My one and only bit of advice is for a first timer to only use a live usb/disc for a week, doing the most common things.

That assumes they don’t know anyone willing to put the time and effort into helping them migrate. If you have help, I don’t believe you’d have to have as long a trial period. A day or two at most.

Reasoning is that you never notice everything that might need troubleshooting the first few days. Making sure of that is much better done before trying to install and jump in, even with a dual boot set up.

Really?

Chocolate.

That’s true, but I found that just adding wasn’t great. You still have the smaller particles in there, which changes both comfort levels (not by much tbh) and what you might call aroma. It gets a kind of musty smell as it deteriorates, which doesn’t totally go away if you filter out the smaller stuff

Depends on what you mean by last.

I still have one feather pillow from about ten years ago. It’s still a pillow, but it’s gotten lumpy, less full, and it’s really only still around because of a strange nostalgia. It got to the point where it slept poorly at about a year. To be fair, it wasn’t the “best” possible.

Buckwheat, I got a little longer before it lost enough filling to break down that it wasn’t viable, about two years before I was just done with it being progressively flatter.

Eh, I’ve tried all of them at least once.

For my money, shredded memory foam is the best. It isn’t perfect, but I’ve had the best balance between comfort, durability, ease of cleaning, and cost.

Buckwheat was good at support, and stayed fairly cool, but the breakdown and difficulty of cleaning made it a problem. It just doesn’t last as well. Only thing that was worse in that regard was feathers. Feathers get ruined faster than anything else I tried.

Pillow cases, I’m a cotton fan. High thread count cotton has the right balance of softness vs smoothness. Too soft, and you end up with bunching and wrinkles as you move. Too smooth, and you end up with your head moving too easy but your hair not moving well.

Polyfill sucks for everything except ease of cleaning.

Cotton batting is about the same as polyfill, but not as easy to clean.

Solid foam is just begging to sweat heavy, and damn near impossible to clean well. Plus the durability is iffy.

Pillow cases, actual linen isn’t bad, but tends not to be as comfy as cotton. Silk is way too smooth. Satin is just uncomfortable. Synthetics tend to run hot, even though they feel nice. Knit cotton feels the best, but damn does it fall into poor condition fast.

Nah, once I like something enough to listen to it in purpose the third time, I don’t get burnt out.

Now, I do end up decreasing the frequency of listening after a few days because there’s other stuff I like that’s already had the new worn off.

Like, right now, I’m semi obsessed with this dude that started on YouTube, Carson McKee. I’ll end up listening to my favorites every day for about a week, then his stuff will go into an ever widening rotation of the genre/s he’s in. I just came off of a series of metal kicks, with some of the more recent releases by Judas Priest being the most recent.

I still regularly listen to stuff going back to when I was a little kid. I just never burn out on music I like.

Boobs everywhere!

Legit, in the real world, wolverine’s healing factor is the most useful. Other stuff is about tricks. His kind of healing means no cancer, no Alzheimer’s, no strokes, no heart attacks, nada. A long, healthy life free of disease of almost any kind.

The only drawback is the semi-immortality. A long life watching others die would suck hard. It’s already bad enough with a regular life span.

One of the purposes of jewelry is to enhance looks. It can serve to draw attention to specific features.

Now, there is a disclaimer needed here. I’m hetero. So I have no sexual attraction to the male form. However, I’ve dabbled in multiple forms of art, and used to jang around weight rooms with some bodybuilders among the mix. So you either learn to appreciate the male form or you GTFO of both of those PDQ.

Necklaces can very much enhance a chest/torso. It’s all about the kind of necklace. Understated is usually best. A single pendant, with the chain/string/whatever being are the right length is going to pull the eyes to the center of the chest most of the time. This can be a very good thing. You adjust the length to match where you think that extra attention is going to give the best visual, and you’ve succeeded in jewelry.

Even a very fine chain can also give a visual break. Depending on the hair situation, chests can actually be boring to look at. A lot of hair, and it’s a visual sameness just like a total shave is. You need light and shadows, variances in tone. If you don’t have that naturally, you can supply it with jewelry (works with piercings too, btw). I’m a fucking sasquatch, and there’s more visual interest when I’m wearing even something utilitarian (a keychain sized flashlight is damn handy on a chain) rather than jewelry.

So I’m not surprised you prefer the looks when wearing your necklace. Makes total sense.

Now, sexy is as sexy does. If someone is into necklaces as a paraphilia, or just as a mild nicety, you can’t really judge whether the jewelry makes you look better or not. Most people I’ve ever heard talk about male jewelry at all leaned towards a little being enough, rather than any specific type.

But, yeah, I’ve seen enough dudes shirtless to have the opinion that a tasteful piece hanging somewhere on the sternum is sexier than without, most of the time. Doesn’t turn me on, but that’s not necessary to have an opinion about sexiness per se.

That’s easy. The people profiting from it are pushing it hard.

Something had to go, that’s the premise.

Compared to anything else in existence, the shit that man wrote is the least useful thing.

