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Follow up to the French iRabbit episode.

The day that Star Wars died...

Time to fire one back after that... <redacted>.

It happens every now and then that posts repeat on the forum after a while, but it seldom does within the same thread. Although, well, this particular thread is a little long in the tooth, so that explains it, I guess.

This thread is decidedly more fun when nobody is on topic. Best thing to come out of Portugal: https://nuriartisanalsardine.com/produtos/?lang=en Feel free to disagree, but know that you're wrong. Tuna pizza is probably a staple everywhere, I think. Nothing wrong with that, although I prefer pasta with tuna, which is fantastic and easy to do. That doesn't count, mackerel in (tomato) sauce is great. Next to several cans of Nuri we always have some canned mackerel too. Generally don't put them on a sandwich though, usually just straight from the can with a kaiser roll or rye bread. Mackerels also make great Steckerlfische, don't let the silly purists tell you otherwise if you're ever in a place where you can get them.

I meant I got approval from Shadowheart, not that she said something about the doodling, sorry for being unclear.

I have done weirder things than to watch 172 episodes of a Star Trek show just for a guest star that shows up in three of them, and that relatively early on.

I regularily get enraged whenever I have to change something on my parent's Android phones. My father's phone in particular is always in danger of being smashed in a fit of rage because its pull down menu for some reason has a second pull down menu that contains settings not found in the regular settings menu of the phone. Because reasons. My mother's phone on the other hand hides settings menus behind on/off toggles. They're not just toggles, they're literally buttons you press to access the settings, say, you just turned on wifi, now there's no wifi settings menu to be found. Why? Because you have to press the freaking toggle to reveal the settings. It is a toggle. It should NOT also be a button to find a settings menu once toggled on. Never mind how difficult it is for my mother to access that menu, what with her Parkinson's disease, she's more likely to toggle something off than actually get into the menu she needs. Whoever came up with the user experiences on those phones should be retired, in the intelligence agency meaning of the word. You really can't do anything techincal on an iPhone, not even copy the pictures you take to your computer without using Apple's software for it. It is highly restricted and not all that customizable, which is fine for me because I treat my mobile phone as an oversized brick hat can also send text messages and can be used to sign documents and bank transactions online. Well, I also have Microsoft's authenticator app because I need that for work and pay parking fees with it. Every now and then I play Angry Birds.

Fixed that for you.

I recently migrated some low grade trash Android phone to a newer Samsung for a friend and the experience was not nearly as smooth as it was with the iPhone (turn on new phone, it automatically couples with the old one, you press one button, enter your password, set a pin code, done - zero configuration work on the new phone, except for telling them that they can stuff their touch ID some place where the sun don't shine ). Makes sense, given the wide range of Android devices available. Much easier to get easy migration paths done when you only support a limited amount of devices with a tightly controlled operating system. Not a dig at Android. I mean, the migration. I hate everything else about Android though, the system is a mess, especially on Samsung phones. Apple might be a creepy sect, but their phones have a settings menu that contains, well, all the settings you need. Android looks like the Windows 11 control panel in comparison, just without the search function that makes it easier to find the setting that you're looking for.

I did, recently. Well, almost. Began a rewatch of Star Trek: Voyager, and I found myself not minding that Janeway's got bipolar disorder and should be in a loony bin instead of the bridge of a starship. I also no longer mind that the writers had no idea what to do with Chakotay outside of focus episodes that smack of stereotypes. Heck, I even enjoyed the discount Klingon episodes, and what is the most damning, I sat through all of Threshold and thought to myself: "Yeah, that's stupid, but you know what, it is not as bad as I remember." I can already see myself liking Enterprise sometime soon. Maybe I won't even hate Wil Wheaton's guts in the near future. Nu-Trek is insidious. Like mirror universe root beer. I know. It's so dark, edgy...and unhappy. And you know what's really frightening? If you watch enough of it, you begin to like it. You know, I probably spent as much time making fun of the show here on the forum as I spent time watching it, and I had to look up the names of these characters to find an image. All they really are, in essence, from left to right: gayer, gay, and non-binary. That is the in-universe equivalent of Anthony Rapp only being known as the guy who was fondled by Kevin Spacey. They're making Chakotay look good. Help. Well, enough of being off-topic.

Waiting for @Azdeus to show up and tell us how is a national dish in Sweden.

