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- Comment on Where's my old hat 1 day ago:
Thank you for your service!
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 1 week ago:
So gold is inflation-proof?
Yes, but only to the extent that you can store it, defend it and find a buyer when needed.
Gold loses value at exactly the rate of the cost of the armed guards you are paying to keep it from being stolen.
Pay too little, and it takes its value to someone else who is better armed or sneakier.
And if someone set aside gold for you that you have never seen, no they didn’t.
- Comment on If your federal government cut internet access to your whole town then where in your town would you think that "the people" would get together to protest ? 1 week ago:
Yes. I would meet at “yes”, as well.
- Comment on If your federal government cut internet access to your whole town then where in your town would you think that "the people" would get together to protest ? 1 week ago:
I’m not saying. Nice try possibly Federal Internet cut-off clean-up assassin team!
- Comment on Cloudflare is down [Dec 5] 1 week ago:
Is there a reason these outages seem to have increased recently?
We’ve had three years of unnecessary tech layoffs.
Nobody knows how the fuck anything in their technology stack works anymore.
Everyone is just spinning the giant wheel over and over and hoping it doesn’t land on bankrupt.
Sell your technology stocks, kids.
- Comment on I support this 2 weeks ago:
Yes it is high stakes.
When I go for it, I leave exactly one milk carton of blank belt before adding the divider.
I feel that it gives me an air of unhurried friendly eye-contact-free confidence.
I’ve heard other people speak in this situation, but that sounds like a pro player move that I might warm up to in a few more years.
- Comment on I support this 2 weeks ago:
I would have left the divider out, because I default to assume others are acting in good faith.
I would have wondered why we needed to not use a divider, today. I would have assumed she knew something I didn’t know. And then I would have shrugged and left it how she put it.
So I guess I would have achieved an accidental malicious compliance. Haha.
- Comment on Your Data Might Determine How Much You Pay for Eggs 2 weeks ago:
This has been going on for awhile.
I get better (online) prices on everything since I de-googled myself.
- Comment on Can anyone scientists confirm? 3 weeks ago:
I speak to fish, and can confirm.
Although, I must admit that the fish words for “flee to safety or face my wrath, pitiful human!” and “oh! I think that’s a crumb of cracker. Yum!” are very similar in most fish dialects.
- Comment on One hour into Gears 5 and I feel its a lot better than 4 3 weeks ago:
“They’re not breasts, Doctor. They are highly sophisticated Dalek implants!”
- Comment on Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand 3 weeks ago:
If someone says 10x it’s probably bullshit. 100x it’s definitely bullshit. I don’t even have a term for 1000x
The term we’re looking for is “fantastic investment opportunity”.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Being a great communicator and a generous lover is more attractive than most of the considerations discussed here, so far.
Many the challenges of being ace or on the ace spectrum in a relationship can be overcome by regular use of phrases like:
“Dear, would you like a handjob tonight?” and “I love the look on your face when I fuck you. Let’s fuck tonight.”
Just be sure it is what you really want - it would be kind of silly to put in the needed effort if it is not somehow also serving your needs.
Great communication and generousity are incredibly attractive in a sexual partner, and both can be cultivated by anyone who chooses to put in the practice.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Why would you want “steam” installed? It’s just a normal program, you can install it yourself in 5 minutes.
Because having Steam pre-installed signals that the hardware producer planned for gaming and has done some basic testing for gaming.
The new “Steam Machine Verified” badge is the most exciting part of all this.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
To top it off, the “benefits” you’re mentioning are literally the same as if you bought a prebuilt pc.
Do you have a favorite pre-built PC that ships with Linux and Steam installed?
That’s something I want pretty badly, but haven’t run across a good lead for.
With a good recommendation, I might not wait for January!
- Comment on Good news. The wife of Jeff Bezos is giving back some of the money her husband stole from Amazon employees 4 weeks ago:
There’s plenty of rich people who could give away money continuously for the rest of their lives and never run out. Bezo’s ex-wife is among them.
- Comment on Is capitalism or consumerism at fault? 4 weeks ago:
I’m sorry but did a CEO write this?
I sure hope not. The CEOs should be leveraging their AI contracts to write things like this, to maximize synergy.
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 4 weeks ago:
If the truth is theyre barely afloat theyre not going to change anything by delaying the report.
Sure. Long term.
But I can’t help but wonder how much a motivated executive could embezzle using some additional time…
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 4 weeks ago:
The rabbit hole goes deep on this one.
I found it surreally hard to find new dance game - until I discovered that much of the player community had (I guess?) moved to an open source game engine called StepMania.
I play StepMania happily enough, now. It is nice how many different songs I can now add with community contributed step configurations.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 5 weeks ago:
but running SteamOS instead of Android sounds amazing.
I have put Android and carries flavors of Linux on a variety of weird hardware. I can go confirm, running a game on SteamOS rather than Android typically makes a big performance improvement.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 5 weeks ago:
For the rumored price, I’d need to see more commitment from Valve and latest news right now are saying they aren’t developing a VR title.
Agreed. I feel the same.
But then I start to think about an Indie friendly VR platform might give us in six months. It could be very nice.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been saying for years that VR can get off my lawn until I can buy Linux native hardware. I guess I’m interested in VR, now.
“I may never financially recover from this.”
is well said.
I need to buy all of these.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
As someone whose father probably had to do the same - it has meant so much to me, that he did. You have a lot to be proud of.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 5 weeks ago:
Outside? I try not to go there.
- Comment on How hard would it be to trap gated communities by crashing dozens of cars into the front of their gates blocking them from leaving ? 5 weeks ago:
Just be sure not to mess with any electronics boards. Sourcing replacement boards for old proprietary hardware can be a huge pain, and they would have to leave the gate open while they wait for a new board to arrive and get installed.
That sounds uncomfortable, to the kind of person who needs a gate between them and society to feel secure.
- Comment on Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck 2 months ago:
says Andrew Castillo, a stock trader from Los Angeles. “It has no political affiliations at all to me.”
He’s getting a head start distancing himself…
In contrast, my car stands for high mileage, oil changes, and having a trusted local mechanic.
Anyone can tell just by a quick look at it.
- Comment on The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market 2 months ago:
Yes. Boox is nice, if you want it for adding Android apps.
I side load on mine a great deal.
Fast things like games and movies don’t play nice with the slow eInk screen.
But board games, puzzle games, digital comics, and simple websites all work great.
I was surprised that background processes do fine, with some patience. I have something running to back up my notes to my NAS.
- Comment on The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market 2 months ago:
Boox are great!
I don’t trust the services they default to, but they’re full unlocked Android, so they talk to my NAS and other services I choose.
If you don’t care for the battery life or screen refresh rate, be aware that there’s now a setting so you can pick your preference (faster refresh means shorter battery life).
- Comment on Millions in England face higher water bills after regulator backs more price rises 2 months ago:
What if we raise prices for as many people as possible so a few very rich people can have more money?
- Comment on Does anyone have tried minecraft java edition on mobile? 2 months ago:
It’s worth noting that the full version of Luanti runs natively on Android, is fully free, and plays fully cross platform will all Luanti servers and other copies of Luanti.
One Android phone copy of Luanti can even serve the game to a few other players playing on PC or Android.
- Comment on Harsh 2 months ago:
And the next night, try doing it again with Sony Walkmen.