I’m getting sick of all these stupid fucking spammers. Keep blocking them and they keep coming up.

Fuck you and your stupid website blog

Nobody asked and nobody’s reading all that AI generated bullshit

At least post your spam where it’s relevant. You bots can’t even spam a relevant community

I had never seen or heard of anything like this before, but apparently it is possible to do, at least Amazon sells something that matches the description you’re looking for:

If you have access in your region, I’d say go for it and if it doesn’t work, return it if your region has a good Amazon return policy like mine does. Can’t hurt to give it a try if the description matches what you have.

I buy off AliExpress sometimes but I don’t know much about their return policy, hence why I suggested Amazon instead to try it out and return if it doesn’t work.

That sounds wildly uncomfortable.

What plugins do you use? I just switched from Plex and wasn’t aware of plugins.

I know my coworkers were trying to be nice, but this was me last week at our offsite. I wanted the evening at the hotel room. Worse was that I don’t care to drink anymore and one of the guys was heavy on getting me to drink because he’s an alcoholic.

Empathy is thinking about the others you’re infecting with your contagious sickness when you choose to get onto a crowded tiny tube filled with other people and literally spread your sickness around the world to potentially hundreds or thousands of more people.

Yes, even more so the reason. Why are you going to attend an event with dozens of other people and potentially get even more people sick? I’d be pissed if I was mourning the loss of my loved one and now I’m also dealing with a sickness because someone wouldn’t just have stayed home. Or on my wedding day and now my new spouse and I can’t properly enjoy our honeymoon because someone attending got us and our other guests sick. Live streams are becoming more popular at these events for this exact reason so you don’t have to miss it. Sure, it’s not the same as being there in person, but you were invited to the gathering, not your sickness.

Such is subscriptions. They all go down this path.

Increase in price, reduce features, add more tiers and more options to pay, and reintroduce ads. The reintroduction of ads is the latest in YouTube Premium in the form of Premium Lite where it only does it on some videos and on music. These memberships have been a thing for a few years now.

Not all of them do the same things. Attackers have different motives.

Some want to get you to install malware onto your computer. That malware could do things like install a keystroke which is a program that monitors your keyboard input and can do things like guess credentials (email + password) and steal and send them elsewhere, also get other valuable pieces of information like a Bitcoin wallet address to serving some other purpose on the computer. Some malware will sit there and quietly try running programs on your computer. These could range from Bitcoin miners that steal your computer’s resources to mine Bitcoin or other cryptocurrency for the attacker or to be used in a botnet that essentially turns your computer into a zombie for the attacker’s bidding. Some malware will play quiet and capture screenshots similar to the keystroke monitor and then report back with its findings.

Some want you to install adware on your computer that endlessly spams you with ads as they get paid for those ads being shown.

Some don’t want to install malware but want to directly steal your information. They send you to a fake dating website and you sign up for the “service” which is you giving them your valuable information. Some attackers do this to steal your credit card information and others do this to steal your personal information. Some do it just to get you to share your email address so they can send you more spam and they get paid for that from other third parties.

Ready for summer to end 😫

Because they are prioritizing data collection over performance.

Windows is no longer about giving customers a good operating system. It’s now a vehicle for Microsoft to collect data from you for them to use and sell to other parties at a profit. It’s why Microsoft hasn’t cared much about pirated versions of Windows much anymore. They’ll do small things to annoy you, but overall, you can still use it and they still get to collect your data.

Microsoft is only starting to be more concerned as Windows loses market share and Linux gains some. The Steam hardware survey has only gone up a few points of percentages but this accounts for thousands of losses and this only shows gamers who use Steam, not all the other use cases.

So Microsoft is finally starting to make some promises to improve performance now that they have some real competition. And they’re only doing that because they want to continue collecting your data.

That is what Windows has become, unfortunately. Your performance while using it is very secondary, if not at all a priority of theirs.

That’s not too surprising. Samsung is one of those mega companies that its own divisions fight for contracts all the time. I remember hearing about, for example, the Samsung division that produces touch screens isn’t guaranteed a spot in the latest Galaxy smartphone but has to bid on contracts for that spot just like everyone else.

You’re right and I’m actually editing my comment right now to be more clear about this. I feel I wasn’t as clear as I’d like to be in describing these types.

That is fascinating, but at the same time it shouldn’t be and you should be proud to be that way. I was all over the place when writing my original comment, so forgive how I wrote some of the things I wrote. But essentially what separates a secure and anxious type of person isn’t that a secure person never has thoughts and feelings like that, but it’s in the way they go about navigating their various relationships (familial, romantic, platonic, work, etc.). So in my example, there’s nothing necessarily wrong with feeling doubtful and a little uncertain that your wife suddenly says she has to work late tonight and you feeling like there’s a possibility that she’s cheating, but a secure type will navigate those feelings more rationality than an anxious type who will blow up and act out over it. The secure type will address their concerns in a more calm and relaxed manner despite the fact they may have those feelings. Some secure people don’t have those feelings at all and just take it at face value. Honestly, good on you for being the secure type!

