I was walking behind two dogs and their owner. I was walking faster than them and one of the dogs looked at me and proceeded to persistently move the other dog to the side so that I could pass. It was absolutely clear it knew what it was doing :)
Usually just a physical SIM but I’ve used pre-paid eSIMs in other countries. Quite convenient!
I’m European. My first thoughts go to immense and diverse cultural heritage, pollution, amazing food, food sickness…
I would listen if it wasn’t on Spotify, he used to have some interesting guests in the past at least.
I agree with holding off on Starfield. Bethesda games are usually instant buys for me but this time I’ll probably wait years before buying it. My love for Bethesda games is all about exploration and for some reason they replaced handcrafted story-filled landscapes with procedural generated ones? Hopefully modders make some cool content that is worth exploring in the future :)
I can afford to buy or subscribe to services but at this point streaming is just more annoying than pirating. With pirating I can use my favorite player (mpv), maximize video quality (high quality blu-ray rips), watch offline, no bugs or buffering, instant seeking et.c. As for games I might pirate a game before buying it but usually I just buy it since it’s convenient (unless it has intrusive DRM).
I’m a millennial but I also have an interest in computing before my time. The possibility of understanding the computer entices me, whereas modern computing is more interested in understanding me.
Got my first PC when I was ~8 in the 90s. My dad explicitly told me not to touch the 110v-220v switch on the back of the PSU. It didn’t take long :)
I thought it was 1998 but the mod came out in 1999, then Valve bought them out and released it as a standalone game in 2000.
Counter-Strike overtook the others by a mile in the 00s but in the 90s I probably enjoyed Delta Force more actually.
Wait I forget about consoles:
The issue is that users might object to subscribing to a community on a particular instance. I guess it’s not the end of the world, you can always unsubscribe but I can imagine some people being very upset to be associated with certain politically leaning instances or worse.
uBlock Origin, it’s not even close!
I think it should be a “copy community” feature, then mods can just prevent posts in the old community and make a sticky that points to the new location.
Making users automatically subscribe to a community on a different instance (even if it’s “the same community”) is pushing it a bit in terms of moderator power. Also makes things worse in terms of exploits and others have pointed out.
It was so easy to spend time in early WoW. The community was awesome before all the sharding and LFG/LFR tooling!
In a year I had over 200 DAYS played on World of Warcraft back in 2005-2006. That’s over 13 hours a day, then I quit abruptly and later tried a couple of expansions casually.
Second is probably Counter-Strike 1.#. No idea actual playing time but would estimate around 1000 hours.
The above two I don’t regret spending my time in. Made a lot of friends and it all felt rewarding.
Then there are games like Civilization VI (~200 hours), Rimworld (~300 hours), Tropico (~200 hours) and even Path of Exile (~500 hours). These games are not really rewarding, other than little dopamine hits that gets you continuing playing forever.
Edit: Added hours!
Let’s not forget the EULA difference. GitHub will own your code to a greater degree than the alternatives, in order to feed their AI. I don’t think you can opt out?
Republicans certainly seem a bit insane but I don’t see how I don’t see how that means we should be ok with big business being arbiters of truth, with no oversight.
Business will further the interests of their shareholders, democrat, republican or not. Giving them carte blanche to “create truth” is giving the shareholders that power, most of which is controlled by a few investment banks. They do not care about us or societal problems.
Are you asking for big tech to decide what’s true or not?
// Not American or conservative in the least, but the idea sounds dystopian to me.
I used to have a crush on the Olsen twins and I made it through some unbearable films back in the early 2000s. I could tell “Getting There” and “When in Rome” were truly awful even though I was a wee teenager. Luckily they stopped making films shortly thereafter.
The only consistent thing is coffee, green tea and water. I’m new to tea but it might supplant coffee entirely actually. Green tea makes me feel good :)
As for food I switch it up a lot but I often eat plain yogurt with muesli for breakfast.