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morgan423

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  • Anyone manage to order a controller?

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  • ...And the site just updated to Out of Stock. Grats to those of you who managed to get a payment jammed through.

  • Anyone manage to order a controller?

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  • Have received "There seems to have been an error initializing or updating your transaction. Please wait a minute and try again or contact support for assistance." on all attempts, all payment methods. Looks like it'll just be fried for a minute.

  • Pump clicked off finished filling at exactly $100! So satisfying. (Notwithstanding high fuel prices, c'est la vie)

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  • Well, the cool thing in the modern age is that there are far mare charging places now than there ever have been, so FAR less concern about being stranded.

    I never have an issue finding chargers, even on cross country road trips. There are still a handful of extremely low population, isolated places in the US that don't have enough chargers, but it's not an issue today in the overwhelming majority of the country. A little bit of research (including the free EV route planning site A Better Route Planner) will tell you what's going on with Level 3 (fastest) chargers on the routes you drive.

    And also, road trips are the only place I'm ever waiting on my car to charge anyway. And it's 20 minutes every 250 miles or so. Not a big deal, I had to use the restroom by then and grab a drink or a snack regardless.

    99% of the time I'm charging my car, I'm not waiting on it. I have a cheap slow charger at work that can fill my entire battery (again, approx 250 miles of driving range) for about 6 bucks, while I'm busy in the office anyway. The once a week I need to charge, I plug it in when I get there, work my day, unplug it, and drive home. Other people with houses tend to just charge their cars on cheap night-rate power there overnight.

    So I definitely encourage you to look into it! If fuel costs get to be too much, a cheaper used EV can definitely be an escape hatch for probably 90%+ of people.

  • Pump clicked off finished filling at exactly $100! So satisfying. (Notwithstanding high fuel prices, c'est la vie)

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  • Come on over to the EV side, my friend. We don't bite. And you won't have to sell plasma or a kidney or anything to be able to fuel your car.

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    ICE agent charged with assault by Minnesota prosecutors, arrest warrant issued

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  • Sounds like they are on their way.

    Gathering the evidence and making sure all the bases are covered to secure a murder conviction takes longer than the process for lesser offenses... but this news gives the impression that the MN state authorities totally have prosecuting ICE-committed felonies on the table, and I'm psyched to see it!

  • Does this explain why there are no bullet trains in the USA?

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  • There are plenty of bullet trains in the US, shootings happen on them... like, all the time.

    Oh, wait. You meant... nevermind.

  • Should we potentially create a Harry Potter Instance?

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  • The move isn’t to reject the fandom.

    The move is to build the instance with explicit values — pro-trans, pro-queer, progressive moderation, zero tolerance for bigotry.

    This feels like building a forum to discuss Mein Kamph, and then saying it's going to moderated with a focus on inclusion, human rights, and diversity.

    With the whole HP thing, there are IMO far too many people fully separating the art and the artist. I just can't morally do that.

  • How many lifetimes would it take for the last gear to spin?

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  • I think most people don't understand how insanely, mind-mindbogglingly large 52! is.

    I've received disbelieving replies before after saying that every freshly full-shuffled deck, where that shuffling started from a shuffled state (not new deck order), is in a unique card order never before used by humanity since the invention of the four suit and 52 card deck.

    But that statement is absolutely true. The chances of it being false are so microscopically tiny that they are, for all intents and purposes, zero.

  • Gamecube games have aged amazingly!

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  • Wind Waker had is own unique art style that's going to hold up forever. It's timeless.

    There are some uglier (by modern graphics standards) games on the system, but even several of those are stupidly fun.

    My favorites on the platform were Mario Kart: Double Dash (still my favorite in the entire Mario Kart series) and Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. Definitely check them out when you get a chance.

  • Why are portion sizes in the US big?

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  • Increasingly, portion sizes are starting to come down a bit. The one-two punch of shrinkflation causing the restaurants to serve less, and the spread of GLP-1 drugs starting to help people eat less, are slowly whittling away the issue over time.

  • DLSS Multi-Frame Generation Is Now Easier To Enable On Steam Deck, And It Makes Gameplay Worse

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  • I think a lot of us are eventually going to upgrade to stronger systems (steam machine or something else), but it's going to be a long freaking time in that scenario before I stop streaming to my Deck when I'm home. It's just the king of comfy, kicked back on the couch or bed gaming.

  • What’s a “life hack” that actually made your life worse?

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  • The only life hack that I use on a regular basis is covering toilet flush sensors with TP. It works pretty reliably to keep them from flushing until you're actually ready to leave.

    Figured that out earlier in life when a certain office toilet would wait until I was exactly 50% done peeing, so that I couldn't stop or dodge, and then it would power flush and send up a nice germ-ridden uriney mist. Blocking the sensor until I was done totally fixed it.

    Pretty much any other life hack that looked interesting to me has been effectively pointless and did not see continued use. I don't think I've ever tried one that was detrimental though... just useless.

  • The worst timeline

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  • I mean, if you just absolutely had to play a Linux-hating kernel anti cheat game, then install a small-as-possible partition for Windows, dual boot, and stay in Steam OS every single moment you're doing anything else but that game.

    But most Windows-on-a-Steam-Deck people I've encountered just drive Windows all the time. I will never understand.

  • Which career path is not ruined by AI?

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  • I'm thinking about finishing out my career with that kind of transition.

    I've always done various office work and have been good at it, but I know I'm on borrowed time.

    At some point in the next 1-3 years, they'll automate 90%+ of what I'm doing, and I'll be out the door. And being late 40s, with the job market being what it is, and admittedly me not skilling up much most of the last decade or so... I have I just don't have what's needed to get back to work in favorable conditions once that inevitable canning happens.

    Fortunately, I have a friend of the family who's a long time HVAC guy, and the company he works for has been short handed for quite a while. I figure if I start training up in the very near future, I'll be able to transition over without too many issues, and If I'm careful, I won't have to beat myself up too much in the decade or so before I retire.

    I think the powers that be have an ultimate goal of combining AI and robotics to automate the trades too, but they are much further away on that... it should be a safe space for long enough.

  • White House worries as gas prices jump amid ongoing US-Israel war on Iran

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  • Oh no! Who could have possibly predicted that starting a new war in the middle east would raise gas prices?

  • Call the Doctor: As Hollywood Gigs Dry Up, Actors Are Playing Fake Patients in Real Hospitals

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  • I mean, work is work. And it's doing something important. No shame here.

  • I get along with every coworker but 2 out of 14, manager is somebody who sabotaged me in the past. To even consider working there again is such a stupid idea, isn’t it?

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  • Seriously, this is the definition of a "work there for 15 minutes until you find literally anything else" bridge job.

  • ICE Goons’ Gunpoint Snatch-and-Grab of U.S. Citizen Thwarted

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  • In their statement, they vilified the victim by claiming she was fleeing law enforcement.

    Hmmm... I wonder why she did that? Running for her life, perhaps?

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  • Now he shall forever and always be known as Donald Dump.

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    Nested Desktop: What it is, and how to set it up

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    Nauta Turturem

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    Got Steam version Baldur's Gate 3 to launch, here's how (my issue: missing Windows Net Desktop runtime)

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    Is there a way to subscribe to a community but keep that community from showing up in your "subscribed" feed?