Yeah, that's exactly what I mean. I don't think most people understand that, and it will lead to people losing faith in experts when they're told inflation is back to pre-pandemic levels but prices aren't.

People don't understand this about inflation and it will disappoint them very soon once inflation is fully back to rates we saw pre-pandemic.

Grocery prices aren't coming down. Housing prices aren't going down. Utility costs aren't going down. The best we can hope for is for them to not increase as fast as they have the last four years and for the usual fluctuations in things like gas or electricity costs to fluctuate down more than up.

Unless the overall mortage payment goes down or you have a serious need (had a baby and need more room or have a physical challenge and need less), I can't imagine abandoning a low interest rate.

I bought this year and the interest rate makes my payment so much higher that it is insane. I can't wait until rates lower and I can refinance.

And the most recent trailer also has a fairly large cameo spoiler too. So if you care, now is a good time to stop looking up info on the movie until you see it.

It's funny, I think Vegas is perfectly fine as the city of sin so things like this really don't phase me. It was built on the idea of crime and excess.

What does seem weird to me is how in a desert, why isn't everything solar? The sun is their only natural resource besides sand. Every rooftop and parking lot and flat surface possible seems like it should be a panel.

That embezzlement conviction of Dalongeville, is both damning and an interesting look at the problem. Liberalism and leftism haven't solved problems that common people actually experience. The right hasn't either and has no real plan to, they just bother to talk about it and give common people a boogie man that they can aim their anger at.

It is frustrating to me how these parties on left barely even try to make people's lifes better. To show them why more leftist or socialist policies are the way to go. It has been proven time and time again throughout history that in times of financial insecurity, normal people are easily swayed by far right strongmen and demonization of a weaker other. Why does the left continue to fail at preventing this?

It also feels like their insistence is doing nothing but hurting them. The average consumer who doesn't know the difference between a local account and a Microsoft account won't know or care about MS doing this.

But the users who do have a preference and do want a local account are just going to be irritated at it and give them bad press. They'll eventually figure out how to make a local account anyway and it may be the push they need to migrate off of Windows.

Oh, I didn't even think about that. Definitely makes sense.

The fact she didn't say it was VSJ, but that she keeps her IP makes me think it is a smaller company.

In a Korean car too which is funny.

What does the BODG stand for?

Ooh, that's a good point. I forgot that the robot was there without the WG knowing. Which I think also explains why we haven't seen the Elders say anything about it either. Their reaction to the Giant is going to be interesting.

It may be too early to tell, but after the last two releases coming out on Thursday, we might be back to our normal schedule of scans coming out on Thursday.

Interesting that Vegapunk put the snail in the Iron Giant. I wonder why he thought of that place compared to any other? I guess it's durable because it is taking canon fire with no damage, but I doubt that will be the same when the Elders attack it.

That picture of Lily in the throne room does seem very suspicious. It feels like Imu maybe had a love/hate relationship with Lily. Maybe some type of failed romantic relationship or something?

That is the frustrating part. The employers want to continue to pay their servers unlivable wages and force the customer to pay the rest. But a lot of the employees don't want tipping to go away because they make more than federal minimum wage or even popular proposed livable wages like $15/hr or $20/hr.

So now customers are the only ones who want tipping to go away.

I think that is the implication, but time will tell. We may get the Damned One Jika for real.

You can also play with it to try and get closer to correct. I had problems with getting an Excel macro working and getting unattended-updates working on my pihole. GPT was wrong at first, but got me partly there and I could massage the question and Google and get closer to the right answer. Without it, I wouldn't have been able to get any of it, especially with the macro.

That is what is frustrating. He doesn't really mean what you "see". He means go with your gut/surface level feelings and understanding. If you "see" something that goes against what you see or what you feel without any specialized knowledge on the subject, go with your priors.

Did you get a browser error when trying this? It might be because you left the www in the URL. I had to remove that and replace it with old, and it works. The rest of the link structure is the same on both old and new reddit. I even tried it from a VPN just to be sure it wasn't seeing my logged in cookies, and in a private browsing window where RES isn't allowed to run. Worked fine.

Private Internet Access works for me. Just tested logged out in an incognito mode tab.

I remember reading years ago that an unpatched WinXP machine on the Internet would catch something in 10 minutes without having to browse.

Is there anything different here that is a change from that rule of thumb?

