrect it’s making my head spin. If we’re really gonna try and psychoanalyse the power dynamics of eating, I'd say that wolfing down your food signals a sense of desperation, or perhaps a fear that someone will come and take the food away. That’s peak Dickensian peasant! Eating food slowly suggests a) that you’re really enjoying it and b) that you have all the time in the world. You’re in no rush! Everything’s under control and you’re free to savour your delicious veggie soup. You didn’t just make it because it’s easy and it fits with your restrictive diet: veggie soup is your favourite.
42:25 – Travis has a bad idea about eating soup from a tumbler labelled with a soup-related title, e.g. 'Soup Doctor, PhD'. Griffin riffs on this with the mildly funny idea of having “Caught ya looking!” written on the bottom of a soup bowl for when you slurp up the last of it, but Travis ruins it by suggesting that you instead put a picture of you with another soup bowl and a different message on that bowl (he doesn’t provide an example of a funny message). It’s like they’re playing tennis but Travis has a little bit of poop on his racquet.
“Have someone else feed the soup to you” is a decent Travis answer which he then ruins with the pointless addition of a narrative where the listener saved that person’s life in the war.
46:19: Title drop! ‘Travis’s Fast Soup Cup For Boys’ would have made me laugh in 2019. Now it just blurs together with everything else.
47:20 – More MaxFun stuff. I’m kinda tempted by the MaxFun recipe book, for jerking purposes.
51:27 – Least surprising segue into Munch Squad ever. Apparently, this is the first in a while, so it better be a good one!
52:06 – Chipotle has added Chicken Al Pastor to menus worldwide. Cool. We don’t have Chipotle here in New Zealand, but its reputation precedes it.
I don’t share the brothers’ discomfort with using the word ‘protein’ as a catch-all for meats/beans/quinoa/etc. in a meal description. Travis acknowledges that it’s inclusive of non-meat options but says we can come up with something better. To be honest, I don’t even think that’s why I use the term. Even setting aside vegetarian options, I think saying “chicken is my favourite protein” sounds less weird than “chicken is my favourite meat”. Maybe it’s a regional thing?
It’s very funny how much of Munch Squad is just Justin being pedantic about phrasing and word choices in a press release he’s reading for free. Oh, they said “craveable” twice? They’re implying that their Chicken Al Pastor might differ from the traditional dish? What a scoop!
55:55 – Buffalo Wild Wings has a Bed & Breakfast. Okay I looked this up and the articles I found were from March 2020 (oof). We also don’t have Buffalo Wild Wings in New Zealand.
1:00:06 – Baskin-Robbins introducing chick’n and waffles ice-cream as the March flavour of the month. Obviously, it can’t have real chicken in it, so the whole concept is terrifying, but the jokes about it are only okay. I actually had to look this one up, but we’re three for three: we do not have Baskin-Robbins here in New Zealand.
I was going to make some comment about cultural osmosis and how it’s wild that I’ve passively absorbed so much information about all these brands without ever patronising them myself, but when it comes to American cultural exports it’s more like active transport (little joke for all you cell physiology nerds out there).
1:04:15: They started talking about ‘Daniel’ and it took me a while to remember from previous episode threads that Justin has been doing a zero-effort Daniel Day-Lewis impression as a running gag lately. Luckily I’ve got him on his week off.
1:08:00 – Did not realise that they started reading random quotes from unexpected sources as an outro. I guess it’s on-brand to finish with a joke where the punchline substitutes mild surprise in place of actual comedy.
That wasn’t an awful listening experience, but if I didn’t write all this stuff down I would not remember any of it. It didn't inspire me to go back to listening weekly, but it wasn't so bad that I'd never put myself up for a recap again.

Before the upgrade I had Gigabyte X570S Master with TPM chip, everything worked fine.
Upgraded my PC to Gigabyte X670E Master and Ryzen 7950X. The new mainboard has another SPI socket for TPM, so I ordered new TPM chip from Amazon.
Installed, BIOS Setup see the chip, but system hangs on boot (secure boot disabled, Arch Linux). Sometimes computer doesn't even post until I switch on/off on PSU. If I go to BIOS and switch back to vTPM, it boots fine.
Thought on defective TPM chip, bought another, Gigabyte branded SPI TPM chip on eBay - same problem, not related to the chip.
Either my mainboard has hardware defect or it's a buggy BIOS.
Did anyone had similar problem with TPM and Gigabyte X670E?

