Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, for the original PlayStation. All these years later it’s still an amazing standout.

Basic headset would be good for sim racing.

Move forward, not backward. Not sure about the red flags, but could be you were just comfortable in the old job, and the new one is stretching your comfort zone.

If you want to go back to the old company, grow and apply later in a new role, from a position of strength. If you go back now you’re negotiating from a position of weakness and admitting you will accept less.

Currently just using a cheap Ostent soft mat with some silicone grip pads on the bottom. It’s not perfect, but works well enough for my exercise and I can do up to 8+ difficulty songs (honestly can’t handle most 8 currently anyway). It’s convenient to be able to fold the mat up to put away when not in use.

Years back I hard-modded a similar mat, stapling and taping it down to a sheet of 1/4” plyboard and that was fantastic.

If you’re looking for hard pads today, check out L-Tek, they’re about the only one still in business making them.

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Edit - oh, I forgot to mention software. There’s two good options today, Project Outfox (available on Steam) and ITGMania. Both are forks of Stepmania 5.1. Song packs are available online, including both new user stuff and DDR original. I use ITGMania with Project XX Starlight theme for DDR and get most of my songs from https://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/simfiles.php?category=simfiles

40s here. I only drink pour-over and French press (I make it myself at home). No triathalons, but I did about 40 minutes of Dance Dance Revolution today. No gravel bike either, but I have a BoS Blitz airbike and bought some adjustable kettlebells this year. And my Steam library and book collection are growing in size.

Eh, close enough.

After a certain tipping point, stupidity en masse becomes indistinguishable from malice. The result is more important than the intent.

Thanks, for some reason when I was looking at post earlier it was just the screenshot, no link. Maybe it didn’t load properly, happened to me sometimes with Lemmy.

Got a link? I don’t know who this is but my curiosity is piqued.

En dash (single dash) usage is not standardized for literature to my knowledge, and is primarily used as a divider for ranges, in lieu of the word “through.” E.g. The year 1998-2006 (or 1998 - 2006) can be used in lieu of “The year 1998 through 2006” in text. It’s also used to denote negative numbers and compound words, of course (though for compound words it’s technically a hyphen). It can also be used to denote relationships, E.g. - The Johnson-Winters wedding party, or the Osea-Belkan War.

Informally I’ve read that a a single dash can be read as a half-beat, shorter than a comma, but I don’t think it’s actually defined in style guides for writing.

Fun fact: En dashes and hyphens are not the same thing, though often used interchangeably (in fact, I did so here because screw trying to remember the ctrl+### combo for an actual en dash), while a double-hyphen is often considered an exact equivalent to the em dash.

My bad, I was probably overly aggressive there anyway. I’m a nerd and the idea of em dash as emoji horrified me.

An em dash is an emoji.

The fuck it is. Em-dashes have existed in literature and text since long before the existence of computers and are a traditional form of textual form pause length:

• comma (,) - one beat
• em dash (–) - two beats
• semicolon (;) - three beats
• period (.) - four beats

Fuckers.

Phrasing.

Believe that most people are good.

I’d love to if they didn’t show their ass IRL as often as online.

I used to believe people were good, but over the years I’ve just seen worse and worse behavior from the general public to the point that the only way I could possibly believe most people were fundamentally good would be to reject reality.

It’s not necessarily about the devices. Kobo books are very easy to remove DRM from, and don’t require owning a physical Kobo device or their app to do so. All it requires is two Calibre plugins. And EPUB is not a proprietary format, unlike AZW3 and KFX.

Also, I might be wrong, but it seems Kobo has a lot more DRM free books in general, compared to Amazon.

Kindle has always required either the Kindle app or an actual physical Kindle to de-DRM.

Might be too late. Winterbreak hasn’t worked since 5.18.1 and the latest firmware is 5.18.5. If you’ve been updating your firmware normally, jailbreak has been unviable since around April or May, at least for the 11th and 12th gen devices.

To be fair, if you OCR the pages via camera, you haven’t actually circumvented DRM. That means it’s a completely legal backup, as the DRM on the original file was untouched and unaltered. This definitely does fall under fair use.

Not entirely true. E-ink is trademarked by the e-ink company, sole manufacturer of e-ink displays.

https://trademarks.justia.com/788/55/e-78855402.html

That part isn’t Amazon-related.

Amazon is full of shit. EPUBs only work by using send-to-Kindle which converts it to a file that works (either AZW3 or KFX. Despite the misinformation, EPUBs do not work on Kindle, except if you jailbreak, as you can then use KOReader to read them natively.

That last point is salient, as it means the hardware supports the format just fine. Amazon intentionally does not directly support EPUBs in their software.

I upgraded from Windows 11 to EndeavourOS. No regrets, it’s a huge improvement.