I had to do it for the first time last year and I was slightly giddy from the novelty of it.
I had to do it for the first time last year and I was slightly giddy from the novelty of it.
For me it’s a texture problem. I didn’t notice until I was prescribed some high fluoride stuff that’s a mildly minty blue gel which is infinitely preferable to most toothpastes I’ve tried (for those curious, it’s a Colgate 5000ppm fluoride toothpaste, prescribed by my dentist because of temperature sensitivity)
At my current university, I am firstname.lastname-4@university. My previous university, a much smaller one, I was fortunately firstname.lastname@otheruniversity, but the email client informed me there were two other people with my name there. It’s wild because I didn’t think I had a super common name.
This is an excellent comment, thanks for writing this up
Theme Hospital is one of the greats of an era. (N.b. there’s a mod called CorsixTH which fixes a lot of issues with the original game (mostly age related clunkiness)
I wonder what would facilitate people to make their own solutions in this way. Like, I have made a few apps or automation things myself, but if I look at my “normie” friends who don’t have the level of tech familiarity that I do, they struggle with whatever out of the box solutions they can find. Poor IT education is a big part of this, and I’ve been wondering a lot about what would need to change for the average “normie” to be empowered to tinker
Zero consideration given to the possibility that Konsi realized this herself and said it deliberately.
Konsi is so sweet that people underestimate her, but not so sweet that she doesn’t realise how people under-estimating you can be used to your advantage. Like, a few comics ago, when Konsi revealed that she was only wearing a robe while playing poker with Razira - revealing this detail meant Razira got played long before any hands were even dealt.
Oh man, I loved Dusa’s interactions. It was nice that being close to Dusa wasn’t framed as being “just” friends, because that would implicitly put friendship as less important than romantic and/or sexual relationships. Like, friendship isn’t a consolation prize, nor is it “rolling to seduce” and failing, but so many games and other media depict it that way
- She’s trying to practice keeping her cool under pressure, and that’s not effective if you have a lot of safety.
Konsi is precious and I love her.
This post and the discussion on it made me think of Moon Duchin’s essay "The Sexual Politics of Genius
It’s a long read, at 34 pages, but is easier to read than the title might suggest, possibly because Duchin is a mathematician, which I speculate contributes to her pretty straightforward prose.
My brain first said “gee-ass”, with a soft G, as in jif. I don’t think I’d say that out loud though, because as a kid who read a bunch, I have long lasting trauma from being mocked for saying stuff wrong so I’d wait until I heard someone else say it.
Congrats. First sessions are rough. I’m a fairly inexperienced DM myself myself and I remember my campaign’s first session
I was talking to a friend recently about how the mechanisms of surveillance capitalism reminds me of a dark and a hollow version of how communities work. Earlier in the conversation, she used the phrase “communities are when 1+1 = 3”, i.e. when the collective output and capacity is greater than the sum of its parts. Data works a lot like that — you’re completely right that overemphasis on the value of individuals’ data misses the point
Though I wonder if even besides adding an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) (writing acronym out for anyone else who would’ve had to Google it), this might be a useful exercise recovering from outages in general. This is coming from someone who hasn’t actually done any self hosting of my own, but you saying you’re still finding down services reminds me of when I learned the benefit of testing system backups as part of making them.
I was lucky in that I didn’t have any data loss, but restoring from my backup took a lot more manual work than I’d anticipated, and it came at an awkward time. Since then, my restoring from backup process is way more streamlined.
Elsewhere in this thread, you mentioned that Immich has great documentation. Are there any other FOSS projects that stand out to you as having great user documentation?