MoBo: ASRock AB350 Pro4
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700
been experiencing quite a weird glitch for a while now
i have 2HDD's and a system SSD with windows 10 installed, on one of the HDD's (dying one, i think it's important) there is dualboot windows manager with windows 10/windows 7
SSD has a fresh install
been like this for ~1.5 years and was working just fine until recently (i replaced my PC's case around 2 weeks before the issue appeared so maybe thats the reason)
so it goes as follows:
- for some reason my PC forgets it's boot order and tries to boot from the old dying drive. boot manager on that one is super dead, so it's failing with bsod.
- then it reboots to bios showing me that i presumably have 0 ram. if i go to boot tab - this old drive's boot manager is selected as primary and secondary boot device. if i try to change that it appears to be changed but only till before i open some other window, then it gets reset back. if i choose my SSD as a primary boot device and save&exit - it doesn't have any effect.
- so in order to boot i need to press f11 and select my ssd manually, then it works fine.
i was able to change the boot order back when this glitch first happened (iirc, just rebooted to bios manually, not after another bsod from dying old drive, changed it and saved), but several days ago it started to try to boot from the wrong place all over again.
system time or anything else isn't affected so it doesn't look like a cmos-battery problem.
anyone got any other ideas why this might be happening?

Driverless tractors stoke 'fear mongering' at Cal/OSHA
A Cal/OSHA board has denied two petitions and several requests for an advisory committee to update a 70s-era labor code that bars the use of autonomous tractors.
With farms under water, a waterlogged California Ag Day endures
The celebration of agriculture was subdued by a cold, driving rain—as farms battled to hold back floodwater from snowmelt and topped levees.
India’s tariffs are killing US apple exports, and farmers plead for help
The U.S. Apple Association’s board of directors sat down with Biden administration officials last week to plead their case for their farmers. India’s crushing tariffs were a primary focus.
Farm bill could include FIFRA exemption effort for plant biostimulants
Companies that make biologically derived products designed to enhance soil and plant nutrition are backing a bill that would establish a definition and a regulatory pathway for those products.
Low CRP rental rates spark fear of another dust bowl
When the wind blows in Prowers County, soil tends to follow. The southeastern Colorado county sits at the heart of what is known as the “Dust Bowl” region, a place where the fear of prairie winds scattering tilled dirt through communities and towns looms large.
Lawmakers pushed to use farm bill funds to stop research slide
Congress is under pressure to finally put a significant amount of farm bill funding toward reversing a decades-long decline in public research funding that has seen facilities decay even as universities and companies struggle to find new scientists.
Pandemic’s end brings SNAP work requirements back into effect
Republicans and Democrats are beginning to chart the path of how they want to address food assistance work requirements in the 2023 farm bill discussion at the same time requirements return to pre-pandemic standards in May with the end of the public health emergency.
California agriculture output receipts exceed $51.1 billion
The 2021 California Agriculture Statistics Report reports production by the numbers for the state producing over one-third of the nation’s vegetables and two-thirds of the country’s fruits and nuts.
Syngenta Group reports record sales
With all business units experiencing double-digit growth, Syngenta Group sales for 2022 were $33.4 billion, up $5.2 billion or 19% from the previous year, the company reported.
USDA extends comment period for cattle, bison traceability proposal
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has extended a public comment period to allow for feedback on the January proposal requiring electronic identification for the interstate movement of certain cattle and bison.
World Water Day marks 30th anniversary
This year's World Water Day will be the 30th anniversary of the global event bringing awareness to the need for water and sanitation for everyone across the globe.
Farm Hands West: Cadby joins Western Growers; Naturipe Farms adds Johnston
Jeana Cadby has been hired by Western Growers to be the new director of environment and climate and Naturipe Farms has brought on John Johnston in the newly created role of director of premium products.
https://www.agri-pulse.com/articles/19107-syngenta-group-reports-record-sales

Hey everyone I have a S3 frontier I've been using since around 2018, and today she's gave out on me. Won't boot up fully just says the main power up screen or the reboot screen. I've tried the recovery mode, but then it goes right back into the loop. It's currently at 70% on the charger, and I've watched video after video on YouTube and nothing has seemed to break the cycle. I haven't installed any new apps in the last 6 months and can't think of what could have caused this because it worked fine yesterday.

