wizardbeard

Holy shit that's too much. Are you both particularly wealthy or upper class or something?

This is a new friend, and it's their sister not the friend in question. Also, college freshman are expected to not have much money to throw around.

Flowers, unfortunately, could be seen as a romance thing. Most Americans aren't super familiar with meanings of specific flowers.

Absolute most I'd do is $50, the card with the handwritten note, and maybe the chocolate.

The point being made is that it isn't very different. Focusing on the technicalities ignores the broad strokes of it. Missing the forest for the trees and all that.

The discussion of Bluesky's flaws, drawbacks, misleading claims of "federation", etc... has already been done to death.

This also isn't debate club. "What I'd like OP to address" good god.

But in the interest of good faith, here's the cliff notes: It's run by a corporation headed by one of Twitter's original founders, and there's not significant evidence it will not fall to the same path to shittiness that Twitter did. It is only technically federated, not actually in practice. It is not fully open source, as key portions of the infrastructure code have not been released. Of the portions that have been released, it is nearly impossible to run your own node due to the major amount of storage space required. Beyond that, all communications must ultimately go through BlueSky's centralized infrastructure. There's no point to running your own node because their centralized infrastructure won't talk with it. No one has actually been able to do anything more than host their own profile in regards to federation. At this point there is no financial incentive for them to invest money in solving the issues preventing it from being able to be truly federated.

Most of all, mastodon already exists as a mature system for federated microblogging without the major drawbacks of bluesky.

I think you're a no brainer. I was effectively agreeing with you, and I was responding to the response to you, not to you directly.

Arguing about what religion is or isn't acceptable is stupid. Shitty parents will be shitty regardless.

Some parents are abusive and traumatizing, religion or not.

What this really comes down to is "Why are bad people allowed to raise their children how they want?"

Unless you're trying to make the argument that all religions are abusive and traumatizing.

Oh yeah, resolution will absolutely eat GPU power. I'm at 2k, but that's also what my monitors were made for. Not sure how good that would look on a 4k mon.

Might be worth trying to downscale and use reshade for extra antialiasing though, if you're up for tinkering with fiddly bullshit that might not help too much.

They'd probably be worried that I had gotten sucked into the interminable rat race, and wouldn't believe me when I said I had found a way to be comfortable with it. I used to have panic attacks about the idea of entering the normal workforce and ending up in a job situation like my father did. Love the man, but he prioritized "providing" for the family over being present, and burned himself out doing it. I can see the nuanced differences between that and my situation now, but I never would have back then.

They wouldn't believe that a relatively modest life could cost so damn much of what I take home. I make money that would make my 19yo head spin, and it's still not enough to be as comfortable as I would like.

They'd be furious that I let my strong friendships of the time slip for over a decade.

They'd be worried about my weight and how far my general health has tanked. Walking everywhere and doing manual labor jobs had made it easier than I realized to stay healthy back then.

They'd be confused that I'm a decade into a different romantic relationship. That might cause them to more carefully examine the one they were in at the time. I'm not sure if cutting it early would have been better for me though. I learned and grew by years in the span of a few months when that relationship was dying.

I think the functionality was added in the most recent update.

What games are you playing where it's showing its age? I'm using a 2070 super personally. With a variable refresh rate monitor I hardly notice slowdown unless it's below 30fps, or if it's spiking.

I also play old games. My recent ones (past year) have been Fallout New Vegas, Stardew Valley, Watch Dogs, Watch Dogs 2, Sonic Unleashed Recompiled, and Cyberpunk 2077.

Doing trade routes in solo mode is considerably less engaging, but is still a great zen thing for me while I listen to podcasts or half watch something.

What can you give me for a duckroll? Good condition, lightly used. Guy who owned it only used it for grocery shopping once a week.

I might know a guy who knows a guy that can hook you up with some well aged ytmnd, if you're in the market.

The composer for the OST recently did studio quality remasters of a good chunk of the Ape Escape soundtrack (split across two separare albums iirc) based off the original "before compression" demos, and he also has a big discography of music in the same style.

Soichi Terada is love. Soichi Terada is life.

You can always try 4chan's /r/ board. It's specifically for requesting shit, usually links to pirated content.

Haven't teied using it in almost a decade though, so can't vouch too well for it.