[-] VerilyFemme 3 points 20 minutes ago

I love the groove. Problems start arising when they sell enough to gain Greatest Hits status 😬

[-] VerilyFemme 24 points 6 hours ago

You'll be among the pool of husbands and dads who also had to go. Enjoy not waiting for the bathroom the whole concert.

But yes, you are overthinking it. Go have fun and do what you do naturally. Maybe you don't have to constantly be giddy every second for 2 hours.

[-] VerilyFemme 17 points 7 hours ago

Little bloke looks like a true Brexit geezer, no wonder he won the mogbattle.

[-] VerilyFemme 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I was bitten by a tick and the area around the bite became inflamed, so I went to a doctor to test for Lyme. The test came back positive for alpha-gal syndrome.

It's a weird allergy. They think more people have it than are diagnosed because it mostly presents like IBS. There's different levels of safe foods. So milk has the least allergen, meat has more, and organ meat has the highest amount. So if I have milk, my tummy is a little upset later on.

I've no idea what happens if I eat the other stuff though. I've heard of people that didn't know they had the allergy their whole lives, until one day they tried beef liver and went into anaphylaxis from the high concentration of allergen.

[-] VerilyFemme 9 points 21 hours ago

Yeah it kinda sucks, but I'm healthier now.

[-] VerilyFemme 6 points 2 days ago

They have an app on Android, and their family plan is about as cheap as Spotify's (from what I saw).

AFAIK their website works well for streaming music on PC, and you can also download any songs you buy.

[-] VerilyFemme 14 points 2 days ago

That's by design. The same way that processed foods are designed to be addictive.

[-] VerilyFemme 18 points 2 days ago

I just switched to Qobuz and I like it a lot.

It's French, and they pay artists like 4 times as much as Spotify, Apple, and Amazon.

They have a huge library, the only issue I've had is sometimes I need to input the full artist name and song title in search for the song to come up.

Also, it's a music storefront as well. You can purchase songs from them to download and do with as you please. As an added bonus, subscribers to the streaming service get 60% off all music purchases. So if you ever want to think about branching off into self-hosting, Qobuz is a great place to start.

[-] VerilyFemme 2 points 2 days ago

Fuck yeah, I love seeing Moose in the wild.

Bitches love my mustache.

[-] VerilyFemme 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's my favorite copypasta. I can't believe I was the first in this thread to post it.

Better hope you have some Essence of Dittany for that sucking chest wound.

[-] VerilyFemme 69 points 2 days ago

Ok, this has been driving me crazy for seven movies now, and I know you're going to roll your eyes, but hear me out: Harry Potter should have carried a 1911.

Here's why:

Think about how quickly the entire WWWIII (Wizarding-World War III) would have ended if all of the good guys had simply armed up with good ol' American hot lead.

Basilisk? Let's see how tough it is when you shoot it with a .470 Nitro Express. Worried about its Medusa-gaze? Wear night vision goggles. The image is light-amplified and re-transmitted to your eyes. You aren't looking at it--you're looking at a picture of it.

Imagine how epic the first movie would be if Harry had put a breeching charge on the bathroom wall, flash-banged the hole, and then went in wearing NVGs and a Kevlar-weave stab-vest, carrying a SPAS-12.

And have you noticed that only Europe seems to a problem with Deatheaters? Maybe it's because Americans have spent the last 200 years shooting deer, playing GTA: Vice City, and keeping an eye out for black helicopters over their compounds. Meanwhile, Brits have been cutting their steaks with spoons. Remember: gun-control means that Voldemort wins. God made wizards and God made muggles, but Samuel Colt made them equal.

Now I know what you're going to say: "But a wizard could just disarm someone with a gun!" Yeah, well they can also disarm someone with a wand (as they do many times throughout the books/movies). But which is faster: saying a spell or pulling a trigger?

Avada Kedavra, meet Avtomat Kalashnikova.

