It depends on the shape of your ears. I use the medium silicone tips (most normally ship with S, M, and L) and they fit comfortably. I can wear them for hours without issue. On the other hand, no size will fit my wife’s ears. They either pop out or hurt her ears. Regardless, they are uncomfortable for her.

I can’t stand the solid ones and highly prefer the silicone tipped. The amount of low frequencies and all around sound fidelity lost when using solids makes them a non starter for me.

Motherfucker looks like he needed to retire years ago. What’s Harvard missing out on here, another three to five years, tops?

He truly is the stupidest man I’ve ever heard of…and I knew a guy who boiled his sliced bread because the toaster was broken (true story, and he procreated…a lot).

Why would the women’s hockey team want to visit a rapist? Republican or Democrat, a rapist is a rapist. Getting chummy with a rapist like Donald J. Trump, friend of now deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, is just a really bad look.

Any RAMnor storage in those things? That solar panel looks useful.

Stock photo of Trump shitting in his diapers.

Stock Photo of Trump pissing in his Depends.

I am pleased that media outlets seem to be settling on photos of Trump looking like he’s about to stuff his piehole as their go to stock photo. Hilarious.

I am horrified that my news feed is a stream of photos of Trump looking like he’s about to stuff his piehole.

I installed Pop!_OS on a Thinkpad in 2020 and have been using that install as my daily driver without issue. That includes multiple LTS release upgrades. The key is to stick with LTS releases. It’s boring because you do not get the latest and greatest features, but the payoff is rock solid stability.

EDIT: As far as distros, I stick with Pop!_OS for myself, Linux Mint for my wife (we’re both IT professionals), and LMDE for my servers.

Server or workstation?

I think it’s illegal in most states.

I’m not bragging, my number is pretty low compared to my contemporaries, even the women.

I think that’s a very healthy number. I’m 53 and I had a very self-destructive first half (+) of my life. I stopped counting very deep into the triple digits and if you told me that I hit four digits, I would not be shocked. I have only been with two people I have loved or cared for and, in my opinion, that’s the only number that matters.

IMHO, our generation had a fucked up relationship with sex.

Your parents:

I’ve been using Linux since Red Hat Halloween. I don’t think I’ve ever customized a GUI much beyond its standard settings. My CLI though…

The art of the deal.

The word “failure” implies that there was an attempt.

https://archive.li/gDAVO

Senator Mitch McConnell appears to be stalling the voting bill backed by President Trump, and fellow Republicans are not happy. McConnell, who leads the Senate Rules Committee, is refusing to schedule a vote on the legislation, thus preventing it from moving forward. The bill would create barriers for voting, requiring specific forms of ID in order for Americans to exercise their constitutional right.

In blocking it, the retiring senator and former majority leader has drawn the ire of his colleagues. Representative Tim Burchett posted a video on X Friday saying McConnell’s actions are partially coming from a place of “meanness” because he doesn’t like Trump, and called his mental acuity into question.

“He’s blocking the SAVE Act, or is he? Is it him or a staff member, because as you know, he’s a lot like Joe Biden was in his last few days in office, or last years in office,” Burchett said. “His cognizant level is diminishing daily.”

Burchett went on a tangent about how much of Congress is run by staffers because certain aging members of Congress have diminishing mental capacity, citing the case of Representative Kay Granger, the former House Appropriations Committee chair who disappeared for months in 2024 and was later found to be living in an independent living facility.

Representative Anna Paulina Luna also attacked McConnell, claiming on X without evidence that “over 84% of Americans and 95% of Republicans want voter ID. Why do you completely disregard the will of the people who voted for you?”

McConnell’s stance has similarly drawn the attention of right-wing personalities on social media who have been calling out his mental acuity for days over the bill, which doesn’t have the 60 votes necessary to overcome a Senate filibuster.

Representative Andy Barr, who is running to fill McConnell’s seat in November, wrote a letter to the senator last week asking for his help to pass the bill, to which McConnell hasn’t responded.

Last year, McConnell wrote in The Wall Street Journal that such a bill would give a future Democratic president and Congress the ability to “use more sweeping mandates to carry out a complete federal takeover of American elections.”

“The current administration has better ways to spend its time than laying the groundwork for a leftwing election takeover,” McConnell wrote. Burchett’s attempt to call out McConnell’s age and fitness is not without merit, as the senior Kentucky senator has had health issues and noticeable mental lapses. But not only is Burchett ignoring the long-term implications of the bill, he is also selectively ignoring the very clear cognitive decline experienced by the president of the United States.

I don’t think you understand. Larry Ellison is a Bond villain, but with actual power. Like when he bought a fully armed (and functional) Mig-29 as soon as the Soviet Union collapsed, but the US would not allow him to import it.

A few months back, he was the richest man in the world. He owns TikTok, Oracle, Paramount/CBS, and more.