No.

My personal rule is that I do not consume any media where I have to see or hear adverts.

When I’m in someone else’s car that’s an exception and they can listen to whatever they want, it’s their car. But if I’m driving? Absolutely not.

Thanks for the correction.

Regardless, an impartial third party does it, and that’s the key part in making you less likely to be scammed.

Yes it will.

When you sell your house “normally” through a real estate company it is the real-estate company who acts as an intermediary in the transaction. They collect money from the buyer, then pay you, and the transaction completes.

The real estate agent takes a cut for their services, but there is less potential for fraud than if the buyer sends you money direct. The real estate company has a vested interest in making sure the sale goes through properly, because they won’t get their cut otherwise.

And if you could afford private legal counsel you wouldn’t be considering selling to this kind of scummy service in the first place.

They know exactly who their “customers” are.

Is “lava buckets coming up the stairs” a Minecraft-inspired hallucination?

Possibly controversial take: I get super turned-off by any content creator who seems to be in it mainly for money.

There are lots of people out there who decided they want to be a youtuber as their profession - and best of luck to them! - but I feel quite safe in saying that almost every youtuber I truly love began their channel not because they wanted to make money, but because they had something to share. They had a passion, or burning thoughts, or knowledge that was too good to keep to themselves, and youtube was a way to voice it.

And they might be profitable now, but that’s not why they started.

So yeah. As soon as I get a smell that the content someone makes or the way they act or the things they say are dictated primarily by dollar signs, rather than by being the thing they truly want to do, I very quickly lose interest.

Exactly.

In around eight years of using a dashcam I’ve needed the footage maybe three times.

Putting an SD card in my computer three times in eight years isn’t anything I could call a major inconvenience.

I bought my dad the same camera. High quality recording, dead-simple, no frills and no hassle.

I’m increasingly of the opinion that finite consumables are bad game design.

It’s bad design because it fails to account for that exact psychology you described - we humans are loss-averse creatures, and so we hoard them without any benefit.

Much better systems IMO are those which have consumables that naturally replenish over time like mana, or that you fill between fights like the estus flasks in souls games when you rest at a campfire.

These are better because they still challenge the player with managing limited resources, except it’s only limited for the duration of a fight or area, not across the entire game like finite consumables are. It encourages players to use them because they know they’ll get it back, and indeed if you don’t use your mana pool when it’s right there to use, then you’re underperforming.

So yeah. Finite consumables were a natural addition in the early days of gaming which model how real life works, but these days we’ve got much better and more engaging ways of handling the same problem.

The more “corporate” the job is, the more the hiring team will expect a LinkedIn.

My last dev role was like that. My current role is one I found through a personal connection where the ‘interview’ was a chat over some lunch - and they wouldn’t give two hoots if I had a LinkedIn or not.

So yeah, it depends. If you want to play the corporate game, you have to play more by the corporate rules.

deleted by creator

Same as any update for any other OS - Fix bugs, patch security, add features.

But there’s more to it.

If you come from a non-linux background, you may not be aware of the division in responsibility between what is your distro’s concern, and what is not.

The thing that people think of as the “operating system” in the sense of Windows or Mac is likely really just the desktop environment - the stuff you can see and click on; your taskbar, control panel, file explorer, etc. In Linux the desktop environments such as Gnome, Plasma, xfce and many others are built by separate teams and used in many different distros, and so changes and improvements in those aspects won’t necessarily be part of the distro’s release notes even if improvements are happening.

This modular nature of Linux is likely a big part of why it doesn’t seem like much is announced, even on major updates, because it’s not your distro specifically which is responsible for that.

As an example, Pop_OS! are working on a new desktop environment called Cosmic, and some of the release notes for that may sound more like what you’d expect.

Names like Agatha and Edith and Florence are coming around again in kids, because they were popular around the 1920s and so the generation who had them are mostly now all dead.

Which means the names are once more free from expectations and ‘available’.

If you name a child something that had a huge burst in popularity only sixty or seventy years ago however, the holders of the name are generally still alive and almost all old, so it still has a strong connotation of being an “old-person name”

So yeah. Old names become new and fashionable again if you wait. But the trick is to wait long enough.

Different experience for everyone I suppose :)

I found the space controls and conservation of momentum to be such a fun aspect. I loved getting consistently good at it, and feeling like a competent rocket pilot when I nailed fancy manoeuvres.

Silksong on the other hand, I had to give up because it was way too hard for me!

Outer Wilds (not Worlds) is incredible, I doubt you’ll regret playing it.

Well, you might. Some people do bounce off; usually due to not knowing where to go next, or what to do next. But if you’re the kind of person who doesn’t want your hand holding and are okay to persevere a little, you’ll probably have a good time.

No other game for me has ever matched the feeling of exploration and discovery, and that is only possible because the game gives you a long leash.

Looks like a bash shell command to me

Pro tip: It’s easy to be clothed and on the couch at 6AM if that’s how you fell asleep

The expiry date has been a necessary and useful tool, but these dots seem like they could be a good idea if they can actually sense when spoilage happens.

Meat could have been exposed to bad conditions that makes it spoil before the expected date.

But maybe even bigger is that the date is always going to be very much on the side of caution, so it might avoid waste where people tend to bin stuff as soon as the expiry hits, even though that food may still be perfectly good.

Exactly.

LLMs are fundamentally hallucination machines, but this truth utterly conflicts with almost every purpose that AI is being marketed and pushed and sold for, which depends on them being able to analyse data ‘truthfully’ and accurately.

So it’s no wonder that none of the big tech companies have decided to consider or accept hallucinations as a problem, because accepting that truth means also admitting that LLMs are fundamentally unfit for purpose - which is the one thing they simply cannot and will not do with so much money riding on it.

Pass in the same direction? I assume that’s what you mean, since for the opposite direction you’d want another lane on the other side of the road.