I mean, I’ve already got a backlog of 100+ Steam and GOG games I haven’t played yet, plus something like 1000+ retro game ROMs, and I’m happy to go digging in the crates as it were. There are already more games available than I’ll have time to play in my lifetime.

They push cloud gaming and I go fuck off entirely.

Rich tech CEOs don’t want for much. How’s it feel, bud?

There’s plenty of studies on the effects of resistance training on Osteosarcopenia and Osteoporosis. You’re being a little ridiculous here. It’s a simple google search away.

• https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6279907/
• https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/strength-training-builds-more-than-muscles
• https://www.orthopt.org/blog/the-role-of-strength-training-in-preventing-osteoporosis-functional-exercises-and-evidence-based-benefits
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25772806/
• https://theros.org.uk/information-and-support/bone-health/exercise-for-bones/
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9927006/

This is great advice, but I think we can all agree it absolutely shouldn’t be necessary. All this ad bullshit, store suggestions, Cortana, Copilot, web search, etc. should be opt in, or not exist at all.

Funny enough, Cory Doctorow covered something similar in his book Makers. There was a therapy (I forget, either injection or gene therapy) that led to obese people being able to eat whatever they want and still get thin. They ended up essentially skeletal and brittle in the end over years, turned out it’s very bad for you and they ended up needed to eat like 10k calories a day to survive.

I think the previous comment was rather hyperbolic, but to a degree it’s true. I wouldn’t call it solved, obviously, since removing all other factors, women experience more osteoporosis and overall bone loss than men in general. Though when we consider activity, it’s more common for men to be physically active in general, and higher overall muscle mass means greater bone density in the longer term, to my understanding.

But also, most of western society is extremely sedentary, and there is a certain inertia when it comes to encouraging physical fitness as a solution. People do tend to want a magic pill for things. Just look at all the fervor over Ozempic.

I they’re gonna take 4 years to grow, I’ll just stick with fillings.

Absolutely fantastic album.

If you need espresso, be sure you’re looking at the Encore ESP, not the original Encore.

For something easy to carry on trips if you want a manual, Timemore makes good stuff. I have a Timemore C3S. Supposedly it can adjust down to espresso sizes but I haven’t tried it.

I keep the Timemore as a back up in case power is out and my house battery is low, but I haven’t had much opportunity to use it other than my initial testing.

I only do pour over and French press, but I’ll just say I don’t think I’d want to hand grind for espresso, would be a pain to do that with any regularity.

Check out the Baratza Encore ESP. It’s one of the few grinders around that can handle espresso and French press pretty well. It also has internal shims (and includes extra/spare) for adjusting how close or far the burrs are to make minute adjustments to the grind, separately from the grind dial.

It’s got a 40 click adjustment dial where the first 20 are for fine adjustment for espresso grinds, and then from 21 to 40 is for regular coffee grinds. I do 25 for my pour over, and around 33-34 for French press.

My previous grinder was a Capresso Infinity, and though I liked it, the Baratza is better quality and much easier to clean and maintenance.

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Edit - both the Capresso and the Baratza have some grinds retention (anything will on fine grinds) but the Baratza also has the benefit of having compatible bellows, and even aftermarket single serve hoppers with bellows. Capresso does not.

My Capresso Infinity was bad, sometimes up to 2+ grams retention and I’d have to shake it kind of whack the side of it to get them out.

With the bellows added, the Baratza’s grounds retention is almost zero, just press it down and the grounds come right out with no fuss. It’s also part of why it’s cleaner, and easier to clean in general.

Heh, it was actually 74 hours total. I go through fits where I use one reader or the other a lot and occasionally switch, but I’m generally syncing books between them and reading the same book on both when I switch.

October was a big reading month. December was a bit of a drought for me (for books, I actually read the entire “My Hero Academia” manga though), but there’s some months I do almost nothing but read in my free time, and most nights I read at least 30 minutes before bed.

From August to October I got pretty sucked in reading pretty much all of Michael G. Manning’s fantasy novels. I think it was 20 books in all.

Guaranteed. The question isn’t if the rug will be pulled, it’s when and how.

I spent a lot on Amazon books in the past but when they removed the option to transfer books via USB I stopped almost entirely, and but my books from Kobo now.

My Kindle is jailbroken. I don’t need their permission or assistance to use/buy/acquire EPUBs.

Do KOReader stats count? I don’t have a Kobo but split my time between a Boox reader and a jailbroken Kindle PW.

Firefox currently, though with recent AI related announcements, I’m shopping for replacements. Maybe Iceweasel or Waterfox, have to investigate.

I keep Opera around as a back up option as well though not sure if it’s suitable as a daily driver.

There’s plenty of “unbloated” software available. It’s just not on Windows.

Ryzen 5600x here, was rocking a 6700 XT but found a good deal on a RX 9070 for $540 right around when the RAM prices increased. Already have 32 GB RAM, so I’m set for a while.

Hah, guess they’re gonna have to run Linux. Windows 11 would choke on 8 GB RAM.

Glad you’re enjoying it, that’s awesome. I used it a decade and more ago, but Spotify never worked out for me for a few reasons:

• I discovered hi-fi music, have multiple good setups and for years Spotify was lower quality. It took them close to a decade to do FLAC quality.

• I listen to a large variety of stuff from multiple countries, and Spotify would often lose rights to tracks I liked. At one point something like 10-15% of the music on my list disappeared.

• I prefer to own my music in high quality, have bought a ton of albums and have around 1.2 TB of FLAC on my NAS.

• I don’t like how artists get completely screwed on pay by Spotify.

My home setup has multiple budget hi-fi setups with passive speakers and mini-amps, and a 5.1 system in my living room. I’ve got a mini-PC server that runs Lyrion with Bliss mix plugin, Plex (for PlexAmp), and AssetUPnP. I still have Qobuz for streaming and discovery (and it integrates in Lyrion to mix with my local collection), but prefer local music overall.

This is fucking stupid. There’s no AI assets in the final game, and it was used for placeholders during development.

I dislike AI for a lot of reasons, but this is massively overblown. The genie is out of the bottle and there’s no putting it back. This is right up there with artists airbrushing, photoshop, and so on. People are going to use the tools available if it leads to quicker development cycles to get a product out.