Don’t forget the mandatory 5 minutes fiddling with the thing before the one kid with half a brain figures out how to switch inputs.

The stinky blue button is working again!

Right there with you. Not that great in my field. Got headhunted, 50% raise, company is only able to hire talented people (and they need them) by out-paying competitors. All contractors, vendors, partners are the same. We are definitely high-tech. Been hearing about this “recession” for nearly two years now. Just smells like media trying to create one.

You’ve also taken that starter home off the market, preventing someone else from being able to own a home and follow your path to ownership of a forever-property.

If it’s not unethical at one rental property, when is it? Two? Three? Five?

NPR doesn’t produce inflammatory, biased news and clickbait headlines, so this is not surprising in the least.

Preach, brother! I hammered in five crooked nails, slapped primerless paint on a whole door, and only jacked the rent $250 this week. The plebs don’t know how good they have it.

You’d think so, GameOfThronesFinale.

Not quite, but it’s getting closer.

This Canadian currently pays for:

• Premium/4k/ Expensive Netflix
• Amazon Prime
• Disney+
• Paramount+
• YouTube Premium
• Crave (going away at Christmas)
• Curiosity Stream
• CBC Gem
• Spotify

The CTV App can fuck itself. I’ll be pirating the show and I’m not even ashamed.-

Definitely. I have experimented with image generation on my own mid-range RX GPU and though it was slow, it worked. I have not tried the latest driver update that’s supposed to accelerate those tools dramatically, but local AI workstations with dedicated silicon are the future. CPU, GPU, AIPU?

The current breed of generative “AI” won’t ‘die out’. It’s here to stay. We are just in the early Wild-West days of it, where everyone’s rushing to grab a piece of the pie, but the shine is starting to wear off and the hype is juuuuust past its peak.

What you’ll see soon is the “enshittification” of services like ChatGPT as the financial reckoning comes, startup variants shut down by the truckload, and the big names put more and more features behind paywalls. We’ve gone past the “just make it work” phase, now we are moving into the “just make it sustainable/profitable” phase.

In a few generations of chips, the silicon will have made progress in catching up with the compute workload, and cost per task will drop. That’s the innovation to watch out for now, who will de-throne Nvidia and its H100?

And two aircraft carriers.

Nah, it’s Gilead.

I fail to see how someone can understand the aircraft parts industry enough to enter it and become a supplier, and at the same time believe you can get away with forging certifications.

Uh huh, and how many of these “sold” vehicles are on roads as opposed to sitting in a field somewhere.

Welcome to modern “journalism”.

And have you noticed your boobs getting firmer? Not that we care about such things in this day and age…

Making $600 million over the course of a decade.

Aside from “beardless Riker” I cannot think of a truly unique or memorable moment from that movie that really stands out from the rest of TNG.

Hell even beardless Riker in a way just harkens back to Season 1.

Restricted to High Seas:

• Become Pirate Legend
• Earn rep and gold for Athena’s Fortune and Reaper’s Bones
• Hourglass Faction Battles
• Captain your Own Ship
• Sail as part of a Guild
• Sail as Trading Company Emissary
• Live Events

Safer Seas:

• Progress up to Level 40
• Gold and Rep at reduced rate
• Seasonal Renown at same rate
• All Tall Tales
• Commendations, achievements, cosmetics yadda yadda…

Can anyone give a rough estimate of how much game content is in Safer Seas? Either a percentage of the full game, or number of hours? Also a bit concerned about the “Captain your own ship” bit…