sugar_in_your_tea

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Mama told me not to come.

She said, that ain’t the way to have fun.

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sugar_in_your_tea ,

Nah, it's getting better every year. Adding crappy games doesn't change the huge backlog of great games I have.

My response to the points:

  1. Don't buy games until reviews are good - don't buy on release day, and certainly don't preorder
  2. See 1
  3. See 1, but replace "games" with "PC hardware"
  4. We probably need a law here, but until then, see 1
  5. This is stupid. Buy indies, they don't pull this crap.
sugar_in_your_tea ,

IDK, I just buy the soundtrack or whatever if I really want to support it. But the game needs to be good enough to justify the price before buying.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Nah, I don't care too much about their reputation, I care about reviews. If it's good, someone will have reviewed it.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

And sand/dirt after a windstorm, at least in my area. They're really quite useful.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Not gonna 3d print a rake.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Well, it's certainly more interesting than an email client, consider yourself lucky.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

And these days it's young-ish people selling flowers, at least in my area.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

IDK, coming from NYC to TX is probably a net upgrade in a lot of ways, especially if you're a small business owner or work for one. The laws in NYC are just so bonkers.

Then again, I'm uninterested in moving to TX either. I'm pretty happy here in Utah, and I may move back home to Seattle, WA at some point, or maybe we'll move to NC. But I'm not moving anywhere further south than NC.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

That's really dumb. Here in Utah, you sign up online, and you can get a mail ballot online too. I have never actually voted in person, I just fill out my ballot and drop it in one of the collection bins a few days before the election. We can even track our ballot to ensure it gets processed.

Why overcomplicate it? I don't need to take time off to vote, and I can take my time researching the candidates. Voting should be easy.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Hey, don't spoil the plot!

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Instead of a movie, can we just get another game or two?

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Nah, you really don't need peppers for it to be a taco. All you need is:

  • wrap - usually corn, but flour works
  • seasoned protein
  • toppings - lettuce, tomatoes, etc
  • optional sauce

Layer it up, fold, then eat. There are a ton of options, and many of the protein options have no peppers, spicy or otherwise. It's a completely irrelevant part of the dish, like which protein you use.

I'm not European, and I work with a Mexican who corrected me on a lot of my assumptions about Mexican food.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I certainly care. My area has a lot of foreign food, but almost everything has been adjusted for local tastes, to the point where everything kinda tastes the same. The local Thai, Indian, Chinese, and Vietnamese/Pho restaurants all seem to tone down the seasonings and add salt and sugar, to the point where I honestly can't taste much of a difference between their menu items.

So we have a curated list of places we like. When I go to get Thai, it's pretty spicy, and the various curries have a very different flavor profile. Same thing at the local Indian places. At Chinese places, I get really richly flavored dumplings, soups, and noodles (and no orange chicken). At Vietnamese/pho places, the pho broth stands on its own instead of needing to be drowned in sriracha and hoisin sauce, and their sides are actually worth ordering.

But these are relatively "hole in the wall" places, but when we take friends, they really enjoy it and wonder why it's so much better than anything else in the area. And when one goes out of business or sells out, I need to go search for a replacement, which can take many attempts (took years to find a decent Thai place...).

So I think a lot of people appreciate authentic foods, it's just that the quiet majority don't want to venture too far outside their comfort zone, so we get crap like everyone ordering "orange chicken" at Chinese places, "masaman curry" at Thai places, and "lassi + vindaloo" at Indian places, with everything toned way down and sugared up. Those dishes are fine once in a while, but those aren't anywhere near my favorite dishes at those respective places.

I'm not from California and I honestly hate visiting there, but I do like to venture outside my comfort zone and try very different foods. I just wish more people shared my interest so I would have better options.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Ikr? Where I grew up (near Seattle), there were tons of great Thai places, and it really didn't matter which one I went to, it would be pretty good.

Where I'm at now (near SLC, Utah), it's all sweetened, bland crap. It's decently good, but it's nothing like what I grew up with. The most popular places here are essentially franchised, and they all taste bland and sweet instead of properly spiced.

The good places are the small restaurants closer to downtown. The interior decoration is less fancy, but the food is way better.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Everyone, this poster is legit. I got a bridge from them last year and I'm up 800%! Way better than OP who had to go outside and walk in a park to only get 700%.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I'll respond to the last question: yes. I might lie, but I'll answer.

In fact, I was at Ikea the other day and a rando asked where I worked, so I told them about the business, but my the name of the company. It turns out they studied something relevant, so we had an interesting conversation.

The company I work for is big enough they wouldn't be able to dox me or anything, but it is something I'm willing to discuss.

