I would try Linux, but I’m not some command-line hacker type. I like a nice GUI and Linux just can’t compete with the big guys on that front with all the “packages” or whatever bloating up your knock-off OS.
I don’t think so? I know people here love Linux. That’s great. I just have to assume those folks aren’t gamers/power users, because why would I pick an OS that doesn’t support those things? It’s crazy to me. It feels like the people at Linux are trying to lock me out of my own computer, which I own! And I can’t imagine someone’s little hobby coding project is very secure!? Correct me if I’m wrong! I just don’t get it.
(I’ve got a MIRV correction missile fueling up in my silo now, ready to launch in case you’re not. That’s why I’m asking for so much confirmation, 'cause those things are expensive!)
Man… I get it. I’ve changed at least five windows machines to Linux in the past. This past fall, I was switch my HP spectre to Linux and bricked the fucking thing.
All of the security windows shit meant a bunch of bios changes, then out of nowhere it wouldnt charge the battery.
No idea how to fix it now that the battery and/or laptop won’t recognize the power plugged into any of the usbc ports. Ive tried different chargers, different outlets, and leaving it plugged in for 24 hours, but no life at all. No power means I cant restore to default bios, and Linux wouldnt install because once I was done fucking with the security, i didnt have enough battery to complete the install.
It’s fucking embarrassing.
I then gave up and upgraded to a gaming laptop with a 5070ti, but I’d love to resurrect that old one if anybody has any tips.
I’d try one of the big Linuxes, such as Ubuntu, they often are more compatible than other Linuxes. Have you tried searching for “Linux on HP spectre” to see if there’s any special configuration required
I googled all sorts of things to no avail. Now, software solutions seem moot because it wont power on or even charge.
I should google “how to charge a laptop battery when it’s removed” or “do new laptop batteries come pre-charged” … I feel like if I can get some juice, i can reset the bios to default and hopefully undo my power issue. Then, i can start this whole thing over again with extra caution.
I bet optometrists have opinions about people who have bad enough vision that it causes them daily problems that they complain about regularly, but don’t want to wear glasses for vanity reasons.
contacts exist, but y'know ...
understandably many people don’t want to use them either - as someone who wore contacts daily for a couple of years, learning to put in contacts was kinda similar to learning to deepthroat.
Honestly I wonder how many people tried both and agree that it’s kinda similar :D It’s the part where you train yourself to ignore your instinctual reluctance and reflexes to “touch” a part of your body that’s not supposed to be touched like that.
I would never have made the connection without reading your comment, but once I read it, I almost spat out my coffee.
Something that especially resonates with my experience is that my optometrist advised practicing holding my eye open for contacts without trying to put anything near my eye, because even before I tried putting in the contacts, my upper lid kept trying to close , and that made it harder to hold my lids in the correct position.
Man, this made me laugh. I feel like I’ve mentally saved away your original comment, because some day, there will be an opportunity to make this comparison to someone else who will find it as hilarious as I did.
I think one way to avoid the gag reflex is to “swallow” that cock. Like do the swallow motion but hold it mid-swallow (this trick works to make your Adam’s apple easier to shave, too, as it kinda recedes under your skin).
Never put this theory to practice on a dick, but the gag reflex is about avoiding inhaling stuff, and we (usually) have no problem swallowing food.
You can start practicing just with your fingers — I find it easiest with two. Put your fingers in your mouth as far back as you can without gagging, and leave them there for a few moments, breathing through your nose. It’s important that you don’t go so far as to make yourself gag — I’ve heard that this can actually strengthen your gag reflex, so go slowly.
I found the breathing the most challenging part of it, so practicing with my fingers in this way helped a lot with that. Doing this every day made a huge difference after only a week or two. A big tip that I’d give is that you shouldn’t take a big breath in before trying to deep throat — in hindsight, that’s something that I would often do, and it made things harder. What actually got me started practicing this was that I saw someone who could go all the way down and basically hold a large cock in their throat for an extended time — far longer than one could do in one breath. That made me realise that I needed to focus on being able to calmly breathe through my nose at a regular rate.
If you want to move to something larger, a softer jelly dildo can be useful to practice on, I’ve heard, but I found that practicing with fingers was sufficient.
When you’re actually going down on someone, note whether their penis has a curve to it, as many does. When I had a partner who had an upwards curve, I found that I needed to approach it from the direction of their stomach (so either lounging on the bed beside them, or straddling their chest). A downward curve makes it much easier to approach from below, which is convenient if you’re kneeling and your partner is standing.
I also found it useful to actively try to relax my throat muscles. It was hard for me to know what a relaxed throat felt like at first, which meant that I found exercises like this helpful. I also found that when I was being too ambitious when practicing with a partner, my throat muscles becamenless relaxed. That’s why I found it useful to practice with fingers: I had as much time as I needed to practice until things became automatic, rather than having to worry about putting on a titillating performance for a partner.
