BlackAura

Nice! You should read the Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks if you like Fantasy novels.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/291662-lightbringer

Childless but many of my friends have kids and seeing that top panel... Just... lol.

"this is a tool, not a toy"

How many times have I heard that said, or even said it myself, to children.

It's not that seamless depending on the content you usually consume.

I feel like I keep seeing the same single livestream trying to sell me a phone charger, and then roughly the same 5 or 6 videos trying to sell me a specific product over and over again.

As long as I don't report or say "I keep seeing this ad" it will show me the same ones so they are easy to skip.

Usually it's something I started watching until I realized it was an ad, but because I started watching it one time it thinks I'm interested so it will continually show it to me.

Once you spot them they are easy to skip. (at least, until they get better at masking then and then it will get harder).

That's a separate issue from requiring internet access / cloud / their servers to be online to print.

If you're open to sci-fi:

Nathan Lowell - Smuggler Series (3 books, starting with milk run) or Trader Series (first 6 books, starting with quarter share)

Smuggler has more.... Intrigue and whatnot. Trader is pretty straightforward and "feel good", iirc.

I would say read both series to those points before going further with the Seeker Series and later books. I forget where in the series but at some point the characters cross paths so having read both series before then helps it all fit together.

Considering the number of aid vehicles the IDF has blown up / attacked this seems risky.

Pretty sure that's the internet archive which takes snapshots of websites.

You're looking at the website x.com waaaay back in 1997, where they said they aren't nearly the worst website on the internet. As opposed to now, where it is a cesspool of toxicity.

I'm by no means a huge VR user but I find the PSVR2 rendering based on your focus point to be a really neat feature for that reason.

Wherever you're looking gets full resolution. Things in your perifory get downscaled. This helps the headset maintain max FPS at the full Hz.

Note: I don't own one, I just think the tech for that is near.

Sore arm and bit of a fever overnight. Very mild but felt like it was radiating from my arm.

Got flu and covid are the same time in the same arm.

Pretty sure they have also both won prior awards.

Huh. 2022 Terraria won labour of love. Stardew Valley has won other awards but not labour of love that I can see.

To be fair that's not a bad thing. If this exposes the actual cost of fossil fuels then renewables suddenly look that much better.

If a company was just dumping waste products and now has to filter their output and clean up existing dumped waste, it helps realize the actual cost of producing whatever they make, and if it's passed on to the consumer that's great. Less people will buy it if they feel it's overpriced. That results in less waste overall.

Edit: if a company goes out of business from this then they were stealing from the public taxpayers and shouldn't have been in business at all.

No no they're just milking them...

Oh yeah okay. Fuck Nestlé.