mctoasterson

Honestly all of this bullshit is why I went with a Steamdeck a few years ago. As a working adult with a family I have different economic obligations and priorities.

I need to build a new PC soon (mine is now 10 years old) but I can't justify spending $5K on a gaming rig. If I built now with a flagship card, just the card itself would cost more than I spent on my entire rig when I built it in 2014/2015. Pair that with Microsoft's ridiculous operating system enshittification, and the PC situation gets even more complicated for me.

Consoles have gotten to be a bad value proposition for me as well. Paper launches, scalping during the pandemic, DRM etc., services going offline. All that garbage leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

I'm having a decent enough time with Steam sale games, Indy games, and retro emulation.

They need to make an open source version of the Hitster card game that lets you use this to listen to the whole song (if you choose) whether you have a Spotify account or not.

Anyone got a good recommendation for an affordable smart watch that works with GadgetBridge?

I'm looking to move on from an ancient Garmin that barely holds charge for 2 days...

Yknow one great thing that costs about 1.99 (one time cost)?

Those little plastic slidy bits that cover up the laptop webcam and mic.

Biden took a protectionist action by blocking a Japanese company's purchase of a major US Steel company. Trump took further protectionist action by tariffing foreign steel.

Now both of those may have backfired because the market manipulation prevented outside investors from modernizing US steel production facilities, and protective tariffs by definition raise prices.

In effect it is less competition and crappier product for US consumers.

90% of it is idiots reporting deer/coyote sightings or falsely reporting fireworks as "gunshots?!?!" at 1:00am. I have literally been woken up by stupid Ring notifications more than by the fireworks themselves.

Oh well, GG

Suppressors should be removed from the NFA and become an over-the-counter product like they are in Europe and elsewhere.

It is "yes, and".

Dude has unhinged and awful political and social views, seemingly unmoored by any governing principles, and he also clearly has manic features and likely could benefit from some treatment.

Respectfully, do some reading of even middleschool level history books. He didn't personally decide to "be mean" to particular groups. His worldview was shaped by the post WWI dynamics in Europe, latent stereotypes and domestic problems within Germany, and a whole lot of misapplied emerging science. He literally believed in racial supremecy and was trying to build an ethnostate. This motivated him to define groups of ethnic "undesirables" and also to lump in other groups that he found politically inconvenient. Read about the scapegoating of Jews circa that time. He likely believed his cruelty towards them was somehow justified because he laid all of Germany's problems (economic issues, humiliation of the country and loss of territory post-WWI) at their feet.

TL; DR - Bad actors believe their evil behavior is justified.

They made a custom mount attaching the tattoo gun to the toolhead that included springs or something with extra give to accommodate a slightly irregular surface. They also used a small patch of skin on a relatively flat area.