As for books…it’s been a while, so I’ve been going solely off memory from back in college. My college textbook is where I read most of this on so if I were to give a recommendation, it would be that lol. I’m sure there are books others can recommend. I’d say check up on any materials that have to do with the topic of “nature vs nurture” and they will most likely go into more detail about the phenomenon of twins and how alike they can be.

I know a lot about this attachment stuff only because I recently was recommended it by someone I was dating. I read the book “Attached” by Amir Levine & Rachel S. F. Heller. I don’t remember them going into any details about the topic of twins and going deep into nature vs nurture, though. The book has a quiz to help you find out what attachment type you might be.

The person I dated was a secure type with a little bit of anxious. I’m mostly anxious with a little secure. But the book has been helping me understand it and find better ways to become more secure.

Is this like the booked Attached? There’s Secure, Anxious, and Avoidant types.

To put it basically:

Secure - someone who is secure in their feelings. They generally take others at face value. Not necessarily in a gullible sense, but to give an example: if your wife suddenly told you that she would have to work late tonight, you will respond back to this with a calm and rational demeanor. You don’t blow up and cause a scene over this. You may or may not accept this at face value. Your type is not that you do accept it. Some secure types of people have doubts, but what separates them is how they will handle it. Someone with a secure type will address this with their partner by being direct and not jumping to assumptions they may have, but being as logical as possible.

Anxious - someone who deals with a lot of anxious feelings and responds to those feelings with behaviors. Like in the previous example, if your wife suddenly told you she was going to work late at work tonight, if you have an anxious type, you will have doubts about the validity of this. And with those doubts, you are the type who be more likely to resort to acting out as a result of this in what they call “protest behavior”. Your protest behavior would be in the form of not directing and calmly addressing this with your wife. Instead you resort to passive aggression, such as texting something like “You can spend the night at your boss’ house after fucking him tonight.” or doing something rash like packing up your stuff and leaving the house because you’re sure that the marriage is over. In essence, you’re more likely to act out in this state over what you perceive as a threat rather than being direct and open to hearing more before making a decision.

Avoidant - someone who is more avoidant in how they interact with others. They usually are more likely to want space from others. This person may get annoyed with a partner who is seeking for reassurance. There was an example in the book of a man and his wife who were part of a game show. His wife was anxious and constantly wanting him to hold her hand. He, the avoidant type, preferred to not do this as he felt this was dumb to keep having to hold her hand and they should just focus on the games instead.

That is to say, you may have anxious or avoidant feelings inside, but the secure type is someone who manages them in a preferable way. They may have feelings about their wife staying longer at the office, but they will be more likely to address it appropriately with their partner and be calm and rational instead of being passive aggressive about it. The secure type is also one who can understand that something like holding their partner’s hand may be silly, but it’s what this person needs in this moment and it’s how they want to support their partner.

The book goes into detail about how these aren’t necessarily bad types, but tries to help guide people into navigating their actions and how to identify others you interact with and understand how they are as people with specific attachment types can behave in different ways and better explain something that may seem foreign to you. To explain that the way they interact may not necessarily be bad, but gives you better clarity. The book also talks about what attachment types are best with others and which aren’t which can greatly impact how feasible a relationship can be.

Edit: forgot to expand on the way it goes. The book addresses this and it says that scientists still aren’t sure how these develop. There are theories, but nothing definitive.

It all goes hand in hand with the “nature vs nurture” discussion in psychology. This tries to investigate whether you develop your personality traits because your parents were that way or is it because you developed it from your environment growing up? I remember my psychology textbook going over twins separated at birth and this being one of the most interesting cases for this. Even though they didn’t grow up together in the same environment, they still had very similar mannerisms into adulthood, things we would assume would develop as they grow up because of how their parents raised them.

It’s the same with attachments. It’s not entirely clear whether someone developed them from childhood environments or from biology.

You’d think he/she would have learned. My cat hit his head on the ceiling fan one time and is now always watching out for it whenever he’s close to the ceiling.

But this is an orange cat, so the rules are different.

There are definitely food 3D printers. I’ve never heard of one for noodles but I’m sure it does or will exist https://youtube.com/shorts/l4vpSj1_8mY?is=kdN4dfbJtUJQrpja

Try a different proton version. Do you know how to do that or do you need some assistance? Assuming this is being played from Steam using Proton.

In addition to that, play around with the graphics/video settings. Could be related to something like DLSS or frame generation.

If it was on its side, it’d be a lot better.