I think the thing I liked about Blockbuster was the routine of it, but also how the limited selection helped you make a decision, particularly when you’re with a group. When you’re scrolling through a streaming service with hundreds of choices, it can become difficult to make one. If your only options are the 10 new movies on the shelf, it makes it a lot easier to come to an agreement.

1. drink as much as you can, as fast as you can
2. yak
3. pass out
4. wake up with a crazy headache
5. remember how shitty you feel
6. clean your mess up if you made one during step 2
7. apologize to all your friends for the dumb stuff you did during steps 1-3, if applicable
8. next time, drink less/slower during step 1

Repeat

That’s a joke. Kinda.

Start slow and learn your limit. You can always drink more, but by the time you’ve had too much it’s already too late to slow down.

As for drugs, if anything, weed only. Don’t be messing around with stimulants, hallucinations, or prescription stuff.

Fringe is just a fun sci-fi show that really leans into the fun of it, and so it’s easy to just watch and enjoy even when they’re investigating something insane.

As the The Expanse, it’s an excellent world builder and futuristic saga. I like to watch and see if I catch anything new in the background, and enjoy the epic space battles. (As an aside, the book series is phenomenal also. First three books are $28 at Amazon…. Can almost certainly find them at your local library too!)

The Expanse

Fringe

They already do that by requiring you use an Ubisoft account, even when you buy it on Steam. You shouldn’t be buying from them anyway just because of that. Doesn’t surprise me they made another anti-consumer decision.

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Then who?!

@[email protected] stole the cookie from the cookie jar!

Yes, we do. Valve themselves have said it.

https://tech.yahoo.com/gaming/articles/valves-decision-not-sell-steam-171635100.html

The purpose of the Steam Deck is not to take over PC gaming or lock people into a store. It is to further Valve’s goal of enabling Linux for gaming and reduce dependency on Windows.

See also: Valve putting SteamOS on other hardware and allowing self-installs on any commodity hardware rig. Can I install XboxOS or PlayStationOS on my PC today?

Steam doesn’t need a lock-in. It is the de facto store for PC gaming already. Even Epic giving away free AAA games for years hasn’t made a meaningful dent in Steam’s dominance.

Valve doesn’t sell hardware at a loss. $1k is pretty normal for a phone or laptop these days, and in line with what I would expect from a device like this.

Now, that may be more than you’re willing to pay for it, but I don’t think the price is exorbitant.

Super fun on computer lab day to both communicate with friends and randomly annoy the crap out of others.

I have a UniFi system at home, and then use a custom WireGuard config it generates on my iPhone to connect. It leverages the iOS VPN switch, just like turning WiFi or Bluetooth on and off. Works amazingly well. Should support Android, too, but I don’t have an Android anymore so no firsthand experience there.

They also have a proprietary thing called Teleport, but I don’t use that because it relies on using another app they publish instead of just the main OS user functionality.

In your original reply, you cite the app as smart enough to know the mobile ISP even with VPN on, and it shows this to you in the app, yet that is not my experience. If it were as you say, shouldn’t my app still say my mobile ISP even with the VPN active?

Maybe you are running a split tunnel or something? When I’m on VPN over mobile, it’s the same as running the test on my home wifi.

EDIT: we could also be talking about different parts of the app. As I dug further into this, the main page that just shows your speed, connection, and test server work/look the same for me on VPN on mobile or WiFi, showing my home ISP. However, I did discover that if I go into the detailed results page, it shows that I was using a mobile connection and doesn’t show my home ISP name at all. Very curious.

EDIT2: last edit — tests over mobile on VPN in detailed results show my home ISP IP as the egress point, so one should be able to determine if their VPN is effective that way.

Interesting. Not for me.

I have an iPhone with a WireGuard tunnel back to my house. When connected just on cellular, SpeedTest says my mobile provider for the connection.

When I connect to VPN and try again, it says my home ISP provider and doesn’t mention the mobile part at all.

All the time.

47% of American adults have unused gift cards. The average value per person is $187, and the total value of these unspent funds in the US annually is approximately $23 billion.

Higher-income individuals are most likely to have unredeemed gift cards, with 62% of this demographic reporting unused cards.

Nearly 29% of Americans have kept a gift card so long that it expired, and 25% have lost at least one gift card.

https://grabon.com/blog/gift-card-statistics/

its_kim_love, if you think that by threatening me you can get me to be your slave… Well, that’s where you’re right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there are a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market today that are just as tasty as the real thing.

Yes. We buy something for each immediate family member on both sides. Although to your point, my spouse generally takes the lead on presents for her side, and I for mine, but we do actively consult each other before anything is bought, so it does feel like it’s from “us” and not her with my name on it also or vice versa.

I also will generally buy each of them a small gift myself each year (that they get at Christmas) if it’s something that I think they would like or fits their character. Think like t-shirts, trinkets, ornaments, or stickers and the like, and never with the expectation of receiving something in return.