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The gamification of credit card points can be a problem, too (overspending on stuff you don't really need or want to get those rewards). I use a credit card for this, too, but it can be murky waters if you don't have really good planning and impulse control (which I will admit I don't always have myself).

I did. I got hired as a Unix admin around 2008 and inheriteted the care and feeding of an old Jabber server the ~3000 employee company was using for internal instant messaging. I near-immediately migrated it over to an OpenFire server. A few months later I learned the pitfalls of using the built-in database (it blows up on you when it gets big enough cuz back then it was all in-memory, not sure about how it works out of the box now). I remember figuring out how to manually migrate that over to mysql... and I skipped the ITSM change control process and just had it execute overnight via some at commands and scripts. Went smoothly and I didn't get fired :P

I learned a bunch from that and set up an OpenFire server at home so I could chat from my dynamic dns hostname to some people on gchat.

And that's about the extent of it. My internal company chat eventually got replaced with skype for business and then teams. My personal stuff eventually switched over to text messages and Signal (and discord and slack and mattermost and whatever else for all the odds and ends communities I keep in touch with).

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No use in arguing with people who want to yuck your yum.

Baldurs Gate 3 looks fantastic and I'm looking forward to giving it a go at full release :)

Real people do post hate, though, at least in some capacity. I left Facebook over a decade ago and never went back because of all the insanely hateful shit some of my family posts. My wife's still on Facebook (marketing manager, she kinda has to be) and every once in a while she'll show me the stuff my family is still posting.

I mean, maybe my family is just particularly shitty?

Real people do post hate, though, at least in some capacity. I left Facebook over a decade ago and never went back because of all the insanely hateful shit some of my family posts. My wife's still on Facebook (marketing manager, she kinda has to be) and every once in a while she'll show me the stuff my family is still posting.

I mean, maybe my family is just particularly shitty?

Why are people getting into 10s or 100s of thousands of dollars in debt for school in the first place?

Because we've told every kid that they need to go to college and created a government-backed system that ensures they can borrow virtually unlimited amounts of money to make it happen. Increased demand + increased money supply in a self-feeding cycle has led to massive inflation for higher education that will continue to burden younger generations with crushing amounts of unsecured, un-bankruptable, debt.

The solution involves substantial changes to the federal student lending program that the US is, politically, not willing to accept.

I dunno if that's the main reason. A lot of content seems to just be mastered poorly for household gear - I've got a pretty large center channel and dialog is still terrible is most new movies :(

Ah, I was thinking of Raheem Sterling. That'll teach me to comment when browsing All :P

I don't soccer, but is that the guy who got an AR tattooed on his leg?

Definitely looking forward to the next FF7R installment :)

ToTK, spending a lot of time not doing the main quests.

Finishing up FFVII Remake Intermission before I start FFXVI as the other game I'm juggling in the not-much free time I have had lately.