Weed out via the tolerance metric.

If a piece of writing is non fiction, and exists to foment hatred, bye-bye. mein kampf is not literature.

I’m limited to one?

That’s pretty much “Fade to Black”, by Metallica.

The only playlists it doesn’t end up on are genre limited lists, and it there’s a cover in the genre, that isn’t even certain. There’s a couple of incredible bluegrass covers of it that are on my bluegrass playlists lol.

But, Metallica is more or less my favorite band. I could argue with myself about that and make good points against it being true, but it amounts to it being true anyway.

It’s off of a great album. It’s musically fulfilling, in that it covers a lot of ground without being chaotic. The subject matter is a big one, and it’s one I’ve faced in my life many a time. It has emotional resonance because of that, and because the song has helped me make it through many of those times. It’s kind of a tautology there.

It’s one of James Hetfield’s best vocals (imo).

The guitars are superb, the drums at the peak of Lars Ulrich’s abilities. The bass is present and well mixed (which is not a guarantee with Metallica lol).

There are other songs that find their way into damn near any playlist I make, but none of them can match FtB.

Absolutely!

Yes.

The poor quality joke aside, it varies.

My favorites are apple, grape, and plum, in that order.

Strawberry, that’s something I have to be in the right mood for because I’m very picky about strawberries in general, and none of the major brands get strawberry jellies/jams/preserves right for my preferences.

I actively dislike most berries with peanut butter, regardless of how they’re preserved. So blueberry, blackberry, and the like just aren’t an option. I’d have them by themselves on a nice biscuit, some toast, or whatever. The flavors just don’t mesh with PB well, imo.

I’ve never had a marmalade that went well with PB at all. My dad loves orange marmalade with his though.

I’ve had guava , mango, and (iirc) papaya jams/preserves, and tried them on a PB&J. I didn’t dislike the flavor mixes, but I wouldn’t buy them with that in mind because I didn’t particularly enjoy it either. Kinda meh, imo.

I’ve never tried a pb&j with pepper, tomato, or bacon jelly. I’m not against trying them, I would do so, though not as a whole sandwich since I suspect I would actively dislike those with PB. But I’d put some on a corner of bread with some PB and try it before I formed a final opinion for my own use.

Now, there is another jelly I’ve tried with the pb&j. But it’s absurdly expensive to get where I live, and I have to special order it. So I wouldn’t make a PB&J with it again, since I very much love it in other formats. Prickly Pear. The stuff is amazing. The syrup is balls out on anything you’d use syrup on, and the jelly is the same flavor, just jellied. It’s a very distinct amd delightful taste. And it went well with PB. But the expense is such that I would reserve it for uses where it’s the star, rather than part of an ensemble.

And, yes, I’m aware I’m a wee bit over enthusiastic about a PB&J. They’re on my list of “perfect” sandwiches. The fact that they’re a highly variable sandwich group rather than a more limited thing is part of why the format is on the list alongside very defined sandwiches like reubens, but even if you limited the PB&J to a single jelly type, PB type, and limited the bread options, it would still be on the list.

You better get away from my peanuts, willard!

I hate to break this to you, but there’s only 43 people on lemmy at all. We’re all just pretending to be everyone, including you.

You aren’t you at all, you’re a constructed personality inside someone’s mind with a lifetime of false memories and a thin veneer of “free will” to give you the illusion of being a real person.

Bold assumptions in there.

Nothing says there have to be duplicated organs at all. You wouldn’t necessarily even need two sets of lungs for them to be able to speak, just an air bladder that gets filled up without doing any major oxygenation. You could even have the “horse” lungs doing all the work for that too, without the need for a secondary air sac.

You could even do away with a full skeletal system in the upper section. Could be almost all muscle around some bones for support and mobility.

All that would be necessary for the upper part are digestive tubing, breathing tubing, and a skull on top of a section of something akin to vertebrae for turning the head itself.

Think of that human torso being a very complicated neck rather than a half of a human grown onto a horse.

Now, I would think that with the extra space, there would be something like a stomach in there to begin breaking things down before sending them along but that isn’t mandatory for the basics to work.

Now, where things get interesting is reproduction. There’s where you’d see some trippy arrangement to allow for birthing a baby. I’ve always thought that maybe the “human” part isn’t developed the same. More of a lump of a head with stumpy little proto-arms that finish growing after birth. Just enough so they could run and eat, with the rest of the torso section slowly arising from its flesh prison fully during puberty.

They’d spend their first few years slowly growing the trunk and arms, allowing the muscles to develop over time.

Even if there are ribs, they wouldn’t have to be attached to anything. They could just be under the muscles a little to give structure without the need to have organs to protect.

Also, how many sets of genitals do they have? Do the front and back have to match if there’s genitals on both? There’s sci-fi centaurs where the whole thing is way more complicated than you’d think.

Shoot, share it anyway. That’s what it’s all about, people just sharing themselves and maybe getting a chance to walk that mile in the other person’s shoes :)