Sony hasn’t done the paperwork to officially do business in those countries, so you can’t make a psn account. And because Sony is intent on forcing psn accounts, it leads to this stupid situation where those countries are locked out, despite Steam supporting them.

Yes. Microsoft owns Activision Blizzard, as of Oct 2023

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I agree, but unfortunately, there’s probably not a good self hosted solution to this specific problem.

I use musicbrainz for music tagging, which is an excellent source for all metadata except lyrics. For better or worse, the only decent sources of lyrics seems to be genius and musixmatch, and neither integrate well with tagging tools like musicbrainz Picard.

If anyone else has found an easier way to do this, I would love to hear it.

Yep. They rewrote the progression/leveling system like 5 times.

Yes.

The only added flavor in standard chocolate chip cookie dough is vanilla. Plus the chocolate chips.

Of course people don’t usually think about it like that because vanilla is in nearly all baked sweets.

Yeah, that always seemed like a transitional name to me. The BSA branding has been so prominent historically, they kinda had to keep it for a while.

I agree with most of your points, but I don’t know, I think I would keep the reverent in the scout law, even if the oath changed.

As a (nonreligious) scout, I always interpreted the reverent more as being respectful than actually religious. More like respecting the beliefs of others, or being respectful and solemn in a cemetery or a war memorial.

There’s nothing else in the scout law that conveys that feeling, and I feel like the law would be missing it if it were dropped.

Yep, the captchas are great. I’ve got mine set to an NFC card in another room. It forces me to get out of bed and walk to another room to tap my phone on it to turn off the alarm.

Endeavour’s current iso is still KDE 5 and X11, but if you do an online install it will default to 6 and Wayland. Just make sure to connect to the Internet before starting the installer.

I think they’re rationalizing it by saying that’s a juvenile sandworm. The larger one with the round mouth is fully grown.

They probably just wanted a design difference between a smaller human scale threat and the massive ones that eat entire structures like spice harvesters.

Spotify has almost every song on the planet

Until a contract negotiation with UMG goes south and they lose half the catalog overnight. See what’s happening on tiktok right now for a good example of this.

I understand the convenience draw, but I’m not a fan of continually paying for content that can disappear at any moment.

something implied about transporter buffers seems to indicate they can hold incredible amounts of data that starts to degrade very quickly

Exactly. I always understood the difference between replicators and transporters to be the level of detail in the scan. The replicators don’t need as much detail to make a convincing steak or a cup of tea. So they can store those scans at a much lower resolution and have a full, permanent library.

The transporters need an immense amount of detail to perfectly store your pattern, to avoid messing with your brain chemistry and causing transporter psychosis. It’s too much data to keep on hand for every crew member.

Yes, but the word rewrite implies that it would serve the same function and retain compatibility.

If someone wrote a new implementation of the x protocol, as a drop in replacement for the existing x.org server, you might call that a rewrite.

Wayland is an entirely different solution to the same problem. It doesn’t follow the x protocol, and doesn’t maintain compatibility with the x.org server.

I get why you would want that, but I think that would end up causing other weird issues. Like what happens when someone from that instance is in the middle of a comment chain? Would it cut off the thread there, or would there just be a comment missing?

I’ll take the simple solution over no solution.

I disagree. Not everyone wants to spend the time to completely customize their system. Distros like Manjaro and Endeavor give people a decent “just works” install while still giving them experience with the Arch ecosystem. The forums are usually a good resource, and everything on the arch wiki still applies. It might just be because I had previous linux experience, but I’ve learned a lot running Manjaro.

The average person is not going to jump straight into vanilla Arch as their first distro, but after a couple years with Manjaro, they might try it.

YouTube has a pretty good collection of obscure tracks

This is because current Youtube policy effectively bundles ContentID and YouTube Music. Basically if a rightsholder wants to put audio into ContentID, they are forced to also publish it on Youtube Music (topic channels).