Hi Bass subreddit
I’m coming up on my third year of electric bass playing and feeling somewhat discouraged and in need of advice, both musical and lived-life.
For some background, I began play music at a younger age with violin. I played for 10-ish years before sustaining an injury that caused me to stop playing.
After I had barely healed from my injury, I picked up electric bass. Because I came from playing violin and Western classical music, the fluid and expressive nature that I was familiar with on bowed strings isn’t so present or is translated differently on plucked strings. I also feel like the way time is felt is different in the music I was used to playing compared to contemporary music.
This is part of why I am requesting some advice, please.
• I almost never feel like I’m in the pocket when I’m trying to play alongside drums or a drum track, and if I do feel it, it feels like as soon as I notice, I lose it quickly. I’m not sure how to have something that feels good and stays feeling good. A lot of it just feels ‘meh.’
• I’m not sure how to adequately fill space in the music. I feel like I tend to play too much with the harmonic language that I am familiar with and work it into these different frameworks where it does not always work. I’m not certain how to go about changing/expanding my understanding.
• I feel lost and confused when wanting to play along with the music I’ve come to enjoy more recently, which is jazz music, soul music, hip-hop, and a big fusion umbrella.
I don’t know if anyone can help me with my concerns I am expressing here but please comment or reach out if you would like to say something.
Also, if any disabled bass players on this sub want to share what practice looks like for them, that would be helpful to me as a disabled person.
Thanks Bass sub!

Alright just to start off, I don’t hate Hamza. I’m more neutral towards him and can relate in that I’m also brown and have a dysfunctional family.
I think Hamza is confused, and is projecting, and his dating advice should be taken with a grain of salt.
My main issue is with his latest videos now going a more conservative religious route to finding and bonding with women who aren’t degenerates. Fair enough…except it leads to a big problem.
Where are these high quality women? Most men want these high quality low body count women, but it’s clear that your not going to find these type in the western world. I’ve met hijabis, and so called conservative woman who have boyfriends, who sleep around, take drugs.
Believe me the extent that these women are willing to lie is unbelievable, timing their periods to make it look like she was a virgin, inflaming her punani with a herb.
Kind of defeats the point of wearing the hijab is modesty isn’t your objective.
Okay, virginity isn’t everything, fine. But also understand that it takes 60-90days for a person to reveal who they truly are psychologically.
It’s these kind of things that made guys give up on the old ways in the first place. This religious route clearly doesn’t work anymore, and this idea that both the man and woman are virgins without any kind of past is super rare.

Don't get me wrong, I love Linux and the idea behind it. But there are so many problems I can't fix. I tried various distros like pop os, mint, kubuntu, fedora and currently manjaro, most of them even with different desktop environments (gnome, cinnamon, kde).
This are the most common problems I encountered on manjaro:

• I'm either using a 4k laptop screen or an ultra wide screen external display. Never both at the same time. The notebook needs a scale of 250 % with increased cursor size. The external display scales at 125 % with default cursors size. I switch between those screens frequently but I always have to set the scale manually and reboot the system after that. I tried using xrandr but the screen gets very blurry.
• Some applications are not scaled properly on my HiDPI notebook. I know you can scale them seperatly but thats very annoying
• Wayland still not working well on NVidia graphics cards (mine is 1650 TI mobile). Mouse is laggy and everything is kind of blurry
• Shutdown does not always work on manjaro. It just runs forever until I switch It of with the power button
• After closing the lid the notebook does not go to sleep from time to time. When this happens the battery drains rapidly
• After opening the lid the notebook wakes up but there is just a black screen with background lighting enabled
• From time to time the wifi or bluetooth adapter don't work after booting up. A reboot fixes the problem
• Sometimes apps just won't start

Most of the problems I encountered on the other distros too. Pop OS handled the HiDpi very well. Best running so far was mint but I don't like cinnamon.
Do you guys have similar problems?

