Not sure how it was elsewhere but where I live people usually had more kids because there were no retirement and once your body was weak you needed someone to provide for you. And more children = better chance of providing for their parents.

(IT, sort of sys-admin/remote help)

No, I’m not a programmer even though I sit by the PC. Also I can’t magically fix any and all your computer related problems in a second I look at your PC.

I don’t understand how OLED could be viable for me. I have desktop layout with various windows vast majority of my PC time and only like maybe 10% goes to gaming when screen refreshes more often. I don’t want to slowly burn my window decorations and panel into panel itself. No matter how far in the future it is, well, unless it’s something unreasonably high like 50 years when the rest of the electronics won’t exist anymore anyway…

No, if there were no work it’d be the opposite. I’d sleep till afternoon…

Nice try, but still bunch of losers compared to MS…

Just from top of my head and from what I have to use at work:

• Dolphin vs. Explorer - Dolphin is sooo much better and useful it’s not evwn funny
• Notepad++ vs. Notepad - day and night, even though Notepad got an overhaul in W11 it’s still piece of shit compared to Notepad++
• literally any foss player vs. what MS offers - be it VLC, SMPlayer, MPV, anything is better than windows built in crap
• ImageGlass, Nomacs, Gwenview, etc. vs. MS Photos - same as above, windows picture viewer is now worse than ever while open source alternatives get better and better
• and plenty others, like Linux vs. Windows, lol

I had to look up what dermal anchor is. Why would anyone want to do this?

Try to get ryzen 5600, it’s pretty good and goes cheap. 5500 should be mostly fine too, but it’s a little gimped on cache compared to 5600. Avoid cpus with G at the end, you don’t want/need to pay for integrated graphics.

Second thing would be graphics card. Try to find used radeon 5700, 6600 or something similar. They will be faster and won’t be as power hungry = you won’t need new power supply.

Also bigger ssd. Doesn’t need to be nvme, but having spinning drive for software is a pain these days. Sata SSD is fine.

Well, not entirely. There’s still plenty of AAA games that are generally considered great (Witcher 3, Gta 5, RDR 2, Cyberpunk, Last of us, etc.) but there are also many more that are “playing it safe” or straight up bad. Sequels like Call of Duty or Assassins Creed are almost impossible to tell apart, gameplay of too many AAA brings nothing new, and so on.

And then there’s AAAA Skull and Bones which was just absurd piece of shit.

I’m aware of Werewolf PC game, which is kind of pretty bad :-(

Sadly I have nobody to play TTRPG with.

World of Darkness, although my only experience with it is Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines. It’s so atmospheric though, I’m so sad there’s nothing else like it. Rules are well defined, whole masquerade thing feels quite logic, characters are believable, structure of clans/families/groups and their rivalry and world views is interesting, it’s also close to our real world, but mystical… I just love it.

It’s supposed to be extremely buggy as I’ve heard. Can’t comment much more on that, except fpr this snippet. Maybe it’s fixed now, maybe even for long time, but I wouldn’t trust it just like that after what I’ve heard.

Best of luck with encryption on there. Everyone I know tell me NOT to use nextclouds encryption.

When I was a kid I had hard time distinguishing between actor and role. So Kevin from Home Alone had to be that Kevin Costner the actor, right? Right!?

I meant I probably should not buy 2-bay NAS with just USB2, if that still exists. There’d be not much to expand to once I put those two starting drives in. So preferably more bays/slots to put another drive there once the need arises. Or use expansion units like all of these offer (Synology is eSATA I believe, others have USB).

That’s what’s so dumb with it! As I said, in EU you see the final price, including tax. So “healthier option” with lower tax would instantly be seen as cheaper than “unhealty” one with heftier tax. This way it could actually work.

Yeah, I was talking about local stores mainly. Online it’s understandable as every state has its own view on taxes, same as each state in EU (we’re not federation though).

As a regular European I never even understood why US shops list prices without tax. It feels just dumb. When I go to store here the store is required to show final price on tag - meaning including tax and recycling/author fee if there’s one. Seems much more user friendly.

What’s wrong with it?

America… Fuck you! Classic.