Interesting. I'll have to test it when I get home. I'm always signed in and I use RES so could be some other factors causing it to not be a problem for me.

It has been fun seeing all these iconic people and places. Even though I'm so eager for more information, I still appreciate seeing the impact.

We're finally getting into the lore deep. The break week will be brutal and I hope we don't get too blue balled.

I don't think we'll get the name of the Ancient Kingdom but I'm hoping we at least find out more about the threat of the world sinking. Vegapunk predicted the sea rising by one meter and says that it wouldn't be completely natural, but it also seems like using the Mother Flame wasn't the only cause of the rise. Maybe it triggers something that is naturally occurring? I just don't know how Vegapunk would know Imu was going to use it and when.

Seeing Doffy and Magellan again got a small out of me. Especially seeing Magellan having scars, just a nice lasting memory from the break out.

Old Reddit works for me, but I am logged into an account.

That is basically what they did. There are a decent amount of third party apps around that work. I personally use Narwhal.

The further we get from the whole third party app debacle, the more I think this was just a way to kill the most popular apps. The ones that people said made reddit worth using. The ones that got shouted out in Apple keynotes.

Old Reddit works for me. Does it just not work in general for you, or does it not work when not logged into an account?

This hit my mom in Virginia too. But even before that, ISPs like Spectrum were jacking up their prices. Her Internet only plan went from $30-$64 a month in about two years. My grandmother has it even worse because she needs a landland and can't handle streaming so has cable TV.

Just shameful.

Interesting. I was all ready to ask how having a malicious DHCP server would matter if VPNs also use DHCP to give a client a VPN IP, but I didn't know DHCP could do more than just hand out IPs.

The things you listed are not only staples, but also pretty basic and essentially the foods when trying to eat on a budget. What about beef, chicken, eggs, etc?

Being an idiot in that situation is true, but in your example is also true that the item he was buying has gone up 50% in price. It doesn't matter that the item is extravagant, it still has gone up significantly. That's pretty much across the board with food.

Someone answered this for me. It's just that it's open source. If that matters to you, there you go.

Ah, gotcha. Makes sense.

Is there anything about Aegis that makes it better than Authy? Just looking at the page for Aegis, I'm not seeing a lot of difference. And it being Android only limits it.

Did people call RCS open source? I'm not a huge follower of the standard, but I don't think I ever heard that said. In fact, I've heard people complain about not just the proprietary encryption but lack of E2E and carrier/Google control.

Its only advantages are that it is better than SMS and supported by the carriers, Google and Apple sometime this year.

It's a shitty standard but given how shitty SMS is, I'm willing to hold my nose and jump in.

Not only that but reddit isn’t allowing you to make new accounts as of today, without having a Gmail account first.

What? So you can't use any other email provider but Google to sign up for a Reddit account?

EDIT: I actually don't think this is correct. I just went to the sign up page and it does have buttons to create an account using Google or Apple OAuth (I assume) but there is a field under those two buttons for just any email. Put in my Outlook.com email and it accepted it and went to the next page where I could create my user name and password.

The very idea is absurd. It is so counter productive to the idea of rehabilitation. The prisons themselves say they aren't a significant revenue stream. Trying to offset the cost of a societal need by charging fees to prisons doesn't even make any sense. And the companies that are tasked with collecting this debt get 70% of what they collect which means that even the argument about offsetting the state's cost doesn't make sense.

It's profit seeking, counter productive cruelty and that's it. Just shameful.

That's a principled stance.

You need good software to make the most out of good hardware, but I think our definition of good is different. For software, as long as the software doesn't get in the way of launching the app you want, most normies will consider that good. It doesn't matter that Android is bloated and inefficient if the user can tap the Instagram or Facebook icon and have that open up without user perceptible delay.

The average person is remarkably able to put up with shit. Look at the experience on smart TVs for example. The vast majority of people are fine with the absolutely shitty experience as long as they can open up Netflix.

Use what you like. Just like Windows, macOS and Linux for the vast majority of people, all these OSes are, are platforms to display apps and webpages. They all have sanded off most of the rough edges meaning that unless you have specific niche needs/wants, you'll just use what is familar and be happy.

Life is too short to have deep feelings about an OS.

Yeah, I can't imagine what about Graphene would make that big of a difference. Smart phones and slabs of glass with apps on them. There's very little that truly impacts the experience after you get past specs.