most games run fine even though they say that it’s not Linux supported

You might appreciate ProtonDB as a resource!

edit: ProtonDB

Since you’re a polysyllabic person, can you explain why the word “monosyllabic” has five syllables?

I’ve interacted with AI. Once.

My employer enabled it on my laptop. It introduced itself to me and asked how it could be helpful. I asked it how to disable it. It responded HAL style.

Never reached out to it again.

Given that, in the videos of his I’ve watched (hasn’t been many at this point) he’s seemed pretty technically competent … It’s surprising he was unfamiliar with CSV.

No shade, we all have lapses in our knowledge, but that one did come as a surprise.

I hate it when commercials say “up to 100%.” It’s literally a pointless metric; that could mean anything from 0% to 100%, inclusive.

edit: Closed quote.

I also use Reolink, including both the NVR and doorbell, and have been very pleased with it.

https://youtu.be/GNOZhAc26I8

That’s important and accurate information, Richard. Thank you.

What is B&H?

I’ve recently bought a series of 24TB drives from both Amazon and Newegg. Each one I got was either DOA or shortly thereafter. I just gave up but I would love to have a better source.

On Thursday I attended a company-wide meeting wherein several coworkers tried (with mixed results) to persuade the rest of the company to start using AI. The primary way they did so was by listing incidents in which they’d found it useful.

One of the examples was (mildly paraphrased) “our other coworker is old, so he knows things like Tom Sawyer. He said he thought I was pulling a Tom Sawyer, trying to convince him to paint the fence.”

I respect the person who was giving that speech, they seem very knowledgeable, but hearing that they had to ask AI what that meant was just upsetting.

That said, I guess one use for AI is deciphering idioms?

I was going to mention DOS, but I looked it up in the hopes of not sounding like an idiot and it turns out the history is more complicated than I knew.

That’s why I said older.

But yeah … Sad truths.

And hoodie!

I use both and have been happy with both, but note that Element / Matrix have recently announced the intent to add paid service tiers.

I said in another thread about this, he looks like an older Tom Scott.

A while ago there was a reddit post about how you don’t need bagged popcorn to pop popcorn. You don’t even need any of them there fancy air poppers. All you need is a glass container and the popcorn itself. And it’s true!

The only part that presented any trouble was finding a safe container with a safe lid - during the process of popping, an individual kernel is super warm, so if it hits a lid that can’t tolerate that it can melt pits into the lid.

Other than that (and making sure you don’t add too much popcorn, that stuff expands like crazy), just dump the kernels into your container, cover it up (don’t forget to vent as appropriate) and then microwave as you would the bagged stuff. Add your seasonings, shake up the container, and enjoy.

Gotcha, thank you for the edification.

Not that I know about anything marine in nature, but I looked up “azipod” and it describes itself as a thruster. Bow thrusters have “thruster” in the name. Based on that, I would assume each of those require energy and thus fuel. My understanding is that anchors, once deployed, are passive. Disregarding (only for the purposes of this conversation) the ethics, is that not why they’re still used?

Of all the vomiting emoji in this thread, for whatever reason, this is the one that most reminds me of Adventure Time.

I misread that as “self-loathing” and the answer was obvious.