I’ve been vibing since closed beta. I love the fashion frame, high speed nuke meta, but I kinda miss the stealthy infiltration vibes and the drum-heavy music. Hoping 1999 will give me a taste of what the game used to be like.

Worse yet, it was his own grandchildren.

So as far as I can tell, this dude got screwed: Inexplicably Lenovo appears to still be selling an entry-level tablet from 2018 on Amazon.

Don’t bother getting a new budget phone. Pick up a higher end used one and then just put your sim card into it. Sites like Swappa are a great place to get a legitimate used phone in good condition.

Locked phones can ONLY be used on the carrier they’re tied to. You cannot take a locked phone to another carrier, or to another country (other than with expensive international roaming plans on the original carrier). Depending on the carrier, they may be able to become “carrier unlockable” after some time period, but that’s not always the case, and that doesn’t entirely free you. Almost all locked phones (everything other than iPhones and Pixels) will also have their updates “certified” by the carrier, meaning that whichever carrier the phone was originally tied to will arbitrarily slow down or prevent your phone from being updated for months, years, or forever. People who hate updates might think this is a benefit. It is not. We’re talking about security updates, not about when an app developer decides to randomly change everything for no reason. There is no legitimate reason for this, it’s only done so that carriers can add bloatware, adware, and spyware to the OS updates.

Budget phones like the A14 will often have promotions from carriers that reduce the retail price of the device. These are locked devices, and they will not unlock the device unless you’re subscribed for a certain long period of time. If a phone’s page on amazon lists any carrier name, it’s locked to that carrier for 6-18 months. The unlocked version of the phone is almost always going to be on the high end of the price range, because it’s not subsidized by you being stuck on a specific carrier’s plan.

You can get access to the primary carrier networks at cheaper rates using a plan from an MVNO (mobile virtual network operator). They utilize the exact same networks, but have negotiated cheaper rates with the main carrier networks. They pass the savings onto you (and cheap out on other stuff like not having physical locations or huge advertising budgets), so you can access that network more affordably. If T-Mobile has good coverage in your area, Mint Mobile might be a good choice, with an unlimited plan for $15/month. Visible uses Verizon’s network and offers a similar unlimited plan for $25/month.

People gave up on Destiny 2 and Sea of Thieves.

??? What do you mean by this?

Thanks I hate it

Wait, are they saying that instead of remotely accessing my own machine, it’s running something like a cloud gaming session to access a windows application?

Am I too high for this, or not high enough?

incredible how techbros invented the only way to make a less hierarchical structure more oppressive than the alternative. Libertarianism is a sham.

Not entirely sure about that, Valve is still working on the Deckard headset and have continued filing patents on it.

Valve’s biggest problem is, as always, its industrial scale ADHD. They just can’t focus and organize enough to complete projects or to follow up on them. Literally everything that comes out of there requires a miracle and a well-respected senior employee just entirely refusing to give up on it for years.

Yemen has hypersonic missiles before the US does?

multipolar world let’s goooo

I really like my Kindle Oasis. Picked it up eBay, looks like a lot of them are over $100, but you can check a few times and sort by price. Try doing some bidding or making an offer. Might take a little bit to find one, but it’s a good one. 6 or 7 inch screen, really consistent backlighting, and you can message support and they’ll just remove ads for you.

It’s the strategy of naming your cult “The Being Good and Correct Movement” in order to mask your unhinged beliefs as sensible.

Yeah, their whole thing is just creep shit.

The upcoming “replacements” are the Artemis IV lunar space station and a bunch of proposals from different private companies who all want to be landlords of a future space station. All of these, including Artemis IV are in the “artist interpretation only” CGI picture phase, are attached to projects plagued by delays and problems, and set to launch “no sooner than” the end of 2028. Very likely, none of these will ever get off the ground.

The only project beyond this stage is the private Axiom Station, an upcoming series of modules set to launch to the ISS to allow corporate astronauts to live and work on the ISS, then detach and become a private leave-behind when the ISS deorbits. Fucking grim.

The West’s only functional space station is said to be going to be decommissioned in the next few decades at some point too.

Try less than a decade. Decommissioning is currently set for 2031.

If your brother wants to get paid for caretaking, that’s between him and Medicare/Medicaid, not you or your father’s estate. $3000/month is an ambitious figure and I’m sure he’ll have a lot of fun trying to get them to pay retroactively. Might be a good time for you or your sister to get Power of Attorney.

The whole eggs/fertility thing is really based on a huge (and largely deliberate) misunderstanding of reproductive biology and how ovarian follicles work and die. You’re essentially at peak fertility at 30, most of the eggs die off before age 5.

I get a ton of nostalgia for PWA Moderne and WPA Rustic style architecture.

They just look nice!