Not really, six feet will do.

Watched Jacob’s Ladder a lot, I take it?

I game often, and 100% on Linux. Unless you’re doing competitive multiplayer games with kernel level anti-cheat (read: rootkit malware), games run perfectly fine.

I quit consoles because of the exclusivity nonsense

Nintendo was included in that statement.

That being said, I do think EGS is going the correct route by investing in games / unique games and locking them into their platform.

I strongly disagree. I quit consoles because of the exclusivity nonsense, and EGS guaranteed I will never buy anything from them by doing that shit. I won’t even redeem free games on their platform via Prime Gaming, just on principle.

You compete by giving devs and publishers a better cut, or convincing them to do deeper sales on your platform. You compete by providing a better service to users. You do not compete by literally not competing.

The iPhone’s auto-correct is the worst by far. And I don’t get it because it was actually good around iOS 16 or so. Since 17 it’s been utterly terrible and constantly corrects words that are already what I wanted, making them wrong.

Being wealthy just means you don’t need to overly worry about money. I’m wealthy, but I hate the system and how the world is doing.

This. I make low six figures and support myself and my spouse on a single income. We’ve had to be careful in choosing where to live, how much house to buy and all that. I’m not baller, but I’m comfortable. Amenities are fine and I pay my bills without much thought. I’m working toward retirement.

That’s a reasonable amount of wealth for most. The problem is there are people with so much wealth it provides them the means to manipulate society in sweeping gestures.

• Don’t like the news? buy the media outlet.
• Want unfairly low taxes? Bribe a politician or 50 of them. (Oh, sorry, “lobby” them)
• Politician is against you? Fully fund their opponent’s campaign and now they owe you.
• Another company competing with you? Buy them.
• etc.

Also, while insider trading is illegal, someone with this much wealth, influence, and power can’t help but have inside information just for existing in the circles they do, and wealth leads to greater wealth simply because there’s no way to regulate it reasonably.

Needs more JPEG compression, I can still kind of read it.

As a Coloradan, the Feds can go shove something pointy in their puckered stinkholes if they don’t like it.

I started with a Logitech Marble Mouse back in the day, thumb-balls were never really my thing.

It’s an Elecom Huge wired model. I’ve owned three, had two fail on me, both to left click double clicking on single touch. First time could have been a fluke and I replaced it, but the second failed inside of four months. I said hell with it, took it apart, desoldered the switch and replaced it with a Kailh GM2.0. Worked like a charm and it’s been fine since.

Ironically, my oldest Huge is still working fine. Apparently they were originally using Japanese Omron microswitches that were quality and seem to last forever (case in point, the oldest trackball is from 2019 and no issues). With the newer ones I bought, they apparently changed to using Chinese Omron switches of poor quality.

Sucks, but I have a few spare Kailhs laying around if any of the other buttons die now.

I feel you. I felt that way doing some soldering for things like fixing my trackball (bad left mouse button replacement) and my microwave (blown thyristor, easy fix).

I’m just not really good with small stuff and delicate parts like ribbon cable and thin wires. My eyes are old (hello presbyopia), and my hands were never the steadiest, even when I was younger.

I’m in awe of people who do this stuff. I’ve wrecked a DS Lite and a DSi XL trying to do reshells, I’m just not delicate or patient enough for the work.

Honestly, 100 mil or even 50 mil is more than enough for any human to live a carefree life, without the need to work ever again and without any material want or need.

I did the math; I’m in my early 40s and I’m pretty sure I could retire comfortably literally right now with around 2.5 million and just subsist on the interest and or investments on that for the rest of my life.

100 or 50 million would just be utterly excessive for any actual needs and the majority of possible wants.

To Trump: Technically Constitutionally, you’re NOT entitled to a third term, as you’re inelligible to run for a third term. Sincerely, all Americans

Pretty sure they’re referring to The Host and… yeah, it’s actually not bad.

Same. Absolutely shoes off now, despite growing up in a shoes on house.

I have inside shoes and slippers/sandals for home and inside exercise use. Outside shoes and boots are for outside only, and come off in the mud room. I live in the rurals and I do not want that mess in the house.

I thought the point was to make the other guy’s soldiers die for their beliefs.

Where’s the pic of the ham for comparison? This is just a pic of your hand.

My wife and I have been working out and losing weight and now the question is “am I hungry, or is it lonely mouth?”

Though I’m burning so many damned calories it’s usually I’m really hungry. 🥺