25 years ago, Crow T. Robot said it best: “Perhaps the thorniest problem facing any young man…is finding a woman in the first place.” Even before COVID, I felt like I might as well have been living on the Satellite of Love, as I had lost whatever social life I had after high school. Now, I am creeping up on my 27th. I am not someone who goes out there trying to get a girlfriend, please do not misunderstand me. I would treasure any social connections at this point, particularly with people that don’t live across the country. I have managed to be chill about this for a long time. But due to various recent incidents, such as fucking around and finding out on amiugly and getting a body pillow for Christmas from my mom, old insecurities have come back home to roost. My dreams have been dominated for months by both legitimate sexual trauma and hilariously pathetic scenarios. I figured that I would not harm anyone but myself by putting out just this one personal, instead of just lying in bed and listening to the adagio from Mahler’s 9th as a dress rehearsal for the last swells of bitter resentment before gentle resignation to death. (what zero pussy, and having watched too many Leonard Bernstein lectures in high school, does to a mf)
I could once take solace in that Lawrence verse: “The elephant, the huge old beast, is slow to mate”. But in our age, I can’t do that. Can I please a woman, and if not, at what point does that possible inability make it wrong to expect or even accept the offer? I’m supposed to have gotten all the bad sex out of my system by now, right? I know, intellectually, that sex is a conversation, and if the hypothetical she wants to have it with me, she *wants* to have it with *me*. I know that my unremarkable penis isn’t necessarily or even likely going to be the decisive factor; I’ve seen the statistics. But my irrational brain, that sexually stunted and traumatized ghost in my machine, eats at that unanswered question: when that day comes, can I make her come? And if I can’t, is that not a moral failure? Amateur hour goes on and on, and by this point, that hour may begin too late to ever reach the baseline competence of meeting a single partner’s needs. Enthusiasm and dedication can only go so far. I can be as enthusiastic and dedicated as I want, but I cannot just apply to teach Arabic without qualifications. Why should I assume that the language of sex is any different, especially with all its different dialects?
The simplest, and really most ethical solution would be to book an escort. Alas, circumstances have made this unfeasible. I live in a residential care situation which forbids me from carrying more than $130, and purchases above that have to be approved by a social worker to “ensure there is no exploitation”. Consulting a sex worker would never, ever be approved. I have considered gathering a secret fund, which would take months of careful laundering. However, if those savings were to be discovered, it would risk severely damaging my trust with both the system I need to work within to “prove” that I can live independently AND the family which provides critical financial support outside the parameters of SSI. I refuse to haggle with (or heaven forbid, fish for a freebie from) a sex worker, as I respect their labor.
The chance that a woman would want to take my virginity pro bono is infinitesimal. I know that. This wine was never meant to pass my lips. But is it wrong to ask, this one time, if I can take a sip of it? To ask someone to guide me through proving to myself that perhaps, one day, someone would want to do it with me; to prove to myself that I can make this connection, that I can endear myself on some level deeper than being a court jester, that I have a soul? Or even just to move the fuck on with my life?
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The following are some details about me as a person. This is not an attempt to create a long-term friendship or relationship out of what is essentially a hookup post (or perhaps more accurately, a "could you please spare a crumb of pussy?" post), but I figure that it might help the vibe check if I provide some background, assuming that anybody is still reading after the logorrheic wail that I may or may not have deliberately extended to ridiculous length out of self-sabotage and/or digital self-harm. I am 5’9”, cis, white, blue-eyed, brunet. I am a chonker, but I have lost a significant amount of weight and I am on track to lose more. I don’t drink or smoke (tobacco or 420) but that’s not part of my identity. I like to walk, ideally 20k steps a day, but I also like to ride my e-bike, ideally while blasting YMO.
The question of my attractiveness has been a matter of some debate across two millennia of Western philosophy. There are significant gaps in our understanding of this matter as it developed in the Greek tradition. Lost segments of Parmenides’ On Nature may have addressed the question. A noted lack of Epicurean commentary, which may or may not be resolved by future examination of the Herculaneum scrolls, impedes our grasp of the debate in the early Hellenistic period. But I certainly fail the Polykleitan canon, and the general tenor of thought is unfavorable towards me. Averroes stuck up for me in the medieval period, but Aquinas roasted my ass, as was immortalized in a famous Gozzoli panel which now hangs in the Louvre. To this day, the debate rages on. My great-aunt has proclaimed my handsomeness across two decades, while my foster brother once made an incredibly mean comparison between me and a cleft-lipped child in a Smile Train ad on the back of a magazine I was reading when I was in fourth grade. I guess you’ll just have to decide for yourself; after all, the fundamental subjectivity of beauty has been resolved since Santayana. But with all that said…ehhhhhhh, it’s not really an asset of mine.
I am autistic (huge surprise, I’m sure), and a nerd in temperament and enthusiasm (ditto), although I am relatively uninterested in most of current geek culture. Not hostile to it, but not really part of it. I am more into collecting CDs and Criterions than Funkos. I like anime but haven’t kept up with it. I play video games but don’t call myself a gamer. I have been getting back in touch with my old love of classic/modernist literature, and I think I'm going to get back into the swing of cinephilia with some 60s-70s Japanese art cinema. I can talk your freaking head off about my pet fixation, the history and aesthetic developments (and early political context and yakuza ties and demographic shifts and so on) of 20th century Japanese pro wrestling…but you really don’t want to hear that.