As to the first, I also saw it as 100% a joke, just like the OP. It's just a funny thought, that's all.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Same, I dual booted for almost 10 years on 3 system machines and never once had it happen. But I've seen it reported before, so it's something to be aware of.

A mitigation is to have a Linux live USB to boot into to reinstall your bootloader (GRUB, systemd-boot, etc, depending on distro). I haven't heard of Windows actually destroying partitions or data, and perhaps it doesn't do it if your boot partition doesn't look like a Windows boot partition (e.g. it's a different filesystem), IDK. But learning to reinstall the bootloader from a live CD isn't that hard (usually just running one or two commands).

So, you'll probably be fine, just do a little research first if you're nervous.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I'm pretty healthy, and I do basically the same. Get super into some hobby, and stick to a strict limit on when I can eat. No eating after 8 pm or before 6 am. I can prepare food at night, just not eat it, and I make it as point to prepare healthy food for the next day.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Having healthy snacks within easy reach is the key imo. Get rid of the junk, and prepare protein balls and whatnot so you can handle the munchies.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

That, and fats are more filling than carbs, so if you up the fats and cut the carbs, you're more likely to stick with the diet since you feel more satisfied. The same is true for fiber vs regular carbs.

So if you want a simple weight loss strategy, increase the fat and fiber you eat, and cut out the junk food. Don't count carbs or anything, just try to increase the healthy fats and fiber you consume, that'll naturally help you feel better and make it easier to cut calories.

I do think counting calories is helpful though, but i prefer to do it after the fact instead of limiting myself. If I can see I'm regularly over the target, I'll make a conscious effort to adjust my expectations (usually snacking), but starving yourself for the rest of the day sucks and makes it more likely you'll abandon it entirely.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Honestly, not long enough to be able to whip out a game. The closest is picking someone up at the airport, but I usually get there a few min after the flight lands.

So yeah, it's not something I've really felt I needed. I've brought my Steam Deck with me a handful of times, but never actually used it.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Yeah, with 3D printing, I can mostly download a 3D printer. If that tech gets good enough, I could conceivably download everything except the battery (FPGA for control logic).

I would totally love to download a car.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Yup. I'm looking into buying an EV, which naturally leads me to looking into disabling all the smart crap.

I just need it to go from A to B, and play audio from my phone on the way. That's it. I don't need weather reports, cameras, auto pilot, etc, I just need a pedal and an aux jack or something to connect to speakers. Oh, and the speakers are optional, I can bring my own.

Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads ( www.techradar.com )

Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away....

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I'm going to try doing that. My wife watches it a bit though, and my kids watch it occasionally. I'm thinking I'll set aside $200 to buy whatever series they want, and if that lasts us the year, we've come out ahead.

I need to do the same for Disney+. We really don't watch either enough...

sugar_in_your_tea ,

And those added pages were probably just as worthless as the ones they replaced.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Why? AMD doesn't make phone chips, yet they're dominating Intel. Likewise for NVIDIA, who is at the top of the chip maker list.

The problem isn't what market segments they're in, the problem is that they're not dominant in any of them. AMD is better at high end gaming (X3D chips especially), workstations (Threadripper), and high performance servers (Epyc), and they're even better in some cases with power efficiency. Intel is better at the low end generally, by that's not a big market, and it's shrinking (e.g. people moving to ARM). AMD has been chipping away at those, one market segment at a time.

Intel entering phones will end up the same way as them entering GPUs, they'll have to target the low end of the market to get traction, and they're going to have a lot of trouble challenging the big players. Also, x86 isn't a good fit there, so they'll also need to break into the ARM market a well.

No, what they need is to execute well in the spaces they're already in.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Yup, they need to fund engineering. That's what AMD did, and it turns out that's a good strategy. Companies need to provide value to customers, and then marketing's job is easy.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

That has pretty much nothing to do with Intel's decline though. Losing the enthusiast market to AMD was a small blow, the bigger blow was losing a lot of server market to AMD. And now AMD is starting to dominate in pretty much every CPU market there is, outside of the very low power devices where ARM is dominant and expanding.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Yes, and 5 years ago, they had very little of it. I'm talking about the trajectory, and AMD seems to be getting the lion's share of new sales.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I don't really see ARM as having an inherent advantage. The main reason Apple's ARM chips are eating x86's lunch is because Apple has purchased a lot of capacity on the next generation nodes (e.g. 3nm), while x86 chips tend to ship on older nodes (e.g. 5nm). Even so, AMD's cores aren't really that far behind Apple's, so I think the node advantage is the main indicator here.

That said, the main advantage ARM has is that it's relatively easy to license it to make your own chips and not involve one of the bigger CPU manufacturers. Apple has their own, Amazon has theirs, and the various phone manufacturers have their own as well. I don't think Intel would have a decisive advantage there, since companies tend to go with ARM to save on costs, and I don't think Intel wants to be in another price war.

