One thing that is easy to overlook - use a high quality USB cable to connect the phone to your PC for web installation of the OS. There are many garbage-quality cables floating around out there that may charge a small accessory but could be lacking in the data transfer department.

Karl Jobst has done some good investigative journalism on the auction fraud and the “fractional ownership” trading platform scams.

Historically, auction houses and platforms are often using relationships with celebrities and influential people to artificially boost the prices. The platform provides the veneer of a neutral open-market sale. The celebrity provides the “credibility” of a rich buyer, justifying the record price on the game or collectable.

I’d say don’t take any retro game prices at face value, and understand your own local market before buying anything. You can list things for any price you want on eBay. Doesn’t mean the product is routinely trading at that price. Wata can list and claim a “sale” at a ridiculous price on their own platform, and currently there is no way to credibly verify that sale was to a real buyer, and not pre-arranged or fraudulent in some way designed to inflate the precieved value of the item.

Is he named after the band?

Been daily-driving Linux for several months now. There are literally zero critical workflows that I can’t do just because I’m not on Windows.

40% of things I use my PC for are browser-based. 40% have an equivalent FOSS app. 10% are Windows apps that run fine using Wine. The other 10% I can live without.

If you are going to carry, please for the love, get training. And at this point I’d say avoid the Sig P320 entirely. There’s a non-zero chance that dude got clapped partially because his CCW piece discharged while the cop was carrying it away, and the other guys overreacted to hearing a shot.

Yeah, let’s not do any of that shit either.

I had completely memory holed The Specialists until just now.

Love how they incorporated the peak Matrix fanboy culture into that mod.

Here’s an idea. How about we abandon ragebait shortform slop/garbage aggregators entirely, and stop rewarding them with excessive device permissions and personal data.

GrapheneOS is about as close as you will get.

Have burners if you want, but realize that with vanilla Android or Apple iOS on those devices, they will suck up a lot of data about surrounding devices, Bluetooth devices, and wifi networks. This can be probabalistically matched to your real identity even if you use VPNs and you aren’t using any known accounts on the burners. As for GPS data, that’s even worse.

Its probably best to have at least one “normie” phone you do boring stuff on, a Graphene enabled phone for sensitive-but-not-illegal daily driving, and anything spicier than that should be a burner in a Faraday bag, which you cycle and destroy/discard regularly.

As the saying goes, the amount you like yourself is inversely proportional to the amount you like Evangelion.

Can confirm, I recently maxed out the RAM on my decade-old rig at 32GB. At least the used DDR3 RAM was cheap. With motherboards that old you are limited to processors like Intel Haswell with 4 cores, pretty anemic by today’s standards.

It works just fine for me running Linux and doing minimal gaming. 90% of my gaming these days is on the SteamDeck anyway.

I thought as I got older I would have more money to buy current gen PC parts and build basically whatever I wanted. Turns out priorities just shifted and things got even more expensive.

More importantly, do you like doing the work of a fullstack developer but getting paid and treated like a barely-tier 2 support desk person?

I mean one of the good parts of Stardew is you can play it a bunch of different ways and it doesn’t place a lot of restrictions on you.

In the cave exploration parts you can basically play it like a full-on combat simulator.

You can also play it like a fishing game, a dating sim, and several other things. Or you can also completely ignore certain parts of the game if you want.

I don’t think one of the chokey-est QBs in history is the right person to take over as coach of a QB-centric team.

Yeah, OP, based on my experience with the Deck, for a vast majority of games you can just go to the ingame pause screen, press power button to “sleep” the Deck, and then resuming later has no impact.

There are a few games that maybe had audio issues or something after resume but nothing major if your main concern was simply avoiding losing progress.

Using a very loose definition of the word “meal”.

That’s wild. I’m a Chiefs fan but I feel for Nix and the Donks. Injuries suck and that is a garbage way to end his outstanding season.

GrapheneOS is a nice reprieve from the sea of endless enshittification news flowing forth from Big Tech these days.

Pants-on-head idiocy by the DA.

It is 100% legal in the US to build your own gun for personal use, and has been for the entire existence of the country.

Just because it can now be done with custom plastic parts instead of wooden or hardware store parts, changes nothing.

Plus there is no way to validate when 3D printed guns were created, because they aren’t required to be serialized unless they are made by a dealer for resale. So they’d have to ban ALL pre-existing 3D printed guns of any kind, regardless of manufacture date, since you’re not going to be able to distinguish preban guns.

Putting spyware into every 3D printer or slicer software, because of what people “might do”, is also ridiculous and scummy.

TL; DR- This DA needs to fuck off and just use normal constitutional methods to enforce laws.

At least he is wearing his seatbelt.