Got myself a new phone after 7 years, was a good run for it, but the battery kept giving out, and even when fully charged only lasted a handful of hours in standby, without doing much. The "get a new phone" experience sure has improved in that time, at least there's something to be said about being stuck in Apple's sect-ish ecosystem. A quick bluetooth coupling, some minutes of copying the setup and files and you're done. Moved my netbanking access and my digital signature app for all bureaucracy related shenanigans to the new phone. Which is an iPhone SE 2022, by the way. I may have yuuuuge hands, but I prefer my devices small. It is a real pity that Apple's going to discontinue the SE line. The next one will probably have to be one of those bricks. Yuck.

I envy people who still have access to a good butcher in their vicinity. We used to have an award winning butcher close by, but he closed up shop a while ago. As did our small bakery, which survived by offering excellent products and great service. They had a breakfast subscription service, delivering your choice of freshly baked products (and milk, if you so chose) to your doorstep, somewhere between 4 and 5am. Sure, it was more expensive than going to the supermarket, but it was also much better and much more convenient. Led to much less wasted food too, as you could select the products you wanted for your daily delivery in just the quantities you'd usually need. The folks who ran the bakery retired, none of their children wanted to pick up the trade - no surprise there, not much material gain for very hard work - and they found no one else as successor either.

So any reason the game screams at you for entering the mountain pass area when literally nothing happens and you can just go back? Because it forces a long rest that might mess up a quest in the first area? Anyway, I am in some monastery now. Doodled on a portrait, which impressed Shadowheart, but Lae'zel thought it was childish.

Ahsoka is, so far, one part boring and one part plot hinging on the protagonist(s) being supremely stupid (as was noted by @ShadySands and @Gromnir), which makes for a decidely unimpressive combination. Even when there is something happening that should be interesting, it just falls flat. Flatness is something that permeates this series: the unimpressive camerawork, the editing, the pacing, the dreadful action sequences and the monotone, emotionless line delivery by virtually every actor on the show. Memoria looks like a fount of suspense next to this. Edit: reading through my thoughts on Memoria it becomes clear that I consistently spelled Colombia wrong. I am disappointed that none of you pointed that out. I know at least three of you read that, due to the reactions.

Also if one likes their bridge crew at least somewhat professional. Not that this was a given in any of the Star Trek series, but the trash talk on the bridge of the Enterprise is really grinding my gears. Small wonder that the only episodes I really enjoyed where those where the writers conveniently forgot that the bridge crew is supposed to be utterly obnoxious and juvenile. If you like you can repeat your point about the showrunners not liking Star Trek so much and more wanting a cool Star Wars/rogueish crew. That's not making it any better. The continuity minutiae aren't exactly minutiae either. But yes, out of all the new Trek offerings (have not seen Lower Decks), it clearly is the best. Which is just saying that a pile of dog poop is preferable to cow pies or horse dung simply because they're smaller.

Virtual Boyswitch?

Spoilered in case you don't want to read it, but yeah, I hope it is nothing alarming...

I also had a dream so disturbing I was actually punching myself inside the dream, yelling wake up idiot at myself. Details are a little vague after waking up, but it involved running through the hallways and classrooms of my high school with people randomly committing suicide while running past them. Did not wake up from punching or yelling at myself, nor did I gain control over the dream from figuring out that I was dreaming. Can't wait for dream recording technology to be ready, I'm going to make tons of money selling them as ideas for films and books.

Well, in Japanese, the honorific term for someone else's wife literally means inside (the house), coming from a term that originally used to express that something is out of sight and inside (a house, or some other enclosure). Edit: It is the polite way to talk about someone else's wife, because indirect address is polite in Japanese, so basically many of the polite words - or words that used to be polite but no longer aren't - indicate the direction of someone, up to a point where the respectful word for person is "direction" with an addad modifier. Example: 日本人 (nihonjin) means Japanese (person), while the respectful variant used to talk about or adress people of higher social standing is 日本の方 (nihonnokata), meaning "from the direction of Japan". So, well, in a way it makes sense to talk about someone's wife by adding the location of where she is supposed to be if you want to be polite. Which is where women belong, after all. Back home in the house.

Entire immediate family came down with the "flu", and now I'm feeling a little under the weather with a dash of sore throat.

Well, I missed out on the stat increase.

Leaked specs for the Switch 2, or whatever it is going to be called, look really interesting. Might turn out to be a handheld with PS5 level of performance. If it's downward compatible with my old Switch games I might even pre-order.