An auxiliary tip that’s useful in general for blowjobs is that you can use your hands to sort of simulate deep throating by stimulating the base of the penis at the same rhythm as what your head is moving at. This also makes it easier to gradually working up to taking more of the penis in your throat, in your own time (the last thing most people want is to end up puking on their partner, after all)
Will say from experience that beyond the general yuck, and logistics of having to clean puke off your junk and the surroundings, getting puke on the head of your penis is not pleasant. The acidity of it stings/burns. Do not reccomend.
When you practice with a dildo, pick one of moderate size that has an as-smooth-as-possible surface and that doesn’t have an overly big knob at the end. Don’t use dildos made from PVC or TPE, the material is porous and thus unsanitary, use silicone dildos instead (do clean those). And then I guess, try to relax, take it slow (really, really slow - for the beginning, try to put it in and just leave it there for a couple of seconds, instead of going straight to fucking your face) and don’t overdo it. Try to practice often for a short time, rather than rarely but for a long time.
I found that it’s easier (less gag-inducing) if I put the dildo on a surface and move my head onto it from the top, rather than moving the dildo with my hand while being upright or lying down. Luckily, that’s a more realistic scenario for oral sex anyway!
These worked for me, hope at least one of them work for you, too!
i wonder if hearing people talk about radiation as though it’s an infection that can spread from person to person makes other nuclear enthusiasts twitch as much as it makes me…
or hearing someone imply that any nuclear reactor can explode in exactly the same manner that an atomic bomb does “by accident”.
AARRRRG, that one hurt.
Enriching is about isotopes of the same element.
You know elements? The things that have the same chemical property?
The whole challenge of enrichment is that you want to separate atoms by mass alone, and the difference is <2%. Nobody would build many expensive centrifuges if there was another way.
I did actually know that one! Illinois EnergyProf on YouTube recently made what I think is a really good introduction to the topic. I just liked the surrealist image of a human body separating out U-235 from radiation-poisoned flesh.
We need one of these for every field.
I know you asked for CSV but it wasn’t showing up right so I saved it as PDF. Can I send that to you?
Sends it by taking a photo of the screen, which displays part of the PDF and some questionable browser tabs are clearly visible in the photo.
Edit: questional -> questionable
“OK, I unplugged the computer. … No, I still hear air moving. … What? You mean the footrest? Why would I unplug that?”
I would try Linux, but I’m not some command-line hacker type. I like a nice GUI and Linux just can’t compete with the big guys on that front with all the “packages” or whatever bloating up your knock-off OS.
Are you trolling?
I don’t think so? I know people here love Linux. That’s great. I just have to assume those folks aren’t gamers/power users, because why would I pick an OS that doesn’t support those things? It’s crazy to me. It feels like the people at Linux are trying to lock me out of my own computer, which I own! And I can’t imagine someone’s little hobby coding project is very secure!? Correct me if I’m wrong! I just don’t get it.
Oh OK, you’re not trolling.
You must be joking!
(I’ve got a MIRV correction missile fueling up in my silo now, ready to launch in case you’re not. That’s why I’m asking for so much confirmation, 'cause those things are expensive!)
Man… I get it. I’ve changed at least five windows machines to Linux in the past. This past fall, I was switch my HP spectre to Linux and bricked the fucking thing.
All of the security windows shit meant a bunch of bios changes, then out of nowhere it wouldnt charge the battery.
No idea how to fix it now that the battery and/or laptop won’t recognize the power plugged into any of the usbc ports. Ive tried different chargers, different outlets, and leaving it plugged in for 24 hours, but no life at all. No power means I cant restore to default bios, and Linux wouldnt install because once I was done fucking with the security, i didnt have enough battery to complete the install.
It’s fucking embarrassing.
I then gave up and upgraded to a gaming laptop with a 5070ti, but I’d love to resurrect that old one if anybody has any tips.
I’d try one of the big Linuxes, such as Ubuntu, they often are more compatible than other Linuxes. Have you tried searching for “Linux on HP spectre” to see if there’s any special configuration required
Ubuntu is what I was endeavoring to install.
I googled all sorts of things to no avail. Now, software solutions seem moot because it wont power on or even charge.
I should google “how to charge a laptop battery when it’s removed” or “do new laptop batteries come pre-charged” … I feel like if I can get some juice, i can reset the bios to default and hopefully undo my power issue. Then, i can start this whole thing over again with extra caution.
I bet optometrists have opinions about people who have bad enough vision that it causes them daily problems that they complain about regularly, but don’t want to wear glasses for vanity reasons.
contacts exist, but y'know ...
understandably many people don’t want to use them either - as someone who wore contacts daily for a couple of years, learning to put in contacts was kinda similar to learning to deepthroat.
Saving for
Honestly I wonder how many people tried both and agree that it’s kinda similar :D It’s the part where you train yourself to ignore your instinctual reluctance and reflexes to “touch” a part of your body that’s not supposed to be touched like that.
I would never have made the connection without reading your comment, but once I read it, I almost spat out my coffee.
