Yes, when it first aired, so I may be fuzzy on details.

It isn’t a bad show, but it isn’t quite up to the standards of the original, either, which I would bet on being one of the major reasons it gets dumped on. It does recapture some of the atmosphere, but Madoka Magica was pretty tightly written, while I found that Magia Record dragged a bit. Two cours for maybe a cours and a half worth of story.

Holding the last four episodes back for months after the rest of it had aired didn’t do it any favours either. I remember being somewhat lost when it resumed.

Another thing about that interview: he continually uses Algoma Steel’s shutdown of its old furnace and the accompanying loss of jobs in an attempt to justify his actions . . . but they’ve been planning to shut that furnace down since the Biden administration (they built a new, less-polluting electric arc furnace that doesn’t require as many personnel to replace it). The tariffs moved the timetable up by a year, but those jobs were always going to go away, and everyone (including the union) knew it. The workers had time to plan and received some supports to retrain or find a new job. Completely different situation from Stelco. So anything he says about that is just blowing smoke.

He’s also an outright MAGAt who’s just fine with the tarriffs and apparently can’t telll the difference between Canada and China. Makes you wonder why he bought Stelco at all, since he clearly doesn’t want it.

Governments aren’t building houses anywhere, they’re trying to get the private sector to do it. Which isn’t working very well most places.

Tempau: This show started really promising, but now I’m pessimistic, because it seems like any other rpg slop.

Assuming that’s a typo for the untranslated title of Overgeared, my memories of the portion of the novel that I read suggest that it is indeed an undistinguished Korean VR tale.

If you want S4S (squared on all four sides) boards, you’ll need a table saw (or maybe a band saw would do)

Bandsaw would be the normal choice, if I’m not mistaken (obviously it has to have enough resaw depth). 150mm is roughly 6", which I think would just barely fit through a 14" Delta or one of its many Asian-made clones. (I’ve been shopping for a bandsaw lately . . .)

Most table saws would need a pass on each side and possibly some handsaw work to split the remaining middle bit afterwards. Doing the entire operation with a handsaw and/or hatchet is possible but requires more skill and patience than I would have.

If you don’t have a lathe, it’s going to be very difficult, but not impossible, to get it round.

Tool handles don’t have to be perfectly round, though. You can just carve the corners off a block until you get something kind of octagonal. I have a couple I made that are rounded rectangles—not perfectly symmetrical, maybe, but comfortable enough to hold.

Geez, you could probably download the molecular formulas for all of the many chemical compounds in coffee and the ratios to combine them in to imitate various beans without using that much data.

I would expect Gentoo’s rankings on Distrowatch to be lower than its actual uptake. I mean, it’s an oddball distro, an old and well-known one whose reputation probably spreads more by word of mouth than anything else.

Gentoo doesn’t do user stats, so it’s impossible to tell.

I think the disconnect may be due to the article repeatedly mentioning that “this stuff is used by smartphones/websites!!!” but almost never mentioning that full-sized computers exist, even though most of the software being discussed is Linux-primary (and some of it is also used on Windows/Mac, like SQLite). It looked to me like the author’s target audience was “people who use a smartphone as their primary or only device.”

What’s missing in this article (or at least as much of it as I could read) is that much of the software listed has alternatives. For instance, bash can be replaced by a combination of some other shell (fish, zsh, dash . . .) and some other scripting language (python, perl . . .). There are other compression algorithms than xz, even if they’re less efficient. And so on.

Others are nice-to-haves, but their absence wouldn’t cause much actual technical dysfunction. If Harfbuzz vanished tomorrow, it would result in some ugly text displays. This is not the end of the world.

I don’t think there’s a simple one-size-fits-all answer for everyone here.

What the majority of people with mental illness need is better treatment options. That they don’t have to pay for out-of-pocket because the government doesn’t fund it, or travel for hours in order to access. Fixing this is, to be honest, more important than extending MAID beyond serious physical conditions at the moment, and would help more people. But it’s expensive and difficult.

On the gripping hand, there is such a thing as treatment-resistant mental illness. If someone has tried everything, and nothing works, and there are no new treatments on the horizon, then denying them the only relief possible is cruel. This small percentage of mentally ill people should be permitted access to MAID, after due consideration of their medical history.

Betteridge’s Law of Headlines would seem to apply.

Pink + up high + Japanese kit suggests sakura to me—blowing petals, maybe.

Could be the wood itself, rather than any issue with prep. Some woods have areas of varying density that absorb stain unevenly. Maple’s the most notorious, but poplar and softwoods can also have issues, and those would have been common choices for use in a paint-grade piece of furniture. The conditioner should have helped, but maybe it just wasn’t sufficient on its own.

Gel stain will supposedly give better results than liquid on blotch-prone woods (I’ve never tried it). I usually get around it by using diluted acrylic paint instead of stain—while not ideal, it’s translucent enough to leave the grain visible and you can build up additional layers on parts of the surface if you need to.

Some high percentage of them will be that stupid, yes, because the people making the decisions are not terribly computer-literate and just want things to go back to “normal” without having to learn anything new or retrain anyone.

If we assume that the most vocal ones are actually Russian agitators and the rest are dupes, then it all makes perfect sense.

Which likely require very specific conditions to trigger and are not being actively exploited by anyone. “A potential issue exists” and “I have no issues (because my use case does not overlap with that potential issue and so the code involved is never called)” are not mutually exclusive. I’ve had no issues personally with X either, even though I know it has bugs—it’s non-trivial software, so of course it does. Wayland does too. It’s just that there are fewer people who get their jollies from pointing them out.

If Wayland works for you, go ahead and use it, but kindly don’t spend your time calling out people who don’t share your preferences. It’s both offensive and tiresome.

You point out up front that self-checkouts are not a substitute and ideally list the ways that theirs are broken. In the case of the local management, talk over them if you have to in order to make your point.

And yes, I complain about having to punp gas, too.

Do it anyway. And complain to the management and the head office if that one staffed checkout is overburdened and you have to wait an unreasonable amount of time.