Growing up I had a friend whose mom was a little too crunchy and she ended up getting rid of their microwave because she thought the microwaves gave the food cancer and when you ate it you would get the cancer from your food

This is some crazy good advice. In the software dev/IT fields I preach about premature optimization to my reports all the time.

You can’t optimize something that doesn’t exist. Figure out exactly what you want to build (so you want video streaming mostly it sounds like, then you can figure out how to build it (probably either a NAS or just a tower with a bunch of drives in it. And then Plex/Jellyfin). Then, after you build it, you can use it.

You’ll only find things to fix/make better by actually using it. Focus on getting the thing done, then you can optimize.

Outcomes are rarely determined by your own thoughts about the situation.

It’s like being anxious about driving because you’re worried someone is going to hit you. As long as you’re being safe and careful, being an anxious mess isn’t going to make you any safer and it can even make things worse.

Of course I’m not trying to say “just stop being anxious!” but you have to understand that only ever thinking about the worst case scenario will hinder far more progress than it will help.

Yeah but for €0.43? Here in the states people tend to think more like “it’ll even out” especially among friends.

I wouldn’t ever ask my friends to pay me back $0.50 lol

Nobody blames the patient for getting lung cancer, they blame the patient for smoking for years knowing the risks.

Same thing with obesity related heart issues. You aren’t being blamed for the heart issues, you are being blamed for eating yourself into obesity.

This. 200 calories is not very much food. That’s like 1 tablespoon of peanut butter, a little over 1 banana, a little less than 3 eggs, about 30 individual almonds, or little over half an avocado.

A single Hershey’s chocolate bar, mountain dew, or the smallest size of my favorite star bucks drinks are all over 200 calories too.

What countries medical system encourages risky surgeries? As far as I’m aware “reducing risk” is most of the game in medicine

Different issues have different causes.

there are now downsides

Not quite true. I ended up moving my checking account from a credit union (local one in my state) to a normal bank (PNC) because of ATM availability.

It’s really nice to be able to easily get fee-free money anywhere in the country.

Amazon has a patent on the “one click purchase” button…

Nah the Quest 3 (and I’d argue still the 2) is easily the best headset on the market right now.

Nothing else comes close to the features, quality, and most importantly the price.

You can hate meta and Facebook and the zucc all you want but they are doing legitimate really really cool things with VR

the force awakens

My only issue with TFA isn’t the movie itself. It’s just that it sets up so much good stuff that the rest of the trilogy just doesn’t do fuck all with. There are some really cool story points, some incredible characters, and amazing acting. Then just garbage through the next two.

Rouge One

Yeah this is easily the best star wars movies IMO. It’s hectic, and all over the place, and there’s a ton of characters, then it just all clicks together in the last little bit of the movie. No spoilers or anything but you absolutely need to watch this. I genuinely can’t over recommend this enough, it’s a golden movie. Then go watch Andor, its easily the best Star wars TV and there are a couple scenes id nominate for top 10 TV scenes of all time. It’s the prequel to Rouge One and goes over Cassian Andor (main character in Rouge One) story.

Solo

I actually really enjoyed Solo. Its not super relevant to the greater star wars saga, and its not the most ground breaking piece of cinema ever. But its fun and enjoyable, just go into it with the idea that its “filler content” for the rest of them.

TL:DR I mostly agree with you

It would be $616,946.77 in today’s money.

Man I’ve been there too. You do exactly what HR asks you to, when they ask you to do it and all of a sudden it’s "oh whoops that’s actually supposed to be next week)

Or like the meme says, it sucks when you get an email telling you to term someone at the end of the week and you have to interact with them all week.

Yeah I’m with you. I also manage about 800 devices at my current role and I’ve never had any major issues with BitLocker.

I’m tempted to think they’re just lying but that’s a little mean. Maybe they just didn’t know? I don’t know but BitLocker is not the problem here.

Tandoor also supports aliases. I have mine set up so it automatically converts units into imperial (metric) because that’s how I like it.

I don’t really know. Nobody seems to really be in jail, and their agenda keeps happening so enlighten me please.

they are serving up major Ls for trump.

Are they tho? Cause to me it seems like trump is floundering and the DNC has spent the last 9 years doing fuck all about it

The former is also kinda cheating because Doom was actually running on an external controller just using the display on the pregnancy test to display the game.

Its honestly blown my mind that it’s taken this long to get something that’s even somewhat competitive with the Tesla’s.

Like a Model 3 is $35k, has a near perfect safety score, can go like ~360 miles on a charge, and is a 4 door sedan.

Let’s look at some competitors why don’t we?

• BMW i3 has a 4 star rating, gets like ~300 miles range, and costs $60k
• Honda Prologue does have a 5 star rating, but it only gets ~300 miles range, and is a SUV, it also starts at $50k
• BYD HAN (the only one i could see on their website in the states) only gets “300+ miles” on a charge, but it supposedly only costs around $30k. I also couldn’t find any safety information that didn’t come from the Chinese government so I wont comment on that.

Obviously Musk is a bad guy and you shouldn’t give him money and all that. But it seems like the legacy manufacturers are like 3-4 years behind, and that’s the smallest the gap has ever been.