Glad that I recently bought a bunch of storage so that I’ll be covered for a good amount of time.

This is really cool of you! I don’t want any of them but wanted to say thanks for being generous 😄

After all the shit I’ve seen and heard about the creepy shit smart TV manufacturers get up to I am never ever connecting a smart TV to the internet in my home.

As to whether it’s possible to get certain apps use specific physical RAM sticks, I am not sure, but that seems unlikely and would probably require some very low level modifications to your operating system. But even before you get to that point you’d have to physically connect them to your new motherboard, which will only work if there are both free RAM slots on it, and your new motherboard has slots for the same generation of RAM that your old PC uses.

Just curious, what is the evil monopoly shit you’re referring to? Is it simply the fact they are effectively a monopoly in games distribution, and that in and of itself is bad, or are there more specific practices or actions you’re thinking of?

Maybe I’m getting things backwards here, but wouldn’t disabling cookie persistence actually stop some of the more malicious forms of tracking, where different websites track your activity across websites? I’m not an expert on this specific matter but my understanding was that website A saves a cookie in your browser, which website B then uses to identify you (maybe with some extra steps of shipping that data off to some data broker or w/e but you get the picture). I thought that disabling persistence would stop that from occurring in the sense that once your restart your browser and go to website B, there is nothing from A for them to look at.

Regarding me sounding cringe, well, to each their own I guess.

As for the rest of what you said, yes, I agree with that, and that is indeed what I was thinking of. People have different mothers, and different relationships with their mothers.

I’m not talking about dick pics, and I’m not saying inappropriate generally. Just that you don’t want to text your mom about it.

L take. You honestly expect someone to speak to a potential date in the same tone as to their own mother, and that there should be no risk of sending something that would be inappropriate or something that would otherwise be awkward if sent to the wrong person (especially to their mother)?

I also wonder this

Small room with enough desks for just the immediate team and plenty of space in the desks would be my dream. Maybe a whiteboard or two. That would be excellent.

Sure would rather have one of those than the open office landscape I have now.

Outside of work: Both. I want people to think I look good in the clothes I wear, but even if they don’t I am probably not going to change them. At work: We have a dress code. I follow it to the letter, because I think it makes a positive difference in how I am perceived by my employer. I almost completely disregard my own preferences in this context.

Is it though? From a privacy perspective I think Windows 10 quite clearly started introducing some shady surveillance practices which were absent in earlier versions. Of course, 11 took that waaay further, but 10 was a turning point imo.

This is the way.

Weirdo. The rest of us mean that we are going to posses some amount of cake for a period of time.

I played through it a couple of times. Honestly, even as someone who absolutely adores Origins, enjoyed Inquisition, and is generally a big fan of the lore and the setting (at least up until Veilguard), it’s a tough sell to someone who isn’t already a big DA nerd. The characters and story are both solid, thanks to the fantastic writing and voice acting at the studio during that time, and tbh I don’t even mind the more action-oriented combat, which I thought they pulled off well enough. It’s a different kind of story, more character driven than Origins, and I think it fits for what it is. Where you really notice how rushed it was is with how many of the locales are just straight up copy pasted throughout the whole game. There’s like five warehouses and caves which are just reused throughout the game everywhere. And, worst of all imo, their solution to making the game longer was just to add arbitrary waves of enemies for every encounter. It makes the game way more repetitive than it really needed to be. There are other, more minor flaws, but those two together really stand out and make the game difficult to play through, and not in a fun way. Makes it feel like kind of a hack job.

Unfortunately BioWare has been in sharp decline for a pretty long time now, though they are still releasing games. As an old school big time fan of the Dragon Age series, I didn’t even want to try the latest entry in the series, because I saw enough to know I’d be disappointed. And as I understand it, their other franchises and games released have pretty much gone in the same direction for almost a decade now.

My first thought

Go away clanker