DietPi is freaking phenomenal! I wish I had more to contribute, but I only have the Pi’s (3b+ and 4 8gb)

A long time ago but they did. I’ve been interested for a while

Yeah… Prohibiting students from wearing gang colors in middle school didn’t prevent our kids from being involved in gangs. Nor did it prevent gang related fights.

All it did was prevent self expression for regular kids.

“We have detected you have use AI to submit your response. Your subscription to “Vision” has been cancelled. Have a nice day!”

But… but I actually wrote that one…

That wasn’t my takeaway at all…

From what I saw, people who didn’t like it stopped watching by episode 3/4. People who felt it was a little slow kept watching and enjoyed it.

The game isn’t immersive to me because watching one button perform a 20 second interaction just isn’t engaging. Which to me is the forefront of the difference between “immersion” and “engagement”.

That on top of all the little frustrations that OP mentioned. Hitching your horse is a huge pain and takes you out of the moment every time, for example.

Tbh, the entirety of RDR2 feels like that to me. It’s been critically acclaimed as the most immersive game ever, but it just is so far from actually being that for me because of all of these little things that actively take away from it.

Overall, it’s fine. It’s not really a great game IMO, but a prolonged interactive story. The gameplay aspects are sporadic and mostly require you to mash the A button to keep your horse on the trail, else you don’t move along it. With the advertising and gamers both claiming it to be an immersive game, things like these really detract. I went in expecting a cinematic experience and came out of it with the saddest GTA jank and repetitive grinding for time sensitive unlocks.

Add in the senseless unskippable animal skinning and it just results in a good 70% of the game being unenjoyable for me. I played through the story, which was mostly pretty good, and the rest of the game was waiting to get to a destination to do one thing or see one event, then waiting til I got to the next destination. The gunplay is alright, the spontaneous events are funny, sometimes a little shallow but mostly are good. but man… I was disappointed with the game, as a game.

Of course, this is all my personal preference too. I just don’t find watching multiple extended cutscenes and multiple sub-scenes every few interactions. I don’t blame it all on these sorts of things, but I have a really hard time agreeing that it deserves the acclaim it’s gotten when these are pretty significant shortcomings for a game, specifically advertised to be immersive.

Sometimes you want to ride around on a horse and take on the sights, and it sure does to a good job at that. There’s some good tools and gunplay which are pretty fun to play with and… Well, that’s about where the fun ends.

Truth never mattered to Trump supporters before, why would I it suddenly matter now?

I mostly agree with you FWIW, but I think this is an instance outside of it.

Google pays a lot to stay the default browser.

The other search engines mostly use overlapping indexes.

Said search engines are also not anywhere near competition to Google.

Quite frankly, I can only think of 4. DDG, Ecosia, Bing, and Kagi.

Most people don’t know about Ecosia or Kagi. Most people hardly even know about DDG.

I wouldn’t consider YouTube as much of a monopoly because despite it being mostly the only one, from what I understand they haven’t paid out to stay the only one, and don’t really leverage market dominance against others (they probably do but I just don’t hear about it often.) The main reason alternatives don’t exist is simply because of the mass amount of data the YT needs

And.dont even get me started on problematic collabs. I mean come on, Harry Potter?

It really was one of my lasting reservations to indicate what kind of President she is aiming to be. There’s still a lot to do and she still has many shortcomings for our branch of policy that people like you and I, I’m guessing, would much rather see, but goddamn if this isn’t a really good step towards something better.

To me, it shows as a play to the Midwest since Pennsylvania is more of a blend of the Midwest and Northeast – but it also, to me, very much seems pointed towards voters who care about people who get things done. I don’t know much about this Walz guy, but tuition free college, free school lunches, and becoming a trans refuge state are… Incredible. As we would say in the days of old, “big if true”.

At the same time, unfortunately it is pretty standard among electronics in general. Photography, synthesizers, music equipment in general, PC parts… When you buy a pc case, you expect the bare minimum to include screws, but they don’t always include things like SATA cables.

However for VR, a simple adapter should definitely be included. I just can see why it wasn’t given the history of electronics.

I’m so, so glad she didn’t pick Josh Shapiro.

Meh, we all should just move to .PNG anyway

/S kinda

It’s not rambling, we need this extreme detail of clarification specifically because of this increased push of arbitrary words into slur territory (not IMO, but that’s where the outrage is coming from.)

In addition to that, we have such a high overlap of meanings that when this push does occur, it’s done so to remove other meanings from the word.