Something that especially resonates with my experience is that my optometrist advised practicing holding my eye open for contacts without trying to put anything near my eye, because even before I tried putting in the contacts, my upper lid kept trying to close , and that made it harder to hold my lids in the correct position.
Man, this made me laugh. I feel like I’ve mentally saved away your original comment, because some day, there will be an opportunity to make this comparison to someone else who will find it as hilarious as I did.
I’m 💀.
I think contacts are harder though cause I still can’t put them in.
Not a contact lense wearer myself, but I think there are also soft contact lenses which might not be as hard.
I think I tried the soft ones but I am not 100% sure? Basically, one eye was fine and the other would NOT go in.
TL;DR: Would rather deepthroat.
Got any deepthroating tips? Asking for a friend…
I think one way to avoid the gag reflex is to “swallow” that cock. Like do the swallow motion but hold it mid-swallow (this trick works to make your Adam’s apple easier to shave, too, as it kinda recedes under your skin).
Never put this theory to practice on a dick, but the gag reflex is about avoiding inhaling stuff, and we (usually) have no problem swallowing food.
You can start practicing just with your fingers — I find it easiest with two. Put your fingers in your mouth as far back as you can without gagging, and leave them there for a few moments, breathing through your nose. It’s important that you don’t go so far as to make yourself gag — I’ve heard that this can actually strengthen your gag reflex, so go slowly.
I found the breathing the most challenging part of it, so practicing with my fingers in this way helped a lot with that. Doing this every day made a huge difference after only a week or two. A big tip that I’d give is that you shouldn’t take a big breath in before trying to deep throat — in hindsight, that’s something that I would often do, and it made things harder. What actually got me started practicing this was that I saw someone who could go all the way down and basically hold a large cock in their throat for an extended time — far longer than one could do in one breath. That made me realise that I needed to focus on being able to calmly breathe through my nose at a regular rate.
If you want to move to something larger, a softer jelly dildo can be useful to practice on, I’ve heard, but I found that practicing with fingers was sufficient.
When you’re actually going down on someone, note whether their penis has a curve to it, as many does. When I had a partner who had an upwards curve, I found that I needed to approach it from the direction of their stomach (so either lounging on the bed beside them, or straddling their chest). A downward curve makes it much easier to approach from below, which is convenient if you’re kneeling and your partner is standing.
I also found it useful to actively try to relax my throat muscles. It was hard for me to know what a relaxed throat felt like at first, which meant that I found exercises like this helpful. I also found that when I was being too ambitious when practicing with a partner, my throat muscles becamenless relaxed. That’s why I found it useful to practice with fingers: I had as much time as I needed to practice until things became automatic, rather than having to worry about putting on a titillating performance for a partner.
An auxiliary tip that’s useful in general for blowjobs is that you can use your hands to sort of simulate deep throating by stimulating the base of the penis at the same rhythm as what your head is moving at. This also makes it easier to gradually working up to taking more of the penis in your throat, in your own time (the last thing most people want is to end up puking on their partner, after all)
Will say from experience that beyond the general yuck, and logistics of having to clean puke off your junk and the surroundings, getting puke on the head of your penis is not pleasant. The acidity of it stings/burns. Do not reccomend.
When you practice with a dildo, pick one of moderate size that has an as-smooth-as-possible surface and that doesn’t have an overly big knob at the end. Don’t use dildos made from PVC or TPE, the material is porous and thus unsanitary, use silicone dildos instead (do clean those). And then I guess, try to relax, take it slow (really, really slow - for the beginning, try to put it in and just leave it there for a couple of seconds, instead of going straight to fucking your face) and don’t overdo it. Try to practice often for a short time, rather than rarely but for a long time.
I found that it’s easier (less gag-inducing) if I put the dildo on a surface and move my head onto it from the top, rather than moving the dildo with my hand while being upright or lying down. Luckily, that’s a more realistic scenario for oral sex anyway!
These worked for me, hope at least one of them work for you, too!
i wonder if hearing people talk about radiation as though it’s an infection that can spread from person to person makes other nuclear enthusiasts twitch as much as it makes me…
or hearing someone imply that any nuclear reactor can explode in exactly the same manner that an atomic bomb does “by accident”.
It kind of does if you practice cannibalism!
You enrich uranium through centrifugation.
I enrich uranium through bioaccumulation.
We are not the same.
AARRRRG, that one hurt.
Enriching is about isotopes of the same element.
You know elements? The things that have the same chemical property?
The whole challenge of enrichment is that you want to separate atoms by mass alone, and the difference is <2%. Nobody would build many expensive centrifuges if there was another way.
I did actually know that one! Illinois EnergyProf on YouTube recently made what I think is a really good introduction to the topic. I just liked the surrealist image of a human body separating out U-235 from radiation-poisoned flesh.
Do you call people “smoothskin”?
Here’s my 50 CSV files for you to create a powerbi report on top of.
As well as
How do I export the data from my report to CSV?
Don’t you dare!
Plumber “hot water heater”
Accountant “.02 cents”
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