Same, there’s been so much crazy shit lately I was 100% ready to believe this. Glad to be wrong

On my work laptop, Teams has started to ignore my default browser settings. Firefox is still the default, and everywhere else links open there, but from Teams they open in edge anyway. Its really annoying

Grew up Lutheran, with a mom who is very strong in her faith. Felt a connction my self for a while but always struggled with skepticism. Always dealt with self-image issues growing up, and the idea of sin turned much of that to into self-hatred. Sure, sins are forgiven, but you are still supposed to try and avoid them, but I always felt at odds with what I felt was just part of who I was (don’t really want to go into it, but not anything gender/orientation related).

Eventually, learned to love myself more, but this started the rift for me. The other thing is something I’ve always been unable to shake: of all the religions in this world, who is to say one is the “real” one? Everyone has their own image of what “God” is.

Much further reflection and family conflict later, that got expanded to the understanding that religion in general is just one of many ways we try to frame or understand things that are otherwise difficult to. Things like Purpose, Creation, our place in the grand vastness and chaos of the universe.

Nowadays, when it comes to spiritualism I align more to a sort of naturalistic pantheism. Instead of prayer, I meditate, and focus on celebrating life and wondering at the beauty of it all.

This got long and I’m not sure it makes much sense, but I tried. Not great at translating concepts/ideas into words.

Uh…ALL of them? I’m gonna need more storage.

Yeah, I’m never not thankful for my wife’s willingness to listen to my random nerd-rants. Though it does go both ways, because she does the same thing sometimes when telling work stories (I’m a software dev, while she works vetmed)

I can say I got really sick afterwards, there were LOT of people drinking beer out of that thing. Worth

Didn’t play myself, but a family member of mine works for the Avalanche. Was at the game when they won in tampa, so got in to the afterparty.

Hopefully that enough to convince you, don’t want to go too into specifics unfortunately. But yes, people drink out of the Cup every time it’s won

Idk about other cup trophies, but people most definitely drink from the Stanley Cup.

Source: have drank from the Stanley Cup.

Mostly brew mine with the chemex, and the occasional moka pot. But I’ve been running Pop os

I have a couple hundred hours in Terraria, am still terrible. Usually get carried by my buddy I play with. Though, to be fair, he has close to a thousand hours, so maybe there’s still hope! Lol

I’m closer to you than to the other person, but damn, 60F is just about perfect for me. Nice, comfortable T-shirt and jeans weather.

I love me some Warkings! Their stuff is consistently fun.

Can you Chromecast embedded videos? Invidious has a link on every video that just embeds the YouTube vid full-size in a blank page. The ad bullshit doesn’t work with embeds.

I just want an internet provider that isn’t Spectrum or single-digit download speeds. Not having any real choice fucking sucks, especially since Spectrum is horrible.

Had AT&T fiber at my old place and god damn that shit went down one time for an hour the whole 3 and a half years I was there

There must be a Ghost or Powerwolf concert in town

I like the ambient sounds at the end, it gives you a moment to ponder the existential nature of the song.

And I really need to listen to more Dream Theater, I don’t know them very well. Will check this one out. Thanks!

I definitely miss him, and its a travesty we’ll likely never get to see Endlessness live. I will say, I have gotten a new appreciation for Troy’s vocals, and they killed Planet Hell in the virtual show they did, so I’m sure it’ll work out.

This happened to me, but in person the first time I saw Nightwish in concert. I love the band but I hadn’t had a chance to catch up on their (at the time) latest album yet. I asked “wait, is this the same song?” several times.

Song is The Greatest Show On Earth, also around 24 minutes. Incredibly good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMbPFqkTEfQ

Yeah I had one of those moments when an update totally broke stuff. Like, couldn’t boot at all. Had to boot into the USB and chroot to reinstall some drivers. Was a fun learning experience lol

Idk how popular it is, especially since it’s Arch based, but went with EndeavorOS after not running Linux for a few years – work machine mandated Windows and gaming compatibility was kinda sketch at the time. Heard Gaming compatibility had improved (it has) so wanted to try it out again.

Not afraid of troubleshooting issues I cause, and bleeding edge shenanigans, but a proper Arch install from scratch was still a bit daunting. So it seemed like a good middle ground, and access to the AUR sounded nice.

Been running it with KDE Plasma for a while, been going great! Some issues with Nvidia drivers here and there but hopefully going to upgrade and swap to AMD at some point.