It takes a little more effort to make an account and even know that lemmy exists. That probably dissuaded a lot of casual creepers.

Did you write “thinkering” on purpose? Because it’s fantastic.

Ever try it with malt vinegar?

Ok

To show they know you, at least a bit. Cash can obviously used by everyone about anywhere, but for that reason it can be given to someone you don’t know at all and they’ll like it.

A gift card shows that the giver at least believes they know the gifted well enough to know where they like to spend money. They just don’t know them well enough to know they would like “this specific thing” and know they don’t already one one.

Vista had better features and stuff, but people hated it because it was a huge jump in needing extra resources and any mid tier or lower laptop that came pre-installed with it the first year was underspecced for it, so it ran like turd on those and sucked away gaming performance on everyone’s rig.

95 wasn’t bad. 98 had some bugs and they quickly released 98SE, which was great and then they released the soggy turd of windows Millennium.

That was their disaster year. Windows ME, released just 2 years after 98 in 2000, and written out of existence just one year later by Windows XP.

Stuff got too easy to really have to delve into a deeper understanding, most of the time, now. No jumpers, no dip switches, no pre-loading drivers or plugs that can be plugged into places they shouldn’t get plugged into. Everything is color coded and plug n play. You don’t have to dive in and assign com ports or anything.

I learned as I went because I wanted to get shit to work and that took a lot of educating to get there. Now, most of the time the situation doesn’t come up, so that deeper understanding is a building block that just got skipped over. The offshoot is that when the more rare occasion arises that a deeper understanding is required, it’s usually got a person way behind the 8 ball to be able to recognize and fix the issue.

I’m really looking forward to playing the 2016 (ish?) version of Spiderman here in the next year or so.

Shoot. My back log on games is so big, I can be happy with this one for another 5 years before I’d need something with more power.

Ublock on Firefox still leaves it work great, actually. I use it like 95% of the time, still. Just don’t touch it without.

You mean pound?

Damned wasps. I over-filled a propane tank last week because of wasps.

I’m paranoid about losing my wallet and other daily carry stuff, so I haven’t. Been carrying stuff for like 30 years. Never lost a wallet, cell phone,pocket knife, or keys. Couple close calls.

Legal in the US. I think this guy is in Brazil.

Yeah, but you aren’t proper if you’re using more than one piece of punctuation at the end of your sentence. Them’s the rules.

Unless…

Which is all that would happen if third parties decide they don’t like the terms that valve and them agreed to.

Valve just doesn’t allow cheaper prices from other storefronts if it’s a steam key being sold, where valve is the one footing the bill for the server costs. There are games for sale on epic all the time that are better deals than what’s on steam. But when you buy a game on epic, you’re using epics servers/bandwidth.

Except that’s not really true. Or at least a half truth.

Steam prevents publishers from selling steam keys through other sites and means for less money. Publishers and other distributors are able to sell their games as cheap as they want anywhere they want. They just can’t sell it dirt cheap somewhere and then use valves steam program and bandwidth to download and play the game.

Yes, but no one dies if they get pushed back 2 weeks. Also, the cosmetic surgeries are first on the chopping block.

And again, it’s supply and demand. The hospitals want the profit. They don’t want to pay any overhead for the product.