Yea, if someone is down on their luck or struggling with addiction. Pretty sure selling a gun is a step before losing a home.

I would say the vast majority of micro transactions are cosmetic or time unlocking. Not adding much novelty.

Also the context of this post is about gifting kids on Christmas, so no, not necessarily “up to you”. I guess there’s an argument to just give kids whatever they want, but I don’t think think that leads to the best development outcomes. You can’t force kids to do anything either, but there does exist a middle ground.

Not sure why novelty is in quotes, it’s a quantifiable measurement based on differences. Anyway, novelty has shown to have a wide range of mental benefits. This is a pretty good overview, and if you want to dig into specific papers they’re listed as well.

Even if you want to ignore any potential benefits of novelty, generally when you have a new experience for the first time, you will have more fun that you typically do. The downside is some new experiences may not be fun, but that’s very low risk in the context of gaming.

I think it’s a little different. With new games comes novelty. Sticking with a single game and just buying cosmetics doesn’t provide nearly as much novelty.

I don’t think this is a children only issue either. Its a trap adults fall into as well.

But sounds like there is still a bug, KDE settings shouldn’t segfault with malformed reports/descriptors. Might want to write a bug report or do PR yourself.

I monitored mine for a few weeks, snagged a 4K player for $15. But they always had dvd and blu ray players in stock from $3 to $15. Also good place to get DVDs/blurays.

(Prices will obviously vary from region/country but thrift stores seem to be ideal for old players)

It’s more about cultural and socioeconomic bias. So you might have questions that have a bias towards middleclass suburban kids vs a poor innercity kid.

You can find examples online, but some can be quite subtle. “Banana is to yellow as Ruby is to ______” Someone who grew up with jewelry would be more likely to know this. This goes against the principle of an IQ test, and older tests were notorious for this.

So then you state: The light will become heat energy.

Even some newer stuff running with Proton, like AoE4 or Company of Heroes 3. Basically these games will send each other inputs and expect the game to play out identically. If there are any slight differences due to how the math happens, the game will end because it detects a desync. Usually the solution is copying whatever DLL windows uses instead of relying on WINE.

Don’t be ridiculous, 5G cellular is not the same as 5Ghz wifi.

They don’t use github, this is just a mirror. So people are just trolling the PRs I guess.

We have that law in Denver. I think most restaurants ignore it, but it’s a start at least.

Yea, I go out of my way to Microcenter, passing several Best Buys.

Why would they question bugs?

So my overpowered PC is so I don’t lose focus due to loading times.

No? Barcodes and QR codes do not have enough information for unique identification. (Well they could but they start getting bigger and bigger)

But the real issue is needing these codes tracked and audited in a public manner. Instead of having a third party company trusted with all the cheese, you use a Blockchain with a public ledger. This doesn’t even require much processing power since there’s no incentive to mine as many blocks as possible.

I hate cryptobros but logistics is a good use for the tech. Tech is tech, not all use cases are bad.

I had a 6 month gap and I said I was taking a sabbatical (which was the truth). No one batted an eye.

Yep, Dutch with manufacturing in Taiwan. So not super relevant to this thread.

System 76 is US based including keyboard manufacturing. They’re a small company that gives a lot back to the open source community.

You can always go for smaller/niche companies. System76 and Wooting come to mind for keyboards.

You have to do research and pay a premium. But you’re way more likely supporting a business that cares about its employees.

In general consume less. And when you do need to make bigger purchases, do your research.

There’s a LAN party there every year. Seems about the best thing about it.

I inquired about why the Bustang that goes to to Colorado Springs doesn’t stop in Castle Rock. The Bustang employee heavily implied it was because Castle Rock just refuses to allow transit riders in their city. Castle Rock rather have a taxi budget for old people then do any form of public transit.