Yeah, the session token expiry time seems to be something really short. In comparison, Steam has asked me to re-login like 3 times over the last 7 or 8 years I’ve used it (I used to be an active hater and only had it for HL2 and claiming the free games like Portal).

I’ve given up on the free games. I’m sure some are great, but I have enough of a backlog on Steam, I don’t need more indie games. Plus I may as well pay for indie games - it’s the AA and AAA games I want to grab for free.

Now they still have some great AAA games every now and then that I would actually like to grab for free, but due to how much stuff they put out that isn’t interesting to me, I’ve given up looking at it. Doesn’t help that I have to re-login every time, regardless of whether I’m using EGS or Heroic (which is a way better launcher and the one I have installed right now).

At this point I think I need to invest some time in getting an RSS client set up and getting notifications for EGS free games and other things I enjoy that I keep forgetting about. I guess I had notifications when I had the EGS client installed on Windows and it ran on the background, now I only fire up Heroic when I realize it exists.

Edit: No idea why I didn’t do this sooner, I already have Akgregator installed and found this rss feed for free games from a reddit comment. It’s a Steam community and posts games from several sources, including Epic.

On a sidenote, don’t let anyone tell you european EVs are somehow worse than chinese (they are not). They’re just more expensive due to a fortunate lack of slavery, and generally higher standards of everything in the production chain compared to China.

You forget the lovely government subsidies of key industries in China, they subsidize goods for EXPORT. It’s why BYD can sell such high quality cars at such low prices.

I’m still rooting for European EVs, but ffs, Mercedes has completely ruined their exterior designs (interior is subjective - personally I don’t like so much screen real estate in a car interior, but other than that they still look nice inside), same for BMW. Audi has apparently somehow stayed just as unreliable with their EVs as their ICEs were. Volvo has the EX90 (bigger than I need and quite expensive) and the EX40 and 30 (both too small), but I did just learn that they’re going to start making an ES90, which is more my size. I’d prefer a wagon of course, we’ll see if they make an EV90 soon, but for now the ES90 is something to consider.

Edit: As much as I hate the front fascia, the i4 might be the car I should be looking at. I prefer lightly used to brand new and their prices are at a nice level now. Equipment is nice too.

But can we have some of the red circles be drawn with blue ink, and some with transparent ink?

Can we have one of the circles in the form of a kitten?

I honestly think commercial software offerings peaked in around 2010, and that’s why they’re all seeking rent now. They realized nobody wants to buy an annual new copy for incremental updates, but they also wanted more profit, not less.

There’s still cool things happening in software, but now it’s all incredibly niche, or FOSS projects that sometimes aren’t all there yet, BUT do cool things that commercial software won’t. Or incredibly niche FOSS projects.

Man when you’re talking about the “goeiness” of a vegetable, I can see how a lot of people would be turned off by it.

EVs have to be legislated into being the only choice anyway. There’s no way around it, they’re unfortunately inferior for a lot of people’s use cases still. We’ve grown accustomed to the energy density of fossil fuels and being able to keep cars running out of warranty. A quick look at the replacement battery cost of an original Audi E-Tron will reveal that at this point, EVs are expensive paper weights once out of warranty.

If you have the stricter training and policing, you still can improve safety by introducing speed limits.

What is going to be the excuse for keeping the stricter training and near authoritarian policing if there are speed limits? Nearly no other country is this anal about who can and can’t drive on their roads. Maybe Singapore, since they require you to be a millionaire to even get a car.

The emissions part I’ll have to agree on, but safety? Germany is literally among the safest nations to drive in. There’s not much lower you can go.

As ICE vehicles get phased out, people will naturally start driving fast less often. EVs force you to stop for much longer when you run out of charge. Driving 2x as fast means making 4x as many stops and the stops aren’t 3 minutes with an EV.

There’s a good chance they’re porn consumers themselves and just feel weirdly shameful.

Amateur porn tends to be way better anyway. The ladies look way less plastic and sad, the moans aren’t usually horribly overdone, and it’s just hotter in general.

Most of the good porn is amateur couples anyway. Wonder what their take on that would be.

Yeah but then what’s the point of visiting Germany as a tourist slash petrolhead?

Jokes aside, I’m of the opinion that existing freedoms are generally best left alone. Besides, Germany has a lower rate than Estonia and we have much lower speed limits. 120 on newly built separated highways in the summer (actually these might have 120 with good conditions in winter too - they have digital signage), 110 on old separated highways and in October or so, they go and collect all the 110 signs and replace them with 100… And up to 90 everywhere else.

There’s a good chance the limitless autobahn is actually part of what makes German numbers so good. It just requires stricter training and policing, stricter TÜV and for people to always check their mirrors before switching lanes. And just good lane discipline in general. You don’t get that in a lot of Europe. People switch lanes whenever because they’re going 10 over the speed limit and can’t possibly imagine someone else is going faster than them, potentially very close behind, in the other lane.

PS: traffic fun fact: Did you know that in Latvia, a two lane undivided highway has up to four active lanes? There’s the law abiding citizen lanes (known as shoulders in the west) and the BMW/Audi lanes in the middle, marked by the white lines.

They’re so well regulated that they can safely drive on roads with no speed limit, whereas the US for example has pretty low limits and multiple times the fatal crashes (proportionally to population)

Or for anyone who prefers their Wikipedia articles in the form of funny animated video

It was FAANG long ago, it’s MANGA now, except even that ignores the fact that Google has Alphabet for a while now. MANAA?

I’m pretty sure Kanye himself has lost his N card at this point

That’s why they call us backend developers!

Duckduckgo and bangs. Or just add search keywords to your browser.

I’m too lazy to find the article (google the man who ruined google search, think it was ed zitron’s blog) but TL;DR they made the key metric for search users something like ad impressions per search or something, whereas it used to be how fast you found what you were looking for. It was a deliberate decision, so I’d say ‘simply’ may just be the word here.