I use a paper notebook, a page per week or month depending on how quickly I fill up the page, I scribble progress bars and check boxes all over it so I’m constantly referring back to it. Once one page fills up I’ll copy everything that wasn’t finished and is still worth tracking on the last page to the next one. The notebook stays in one spot and never moves so I can’t lose it, same with the pencil and the pencil sharpener

I was thinking similar but it’s listed as a dependency on Nexus with a note in the mod instructions to not install it so that should someone not read the instructions they’ll have a broken game and be forced into reading the instructions

I’d say the other part of it is around age 30 is when sustained unhealthy lifestyle choices can start biting. It’s not when they kill you, but it’s when life starts to give you those warning signs that you should probably do something about that before it gets worse

Death grip should be enough of a reason for dudes to normalize sex toys. Sure you can develop plenty of other unhealthy habits with sex toys, and you can have a perfectly healthy approach without sex toys, but sex toys make it a lot easier to continue to have normal sexual habits once you are sexually active with a partner again

I’ve said before, I expect we’ll see a future Windows release that’s just a Linux distro with a heavily proprietary userland. The more they can foist off to other projects and foundations for free volunteer labor the less they have to do in-house which is of course expensive

Funnily enough, android being its own ecosystem that happens to use the Linux kernel has led to quite a few improvements over the years in the kernel. Better scheduling, new filesystem drivers (exfat for example) better power management, etc. plus you can use some Linuxy utilities and tricks on Android because it’s ultimately just a Linux distro

Don’t forget iPods were this big back when the iPhone was released:

And as others pointed out they had the iMac and iBook and iTunes and the iMac was full of more iNames that I can’t even think of right now. It fit their branding enough that SNL did a joke about iRan and iRack

Years ago some company bought the rights to the Napster name and tried to run a streaming service by that name. You can guess how successful that’s been given nobody’s heard of the thing they tried to make with the name they bought

This is just the plot of the game PolyArmory

(which btw, definitely check out its a fun free game and brilliant writing)

I think there’s going to have to be a long drawn out transitional period both technologically and socially.

We’d probably need some sort of socialist state in between, and to replace corporations, and eventually other forms of private enterprise, with employee owned and ran co-ops.

People couldn’t effectively work together at a societal scale to prevent the spread of COVID-19, I have zero expectation that I’ll see anything other than small incremental changes in society as climate change continues to steamroll the world

Ideally it should simply be a friendly reply back of “hey thank you for your concern but BrainBlstrz is a legitimate company that we partner with, you can retrieve the email by [steps] if still you need it” but not everyone can be so reasonable about such things

My organization sends out just braindead crap that wouldn’t catch anyone, even boomers

You’d be surprised at the click-thru rate of those! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a phishing test get less than 10% click through rate

The argument regarding hyperlinks is generally that there are 1-2 click zero-day vulnerabilities pretty frequently, so clicking a hyperlink will take you to a server controlled by the attacker which may or may not employ one of those. Additionally there’s a constantly rotating array of obscure HTML/CSS hacks to trick even the savviest of users into thinking an attacker controlled window is something else or otherwise compromise a users system without utilizing zero-days. And finally good ol’ social engineering typically relies on several vectors at once, so by the time someone’s clicked the link there’s a good chance they might go further for the attacker before they clue in.

So yeah, theoretically if everything was as it should be, clicking the hyperlink and downloading and executing literal malware wouldn’t work, but security is about trying to make sure the weak points of every part of the chain don’t line up, because when those holes in all of the layers of security line up, you’ve got a nice big compromise to clean up, and those buggers are like bedbugs, once they get in, you can be chasing them for months or years until you’re finally rid of them

If the words “email headers” are anything more than gobblygook to you, then you’re not the one the clicker trainings are intended for.

The phish test emails are however quite handy for staying vigilant. When good defenses make it take years for a real phishing email to sneak through, then being already primed by the quarterly phish tests to be suspicious helps ensure that as many people as possible don’t get compromised

Someone that goons is engaging a form of extended masturbation without climax.

I mean that’s just edging. Gooning is generally more disfunctional than that, typically involving excessive amounts of pornography for an extended period of time combined with an excessively self-deprecating mindset. Gooning should honestly be seen as a form of sexual dysfunction in a similar vein to porn addiction

Realistically it’s a add-on for price negotiations at the dealership when buying a car

Yeah that price is about 5 grand higher than it should be

How about we knock off a grand and throw in this sick ebike?

Deal!

(Dealership just sold a $1500 ebike for $4k)

I’ve sunk way more hours than I’d ever have thought into My Dystopian Robot Girlfriend. Still haven’t finished it at all but really good storyline and honestly the porn aspects can be completely ignored

She clearly didn’t pray hard enough. Or she prayed to the wrong god. Or she needs to just accept that this was God’s plan for her

I think I threw up in my mouth a little just typing that out

And the sprawl encouraged by such development leads to a longer interface between wild and built environments which is more space to defend from wildfires

Even things like renewable deployment need some kind of selective dampening to make them work

On this front there’s also fun challenges such as Javons Paradox where increased efficiency leads to increased consumption. This was observed all the way back to the Industrial Revolution as coal use did not decrease with increased efficiency but instead coal consumption simply kept increasing as it effectively became a cheaper input for the same amount of output