Regardless of the scientific consensus, what’s the point? It sounds like all this will achieve is another annoying pop-up similar to the cookie popups that we get now due to the European law. It’s just a way to wave your hands and claim to be doing something without actually addressing any of the problems of social media.

But it’s free.

The only subscription I pay is Netflix (the cheapest one). We watch it enough that is worth keeping around. I guess I technically also have web hosting and a domain name, but I pay those for a few years at a time.

I took a picture that appeared in a Nintendo Power.

I’ve never had that happen. Check your account logins to see if your Google account is compromised.

Cast iron pans are fucking heavy. As soon as I tried picking one up, I knew I don’t want to cook with that on a regular basis.

I have gone through several non stick pans and they all suck because they will wear out relatively quickly. Eventually things will start to stick, and then you are in trouble because you have to treat them gently to avoid scraping off the nonstick coating, so you end up in a catch 22 situation where you can’t actually scrub stuff off without making it worse.

I switched to a stainless steel pan about a year ago and I love it. The weight is somewhere in between cast iron and most nonstick pans. I’ve never had anything get horribly stuck to it, and it’s not difficult to clean because you can use abrasive sponges or whatever without damaging it.

NPR reviews games now?

Yet another reason to be skeptical of reviews is that they are heavily weighed towards first impressions. So if someone gets a product and it works great, they might go and immediately leave a glowing review for it. But if it breaks 6 months later due to poor manufacturing quality, a lot of people aren’t going to go back and update their review.

I tried out Linux a few months back, and one of the things I could never get working was my Bluetooth Xbox controller. The controller would just blink and never connect to the Bluetooth. Any idea what needs to be done to get it working? I was kind of annoyed that it didn’t just work since it’s such a popular controller.

Well, if you have a lot of hair to play around with, you can just try it without much risk. I cut my own hair (male, short hair) but I find it really difficult to manipulate scissors or clippers while looking in the mirror. I also can’t really do the back of my head so I have to get someone to help me.

Just be ready to clean up, because hair will fly all over the place if you aren’t careful.

What you are looking for is a monitor. A TV will be filled with features.

Chickpeas. They have so much fiber. And they taste awesome when prepared well.

I would expect most of the cars to be stolen

I might pick up monster train and doom eternal. Yeah, I still haven’t played doom eternal.

That looks really interesting, but I’m just left wondering what the objective is, or what kind of gameplay is actually there.

A ship sounds a lot less exciting than a city.

I started with Rufus as well, but then I just uninstalled things directly through Windows and went through the settings to disable everything I didn’t want. Probably safer than using 3rd party applications to remove things. I also use Openshell to replace the start menu. If you change the time and currency settings during install, that apparently disabled some things as well. See here And if you don’t want to set up a Microsoft account, just stay disconnected from Internet during install, it will let you just set up a local account.

I feel like the deployment shouldn’t be too difficult. I have the game Street Fighter 6 on steam, and there is an option in the steam menu for whether to download single player content or not. If you disable it, you can save about 20gb, and of course it is enabled by default. I feel like the exact same process could be used for the high end texture packs. Most users would just download everything by default, but if you are someone who cares about your disk space, you could just easily disable it. It would just be on the devs to implement it.

My understanding is that the vast majority of space is dedicated to high resolution textures. I don’t have a 4k monitor and I don’t need ultra high fidelity textures. Why can’t they just be an additional download rather than a required part?

I think 50gb is a fairly reasonable max size for most games.

Well, it took them long enough. The container has been around for over 20 years now.