If you’re posting illicit content to Usenet, a VPN is the very least you need. But you don’t need anything extra to download.

You don’t need a VPN for Usenet.

Last book: Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

Current book: Absolution by Jeff Vandermeer

Doctor Sleep was good, it’s been a long time since I read The Shining but this was a good follow-up. The movie is pretty decent too, but as always not as good as the book.

Absolution is the fourth book in Vandermeer’s Southern Reach series. It’s a challenging read, as are the other books but not bad so far. I don’t think this is what I was expecting from a fourth book, but I’m not disappointed.

I love pizza with banana pepper rings. Not that different than pickles.

And how do you make steel?

I have a Minisforum B550 for various server tasks. It came with a kit that allows you to use full-size GPUs with it.

PAL is 525 lines.

Me too. I’ll look all over for a bathroom (in my dreams) and they’re all either unusably filthy or just don’t work.

Sony stopped making recordable Blu-ray media. Other companies such as Panasonic and Verbatim are still in production.

It does seem to work in Firefox on my phone if that helps at all.

There’s The Eternal Jukebox which does pretty much exactly what you’re looking for, unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be well-maintained and doesn’t work so well any more.

Well he IS a bear, after all.

I assume that’s Geordi’s double, i wonder if he was actually blind.

Edit: Nope, as mentioned below it’s the result of upscaling.

X-Wing was the reason I jumped from Atari ST to DOS/Windows.

Oh yeah, I missed that. I’m still a bit groggy.

his support for education and affordable housing.

WTF? When has Trump ever said anything even close to that?

Edit: I can’t read.

It’s TACO Tuesday every day.

I was watching Wheel of Fortune with my GF a couple of months ago and a “movie” puzzle came up. Thanks to hyphens I was able to solve the puzzle (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse) before any letters were revealed. My GF was pretty impressed.

Phone services used to have “peak” and “off-peak” hours. Calls made after a certain time, say 7 or 8 in the evening would cost less than calls made during the day. So yes, if it had been during the day it would probably have been more expensive.

Ah, but if he then eats the rat it would be poison.