The Final SPICE-E BACoN (maybe?) - 2024-08-19

Josh-J-Spiceworks · 2024-08-19T13:13:45.003Z

SPICE-E BACoN Final Results!

Happy moon’s day, folks! If you haven’t already seen it on your “My Feed” section, the real Daily Challenge is BACK! Go check out @Sean-Spiceworks’s (happy birthday, btw) post all about it here and/or @Lois-Spiceworks’s Community Release Notes!

The Recap:

Friday’s question asked about the “official package manager for Windows 10/11” and around 85% of you correctly chose WinGet!

Click to view the explanation

Brew (or Homebrew) is a cross-platform package manager primarily used in MacOS (see https://brew.sh/)

Choco (or Chocolatey) is a popular 3rd party package manager for Windows, but is not official (see GitHub - chocolatey/choco: Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows) 1

WinGet (or, as I like to pronounce it, “Wing it!”) is the official Windows package manager, and is typically available automatically when you’re signed into a Microsoft account, or when you have the “App Installer” package downloaded. In every system I’ve tried to use it on in my testing, it asked if I wanted to install the App Installer package if it wasn’t already and tried to use WinGet.

NoCAB is BACoN spelled backward. It may be the end of this run of the Brain Activity Challenge of kNowledge, but maybe there’s more to come? Also, Daily Challenge is back!

Click to view Friday's results

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The Ramble:

I’ve got one last Ramble for y’all here, because I couldn’t not share this.

We’re babysitting some friends’ furbabies this week, so instead of just having one golden retriever sitting with me, like usual, I’ve got 3 today!

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From left to right, we’ve got my boy Captain Crunch, then Pretzel, and Cookie. Remember how I mentioned we’ve got a food theme in the family? It extends to the friends as well!

Oh! I guess you can also just make out the nose of our giant plush dog, Kitty in the top right corner!

Sorry the picture is a bit blurry, but it is impossible to get them all sitting still and looking at a camera for more than a few femtoseconds at a time!

For anyone as deep into golden lore as my SO, Crunch is a dark “golden” golden, Pretzel is a light “red” golden, and Cookie is a white golden, and also happens to be a sibling of my sister’s dog, Princess Peach.

Maybe it’s colorblindness, but I have no problems telling Crunch and Pretzel apart myself, but both of the other humans in my household keep saying they look exactly the same.

The Real Question:

The real question today is who would be interested in being a “host” for a less tech-focused trivia series? It seems like most of you would be interested in what I proposed on Friday’s question, and a bunch of folks commented that they’d like to see a more general trivia. I’d be happy to co-ordinate it, but tech trivia is definitely my area of expertise, so I’d love to see it be a community event.

We’ve already got one person confirmed to be interested, and I’ve reached out to some others who seemed like they might be. If you’re interested, please let me know!

EDIT: I guess I could add a poll! Warning, unlike the rest of these polls, this one is not anonymous!

Would you be interested in a regular non-tech trivia quiz

Interested!
Interested, and I’d volunteer to host and write some questions!
Maybe
Not really

0 voters

The Rest:

If you’d like to be notified when there’s a new question, watch your feed, because the real Daily Challenge is back, and that’s where it’s at! This is the end of the current iteration of SPICE-E BACoN, so my usual advice that I put here won’t help much!

If you have suggestions for a Daily Challenge question, though, you can still let me know!

And since you’re still reading this, don’t forget to leave me a spice-up just below this! If it’s not filled-in like this → it’s not spiced up yet! It lets me know you’ve enjoyed these and gives us both points, so why not?

Lois-Spiceworks · 2024-08-19T13:18:46.863Z

Thanks @Josh-J-Spiceworks and the rest of the community for creating the unofficial daily trivia while we were trying to re-build the official one.

Suzanne-Spiceworks · 2024-08-19T13:20:55.365Z

Thanks for keeping this going, Josh! Looking forward to more ramble in the future, whether it comes with rando trivia or not.

