I am F12!

I cound myself lucky as I was not affected at all. Weather was shitty, 4 days of non stop raining, but nothing more. No storms, no winds, just rain, rain, rain. I live at the top of a hill, so no problem.

My colleague was scared, though. She lives near river and her (ground level) flat was already flooded once 25ish years ago. This time the water risen flooded some of her neighbouring gardens, but stopped few steps from her door.

The worst effect was on place I work at. There's ongoing reconstruction of the building and while the roof is supposed to be finished, it definitely did not look like it inside. There were multiple places where water went through, so wet walls, ruined drywall ceilings, water in cables, etc. Nothing devastating, but really inconvenient.

Still nothing compared to those poor souls who lost everything in a heartbeat.

Yeah 80s/90s were the sweet spot for action movies. Most of them were naive and predictable, but also incredibly easy to digest. I'd say it was kind of WYSIWYG in movie space: good guys were good, bud guys were bad, plot was easy so your dog can comprehend it, no complicated backstory, no bullshit, just action and enjoyable fun.

How the...? Was it the socks in sandals? :-D

The thing that can't really be seen in the photo is they're both wearing socks in their sandals...

Hello fellow universal donor. I'm blessed with the same blood type, so I donate the blood when I can at my local hospital. Usually 3x a year.

At first there was not much thought behind it, as both my parents went there too. When I turned 18 they just asked: "Do you want to go too?" And my answer was obviously yes, because why not? It was day off school, after all.

Now it's just automatic. Since I only donate in my local hospital (small town, 15k people) I believe my blood gets to help people. They don't pay for it, it's volunteer, organized by red cross. They used to cover bus ride, but lately switched that for "food stamp" instead. We also get juice, coffee and snack once donated. The good part is, it's still day off work where I live.

What's wrong with it?

Autoloader is both advantage and disadvantage at the same time. You don't need another crew member, but the mechanism proved itself to be deadly when tanks get hit.

The weight itself is a huge factor though. Modern tanks get to absurd numbers where it's getting difficult to operate them at all.

That's why I wrote "new/old design". T-72 and 80 are vastly improved, but still based more or less on design of T-54.

The amount of cars: yes.

How is that any surprise on modern battlefield? Compared to the situation decade(s) ago, tank is just a prey with so much real time reconnaissance drones and long range precision weapons around.

From what I've read the main difference between tanks like Abrams/Leopard 2 and old designs like T-72/80/Leopard 1 is that once modern tank is knocked out/damaged/destroyed it doesn't necessarily mean all the crew members are dead.

I don't get it, what's so special about this?

It's pretty good for what it is. I finished it once years ago. Tried it again last year, got almost to the end and somehow lost interest. Still have it on my drive, so I might actually finish it.

Except for power consumption and heat generation ;-) This is where Bulldozers were hot shit!

Sony went the apple way. Next stand will be brushed aluminium for mere $999...

I started old gem Arx Fatalis. I tried to chew through it during last two decades, but I always failed. Not because of the game itself, because it is indeed very cool. This time I believe I will emerge victorious!

When either of those things happen it is a good idea to run steam (lutris, bottles) from terminal to see what it's trying to do while "not working". Helped me couple times.

Kangaroos where?

/s (if it wasn't obvious)

Unless you're European. Then driving manual is considered basic life skill like riding a bike.

I've read interesting conspiracy, that Tunguska incident overlaps exactly with Nicola Tesla's attempts to wireless transfer of energy. Was an interesting idea and read, even though very unlikely to be based on real event.

Because they're grounded.

As a dumb guy this would give me no clue. My 2c, if you're interested in him, just tell him. Plain, straight, no bullshit around. Don't try to obfuscate it or hide it in double meaning phrases, be as direct as possible.

If I can generalize, we guys are dumb idiots that usually can't read what women hide between lines. We need it in simple sentences, ideally in written form to be really sure we understand it right.

Vin Diesel style, nice!

Yeah, basically. Except for the S part.

Well, then there's another stupid game... "Hey hon' do I look fat in these jeans?"

Because it is, right? Right?!? When your car brakes makes weird noises you replace them to fix it and stop whining. Why doesn't this work with women too? /s

It's not that it's that important, but what I saw from Fairphone 1 or 2 (I don't know which model exactly, maybe even 3) was really underwhelming. Not that my current phone makes epic photos, otoh it cost me about third of a Fairphone. Their mission is great and that's why I'd consider phone from them. I wouldn't mind slower CPU or less storage for my needs, but not improving camera from my current phone doesn't make sense for me to switch.

How is camera on that? I remember earlier Fairphones were pretty bad in this regard, which was a deal breaker for me.

We're about to buy a few new laptops at work. My boss is hardcore Dell fan, I need to prove him it's no better than anything else on the market.

I'm suggesting either Thinkbook (cheap option, comparable specs cost 2/3 of Dell) or Probook/Elitebook which are still considerably cheaper than Dell in my country.

So basically attaching regular PC to the TV...

Microsoft make big buck by everyone and their dog having Windows PC and paying for O365. Especially corpos, that also pay for Teams, skype, azure, etc.

I'd recommend some post-rock stuff too. Sigur Ros with symphonic orchestra is amazing.

Or things like Neil on impression, Nice wings Icarus, some Mono and such.

There's much, MUCH more. I'd start with more mild stuff like Nightwish or such, though. And on the other side there are even obscure things like Sear Bliss :-)

Can it be biological? I'm approaching 40 and I've been asked to show ID buying alcohol until I got fed up and grew some beard... I don't use this kind of products, I'm happy to live with just soap and shampoo and when it's reeeeeealy hot outside and I just need to go out for long period of time I use whatever sunscreen I can find.

If it's one of those race car 6 point belts it's pretty much impossible.

Technically it is. Producing it gives you feeling of achievment (depending of the product size) while consuming costs you your dignity.

I have two problems with this.

1. I consider Razer the most over-hyped and over-priced peripheral producer. The products I've seen were not bad, but did cost at least twice as much as their feel suggested. I don't want to support this.
2. Tilt-wheel. Every mouse I've held that had tilt wheel was PITA in the long run. I probably grip the mouse wrong, but I very often tilted the wheel instead pressing the button.

Soldering should be fine, this will probably end up as long winter evening project at some point. Was it possible to re-use gliders after dismembering the mouse?

Swelling problem won't be fixed as easy. The material of the wheel just expanded, the rubber is twice as big as new one to the point it can't fit in its hole in the mouse. Internet is full of the same problems, it was either defective batch or it reacts with some specific agent in some people's sweat. Never the less, the only way is to replace the whole wheel. Need to find out which of my friends have a 3D printer...

I remember playing a few games at my cousins 286 when I was like 6 or 7. There were Accolade F1 and Moto GP, Zany Golf and one more game I just can't remember the name. Its gameplay was a bit similar to pacman - narrow paths with obstacles and I think enemies chasing you, you played as a boy and there was even raft across a creek and I believe there was grizzly bear involved somehow. But the name? No idea...

Yeah, I wouldn't get in such a death trap ever, but who am I? Imagining I have infinite money and the world is a sandbox for me, would this feel like "just another thing to keep me interested" like space jumps or formula rental or similar adrenaline gigs? Most likely yes. Everyone in my multi-billionaire social bubble would probably do similar things, so... Why not deep dive? I have paid lot of money, what could go wrong.