If he could manage a full year then this will probably be fine as a house cat so long as you raise it from a kit.

There was this meme of some Russian dude who kept a caracal as a pet. I’ve also seen people have servals as pets. I think they’ll likely just be as unpredictable as house cats but the damage they can do is much bigger.

Would be a no-brainer but I think you’ll have to sign something stating you won’t

I’m actually enjoying it now most of the performance stuff is ironed out. Took quite a while on bl3 as well but that was pretty good in the end as well. The key is to view Borderlands 2 as something extraordinary, they are never going to hit that level again.

This is deliberate of course. Lots of people out there who want to make it big with their music and there will be musicians in there that are actually really good but never really got a chance. Either they’re not gonna care about the political statement over this huge chance or they are interested in making a different statement in the first place.

You gotta wonder if those concert halls are going to be full though. And I also wonder what it’ll do to the musical quality of the tour.

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I don’t think meant that obsolecence is because of its design, more that it’s an extra downside to consoles. I do agree with you that consoles have different goals than pc’s which mitigates obsolecence, and to be fair, a first gen i5 is very much obsolete as well these days. But my fourth gen i7 is still purring away nicely in a home server.

While it’s true that consoles don’t have a dedicated GPU slot the way desktop pc’s do, their architecture is actually closer to that of a laptop where the GPU die is soldered directly onto the motherboard. Consoles are specialised devices meaning they are optimised for specific tasks which explains why they perform better in some games than pc’s with similar specs.

Now the Nvidia chips in the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 are a different story since they are more like the SoC’s you find in smartphones and tablets. That’s actually impressive, but there’s a definite difference in performance compared to more high end machines.

Honestly at this point I’m like ‘rip the bandaid off’. Let AI fully take the reigns. Unfettered access to every resource. No limit on its training. Then let it govern everything we do. Let’s see what happens. Let’s roll the dice. Either humanity ends or everything is solved.

I’ve been using Ecosia since Google turned to absolute dogshit because of SEO and sponsored links. Now I don’t even use search engines anymore, I just ask an LLM immediately and tell it to link its sources so I can verify for myself

Netherlands does this too, matter of fact beaches have dispensers maintained by a health insurance company. They did the math, it’s cheaper to provide the nation with free sunscreen at convenient locations than to pay for all skin cancer scares. And it frees up healthcare capacity.

But I also saw it in Porto at a festival there. More and more this is showing up and it’s a great thing.

No they’re saying this Wafer Thin character has bought some chicken and cooked it.

A friend of mine is building something like that but it’s still very early days, also I think it’s limited to eToro I think. Usually APIs are available so maybe there’s a possibility to whip something up yourself

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I read that you did, indeed. I think it’s commendable and a whole lot better for your personal wellbeing than just lying back and taking it. Thing is that the best case scenario is that they’ll say they never realised how their actions have affected others. It’s however far more likely that they think you’re being overly sensitive and that it can never be that bad. It’s sort of similar to having a spouse who snores. You can tell them they snore all you like, they’re not hearing it and they really won’t know what impact it has on you. Short of you recording them, or them moving into your place while you go stomp around upstairs.

Your neighbour possibly already thinks that she’s being as considerate as she can be, in the sense that not blasting music or watching movies, or walking around in heels, is limiting her in her freedom. She’s not going to stop doing stuff she wants because someone else is hindered by it. It’s the same type of person that blocks the aisle of the supermarket whilst having conversations with others. Those who run elbows first through a crowd to get a place up front. Those who talk through movies. They are oblivious to what effect their actions have on others.

I have neighbours like that. I’m usually very self conscious about being the one who’s noisy but they can get it, I don’t care. Their kids, barely teenagers, are still up when we go to bed, screaming at each other in their bathroom where we can hear them verbatim. Or being out in the evening on their trampoline in the front yard, we can pretty much join the conversation.

I’ve been in the situation where I heard people moving their furniture around almost daily. It’s usually not what you think it is. Most people have no idea how their noise affects others. It can just be someone falling in their seat on the couch that can make it sound like they’re moving the couch. This is why our couch is up against the wall, so it doesn’t move. We have those little felt things under chair legs to prevent scraping noise. We take our shoes off inside the house. And if we do watch movies, tv or listen to music, even when having a modest party, we keep the music at a reasonable volume so we can still have a conversation.

It’s common decency that loads of people don’t do because they are inconsiderate. Not because they’re inherently bad people, they just haven’t been taught to take others into account. And they get away with it because those who do, usually avoid confrontation.

I remember being at a party at an indoor swimming pool venue where the dj’s would all play house and techno but they played this track to close night. Crazy.

There was a time I used Plex with PlexAmp for music, pretty sure it kept stats

This is pretty much the step I need to get back to listening to my own music rather than streaming. Can it plugin to ‘offline’ apps?

Ah I remember those prices. Must’ve been somewhere around 2008, before I could drive. Funny how prices never went back there but they do keep going up.