HulkSmash · 2024-08-19T13:21:59.205Z

Josh J (Spiceworks):

From left to right, we’ve got my boy Captain Crunch, then Pretzel, and Cookie.

Beautiful doggos!

it-monkey-mike · 2024-08-19T13:24:10.035Z

Josh J (Spiceworks):

Maybe it’s colorblindness, but I have no problems telling Crunch and Pretzel apart myself, but both of the other humans in my household keep saying they look exactly the same.

I’m not colorblind and those two look completely different to me as well.

jspr · 2024-08-19T13:34:28.892Z

Thanks for the fun and edification @Josh-J-Spiceworks!

edt · 2024-08-19T13:40:03.803Z

I’m a trivia fan and would love to help out with some general trivia questions!

musicnerd · 2024-08-19T13:41:56.555Z

Awwww to the dogs! They are some cuties!

jspr · 2024-08-19T13:42:30.748Z

Send them to Josh. He’ll be happy. =]

lili1 · 2024-08-19T14:37:30.641Z

Thank You for all the fun @Josh-J-Spiceworks.

bob2213 · 2024-08-19T15:09:01.152Z

IT Monkey Mike:

I’m not colorblind and those two look completely different to me as well.

I am colorblind (red/green). There are dogs in that picture?!?

yellowshirtcc · 2024-08-19T15:17:00.127Z

Josh J (Spiceworks):

the end of this run of the Brain Activity Challenge of kNowledge

I enjoyed these much more than the “real” daily challenge. I really hope the new iteration has more of the spirit that @Josh-J-Spiceworks brought here!

CharlesHTN · 2024-08-19T15:23:35.693Z

I’ll even submit the first question:

Can bacon can be made out of turkey?

No
Of course not
Why would you even want it to be?
Why are you still here?
BACON is made of BACON

Suzanne-Spiceworks · 2024-08-19T15:28:30.663Z

Ha ha. I love bacon, but I have to say that turkey bacon is actually not a bad option for people who avoid “real” bacon for religious or dietary reasons. I’ve had it… not that bad. Not the real thing, but better than, you know, oatmeal or rocks.

wwwes · 2024-08-19T15:36:04.861Z

Thanks @Josh-J-Spiceworks for all you have done to keep us entertained and tuned in daily…

keep up the interesting conversations… ramble different questions etc…

merlinyoda · 2024-08-19T15:44:44.082Z

Josh J (Spiceworks):

If you’d like to be notified when there’s a new question, watch your feed, because the real Daily Challenge is back, and that’s where it’s at! This is the end of the current iteration of SPICE-E BACoN, so my usual advice that I put here won’t help much!

A fond farewell to this chapter of SPICE-E BACoN as I’ve little doubt that something will become of it in the future (this community is too spicy for it not too ).

IT Monkey Mike:

I’m not colorblind and those two look completely different to me as well.

They look different to me as well but it’s a somewhat slight difference to me. If you had just woken me up and asked if they looked the same or not I’d probably say the were the same.

ich-ni-san · 2024-08-19T15:46:21.361Z

Suzanne (Spiceworks):

Not the real thing, but better than, you know, oatmeal or rocks.

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merlinyoda · 2024-08-19T15:54:42.271Z

CharlesHTN:

Why are you still here?

Heh, that made me think of this:

(The actual answer, of course, is “BACON is made of BACON”)

spiceuser-ty2u6 · 2024-08-19T16:09:40.235Z

Thanks for stepping up Josh! I enjoyed the SPICE-E BACoN and had a lot of fun.

Crunch is definitely not identical to Pretzel - HIs head is shaped differently (at least to me) and Pretzel is a much different coat color.

Cheers!

graeme-n · 2024-08-19T16:10:03.273Z

I’d love to host a trivia quiz from time to time, but I honestly don’t know if I would be able to fit it in.