My appreciation, amigo!

Thanks, mate!

You did well!

Thanks, pally!

'Preciate it.

And best part, those skills translate to most linux distros!

OpenXR/SteamVR is an amazing system, and it’s easy to buy a second hand headset and just replace the face gasket (The Valve index has them attached with a few magnets). Especially with games like VRchat, Half Life ALYX, and modded support in games like Minecraft, PCVR is pretty good right now for newbies!

For me, VR support. Rocking win10 IOT LTSC on my main PC until compatibility improves, but already switched to Mint on my work laptop (and likely the main PC before/during 2032)

AI slop? Text looks very non-uniform, link’s name is misspelled, and the camera foreground/background focus doesn’t make sense.

Shorter term: less foreign investments in the speculative industry casino of AI in their country

Longer term: A less brainrotted workforce

Free to play is always unsustainable without microtransactions unless the game is community hosted or open source. That doesn’t represent the overwhelming majority of F2P.

Maybe I’m perpetuating outdated wisdom here, but my understanding is that HDDs can prevent data rot without being powered and accessed for 10 years, an SSD for a few months to a few years, and magnetic tape storage lasts far longer (archival usage).

By data transfer, I meant read/write speed, sorry.

I presume that the SSD wouldn’t consume enough power to make this unusable, but SSDs tend to not retain data when they’re sitting on a shelf. Additionally, I believe USB-C 3.0’s speeds are slower than SATA, although I could be wrong on that one.

• Tar smoke stick causes damage to internal components regardless, and will murder any resale value if there was any. Also a permanent smell will emanate from any exhaust ventilation regardless unless all your devices are passively cooled (which is doubt)
• Damn bro, love yourself sometimes
• Sticks to your clothes and the smell can’t be easily removed even with a shower, know that from family who did smoke.
• Second hand smoke is still dangerous outside, also pollution.
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• " ", but good on you for not endangering pets in your home
• Only gotta be unlucky once…
• I meant trash in your home/litter out and about, probably should have phrased that better
• Regulations advisement, not willing advertisement.

(Sorry, I tend to give corrections out of spite to sarcasm, you got me with the bait)

That’s definitely fair, but there is the argument that the largest source of change for major powers is through harming their economies.

Sort of like, I like the artistry from this person from X nation, but by giving them money, I am indirectly helping fuel the economy of X nation, therefore giving their goverment less incentive to change existing behavior.

The problem is that in order to achieve that collective impact, a whole lot of innocent parties who have no support for or active hostility for the existing regime are also badly impacted. Usually individuals will greatly suffer before the political or structural systems will ever change.

So it’s a bit of a bind. Support Russian media, comes with the side effect of supporting the Russian regime, at least indirectly from their income flowing into taxes. End of the day, it’s a choice to make.

Cigs bad. In almost every way.

• you can’t clean the residue out of electronics
• slowly kills you
• slowly kills loved ones
• slowly kills loved pets
• stains rooms
• starts fires
• trash
• addiction

My father used to teach here (not an art teacher sadly). He said he enjoyed getting neat artwork on the essay packets students would give him (he gave extra credit if students added art related to the subject at the front of the packet).

If frien, why enemy shaped?

The Fallout:London timeline was not on my bingo card, not gonna lie. We’re speedrunning Fallout politically here in the US, though.

Hell, I’m in Silicon Valley here in California, and some of my friends are also jumping off the proprietary ship because those large firms are willing to work hand in hand with federal agencies.

If you’ve read the NSA document disclosures by Edward Snowden, it’s apparent that there is an open door for data requests. The current administration isn’t a huge fan of California’s diversity, so we might as well minimize our chances of being targetted…