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Personally I feel the whole concept of the man proposing with a ring is outdated. The decision to get married was a joint decision between my wife and me. We talked about it, agreed we both wanted it and then decided together when we wanted to get married. There was no engagement ring and we didn’t spend a lot on our wedding rings either (I can’t remember how much, but it was relatively speaking very cheap). The wedding itself was also rather small and not that expensive (again, relatively). We had a lovely day and never regretted not spending more, even if we could have afforded to.

But getting married is one of these things where the right way is your way. Everyone wants something different and nobody can tell you what’s best for you and your partner.

It comes on the cartridge. Afaik so far all first party games have been actual physical releases, except Pokopia (which I think is only published by Nintendo and not developed by them).

Not that I agree with Nintendo charging $80 for Mario Kart, but at least Nintendo had decency to give people an actual physical copy, not lock content behind an additional $20 upgrade and not fire the people who made the game for unionising.

Edit: Not to mention that GTA6 will 100% have pay to win microtransactions on top of the base purchase.

I’ve done a lot of psychedelics in my life. Mainly LSD (including stupid doses), but also plenty of DMT, shrooms a few times and various research chemicals… It seemed like a big deal at the time, but in retrospect there wasn’t really anything profound about it.

Psychedelics are great fun and I don’t doubt they have great potential as medicine, but in my opinion most of the expectations people have when they take them expecting some kind of life changing spiritual experience is just hippie nonsense.

I used to drink and smoke weed daily. The combination of a few beers and lots of weed would numb my brain and take the edge off reality. I did this every single day for years on end, during which time the amount of both drugs crept up on me. When I lost a friend to suicide, the brakes came of entirely and no more fucks were given. I drank before and during work several days a week, and even more after work. Binge drinking also became more frequent. The last time I drank I got completely fucked up, blacked out, lost half my things, ended up with a court date for threatening to punch two ticket inspectors and a broken nose (unrelated to the incident with the ticket inspectors).

That’s when I decided things had to change and I made the decision to quit and I haven’t had a drop of alcohol since. My life improved drastically, practically over night, from that decision and improved further when I quit weed a few years later. I went from being miserable alone in front of the computer every night wasting my life getting drunk and high to a married man who will be a dad in a few months.

The moral of the story? I guess that drinking is fine until it isn’t and you don’t know if you’ll be one of the ones where it’s not until it happens. I really didn’t drink that much at first and it was already a big problem before my friend died, so it wasn’t that that caused it. I would recommend everyone who drinks any amount of alcohol to regularly evaluate the reasons they are drinking and if their habits are becoming problematic. But even then the hard part isn’t realising you have a problem, it’s actually finding the will do change that’s hard.

The article actually supports that: the boards are the same but not identical. Like somebody used the same plans, not the same factory.

The article literally says:

Digging deeper into the phone reveals more of the same. As in the same component shapes, the same component placement, the same screw placements, and even the same anti-tamper sticker placements. Do you know what else is likely to be the same? The factories that made these parts. The biggest clue? The mainboard itself.

I use macOS as my daily driver and Windows on my dedicated gaming PC. I have a server running Linux.

I’ve used Linux as my main desktop OS in the past and liked it (certainly more than Windows), but I just don’t enjoy tinkering with my computer in my free time. I spend 8 hours a day messing with computers for work. I don’t want to do it when I’m not working too.

I definitely see the value in having full control over every part of the OS, but it also means it takes more effort. Especially since I’m the kind of person who, given the option, will configure every little detail to my liking. With Linux that’s basically a never ending project.

World is really good honestly. It’s not without flaws, but it’s really fun and the new techniques like wallriding, grinding etc. make for lots of cool tech in the hands of a skilled player (which I’m not).

True. But Office for Mac uses the same installer for 365, 2021 and 2024 (and 2019 until they EOL’d it). It’s not that they stop updating old software. They just arbitrarily decide you no longer get the updates if you’re on an older license.

True, but running EOL software that doesn’t receive updates to known vulnerabilities isn’t really an option.

Yay, that’ll be a fun day at work… I’m in charge of administering our fleet of Macs and all the users use MS Office heavily. We are currently not allowed to provide access to Office 365 for data protection reasons, so if they brick the volume license we are currently using I won’t have a viable solution for them, beyond switching to OWA/Apple Mail and some other office suite.

The writing’s been on the wall for a while though. They recently made it so that you can’t hide the Office 365 nag screen while using a volume license, which confuses users into thinking they don’t have a license. I fucking hate Microslop.

Edit: As far as I can tell this will only affect users using a 2019 volume license (which is already not compatible with current versions), but the 2021 license will continue to work? (Source: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/update-microsoft-365-or-office-on-your-macos-or-ios-device-f418ae5d-bb5f-4078-b3d9-9340f5dd084e ). I’d definitely be interested if anyone has more information. In any case, I’m sure it’s just a matter of time until they fuck everyone not using a subscription based license for any of their products.

Edit 2: Nevermind. 13th October is the day Microslop has chosen to fuck me: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/system-requirements/end-of-support-for-office-2021

For an equally unscientific, vibes based counter-argument (not to be taken seriously): Would it not stand to reason that a highly intelligent social species like humans (that also lacks obvious physical features intended to attract a mate, like the peacock’s feathers) would select a partner that is good at being social (ie. not being an arsehole) and that this is where these incels fail?

As other people have said, it can cause the balloon to collapse, if the pilot doesn’t prepare for it. There’s a video on Youtube where a guy explains why it’s a bad idea after some dude tried to jump out of his balloon (with a parachute) without permission.

Jumping out of a hot air balloon can not just kill you, but also everyone else in the basket.

If it’s good enough one day, I might switch. But for now it’s unfortunately just not good enough. It’s a shame really, because I do appreciate FOSS, but if Jellyfin is to achieve mainstream adoption, they really need a decent client on what is probably one of the most mainstream platforms in the living room.

99% of my usage is on an Apple TV and the Jellyfin Apple TV client is just really bad. Last time I tried it didn’t even display “watched” markers and the UI looked terrible. None of the third party clients seemed decent either. The Plex client is much better (although I could do without the “suggested” sections).

I remember playing shareware Doom (not enough storage for the full wad) on the nub of the 7650. Later I got the N70, then N73 and (I think) E65. Loads of pirated S60 and Java games on those bad boys. With a bit of tinkering you could even get N-Gage games running to play Tony Hawk 1. Good times.

This is definitely true for me. I have the controller and Frame on my wishlist. Bought the controller day one, but if I ever buy the Frame it will likely be years down the line. 100€ is in the price range I don’t have to think much about, but over 1000€ (I don’t believe they will be able to keep the promise of not making it more expensive than the Index) not so much.

The particular kind of loud narcissism people are describing in this thread isn’t particularly common amongst European christians in my experience and when it comes up it almost always seems to be USAmericans that complain about it. That leads me to believe it’s less about christianity and more just a different flavour of the typical selfish individualism that (to me looking in from the outside) seems to dominate American culture. So if you insist on painting a whole group of people with one brush, perhaps it’s Americans who need to get their fellow countrymen and women in line…

I might be misremembering, but I think in Double Dash you can even hold three items if you trail one of them.

Edit: I tested it. You can’t. You can’t drag items at all in Double Dash.