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elucubra

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  • What’s the most expensive thing you’ve eaten/drank?

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  • Vodka should be as pure an ethyl alcohol as possible. Flavorings make it less pure, and is akin to Gins. Look up the marketing masterpiece that is Grey Goose vodka. It's pretty much the same bullshit as premium Gins. Basically cheap clear alcohol with flavorings. Whiskys, Rums, Brandies on the other hand can have decades of maturing, making them way more expensive to produce.

  • What’s the most expensive thing you’ve eaten/drank?

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  • The law says that Jamón Iberico de Bellota, free range acorn foraging, not fed, has to have a minimum of 19 acres per pig. Ibérico pigs are way more athletic and are not fattened, so their yield is way lower than white pigs. Curing is a minimum of 20 months in open air mountain curing buildings, etc..

    You can easily pay 600-1000€ in Spain for a whole leg. 6Kg. aprox. and that includes the bones, skin, and other unusable parts. The price is not unjustified.

  • Spanish people or people residing in Spain: How are you affected by the current wildfires? How do you experience the situation?

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  • This was the sun on Thursday, driving out of the smoke plume it was a clear blue sky

  • xkcd #3276: Recursive Trucker's Hitch

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  • Nautical terminology is PRECISE, and for very good reasons. You don't want to be in the middle of a gale and ask for the round thingamagig on the right side, to pull or something. That is why you use starboard instead of right. Starboard is the right when looking at the bow. "To the right" on a boat can mean your right, my right, etc.

  • Tesla Stock in Freefall After Disastrous Earnings Report

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  • Teslas are objectively last Gen. The only reason they still sell well in the US and some other markets is tariffs.

  • US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search

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  • If it's not US soil, it's not a detention, it's a rendition, a kidnapping.

    Also, I don't know how citizenship works I this respect in the US, but in my country a citizen cannot be denied entry. It can be detained upon entering, but by then you are in sovereign soil.

  • EVs Just Beat Gas And Diesel In Europe’s Biggest Car Market For The First Time

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  • They are not all "smaller" brands. BYD SAIC CHERY etc are fucking giants.

  • EVs Just Beat Gas And Diesel In Europe’s Biggest Car Market For The First Time

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  • I drive a 27 year old TDI Skoda that gets 4-5 l/100km. on the road.

  • Bazzite sees a massive jolt in installs in late June and early July, catapulting it to over 86k active devices. It has doubled the number of active devices since November.

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  • I'm a Linux user since the age of Slackware diskette installs.

    I tried Bazzite, or Aurora, rather, and found that it wasn't for me. Having to spin up distro boxes or VMs to do things that are pacman -Syu some-random-app in my current distro, is just not for me.

    I lived in ultrastable Debianland for years, and recently tried Script Kiddie Arch (CachyOS). I have my at-least-for-now forever home.

    I have a fairly bleeding edge distro that is slick, fast, polished, friendly, and If something goes boom, I have snapper and pika backing up, so in a few minutes all is back to normal, so the main selling point of atomic/immutable distro is kind of irrelevant to me, and I don't have to live in a system where the important decisions are made for me.

    I have an old iMac for that.

    CachyOS is friendlier and less problematic than W11, and if you need help, it's wiki + Arch's legendary wiki + community is way more useful than your average Windows "run DISM" bullshit.

  • Did someone try to upload a virus to our milk?

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  • It's the norm in Europe, and it makes absolute sense. Milk quality can vary wildly, so brands provide a way to identify a certain set of qualities.

  • SpaceX Stock Plummets Below IPO Price as $1 Trillion Vanishes

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  • It does exist. People used it to buy overvalued stock and people who knew how this was going to go got their money. The money is real, it just changed hands.

  • OpenAI could reportedly run out of cash by mid-2027 — analyst paints grim picture after examining the company's finances

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  • That is not a bubble, it's a shortage caused by a bubble.

  • Farage left fighting a trash can as the UK populist leader’s election gamble backfires

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  • Boaty McBoatface was a lame attempt. Google Boaty Mcboatface Blas de Lezo, which was actually the winner.

  • Help choosing a good HDD for my home server?

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  • I have been using recertified, or used enterprise class drives which have a crystal disk info good health report. These have waaaayyy higher MTBFs than consumer grade, as in 10x more, so a drive with 40.000 hr. on it, may have 10x *theoretical *the life left. do remeber that the M in MTBF means mean, it doesn't mean guaranteed time between failure. Enterprise drives tend to be noisier.

  • 'Knockoff' Browser Extension Hides Sketchy Brands on Amazon

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  • A alternative that works well for me for many things is buying from Lidl. They source from China, or wherever, but through European importers. They have a three year warranty, parts or replacement at least for that period, their branded products meet EU safety standards, and are good value. Not everything is perfect, but I'd say that about 80-90 % of what I buy meets or exceeds my expectations. Selection is orders of magnitude lower than Amazon, Aliexpress, etc, but their online catalog is growing fast.

    Tools in particular are great value, they have a great battery ecosystem for their power tools, and even have a prosumer line (parkside performance, the black ones), that are impressively close to pro stuff from DeWalt, Makita, etc...)

  • Framework proved repairable laptops can work, but almost nobody is willing to buy one

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  • The article is clanker slop. It's mostly reiterative, a clear sign of clanker slop. Clankers are reiterative in their slop. A lot of clanker slop is reiterative.

  • Are you ready for what it takes to stop ghost guns? New laws in California and New York might stop anyone from 3D printing guns — and create entirely new kinds of surveillance.

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  • Are you ready for what it takes to stop ghost guns? New laws in California and New York might stop anyone from 3D printing guns — and create entirely new kinds of surveillance.

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  • They don't recognize bills. They recognize a pattern of tiny yellow rings in the bills, the Eurion constellation, which can barely be seen by the eye. This supposedly will stop copiers and printers from scanning or printing any document that has these.

    Bypassing these is trivial.

  • If Europe has started experiencing over 40°C heatwaves frequently, then this planet really is fucked

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  • Figures they would do that there. Actually, swamp coolers should work well there (I'm assuming it's dry there). Mist systems also work surprisingly well in dry climates.