I have been with my gf for 7 years. We live together. Like any relationship you have your good and bad times. She has been struggling with mental health issues as long as I've known her so making this relationship work was a lot tougher than usual. However, I loved her and stuck by her because she was always working to get better. It wasn't just emotional support. I had to support her financially for years while she got healthier as well.
Despite the instability in our lives, because of her issues, we did have a stability in terms of a deep love/loyalty that made me to stay with her. Or so I thought.
This past year she improved a lot actually. Got a lot more responsible with things like paying bills and etc as well. I thought things were looking good. I was thinking we may be ready for marriage.
Then a month or so ago, an ex boyfriend of hers appeared out of nowhere. At first she was freaked out because she had been ignoring him for years because he was bad news 10 years ago. I don't know the full story but he had a bad drug problem and he hurt her pretty badly. Enough that she felt the need to cut him off. The only reason she answered this time was because he managed to find her new number and she didn't know who was.
He immediately started to love bomb her saying how much he is still in love with her and wants to marry her, have a family with her because she saved his life. Inspired him to go to rehab supposedly. But then also starts blasting out dick pics and videos of him naked JO-ing. I know really romantic stuff. Of course she was disgusted. She ran to me freaked out asking what to do. I told her to stop talking to him immediately of course, but she was like "you don't know what he is like. If I do that, he may relapse." Which I was like okay? So I said then let him down easy. Slowly cut him off. She said okay. Then a few weeks after that she comes to me and says "I have been still talking to him. I don't know what it is. I was creeped out by him at first, but I feel like he tricked me somehow to have feelings for him. It's like he is manipulating me or putting me under a spell." So I said , that's it. Stop talking to him now and made her promise not to. I was like this dude is clearly bad news. Fuck him basically. She agreed. THEN, a few weeks after that she comes to me and says she wants to break up with me because she is 100 percent totally in love with this guy and is going to marry him. Not even joking. I at first thought she lost her mind and would snap out of it, but it was real. She claims the love bombing freaked her out but over time it wore her down and made her question our relationship because I wasn't romantic like him. Like what? His love bombing was insane. If I quoted his stuff you all would barf. Considering he hasn't SEEN her in 10 years, and when they dated it was only 6 months, it just comes across as way more creepy than cringey. It literally is like she is under a spell and I don't get it. It's like she is a different person. She is even bringing up all these things about me that were never deal breakers but now are? like wtf?
Without getting into more details I will get to the problem. Like, cool, she wants to leave me for this dude, well then LEAVE. No? I have never cheated, but I have some guy friends that have and their asses were put on the streets THAT night. Why would this be any different? It wasn't even a question they needed the boot, and they deserved it. She however, insists on staying. She also insists on continuing this disturbing love affair while I am living here. She claims she won't invite him over here(as he lives in an another state) but she talks to him every day and talks about him all day. She also is doing this weird thing where she will still come over to me and act like we are together. I go to kiss her and do more, but she stops and says "I can't, I feel like I am cheating on my boyfriend." Which it's like WHAT?! It's like our 7 years don't exist anymore. It's a complete mindfuck that I shouldn't have to be tortured with every day.
When I try to resolve these issues and work out a realistic exit plan she ignores me and even says stuff like "I don't even know if I want to leave, I am just confused. I might end up staying with you. I just need to pursue things with this other guy to see if it's real." Which is essentially having me as a backup? I say no fucking way and try to make realistic arrangements for her to go, which leads to an argument and goes no where. The more I try to communicate my feelings on the situation the more she spins it as I am the asshole. She even had the nerve to say I was scary because I was upset at how I am being treated.
I can't imagine ever treating someone like this. Even for my own self preservation I wouldn't turn my life upside down over some fling from 10 years ago. If someone hit me up 10 years later love bombing me I would be freaked the hell out too.
If we ended this relationship like normal people I would be fine living together but this isn't that. Why can't she understand that?