It AI’s the AIable content that AI hasn’t already AI’d.

What caused you to decide the human soul doesn’t exist?

A friend used to have ItHurtsWhenIP

The fact is, everyone has different experiences in each country. And different people find it easier to assimilate into one or the other.

Folks here can share their own stories, but that may not help you figure out which is best for you.

Again, it’s not that different from using a Pixel phone on any other carrier. The only difference is the first point of contact for some of your personal information.

By the time it’s sold or traded between companies, it doesn’t matter what the first point of contact was.

Pretty much every carrier is the same way, unfortunately. And large companies sell and trade the data between each other.

“ex-military veteran?”

So, he was once a military veteran, but is no longer a military veteran?

You definitely dodged a bullet.

I’ve interviewed and hired for several advanced-level positions. A confident interviewer doesn’t make the interviewee go through all that shit.

If I can’t tell based on work samples, one phone interview, one live/video interview, and maybe a few written questions? The problem is me, not the candidate.

See, what you need is a second, smaller Roomba to clean your main one.

Animal Welfare League

(that’s the joke)

How can it taste bad if it’s unflavored?

Fair.

It does what I need, I’m satisfied with it, and I’m fine because it’s still an open source notepad and e-reader.

But if that’s a deal breaker for you, it’s totally valid.

I went with a Supernote.

It’s supposed to get Linux support at some point, and it has replaceable batteries. Plus, it works great as a e-ink notebook right now.

I’m also a long time Synology user. Been using their NASes since around 2009.

Buy something else. You don’t want their current-gen hardware. As others have said, they’ve been removing features and hamstringing their own hardware. In a few years, when mine are no longer supported, I plan to buy or build something else.

Yeah, Black Flag’s seafaring was fun. It was enjoyable to guide your ship around, explore the random tiny unnamed islets, dive into the ocean and hear the crew laugh about the captain jumping overboard.

Yes, collecting every last thing was a grind. But it was a fun grind. It felt like I was choosing to do all that, even though the game was psychologically goading me into it.

(Insert philosophical discussion about free will related to a video game about genetic memory and following predicted behavior.)

Add to that how 3’s protagonist was so unlikable that Ubisoft made fun of themselves for it in AC: Rogue.

AC3 is the only AC game I never got to 100%. It just… wasn’t fun.

In every other AC game, even the parts that weren’t as enjoyable didn’t feel like such a grind.

Sadly, the only totally-safe way to use ANY computer - windows, mac, linux, anything - is to never connect it to a network in the first place.

Everything else is complicated.

I have one Brilliant Schemer and one Beautiful Idiot, and I wouldn’t trade either of them ♥️

If you are in the United States, ISPs are largely unregulated and charge whatever the fuck they want. They make ridiculous profits.

Many other developed countries have dramatically cheaper internet access with significantly higher speeds.