Imagine Harry out in the woods, wearing his invisibility cloak, carrying a .50bmg Barrett, turning Deatheaters into pink mist, scratching a lightning bolt into his rifle stock for each kill. I don't think Madam Pomfrey has any spells that can scrape your brains off of the trees and put you back together after something like that. Voldemort's wand may be 13.5 inches with a Phoenix-feather core, but Harry's would be 0.50 inches with a tungsten core. Let's see Voldy wave his at 3,000 feet per second. Better hope you have some Essence of Dittany for that sucking chest wound.

I can see it now...Voldemort roaring with evil laughter and boasting to Harry that he can't be killed, since he is protected by seven Horcruxes, only to have Harry give a crooked grin, flick his cigarette butt away, and deliver what would easily be the best one-liner in the entire series:

"Well then I guess it's a good thing my 1911 holds 7+1."

And that is why Harry Potter should have carried a 1911.

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So, I'm going to be the best man in my friend's wedding. I'm very flattered to have the honor. He's one of my closest friends, and I have no problem supporting him as his best man/best trans.

Furthermore, I'm out to him, and he has made it clear that he wants me to show up in whatever way makes me the most comfortable. I've picked out a dress, started taking voice lessons, and plan on getting my hair and makeup done professionally.

I don't feel dysphoric at all about filling a traditionally male role, but...

How the fuck do I write a speech? A lot of best men seem to give speeches that joke about their 'bromance' with the groom and all that, which I find to be wholly inappropriate in my scenario.

My first thought was poking fun at picking a woman for best man, but some of his family are transphobic and I don't want to rely on gender humor out of fear that they stew in their transphobia and say something to ruin his wedding. Then I thought maybe I could crack a joke or two about being trans - but I also don't want to lean into the self-deprecation so much that I validate anyone's transphobia.

So, how do I even approach this?

I was thinking I could open with, "When the groom asked me to be his best man, I said, 'sit down, there's something you should know.'"

Maybe I'm overthinking it, but this is a friend who has been there for me in the past. I want to fill my role in his wedding perfectly. Any advice is welcome and appreciated.

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Death Generator is an easy generator for changing the text displayed on old game screens.

You should know this because there aren't enough Death Generator memes on Lemmy ;)

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I've been using Pop!_OS for a few years now, and it's worked like a dream. Everything works out-of-the-box, and gaming on Linux has never been easier. But it almost works a little too well. Learning Linux as opposed to Windows for all my games was a fun challenge.

But, now that I'm familiar with how to set up any game that needs a little help besides Proton, I'm starting to want to delve into my OS more to see what I can customize, and I think picking a new distro with slightly different architechture will be very nice.

Don't get me wrong, I still want something that works by itself more often than not. But I would love to have something a little more cutting-edge that gives me a little more control.

I started with Linux by installing Kubuntu, and I really miss KDE Plasma. I know Kubuntu is still on Plasma 5, and I've been wanting to find a distro that lets me use Plasma 6.

I've narrowed my choices down to three distros: Nobara, Garuda, and Bazzite.

So far, I've confirmed that Nobara and Garuda come with Plasma 6, but I haven't found that information for Bazzite yet.

So, what do you think about these distros? What are the pros and cons for you?

I'm leaning the most toward Garuda - but I'm worried Arch may be TOO big of a leap. I really just learned that Fedora is not Arch-based, so I know Garuda will be a bit of the odd one out of the three.

TL;DR: Nobara, Garuda, Bazzite - which one is good and do any suck?

EDIT:

Thanks, everyone, for the insightful and helpful comments! From what everyone has said, I've come to find that either CachyOS or Solus will fit my needs best.

CachyOS seems optimized for gaming, while Solus' curated rolling releases seem (to my untrained eye at least) to be somewhat of a step between the way Debian-based distros upgrade and the way Arch-based distros upgrade.

I'd love to hear people's experiences with both of these! I think I'm going to try to dual-boot them and see what setup looks like for both.😄

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