At some point their corpses start to smell unbearable and you need to find fresh bodies.

No but really, same with what others said. Make sure they treat you kindly and respect your boundaries and such.

I’ve no interest in that service but I welcome support, anyway, because it’s a third party and will likely end up the best way to experience Game Pass subscriptions. I know Game Pass subscribers, and I’m sure they’re fiiiine with me evangelizing Linux s’more.

For some reason an Nvidia RTX 5090 and 128gb of DDR5 RAM, because whoever designed this game decided it’d be funny to put a target on my back.

I don’t buy the bot narrative, but I also won’t say this is a genuine jump in Linux users. Rather, as someone who has done statical research before, a sudden jump like this feels like a change in how that data was gathered plus a rather high point on natural variance.

For starters, why would bot behavior change in a month? Any serious bot network would already be on Linux, so unless bot filtering got significantly worse in a single month, I’m skeptical on that front. I suppose it’s possible a patch to scrapping plugins happened, or a change in bot sensitivity on the researcher side, or something, but you’d assume someone would point that out.

However, Linux adoption explanations are also iffy. The “Year of the Linux” people point to summer being a factor, or maybe Steam machine release. Maybe someone went viral promoting it and somehow… doubled installs? Seems unlikely, although a small jump can be attribed to these factors I suppose.

But back to the statistics – all samples naturally vary over time and this can be a major factor month to month as statical noise exists. If it drops back to, say, 7 or 8%, that’s probably that factor, although this is much less an issue if the sample is large (which I think it is?). It’s also possible there’s a change in measurement error, such as Unknowns getting parsed correctly this month, though I’m not sure if that can explain most of the chunk coming out from Windows. I think these are the explanations I’m leaning towards, though (e.g. the Linux was there all along!)

All I can say from my experience is a jump like this is unnatural and usually points to variance and/or measurement error. Rather than the actual population having a change, the researcher does something different that changes results. It doesn’t necessarily mean the new results are biased (they might be less biased!), but it also doesn’t mean reality has suddenly changed. After all, we’re talking about a doubling of the population; if 300 million use the Internet in the US, that’s 15 million people changing to Linux in a month.

The texture certainly was better, sure. I just remember I wasn’t that impressed by the flavor. I’m used to marinated flank steak which is considerably more sinewy but made up for with seasoning and spices.

Also it was pretty small, and I shared it with my partner. I wanna say 8oz? The guy who bought it to treat us was a real Midwestern American though, so it’s possible he was bamboozled.

No, I know the yen is generally weaker but this was like 15 years ago. I had to double check because it’s was usually 100 yen to 1 dollar but somehow it was 90 yen to a dollar that year. They really screwed up after the pandemic though so it’s so much worse now and will probably get even worse under the current admin.

It’s been used in marketing and has lost it’s meaning, but I’m referring to the original is that type where the cattle are given wine and massaged or something.

I think that piece of meat was something like 60,000 yen, or roughly $700 at the time given the exchange rate of the time. But it’s been a while and I didn’t have to pay so… not certain.

Someone once treated me to actual Wagyu steak in Japan. It was good but certainly not hundreds of dollars good; marinades are cheap and makes my usual cheap meats taste wonderful.

Since having kids, anytime I make a mistake or jump to a conclusion, I try to model for them how to say sorry and make it right.

That said, I don’t make mistakes that often; I’m much more likely to just say I don’t know or I have no opinion. I think it’s most important to teach people it’s ok to not know or have enough information to make a judgement.

He likely doesn’t understand how they work (or if he does, is using it as a way to implement sales tax illegally).

That said, traditionally they are used to discourage US consumers from buying competition to US businesses, like the tariffs they’ve had on light pickup trucks for a very long time that contributed to the shitty choices decades later. Also these are typically targeted on select products, since as you’ve seen, blanket tariffs on all goods from a country fuck up supply chains and screw everyone pretty badly.

Both are bad, of course, just the latest ones are also very very stupid.

About 60" for the living room, but I try to prioritize image quality over size since I can adjust the distance. Since I have young kids, I have to keep the screen higher and farther than I like, though.

Otherwise, that’s it. I use computer monitors if I’m in any other room, and those are ultrawide 30" I think. (And although it’s not the question, ISP panels are my favorite even with OLEDs taking over the world. I just like their color profile.)

And kitchen? C’mon. Get a tablet like a normal digital junky.

Yeah but that’s most of DC right now. Undead walk the halls of Congress.

The part that annoys me most is not one, but three people I know blame Linux for not supporting the invasive anti-cheat, and not the developers.

Oh no. I even read the “Those are my ladybugs” in his soft, accented voice. But in not really disgusted by the image, more just how much of a hypocrite LadyG was.

We call those foods you mentioned as “junky foods” as that’s still a concept in Japan too. It’s usually pretty clear based on nutritional content, but the main reason is how sick you feel afterwards.

There can be healthier options in fast food as well as better ways to prepare karage and tempura to be less unhealthy. And no, none of that appears more or less healthier than American fast food to us, but fast food also includes chipotle and subway which are not quite as greasy as what you have in mind.

Technically only a HIPAA violation of the doctor uploads stuff. Uploading your is stuff is just violating your own privacy, which at this point might just be a boomer national pass time.

Well, there’s talk of making state owned supermarkets so it’s probably possible to do that with gas. But the rationale for that is not profit and the economics seem to hold up despite that, anyway.

But they don’t price with a bullshit meme price that’s severely undervalued.

I mean, he was married to a Taiwanese woman who immigrated at 8; he might have spoken some Mandarin while he was still alive even if you don’t count his benefactors.

EXCUSE ME human, your pod in block 5S-AA67 is 4 centimeters farther out from the frame than the rest of the pods, we need you to be within HOA regulation of the proper distance of your pod or face additional fees!

I second this; even though their mutated form is terrestrial, they clearly look like it too. Red eared sliders are common gift pets that often get abandoned (I should know, I rescued one!).