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kroger made the most boring food actually fun

Thu 2024 Sep 12

One of the most boring foods on planet Earth is the saltine. Flour, salt and not much else. A saltine is never anything somebody raves about.

Kroger, a large supermarket chain, does have a house brand for their saltines. Other companies could learn from what they did because the execution is brilliant.

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retro done right - cool retro term
Tue 2024 Sep 10

Retro where computer stuff is concerned is usually not something I'm into. If the whatever-it-is can't serve any useful purpose, be it software or hardware, I just don't see the point.

Every so often, I find something that has all the cool retro nostalgia and can actually be used for real computery things. This is one of them.

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squier bass out, yamaha trbx174ew in
Thu 2024 Sep 5

Well, that didn't last long. I returned the Squier Precision Bass PJ because it had an unfixable problem. However, I should be very clear that it was only unfixable to that very specific bass and certainly not for all of them.

What I'm about to describe is actually something that can happen to any new bass. There are a few fixes you can try, and I'll talk about that, but if the fixes don't work, you have to get another bass.

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my big upgrade to kubuntu 24.04 lts
Tue 2024 Sep 3

This was an adventure.

I've been using Linux for over a year now. An OS notification came through that said hey, you can update to the new LTS. I thought about maybe waiting to do it since it is a rather large update.

Then I said screw it. I'm committed to Linux now as my daily driver OS, so let's do this and see what breaks.

Yes, some stuff broke.

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i bought a squier precision pj bass
Thu 2024 Aug 29

I needed a bass guitar, and this one fit the bill, so I bought it.

Does this mean I got rid of a guitar to get it?

Yes.

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