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Pick up EU4 the way I pick up all of my games....on a steep steep discount when the next one is announced.

Started CK2 legitimately (ahem) when it went free-to-play on Steam. Don't like the idea of subscriptions for games, so picked up a couple of DLC on summer sales, etc... for dirt cheap. Figure "hey...I'm not an addict...I can handle only having one or two crucial DLCs. It's fine.

7 expansion packs later and, even on summer and winter sales, the amount comes to far more than what the subscription would have cost, but by then it's already been done.

EU5 gets announced. Both EU4 and HOI4 get steep discounts and new starter packs that integrate some DLC into them. Figure it's a good time to get into both games, but I won't need any extra Expansion packs because of the new included content and because there's just no way either of them can truly compare to my beloved CK2. Once again eschew the subscription for both.

Fast forward to five extra expansion packs later (4 for EU4 and 1 for HOI4) and once AGAIN, I've spent more than the bloody subscription would have cost me in the first place.

I still don't like or believe in subscriptions for DLC, but damn the addiction is real...

First few times I didn't put two and two together because I'm kind of an idiot. I started believing that something was wrong with my laptop battery when it would give me a critical battery shutdown notice while still above 80 percent.

Finally it dawned on me that it wasn't my laptop reaching critical battery, it was my wireless mouse triggering the shutdown notice.

I'm going to go ahead and presume that that's not supposed to be happening, but does anyone know what settings I would go into the change that?

I looked to see if there was options for different devices in the main battery UI, but couldn't find any.

Since Wrestlemania there's been nothing but stories about John Cena winning an amazing 17th title, blah blah blah... It's a "History making moment", yadda yadda yadda...

Like...of course he did. It's the storyline. It's quite literally "in the script".

This isn't an achievement. Why is this in my sports news next to last night's hockey scores instead of next to an article about who was the bitchiest on the lastest episode of Real Housewives?

I get it. I loved Wrestling growing up. Back when we all WERE pretending it was real; Macho Man, Hulk Hogan, The Undertaker, etc... But I thought at some point they steered into the whole "entertainment" aspect when most of us grew the hell up and clued into the absurdity of it all.

It sure would explain the similarity between the ever more potential state of America and her novel The Handmaid's Tale.

Haven't looked too deeply into this before now because it's not a high high priority; more like a "would be nice." But has anyone found a touchscreen keyboard (like Maliit) that works on Wayland with non-kde apps. Maliit works with the kapps, but not anything else.

Switching to X11 to use a keyboard that does sort of work, and I lose the auto-rotation...

So it seems that we can't have both worlds unless someone knows more than I do (which I admit isn't hard to do)

Any idea why post video thumbnails are showing in three distorted diagonal bars?

Once you open the video full screen it plays normally.

For example, why do we say "Your pupils are dilated". They aren't. It's the iris aperture that is dilated.

Seriously...shout-out to Krystian Zajdel. I was literally blown away when I rebooted my computer and saw that it had become the login splash screen. I immediately had to make it my main wallpaper too.

Most beautiful default wallpaper I've seen in a while.

My work uses a whole lot of group texts. I don't know why they don't use something like Signal or whatever...it is what it is.

But every Google Message alternative I've tried sends my replies to every member of the group individually rather than replying IN the group chat itself. Is that an issue with the app itself, or in the settings, or something else entirely.

I want to move away from anything that is linked in any way to stupid Gemini. But this is the last thing keeping me using Google's built-in Messages app.

There are many reasons to hate the Cybertruck. Looks, shoddy workmanship, flat out performance lies, Man-child business owner, etc...

But my biggest gripe, and this is the unpopular bit, is that in my opinion, it's not actually a truck at all.

The Cybertruck is a uni-body construction, often called a "car chassis". It shares that with the Honda Ridgeline, Hyundai Santa Cruz, and a few others. Trucks that are meant to do actual work use a body-on-frame construction because it has more ability to flex and twist when you put a heavy load in the bed or towing something heavy.

To put it simply, if you put a heavy enough load in the back of a uni-body truck, you're going to lose some traction on the front wheels as the weight will tilt the entire body backwards, whereas real trucks made for work are developed with the bed mounted separately to avoid that issue.

I know that yes, Santa Cruz, Cybertruck, Ridgeline, etc... are still technically classified as a truck. But in my (unpopular) opinion, anything uni-body shouldn't be classified as one.