Using the same source ports that run them on Linux, but on Windows instead, is not a significant hurdle or differentiator between the OSes.

Can’y speak for every TV, but some of them should support downloading the firmware update from the manufacturer, tossing it on a USB stick, and plugging the USB into the TV to update.

It made another insurance company walk back terms that were going to set a limit on the amount of time surgeries could take or they wouldn’t cover them. The company announced it the morning after and walked it back that afternoon.

I’m not sure it justifies things, or the cost this change came at, but it is prettt direct evidence of an insurance company thinking twice

Since AI content is usually clearly identified as such here, it is very easily blocked.

A social media site that you are not the admin or mod of is definitively not the appropriate place for you to attempt to enforce your opinions of what content is acceptable or not.

Downvote, block, and move on. Time is finite, and you are wasting it trying to police what other people should and shouldn’t post in a space where you have no authority.

Edit: To be clear, I agree about the dangers of AI. You might enjoy some of the discussions in Tech Takes on the awful.systems instance.

This is also why there was such coordinated effort to shut down wikileaks, or to at least stall out the cultural movement that was building behind it.

If you give people a methodology to whistleblow that at least on paper allows them to stay anonymous and avoid putting their life/livelyhood/survival in jeapordy, that removes one of the biggest disincentives.

The difference between 4chan and Reddit is pretty small

I’m sorry, but I sincerely doubt you’ve been on 4chan recently.

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Returned to Elite Dangerous after an almost two year break. Just casually space trucking to grind out some credits while watching youtube. Once I get enough to outfit one or two new ships, I plan to finally give exploration/exobiology a try, and check out the changes to the engineering grind.

When I last played, I was kind of at the end of what I’d consider “early game”, but there are a decent amount of learning cliffs. Should probably practice some of the other low level content again before moving on.

One of my cousins asked for the game for Christmas and I picked it up on sale for him, so I’m hoping we can play some together at some point.

Where have you guys been? Half Life 3 was confirmed December 13, 2007.

I’m sure it’s coming any day now.

They have been “working” on Half Life 3 for over a decade, with many promising leads found through datamining things left in other source games over that time. There is almost always absurd levels of speculation over the smallest crumbs of datamined material.

For example, there’s been an unfinished NPC worked on for Episode 3 left in Half Life 2 that was first shown in a tech demo in 2006, literally prefixed with “Ep3_” in the code. It’s been around for 18 years and the most that was used from it was graphics for the gels in Portal 2, vs all of the speculated things about it.

The recent documentary they released had what was effectively a post-mortem section where they talked about why Episode 3/Half Life 3 never came out.

I can see why you might think that their new controller and headset might be enough of a game changer that they feel like making 3 is worth it again, but the overall feeling I’ve gotten from them from following all of this closely since the pre-Orange Box days is that: 3 isn’t happening due to the immense pressure and expectations that have built up over the many years people have been waiting. Maybe we get Alyx 2 or some other spin off, but the only thing they’d accomplish with 3 at this point is disappointing a wide variety of people with countless conflicting expectations.

At the very least you also have to contend with “Valve Time”. What would take a normal studio a year takes them four due to their obsession with polishing everything. Team Fortress 2 started development in 1998 and didn’t release for 9 years.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m excited to see where they go next, and I hope this means more than a voice actor sending a fun new years message. But you need to understand that “definitive evidence” of 3 coming based off datamined material has been floating around for 15+ years now.

APA or MLA style citations, like they make you use in US schools. They have styles for citing digital content including videos.

I’d start with one of those two styles, then strip it down from there if you need.

What? Check the links, it was a paid CDN host.

You’ll need to get a fake/burner phone number for account verification. Some voip numbers will work, but you’ll probably need to try a handful of providers to find one that does.

Not a song, but two whole “fuzz rock/metal” albums written to work as one long story: Howling Giant’s Black Hole Space Wizard Part 1 and 2

The story isn’t super direct, but it’s about an escape ship fleeing the dying earth, crashing (Part 1) leaving one survivor, and him going on a maddened journey to become the earth wizard (Part 2).

A bit less obscure is the Protomen’s Act 1 and 2, a rock opera fan fiction based off Megaman

Windows and Office are incredibly easy to generate an activation key for using MASgrave. As I understand it, it tricks MS into giving you a valid Windows key, but the Office side does some trickery to fake activation.

Either way, very easy and no need to install shady cracked versions. Just install like normal then use MASgrave after.

If you want to go more legit for any reason, you can find OEM key resellers for Windows (and for Office too I think). OEM Windows keys are only good for one install, but they’re also only around $30.

There’s also a ton of benefits to installing Windows yourself instead of using the manufacturer’s version with even more added bloatware from the manufacturer. There’s a lot you can do to roll back Microsoft’s bullshit through customizing the installer ISO yourself. Unfortunately it’s pretty technical though. Not something easily explained in a single comment.

As a note to myself: When I get around to upgrading to Windows 11, record all the shit I do so there’s at least something vaguely reputable for the community instead of bits of good info across tons of otherwise crap SEO spam articles. Remember to cite the sources too.

You sink in if you take too long though. I always took it to be that Chaos’s body was effecting the water somehow.

If it’s legal in your state, I would expect there would be some sort of medical board you could report him to. Either way, this might be a sign that you need to find a new GP, if they are explicitly stating that they are going to refuse treatment over a drug test showing something you have a script for.

Small question: Did you remind him he had told you it was fine previously and that you had a script for it? It might help to state the question very directly: “I just need to make sure we’re on the same page here. You are refusing moving forward with the next steps of care due to a drug test showing positive for a substance I have a perscription for?”

You can’t assume they’ll remember this shit or be aware of your other scripts. A new person took over for my retiring GP and somehow got the bright idea to refill me at double my fucking dosage. Supposedly it was recorded that way in my file (despite never being a problem for literal years).