She seems very much alive at the end.

It would be cool if I could exchange my Steam Deck for a discounted refurb OLED. I’d like one, but I don’t need a second Steam Deck.

I thought they hosted their own LLM…

Yup, give me something like GOG, but for movies, and I’ll buy a bunch.

Yup, we’ve had an LG washer dryer pair for ~10 years, and the dryer has needed no maintenance at all, whereas the washer has only needed fixes to the relay board. So one repair on the washer and none on the dryer for ~10 years, that’s pretty decent!

We’ll be replacing it soon because the relay board is acting up again and it’s not worth the $150 or so and an hour of time to fix it again since something else is likely to break soonish (probably the pump motor of I had to guess).

I’ve heard horror stories about Samsung and some other brands, so I think we did well.

I think you’re missing of the most important parts:

• learn to avoid addictive content

This means:

• games w/ MTX
• clickbait/doom scrolling
• gambling

Others got into that as well, but I honestly try to keep things simple, so I’ll leave it as assuming that everyone on the internet is trying to screw you. For example:

• someone you don’t know in person is being extra nice? They probably want something from you.
• a deal looks too good to be true? It probably is.
• something says you need to take urgent action? Probably a scam.

The internet is not a regulated place, so be vigilant about figuring out how the other party is trying to screw you and you should catch most of the crap out there. Yeah, not everyone is trying to screw you, but you should always assume they are.

Sounds like it’s still supported with security updates, but not with tech support.

Security updates, mostly. If you’re running an old Windows install on a computer connected to the internet, it’s only a matter if time until it gets comprom byised.

But yeah, I’m also on Linux, so no worries here.

Or they’re worried about a ton of bad press when people inevitably get compromised after security updates end.

Updates on Linux are painless, I install them and keep working, and even when it’s done, I save and reboot, then back to work. I can even check what services were impacted and restart those instead of rebooting.

I don’t underhand why Windows and macOS overcomplicate things. I run a rolling release distribution (Tumbleweed) and things have been smooth for years. But even release based distributions are way simpler to upgrade than either Windows or macOS.

Yup, which is why I have a Bluray drive with libredrive flashed so I can rip full quality UHD and store the raw video on my NAS.

That’s why I ripped my media onto my NAS. I have the physical media as a backup, but I don’t have to actually deal with discs. No more scratched discs is amazing.

Yeah, I’d buy a lot more if there was a DRM-free way to buy media. Bluray is a pain to rip and I hate having to deal with discs.

But no, media companies are intent on keeping piracy easier than legitimate purchases. I go through the effort to rip my discs, but many won’t bother.

Get one that works with libredrive so you can rip at full quality and speed through Makemkv.

I ripped our physical media, and the experience is way better. I wish I could just buy and download a .mkv or .avi or whatever.

Their washing machines are pretty decent.

I played with coworkers during COVID because we needed something to keep us sane.

Wow IGN, you really suck. I used to love Humble Bundle back when they mostly had indies, and I remember when they first launched Humble Monthly, and I subbed for years. In fact,I frequently paid 2x or more of their asking price, and I would increase Humble’s share most of the time because they found such a cool mix of games.

All of that stopped around the time IGN bought them. Game selection became less interesting, and I didn’t feel like they had much value anymore, so I paid the bare minimum for bundles and only got Choice when it was a good deal. They turned a cool curator site into a bargain bundle site.

I now spend far more at Fanatical than Humble because they’re actually open about being a bargain site, and I find their selection more interesting.

Please, stop killing interesting services.

Or don’t. Rust is famously toxic, so why do that to yourself?

Well, Pepe is a popular meme format among gamers, so it makes sense that the hateful subset of gamers would also use it. That doesn’t mean Pepe is hate speech, it just means people use it for hate speech.