Weird used to be a wide combination of things. Now it’s being attempted to be turned into an insult in a way that it wasn’t quite an insult before.

Basically, the inflection of language has slowly been dying as critical thinking and literacy skills have dropped. You used to be able to call someone weird and based on your inflection, people understood the context.

Inflection from context isn’t reliable anymore, because if someone wants it to mean something else, that’s what it will mean to them. (And less pointed, sometimes people don’t realize words can mean different things. But this doesn’t happen as often)

Compared to the pro-police, pro-nazi, anti-education, anti- corporate regulation, even further pro-genocide, and encourager of hate crimes against minority groups? Among like, a litany of other things…

Yeah I don’t know why, but for some reason the choice seems obvious.

I appreciate the consideration! Like I said, there are plenty of valid criticisms to have against her, but a lot of what has been circulated I would say is either not entirely accurate or is critical of the wrong things. Especially these days, it’s important to be fully aware of the intent and actual execution of policies.

With regards to this space - I completely understand. I am coming at it from the perspective of these are our options, and that leaves us with a serial sexual assaulter promoting hate speech with every word, and a candidate who has a (significant) number of shortcomings but also promotes the type of policy the U.S. has desperately been lacking. So to me, I’d much rather have the chance at imperfect progress with a candidate who at least holds a portion of the same beliefs I do (namely education & environment, mostly everything else I’m honestly not big on. And FWIW, I don’t even think the Back on Track policy is good, it’s just been talked about inaccurately which is the important part to me.) – over the person who has actively called for the death of us, our friends and family, and the wider political system as a whole. As flawed as it currently is, I do think a dictator like him would be worse, with no opportunity for course correction.

Which is just another reason that it’s important that we be honest in our criticisms, as we do want to hold the people we elect accountable, and the only way to do that is to be properly informed. Because it’s absolutely true that this progress was lost in a gambit for the Dems to maintain voter sway. We lost Roe because of it, and education policy before that.

Anyway thank you for your time and response! Let it be known that I would have definitely much preferred a better candidate, but I also realize that we must work with what we’ve got. We can’t let perfect be the enemy of progress because the last time we did that we lost 20+ years of progressive policy, more damage was done singlehandedly in 1 year by the appointment of Betsy DeVoss than the entire Republican effort of the last 25, and that is just education among the litany of other departments. To me, this election is more about paving the way for candidates that you and I would actually go out of our way to vote for, something I’m not as certain about given that under Trump’s presidency queer politicians stepped down in local elections due to threats and fear of their lives, and numerous other every day Americans were attacked because of his rhetoric.

Best to you and I hope you have a lovely day

Also has been vocally anti-fracking for a long, long time.

I’m from Oakland, she also gave people the opportunity to not face jail time with the Back on Track program, instead allowing for education.

Here’s the thing, Back on Track had people accept a felony charge. If they complete the program (which gives them no jail time but resources) then the felony is expunged.

Her truancy laws put in place as Attorney General were clearly pointed at my community, yes. But it also was done because before my graduating class (the year before it was put in place) was below 50%. My class was brought up to 78%, and the year after was about 68%. The reason this law was even considered was because there were a significant portion of children working with gangs to sell drugs instead of getting their education.

Give her all the shit you want for her problems, I 100% agree. However it’s only fair to also highlight the actual policy she put into place and the opportunity for change that she created. I do not think it was the best way of moving forward, as it encourages people to be arrested and it encourages them to take the felony charge for something undeserving. At the same time, it’s clearly better than just allowing children to participate in gang life and giving people only 1 option, imprisonment. No one ever seems to want to talk about that, though.

She fought against the Death Penalty when everyone was pushing for it for a cop killer. Not only did she save his life, she did so against Diane Feinnstein who then said she would not have supported Kamala had she known this.

She has been one of the few people who is willing to stick to her convictions when other party members told her to stay in line. She’s also extremely anti-fracking, something that seems important considering the amount of sway oil companies have with L.E. and the military.

Finally, regarding your comment - I remember throughout 2016 and the following years the amount of assaults that Trump supporters felt completely safe committing hate crimes against black and asian communities. Is it really people choosing the lesser evil? The police can get reform, in fact we have a whole bill that AOC is pushing for right now regarding this.

Hate crime promoted by the president does not.

We did that here. The media called us AntiFa and the cops tear gassed us and assaulted people with mobility aides. Then we started getting arrested and people who escaped were followed home by the Nazis. Knowing what happened I still would have gone, but I would have prepared better

The phrasing of the title made me think this was a Star Citizen thing lol