We have a winner

Used before is way different than heard of. If I’ve used it before and liked it, sure I will favor that brand based on personal exp. If I didn’t like it, of course I avoid it.

If I’ve only heard of it, that means absolutely nothing to me and I’m immediately skeptical. If someone has told me a brand is good, I’d consider it an informal review and it holds a small amount of weight.

Functionally, the brand is only useful for identifying and matching the products to the reviews and research I’d done on it, it’s just a label.

Price to ‘value’, weight/size, performance, reviews, etc.

How else would you do it?

Private Internet access and mullvad

Password manager

Some variant of “my house my rules” rant

I just spent 2 hrs last night in my Kali vm, trying to find an exploit on a web server. It was running Laravel 11.30 and vulnerable to a URL query to change the env to dev. So yeah peak of mt stupid is accurate

Everytime I go back to IRC every channel is either dead, or one guy is there to yell at you for chatting ‘wrong’. I wish it was as good as it used to be

Yay toxic parenting

I wont cast a judgement one way or another on how to approach this, but just know that it is an incredibly common rule. Every girlfriend I had growing up had this same rule, or even more strict. For one I wasn’t allowed in her bedroom at all when I came over.

It sounds like your parents are perfectly including your identity in their decision. I know from experience that the rule sucks, especially when you aren’t even planning to do anything and just want to hang out in a comfortable space. But it is common, and quite reasonable considering how other parents might approach it.

Ooh this looks really high quality and the algo never would have served it to me. Thanks for posting

I miss the top comment being facts instead of dumb jokes.

Thank you to you and to all who upvote you

TV’s are dirt cheap these days. Just sell and rebuy if you don’t want to move it

Introducing kids to old games is great, but restricting them from experiencing their own generations culture, not so much

I adored Dark Messiah, but at least half of that was due to source engine specifically

Honestly that’s been my take on the whole thing. And now my bank app forces Google’s manager instead of my preferred password manager.

Switch to 5ghz WiFi, microwaves wreak havoc on 2.4ghz

Eh, I went to dinner after a show at a local spot and they were completely unphased. The fake blood wasn’t sticky, it just stains everything. Bring an extra shirt if you’re really concerned, and/or a towel for your car seat if you drive.

I just finished the video, that was incredible! Great job. I subscribed

How fast can you actually type on it before the game UI can’t keep up? Are you keeping some kind of input buffer to deal with that?