Hah, is fine. No I didn’t feel “cool.” I’m just the kind of weirdo that was obsessed with guns from a technical point of view as a kid. Think of me more as the kid just slightly on the spectrum who collected data on everything firearm related and then wrote mods for games like rogue spear that tried to adhere to the data. I didn’t shoot more than a .22 rifle or 16 and 12 gauge shotguns until my 20s. This was one of the factoids I still have floating around up there.

Now in my 40s, I still haven’t owned a gun personally, but have been to the range many times with friends (I buy more ammo than I shoot and drinks after). Heck, a few weeks ago I got to put a hundred rounds or so through a friend’s suppressed FN P90 (a very surreal experience), a very nice .223, and pistols in 4 calibers (.22 and 9mm with suppressors, .45, and .357).

.40 S&W and 10mm auto are both 10mm rounds!

Have you tried the heroic launcher for your GOG games? It’s trivial to connect your account and download/install the games (and select the compatibility layer of your choice). There an option to add the games to steam too.

I got you:

Ok, I did!

Good advice here.

The faster you drink, the drunker you get and the longer it takes to sober up. Your liver doesn’t hurry things along just because you were dumb. It’s a linear processing speed. And don’t take any meds that dunk on your liver either. No acetaminophen/paracetamol.

And when your liver is busy with alcohol, it isn’t doing glucose (fat metabolism things) management. You’re likely to have low blood sugar if you don’t eat after drinking.

For weed: maybe you’ll be unfortunate like me and have a vasovagal syncope response (fainting). Alcohol enhances the effect.

That’s the nirvana fallacy in action. Yes there are tradeoffs. And I get that it isn’t for everyone. I also have a lot of privilege to make this a reasonable purchase financially.

The nearest non-uhaul day rental is a 90min round trip without traffic, which would be rare on a weekend or even weekday afternoon. So I was paying 80-150 for delivery, which really sucks when you realize you’re one sheet short on a project because you forgot to account for something. But it isn’t a super regular usecase.

And while I appreciate the concern for my suspension, I’m definitely not using this as a work truck. For sheet goods, I’m talking about a few sheets of plywood occasionally for personal cabinetry projects, not a house worth of drywall 4x a week. And I can run all my shop tools off the truck’s battery instead of loading up the one 15amp circuit in the garage and running 80feet of extension cords for more. For landscaping, it’s a yard of mulch or a few bags of soil amendment and fertilizer (my wife has a very green thumb and we live in clay country).

Regarding vans: if the id buzz could actually fit a sheet, I would probably have gone that route. But short of an Econoline or Sprinter (which afaik don’t come BEV), you definitely don’t have 8 feet of depth, and I can’t thing of a smaller van with 4ft between the wheels inside, so now you’re driving with the giant liftgate bouncing on your goods and you still need straps and a flag.

For charging yes, it’s silly to think I’m purely solar charging. But I have 26 410W panels and we’re at 400kwh this month so far (Winter solstice soon too). And the truck only has 2k miles on it in the 6 months I’ve had it, so yeah we’re definitely net negative on the meter.

For house battery: I valued the truck as 20k worth of battery backup in my math. We live in wildfire country and there are safety shutoffs and outages from storms somewhat regularly. Knowing I don’t need a generator to recharge batteries for an extended outage is more value.

Really dumb systemic problem bonus: my car insurance went down when I replaced a 10year old base model 5speed hatchback with this truck. I got a $50 rebate check.

So yeah, it’s not a panacea and I don’t think we’re trying to say it is. But it made enough sense for me.

Fellow lightning owner with solar here:

Yeah, the whole house battery plus vehicle is what made this decision. Bonus points that I don’t need to rewire the garage for tools and I don’t need to pay for delivery of sheet goods or landscaping stuff. I also just put 4 adults and an infant in the truck for a comfortable day trip. My meter is still net backwards after 6 months of charging exclusively at home.

“The business case doesn’t add sufficient value for the customer. We need to prioritize creating a lickable UI.”

I think this is the right answer.

If the drive isn’t ext4 formatted, steam os won’t automatically mount.

Here’s a tool that seems to be able to do it for any drive: https://github.com/scawp/Steam-Deck.Mount-External-Drive

For sure.

I am excited to see more arm-based Linux devices for consumers. And the Snapdragon-based VR is exciting on that front.

It definitely won’t change anything for tomorrow or next year, but it does make me hopeful that better support is in the relatively near future.

I run Bazzite and Garuda (with the cachyos kernel). Only the Garuda box is Nvidia and has been great since kde+Wayland+Nvidia stabilized a year or so ago.

I think any of them (including cachyos) is a good choice. Optimization is diminishing returns, so I’d be looking for a distro with the default settings and tools I like as a much higher priority.

For example, I like Garuda’s btrfs with automatic checkpoints on upgrade so I can just send a garuda update (which is pacman Syu with bells and whistles) and almost ignore the output even when I get lazy and don’t update for a month. Don’t take this as a recommendation to ignore updates on an arch-based distro. There will eventually be consequences.

With bazzite, updates really are in the same class because of the immutable base. But I’m also deep into containers and have no issue with the ergonomics of layering and management, which are improving, but definitely not very newbie friendly.

Anyway, give them test drives. You’d be surprised how much changing a package manager can impact your ability to do things for a while if you aren’t familiar.

It will depend on where you live.

Many US states have laws that carve out exceptions for work done on your own time and equipment. If the contact doesn’t call these out as exceptions somewhere, it’s a lazy contact.

This is in a country with very high youth unemployment (19%) and still moderately high adult unemployment (8.3%).

God forbid the poor business owners hire a few more people.

Yeah, the plum wine is a simple infusion.

Seems like it would be easy to find one in Portland.

You haven’t tried it before, so I’ll suggest just brewing one of the kits you have. Use it to figure out some process and hey, you might still get something drinkable. If not, you’ll still be setting yourself up for success with fresh new ingredients.

Edit: oh, and a plum wine is super easy: rock sugar (Belgian candy sugar), vodka, plums. Let it sit for 6+ months.

Looks like there probably isn’t much [toe] nail in that shot.

Märzen is traditionally brewed in March because that’s what märzen means!

But we don’t need to be overly prescriptive, that’s no fun!

I’m mostly just jealous because I didn’t get to it this year.

Compromise is a hard pill to swallow. Or … It’s a suppository! (I suppose; latin word roots are fun).

Most of these strike me as nothingburgers, but that in itself is incredibly disappointing. We can’t really get our hopes up with a corporate shill, so I guess I have to default to applying the nirvana fallacy.

We live in goddamn soulcrushing times.