Did that myself 6ish months ago. I didn’t even allow windows to boot, I went straight to the Mint install USB. I spent some time doing mint live just to check that there weren’t any hardware/warranty issues, and then I let the cleansing commence.

So.
Fucking.
Gratifying.

Worst: My sister’s wedding. Because I was so hungover the next day words cannot possibly describe its magnitude.

Best: My friends wedding. I was the best man, so I took it relatively easy, so despite being one of the last people to call it a night, I was relatively fine the day after.

However, I’ve only ever been to two weddings, so the range isn’t that wide: They were both pretty fun events.

Knowing Elon it’s probably supposed to be pronounced Robert

And your name shall be X-Grok-&$#@

Excellent picture of an excellent album. “The Black Album” is absolutely one of my favorite AC/DC albums. Not quite on par with “Nevermind”, but it’s definitely up there. “Stairway to heaven” alone makes this one of John Foggertys legendary works.

PS: It was a loss to the band when Wes Borland left, but David Gilmore is a pretty great replacement drummer.

Everything is toxic, it’s just a matter of dosage.

Also, there are plenty of rubber O rings, gaskets, and bushings between your tap and your water source - using anything else in your spigot will make absolutely no difference.

Unless you use something biodegradable. Then it would be an E-coli farm AND “toxic”.

Triple digit Kelvin is already quite comfortable.

Only for inductive heating. A heat pump is basically the same as an AC in reverse.

Same. I choose somewhere 15 to 18C - Comfortably cool, and I can always put on a sweater. Any warmer than that, and I’d have trouble sleeping at night.

So triple digits Kelvin for me.

Pictured: Sir Isaac Newton discovered gay rays on this day, which is why we celebrate pride.

Learning Perl, 2nd edition

Bought a bunch of those when I had a short visit to Karlstad recently. I’m a Norwegian, and I’ll be the first to admit that the Norwegian kind is way too weak.

Will do once I’m in the US, although I need to figure out an explanation for the vast collection of JD Vance memes on my phone first.

Just for the record: He’s not royalty

Damn, I wish that site existed when I lived abroad.

If you feel like DMing your name and address to an internet stranger who may or may not send you anthrax spores, I can (claim to) mail you a resupply stash on Monday.

Well, it could be (I just grabbed it off of an image search), but the product is real and found all over Norway.

Sometimes it’s a hit. I was going somewhere with an Uber in Houston once, and the driver needed to stop for gas. I took the opportunity to head inside the gas station for some supplies, and while I was queueing and minding my own business while the guy in front of me had his stuff scanned by the cashier, and he suddenly said “Oh, and his stuff too”, offering out of the blue to pay for my stuff. (Seriously, does that happen sometimes? I’ve never heard of it before nor after. He must’ve been in a good mood). I wasn’t holding much stuff, so sure why not, once my initial WTF-factor had worn off.
I gave the guy a tin of Tyrkisk Pepper as a token thank you (I happened to have some I bought at my home airport that I planned on leaving at the head office). When he asked what it was I just said “Scandinavian candy, be careful”. He actually liked them.

If we had pearls here in Scandinavia we’d all be clutching them right now.