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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • A few methods that come to mind

    • put the side of the cap on the edge of a table and hit the top with your palm
    • get a fork (or anything else), grab the bottle’s neck a bit under the cap, put the end of the fork just under it, the middle part on your fingers, push the other part down to open
    • find a door, put the bottle cap inside the metal rimmed hole in the door frame that the latch sinks into (sorry, don’t know the word in English) and use it as a normal opener. Be quick as your beer might spill.
    • get a screwdriver and a hammer, put the screwdriver to the middle of the cap and gently hit it with the hammer. The cap will slightly sink into the bottle and the sides will release their grip

  • Mixing metal with other genres or introducing instruments or elements that you otherwise wouldn’t expect in metal.

    By now most of these are considered to be subgenres of metal but for me it blew my mind when I first encountered them.

    Bands like Ayreon, Avantasia, Subscribe, Therion, Haggard, Nightwish, Ostura, just to name a few.




  • It depends.

    Should governments regulate what you can or have to say? No (except if you threaten someone, call for physical violence etc.)

    Should individual people have the ability to ban you from their property or web service because of what you say? Yes (I prefer if they don’t but it should still be their right to do so)

    Should businesses? Yes but probably not arbitrarily

    What about spaces that can be seen as public forums? It’s complicated, maybe it should be handled on a case by case basis









  • Depends on what you mean by decent.

    For privacy it’s shit, it collects a bunch of data that’s sent to MS. It also serves text ads on the lock screen, which might annoy you.

    They also push their own products too much, like Bing AI and Edge, and sometimes an update can mess with the default apps, wich is annoying.

    If you don’t care about those things it’s fine, doesn’t get too much in the way of you doing what you want to do most of the time. I use it mainly because of gaming, but I can’t tell you much about its performance because I have a powerful PC so everything runs just fine.

    The start menu was dumbed down recently to a poor KDE clone, but I personally don’t mind since I wasn’t using it anyway.