That's why I think Intel should leverage what they're good at. Make better x86 chips, using external fabs if necessary. Intel should have an inherent advantage in power and performance since they use monolithic designs, but those designs cost more than AMD's chiplet design. Intel should be the premium brand here, with AMD trailing behind, but their fab limitations are causing them to trail behind and jack up clock speeds (and thus kill their power efficiency) to stay competitive.

In short, I really don't think ARM is the right move right now, unless it's selling capacity at their fabs. What they need is a really compelling product, and they haven't really delivered one recently...

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Huh, TIL. It looks like they basically put Radeon cores into it.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Yes, it's certainly more complicated than that, but the lithography is a huge part since they can cram more transistors into a smaller area, which is critical for power savings.

I highly doubt instruction decoding is a significant factor, but I'd love to be proven wrong. If you know of a good writeup about it, I'd love to read it.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I honestly don't think cars should have a computer that capable. I don't like self-driving features, constant tracking of everything I do, etc. But that's kind of beside the point.

If it works for you, great. I just honestly couldn't see myself using it because the number of times where I'm in the car with enough time to play a game is almost zero. The only time it might work is when charging, but honestly, I just wouldn't buy an EV if waiting 30+ min to charge would be a regular occurrence. Cars should charge overnight, charging stations should very much be rarely used. That's the big sell of an EV for me.

I'm not opposed to it existing (provided they can't be played while driving), I just don't see the point.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Oh no... anyway.

Whether my car can play games has no bearing on whether I'd buy that car. So, this is a nothingburger.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

They're going to do that regardless, they'll just scrape instead of using the API.

I want an open API so I can use third party apps. I'm totally fine with them requiring an API token or something with a sensible rate limit to limit abuse by parties like openai (they'll have to go through a sales contract).

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Consider not looking for women and just looking for people that share your interests. The more people you interact with, the more likely one of them will either be a woman or know a woman who you'd be interested in.

Then again, random Internet advice is worth about what you paid for it. Good luck! I hope you find what you're looking for.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

When is the last time you checked? My local library hosts a couple, and there are a few in my neighborhood, though you'd need to get to know people first.

So that's what I recommend. If you love books, get to know your neighbors and talk to them about the books you love. You might just find a local book club or something.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Ah, thanks.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

That's not really up to me, but no. I dated my wife for over a year online before we got married, and we've been together for a long time now.

I'm more talking about dating apps and the relatively shallow hookups that come with that.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Exactly. Mass transit responds to what people say they want (wider roads), whereas hospitals and large companies respond to costs (i.e. cost of more parking vs a shuttle). I'm not saying transit should be privatized, I'm saying private transit filling in the gaps of mass transit is generally a good thing.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

When I had DSL, I bought my own modem and connected it to the same router I used at a previous place. They when to charge ~$10/month, so I spent about $20 and got a basic modem.

My current internet is Ethernet at the wall, so no need for a modem, and AFAIK the company doesn't even provide routers (didn't ask, I just used the one I had). All I needed was the gateway, netmask, and our static (CGNATed) IP. They wrote that in a piece of paper, which I keep in my safe so I don't need to call them just because I reset my router or something.

I think they know who I am by now because I call pretty much every time the Internet goes out. It's a small company (only serves my town of 30-40k people), and I'm probably the only one with a ln enterprise-y router (Mikrotik) with a separate AP (Ubiquiti). Yet I still need to do the basic troubleshooting before they'll actually look into the traffic on their end.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Maybe a rotating key, like with TOTP?

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I don't know anything about modems in Germany, but I found this. I got it from this Reddit thread.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Ew, those get installed via the regular package manager?

Don't use Ubuntu then...

sugar_in_your_tea ,

That's fine. But he shouldn't be silenced. If he gets some traction, debate him to show voters what's wrong with his ideas, that really shouldn't be hard.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I'd love to see Trump and RFK Jr. debate. Two old nutjobs duking it out, with Biden just sitting back eating popcorn.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I don't know, I guess we'll need to see how the lawsuit turns out. I'm sure RFK Jr. will bring some evidence that'll help us understand what Meta may or may not have done.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I don't think that's necessarily true. People still like GTA V, so if they essentially just up the graphics, they can basically sell the same game and make bank. With such a long time between releases, they'll probably avoid taking risks on it.

I hope they do the VC, SA, IV thing and release a successor soon after. I'm thinking another Liberty City game with essentially the same engine and maybe a little extra simulation.

But no, they'll probably milk the online component and not release another for 10+ years. If that's the case, I'm not getting it, I don't care about online whatsoever.

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