Not to sound like a shill, but I was surprised when Americans on Reddit would say it was nothing special. I didn’t even think they’d have a separate American product chain.

Over here it’s not the cheapest or best chocolate but it’s probably the best chocolate you can reliably find in any grocery store.

Also. American chocolate isn’t bottom of the barrel for me. I’ll take a Hershey’s white chocolate cookie thing over no name Syrian “chocolate” with RGB bloom and a barely-perceptible gumminess not even a mother could love. When I was a kid, the shops were full of questionable cheap Syrian candy.

We’ve actually had it pretty good in Lebanon pre-2019 when it came to European chocolate and candy. And occasionally if you knew where to shop, American soft drinks. American candy isn’t it, but American liquid candy? I’d be 900 kilos if I didn’t have to pay extortion prices for American Dr. Pepper. The British stuff we sometimes get just isn’t the same.

Edit: I just noticed what community this was in. Oops, was just scrolling through All. Sorry if this is a bit out of place. Good luck Canadians!

I’ve always been curious about this stuff and I know I need to make some effort soon, ever since we moved our home recordings from VHS to DVD some 15-20 years ago.

My understanding is that SSDs are also likely to lose data when unpowered for a long time, which is why they haven’t been recommended to me for external backup drives.

“Spinning rust” is much cheaper than I thought, even if I have to pay 200$ in shipping to get a bunch of massive used server drives here. And it seems to not have that problem, with the downside of either needing to be completely powered off or wasting a bit of power when it’s not active. I’m still not sure where the HDD parking technology is at.

Of course ripping all the physical media would also be nice. A lot of the original discs I have (most of my discs are straight shitty copies with one file, yay third world) have things like special features and multiple audio tracks, things like that. I wonder how those should be organized.

Good lord, 1,400 comments, and the first quick scroll is exclusively downvote farming. That’s not even dedication, at this point it’s outright not understanding why people would want to communicate online

I’ve also wondered if there’s varieties. Maybe where I live, they’re different tasting and smelling? Broccoli has only ever been one of the vegetables to me. Nothing repulsive (or even noteworthy).

Even as a kid it was weird to see cartoon characters complain about specifically broccoli while I literally munched it while watching.

Now when it spoils, yes, it can get a little sulfury, as can cauliflower, its cousin. But fresh broccoli?