Every day, over and over and over… I have to keep actual glass cleaner in my car and spray the windshield occasionally—like at stop lights by sticking my arm out the window—because not even the “bug remover” windshield washer fluid works well enough. You need something strong like ammonia to loosen all the protein.

Note: I don’t live in a city.

That’s a Broadhead Skink. They lack the ability to regenerate limbs, so that looks like a birth defect to me. Or perhaps an injury, but it does look like it has little toes on it.

Al Yankovich

The text-based Zelda games from the DOS era aren’t worth playing. I would start with “The Legend of Zelda” on the NES.

Not water. Soup.

Ingredients:

• Meat
• Soup

Directions:

1. Combine
2. Serve

It’s just a joke. A pun, and a light-hearted jab at anyone who likes their terminal so much they play games in it, or design games for it.

Some people are terminally in the terminal.

statue of limitation

That sounds like it’d be Futurama joke.

Snailshock is pool, but with snails, with dice for extra moves, and cards to mess with them.

Is that better?

(I also don’t know why only the nouns were capitalized.)

There’s an edit icon next to the comment so you have that going for you.

They think it’s AI generated.

It’s Candy Mountain, Charlie.

KeePassDX. I don’t see a reason to change.

On Android? I think that one’s PC only.

Back in the day, your ISP would have a Usenet server. Maybe they still do. I haven’t looked into it in a very long time. It would be something like nntp://news.timewarner.com, and you would add that to your email client of all things, because newsgroups were glorified email lists. Your email address was your identity, and you sent messages to groups. The protocol was different, but you were basically sending emails. Then your message would be shared to news servers all over the world. A giant peer-to-peer network. It worked a lot like Lemmy, sort of. Not really.

If ISPs do host news servers nowadays, it’s going to be censored and definitely won’t be hosting petabytes of binary files. If they host binary files at all, they won’t be particularly fast to download, and will probably be limited to images and such.

A modern usenet provider costs money per month because they host all of those files, with very long retention times. Years and years. Plus they have insane download speeds. Do you have gigabit fiber at home? Cool! Enjoy downloading these files with a full speed direct download. That’s what the provider gives you. Access to the “real” Usenet, for a long time, with excellent download speeds. This costs real money, so you pay for this service per month. Providers have different tiers of service, too, with various limits. It’s like picking a phone plan.

Second, you need an indexer. A different website that tells you where the files are. Otherwise, good luck finding them. Imagine trying to find a specific meme on Lemmy by just browsing all the meme communities and scrolling and scrolling. The indexer is a search engine for these files, neatly organized categories. Indexer websites cost a one-time small fee per year.

You download “nzb” files from the indexer. Those small files contain a long list of all the files to go download. You see, every binary file available for download is split into dozens of small RAR files, or some other format. So, thing.rar, thing.r00, thing.r01 thing.r02, etc. The nzb file contains metadata for the download plus a link to each of those files in whatever newsgroup they are in. I imagine whole seasons of individual episodes can be stuffed into a single nzb file, too, but I’m just guessing.

You use bespoke software to manage the downloading and rebuilding of all of those pieces. An nzb file will open in this program to manage the download. There are FOSS ones available, I’m sure, but also paid ones, and even ones for phones.

(If I got parts of this wrong, please forgive me. I have never used any of these things. Well except for newsgroups way back in the 90s.)

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I have Play Protect turned on, and I have no problem installing apps from Droid-ify or Obtanium.

Yes, it’s egg-fried rice.

It appears to be a wallpaper. TinEye found a bunch of results on various wallpaper websites.

This bastardized version is… something.