better not give it back to those barbarians - they have no idea how to handle such precious relics.

just kicked off borderlands 3 over the weekend (it was a freebie on epic a while back).

i can see where they were trying to take the series, but i think they need a “back-to-basics” moment; there were a few decisions that really detract from the ability to be immersed.

(ux)the skill tree system has changed in a way that makes upgrading confusing to the point that i dont even use my special ability (it spawns a mech)

(ui)there are multiple advertisements for DLC that are always on your minimap and block your view of POIs - they look like questgivers

(bug)sometimes fast travel works and sometimes it doesnt (and sometimes it does but doesnt let you travel unless you close and reopen the map)

these 3 issues make it really difficult to enjoy a gaming session without being reminded that i need to spend more money so this convoluted system wont be fixed.

3 days in and i give it a meh 5/10; it seems like the budget was too big.

like when an escalator breaks; its just stairs now.

(rip mitch)

i regularly attempt to shop at the manufacturer’s website. i will do a search for a product type, get blasted with only positive reviews for shitty products, find a product whose brand isnt similar to UFVEGDKFNDBDHDJ, and find their website to purchase.

my brain is ruined. my head voice said “Gee-Guh-Nome”

so hype for C770 (or whatever the good C card will be).

for beibg terrible, texas no longer has the privledge of cell phones.

it has gotten so good that i only check if there are compatibility issues if there is 3rd(4th?) party anti-cheat involved.

its also true that predator (1987) predates alien (2122), so you would be right either way : D

i measured once, cut twice, and its still too short.

flatpak, boi

the sun finally set on the british empire for the first time in many, many years this year (2025 - it lost the chagis islands ~march). it takes a very, very long time 👍

i played a few of these bartops. they were intentionally very hard for short playtimes, and were a bit too expensive too play a lot. it kinda seemed like it was there to get money very few times out of very few people.

as a huge nerd who plays games at bars, the bartops were not good, heh. barcades and pinball halls are much more fun.

you mentioned CAD was a bit too much for what you are looking for; however, there is a simple code-only cad program that makes simple tasks like making a shape super easy: openscad

https://openscad.org/

example:

Circle(17);

makes a 17mm radius circle.

one of my forks has an absurd amount of hard water mineral build-up on it and i have no idea why…

now it sits in the drawer unloved and unused for eternity.

my work has an english only rule when talking about work. we hire from all over the world, so making sure there is a common language is nice when i have to message someone in another country.

non-work-related talk is whatever, though.

abortion. hopefully its not too late; get on that shit now

her parents are not part of this decision, she is. you pay for as much of it as you can.

running a jellyfin server on something like this may not be pleasant, so it depends on what you are trying to do with this machine.

for most things, yeah - it will be fine; however, if you are planning to do live transcoding, running an llm, or other compute-heavy tasks, the box will need to be upgraded.

i mainly bike and am in america (its shitty). i search on GM for a company, grab the address, plug it in to OSMand, and use the bike routing - its extremely good.

there are options in OSMand where you can “prefer biways” - use it… its great. every time there is a bad, unsafe, or non-existant crossing, you can tap-hold -> avoid road and it will only avoid that tiny block you selected. sooooooooo good.

im biking ~7mi one-way this evening (do it once weekly; its a bit longer than my usual rides of <3mi), but all of the roads i hate are already avoided, and i only have to take a little bit of unpaved rocky shit “sidewalk” path to get there (a super busy freeway overpass; im not riding in the street)

owning a hammer is not a crime, bashing in a car window with it is.

also, it is currently illegal for car owners to put custom firmware in their cars & there is no open standard to allow 3rd party software. all stolen cars should be refunded by the manufacturer for forcing us to use their shitty soft/firmware.