Aestik it’s been on my wishlist for awhile and I don’t see a reason not to pick it up at the current sale price.

What’s your favourite “my player shave caught me off guard and I have to improvise” moment, and what did you improvise?

I have to go in every year to get refills on my epi pens and my migraine meds. I have to have a doctor sign off on those and I don’t really know why. I am not on ADHD meds but I imagine that would be the same.

He decided to kiss the ring. People don’t like that.

Just about everyone I know who has the latest gen Xbox had trouble acquiring one. The pandemic messed up the launch of both games and the manufacture/availability of the consoles and unlike the switch and PS5 (which have worldwide popularity), the Xbox just never seems to have recovered because Americans went from a point in time where they had a lot more free time and potentially money (with the stimulus), right back to the grind with stagnant wages and housing crisis etc. Can’t say I’m surprised that it’s not selling well these days.

Of course I am. Fuck ICE.

At the end of the tax year you generally receive tax documentation forms (a W2 or 1099 etc). These tax forms detail your taxable income and possibly any tax credits or exemptions you might be eligible for.

You fill out I9 forms detailing your status (single married etc) and what dependants you have when you start at your place of work and then update those forms as that status changes over time. This information is used by your employer to withhold taxes on your earnings from your pay checks and send that money along to the federal and state governments as necessary.

When you receive your end of year tax forms you enter that tax information into a tax preparation service or paper form, sign it and send it off with what you owe in check form to the IRS, unless you have made accurate tax withholding in which case you have already paid. If you are owed money by the government for overpayment of taxes they will then mail you a check or direct deposit the amount owed to you into an account of your choosing.

There are exceptions if you own a business or have other forms of income for the tax year which you may have to submit a more detailed filing to the IRS with documentation that can absolutely include receipts. But for the most part you use the tax forms you receive to submit your taxable income calculations to the federal or state government and pay or get paid accordingly depending on if you owe them money, or if you are owed money by them for overpayment.

Nothing. I did this with two different handhelds. The main problem that I’ve run into is that the built in controls don’t work as well as if they had been natively supported and I would be more than willing to have a fix for that with an official steam OS distro if one was available. The point is, a closed mouth don’t get fed. If they don’t think people want this they aren’t going to dedicate time and resources to it.

Same. I don’t see how this could be a bad thing for steam OS and the naysayers are out in force.

I don’t know if I’d considered it a board game, but the Forbidden Island game (and the others like it) spring to mind. The idea is that you and the other players have to work together to gather everything you need including the treasure you came for before the island you’re on sinks into the ocean.

It’s fun working together and I always thought it did a good job of incentivising that.

Sometimes parents look back on things and realize that it’s too little too late. My mother doesn’t like the relationship I have with her (I’m not zero contact but I only call when I’m feeling up to it and that can take months). I was physically abused as a kid on top of having ADHD (then ADD), and I was diagnosed but never medicated.

My youngest brother has Autism and my parents went above and beyond to get him everything he needed by my sister and I (both with ADHD) basically got nothing.

It’s exhausting to think about what ifs. At this point in this time I have received an apology (though not for the things I remember, and more for the things she regrets which do not necessarily align). I think a lot of her regret is based on our relationship now and how she wishes it could be.

But I look at it like this. I’m just living in the world, doing my best to survive and take care of myself. That’s something I have been doing since I was a child. I continue to do that because I don’t know any other way. I do not have the energy to give to her for her regret. I acknowledge it. I accept the apology. But I gave up being angry about it. I just do not have the energy for it.

We can’t change how we grew up. It’s better to acknowledge the sentiment and move on. At least, I think so. Try not to tie up too much of yourself in what could have been. Get to know and accept the you that is in the here and now. You’ll make your own way. You got this far.

Linux. They should do Steam OS. Their main downfall right now is windows and the price point. But for the price they often offer better hardware. Steam OS is a much better experience than Nintendo’s ecosystem and the dockability of these handhelds is already on par with the switch. They can do a lot more than the switch and switch two will be able to do with more game availability and game streaming as well.

Ayaneo have always struggled with steam os integration, but it probably will have a Bazzite variant.

https://docs.bazzite.gg/Handheld_and_HTPC_edition/Handheld_Wiki/Ayaneo_Handhelds/

I don’t see why you’d spend $900 on this when you could get a better handheld for that money but I’ll give them this, the swappable joystick/button thing is cool.

There are problems with the law as well. The main one is that Tik Tok buys a whole lot of data about Americans and their browser history etc from data brokers. So they don’t necessarily need the app to gather information. Comparisons of the Tik Tok app vs it’s counterpart in China exist and they paint a pretty significant picture of the differences and similarities that explain how it could be used to push a narrative or propaganda. Barring that though two things can be true. It can be true that Tik Tok is a danger to national security, and also be lobbied against by American Tech companies.

What we’re seeing is that this law was the result of several things and doesn’t just have one singular aim. Anyone who says it’s just about one singular thing just doesn’t want to admit the validity of the other arguments because it ruins how they feel about the federal government, Tik Tok, China, Trump, Biden etc.

"Thank you for responding. It’s not nearly as polarizing as you suggest once you look at the numbers.

The American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) was advanced by the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 20, 2022, with a 16-6 bipartisan vote.

Senators who voted in favor (Yes):

Democrats:

Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL)

Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT)

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)

Senator Christopher Coons (D-DE)

Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)

Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI)

Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ)

Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA)

Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA)

Republicans:

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA)

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC)

Senator John Cornyn (R-TX)

Senator John Kennedy (R-LA)

Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC)

Senator Mike Lee (R-UT)

Senators who voted against (No):

Republicans:

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX)

Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE)

Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO)

Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR)

Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)

Senator John Kennedy (R-LA)

Now tell us again how the “bipartisan” bill where EVERY NO VOTE IS REPUBLICAN is evidence that the Democrats are not committed to antitrust reform?

Schumer didn’t oppose the bill. You know very well that he made a strategic decision to not bring the bill to a vote because the Silicon Valley tech bros opposed the bill and THANKS TO CITIZENS UNITED, their money is SPEECH.

The people who brought you that decision were ALL REPUBLICAN appointees. Every single one.

In a 50/50 divided Senate (with two independents in the D column but Sinema and Manchin working against the caucus), there was a POLITICAL REALITY to contend with. Sadly, the money screws up everyone.

You are 100% wrong about this alleged reversal of “little guy” roles, and you seem to be deliberately obtuse about the facts."

This is a quote directly from the reddit thread where he made his secondary statement after the first one on shitter went viral. Context is important and he still has yet to actually answer to this.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2024/11/04/how-gerrymandering-could-help-deliver-the-presidency-to-donald-trump/

Technically you can. But there’s more to it than simply drawing up districts to influence the Electoral College.

I agree generally with what this says. However, in the most recent ban in Australia, we don’t even know how they’re going to make this law enforceable, and VPN’s do still work at the moment. The people it detrimentally effects havebeen given a headstart here and they know it. VPN’s are just the tip of the iceberg.

ROFL They aren’t a solution. But they will be the solution for anyone wanting to get around them.

I updated my Joycons to the hall effect sticks and they’re awesome. No drift after several months.

This comment is not the original. He changed it.

https://archive.ph/quYyb