Could be worse, some people park or put their hazards on for minutes at a time in the middle of a one lane one way road.

It’s not poker. It’s a deckbuilding game based on poker hands.

Pirate it if you want. You will probably want to pay for it after a few hours.

Everyone has their own opinions here. Here’s my opinion on what’s worth it and not:

Streaming services: Only if you’re not getting ads bundled with your subscription and you’re getting a lot of use each month from it, more than just renting each movie.

Amazon Prime: Again, only if you really need the frequent free shipping. I don’t, so I’ll eat $30 in shipping costs per year when I need something more urgently instead of paying $140 to avoid that.

Discord Nitro: Obviously not worth it but it’s funny because I had it for a few months before their privacy policy shocker in 2023. I genuinely wanted to support them before then because it was feature rich but not as bloated and ad-free with a reasonable privacy policy before 2023.

News: High quality journalism deserve the support.

SiriusXM: Unless you’re road tripping into the middle of nowhere, internet radio is free and has many more options.

Xbox game pass: I never saw the appeal because I’m a patient gamer.

Gym membership: I tried to get one a Planet Fitness a few weeks ago just for a month because the closer gym was revamping itself and was shocked to find that it wanted a downpayment. It tripled the price of a month of membership so I noped out, I’m not paying $50 for 8 trips to the gym that doesn’t even have bench presses.

I think it’s actually higher now. It’s a whopping $480 billion now

What are good brands that don’t sell your data? Is TP-link okay?

No, I mean 500Mb/s, as my Internet will be 300Mb/s. My needs are not great.

The true Holy Grail item in my hobby of motorcycle riding would be a MotoGP bike.

Realistically the achievable halo option is a 1000cc supersport and lots of track days.

Most OEMs like to say that they have the very best. And unfortunately, software just keeps bloating, making it more useful to have a higher end chip.

However, this dynamic has changed somewhat in recent years as the price of flagship SoCs has skyrocketed by ~4x in 5 years. More high-end phones are releasing with not quite the best chip, like the base iPhone, the Pixel, and the Galaxy S25/S25+ (due to Exynos).

I’ve never tried Portal but I know what it is. I’d imagine this would f*ck with my head even more than Half-Life.

Funny enough, DSP is on my “purchased backlog”, games I decided to buy on sale on a whim but never got around to actually playing.

Never heard of Vintage Story before.

Pokemon - having to watch animations and not being able to speed anything up killed my interest

That’s why I play on emulator most of the time, especially for games I’ve already beaten

A friend tried to get me into Half-Life multiple times and I just cannot get into it.

It’s a fast-paced FPS game, which means I’m likely to get dizzy after some time but something about the ambience makes it worse than usual. I can play Skyrim for up to 1.5 hours at a time, Minecraft or Fortnite for 45-60 minutes, but I’d be lucky to play 20 minutes of Half-Life without my head pounding.

Plus, it’s a linear, story-based game, and I’m more into games based more on mechanics and progression (like Pokémon, Factorio, Cities Skylines, Civ, Balatro, and incremental games) than story. And at least for as long as I’ve tried to play it, there isn’t even much of a story.

Vulnerabilities are flaws in software that may allow an attacker to gain control of or eavesdrop a system.

They are categorized into low, medium, and high severities based on how easy it is to exploit the vulnerability and how much damage a successful attack utilizing that vulnerability would do.

I’m not the type to run super intensive games, and even those games have plenty of warm up time in the form of a loading screen.

That being said, I have had instances of my entire system shutting down due to a graphically intensive game, but it’s much rarer than when running a local LLM.

Edit: Found a game that consistently shuts down my system: Ride 5, but only in the menus.

How do I do that?

So the system is a gaming laptop which might explain things. The CPU has liquid metal for cooling and a lower TDP so it’s fine. Whereas the GPU has a higher TGP and if ran hard draws like 120W. If the GPU fans are not already on this quickly overwhelming the GPU thermally.

I have a memory consumption issue with Ubuntu, because I stupidly set up the system to have 0 swap. This means under high memory pressure, the entire system could suddenly crash.

To be fair, Windows isn’t a shining beacon either because whenever I attempt something very GPU intensive like running local LLMs the GPU overheats in a split second before the fans have time to spin up and the entire system shuts down.

I didn’t even know it existed until I saw it in person, no idea they had tours!

During my long motorcycle road trip to the twisties, I saw this huge white structure looming distantly in front of me. I wondered what the heck it was, first thought it was some kind of coal processing thing and then thought it was a wind turbine under construction. But as I got closer, I saw that it was a freakishly large dish. During my next stop, I confirmed it was this telescope. Should’ve taken a picture of it.

That was my quarter life crisis, I fear my midlife crisis

Wait, this isn’t satire?