Squibbles

joined 1 year ago
[–] Squibbles@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 hours ago (7 children)

FTL. At least until you've beaten the game several times

[–] Squibbles@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Me too, and I remember in the mid 2000's before flat screens took off the biggest CRT you could get was 36", or there may have been a 40" but it was ultra expensive. One thing though is that the wider aspect ratio of modern tvs inflates the size number if you were to watch 3:4 aspect shows on a modern tv you are losing a bunch of viewing area on the sides.

Regardless, modern tvs are indeed insanely huge, and I'm loving it.

[–] Squibbles@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Cool though still a bit confusing, like what's a "Device file"? Also so many of those are so similar in use like /usr and /sbin. Why would one be used over another?

[–] Squibbles@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

This was a few years ago but I was able to google something like "vacuum repair" to find this place where we got ours. They had lots of used repaired ones but we had to hunt around the shop a bit til we found the one we liked

[–] Squibbles@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We went to a little shop that repairs vacuums and such and found an old Electrolux cannister vacuum from the 70s or 80s for relatively cheap. Apparently they are quite popular with people who clean houses professionally as they last a long time and are repairable. It's a bit of a pain to drag around the cannister but really not too bad over all and works very well.

[–] Squibbles@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

I think they are actually molasses flavoured toffee if it's the ones I'm thinking of. Always left to the very last, only to be consumed in the more dire of candy draughts

[–] Squibbles@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

If the reaction of the kids who come to my door is any indication the best is ring pops. You can sometimes hear kids shouting to other ones down the street "hey, this place has ring pops!"

Worst: those molasses toffees with the orange/white/black wrapper

[–] Squibbles@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah torn down for SkyTrain expansion wasn't it?

[–] Squibbles@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Good domekeeper joke ;)

 
[–] Squibbles@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago

Don't worry about them being kidneys, they look more like rocky mountain oysters to me

[–] Squibbles@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

Reading this headline as a foreigner is rather amusing. I thought they were referring to some kind of small scale modified version of cow-tipping but for flies.

[–] Squibbles@lemmy.ca 142 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)
 

I've noticed recently that as I'm paging through lemmy in firefox if a video is posted it will start auto-playing with the volume maxed. I don't mind it autoplaying before I get there but it's very annoying to have a page load and suddenly getting blasted with unexpected sound.

an example post that does this: https://lemmy.ca/post/22495123

 

testing

 

Tried our hand at making deep dish pizza for new years. Turned out quite good but I'm no expert so I can't say how accurate it was. I am told the toppings are supposed to all go under the sauce but I couldn't resist putting some pepperoni on top

 
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