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Yep. I remember at the time I saw a lot of advice saying "you know you might want to seriously consider just installing your distro from scratch with a newer version." Tracking down all of the dependencies (some of which had to be installed as binaries) was a very manual process.

Edit: Oh and another fun aspect of that time period was that since downloads were so slow on a modem, if you wanted a newer version or to try out another distro, you would go and order a cdrom from a place like Walnut Creek.

Back in the day, I upgraded a Slackware install from kernel 1.3 to 2.0. That was a fucking adventure.

The fun part about back then was that if your machine wouldn't boot or if you couldn't get your modem or pppd working, you probably didn't have another internet connected device so you might have to drive somewhere with a computer...or try to figure it out through books.

They're real Americans, just not...realer Americans than city dwellers.

That kind of just sounds like you went to a bad restaurant.

Ain't nothing wrong with fish and chips

America's relationship with Russia is complicated. But they're pretty motivated to see ISIS go down. Something like this is a big recruiting event.

I mean there is quite a bit of athletics involved, it's not exclusively female, and I don't think it's more sexualized than just...dancing. Also high school and college cheerleading is pretty different than the cheerleading in pro sports.

There are certainly commercial (enterprise) software suites that many jobs would expect you to have familiarity with. If you were applying for a job with Atlassian then yeah I'd expect you to have familiarity with JIRA at least. There are lots of instances of businesses expecting you to have experience with specific not-free software, but it mostly falls under the category of work experience.

Right because when I'm browsing game reviews long after whatever kerfuffle is forgotten, it's really helpful to have to guess whether it's a legitimate problem that was long since fixed, a controversy that had to do with a dev's actions completely external to the game, some Andrew Tate loving incels upset because WOKE, or if it's actually a bad game. Review bombs are childish and people have a hair trigger for them. And I don't think they're terribly effective. I'm also pretty sure Nier Automata only got patched due to microsoft's gamepass requirements.

I think the best use case will be to use a yubikey with a password manager. That way it doesn't matter what sites support the security key directly. You could also set up passkeys with the sites so that once you authenticate with your password manager, the login process is transparent. Once more sites support passkeys, anyway.

I don't disagree, but some of the articles / reactions I've seen are like "you have to pay for fast travel points!" which isn't accurate.

I'm thinking back to deus ex: mankind divided, which had a strongly negative reaction due to the fact that you could buy praxis kits. But if you played through those games...there was absolutely no reason you needed to buy praxis kits. The game was definitely not one where you would find yourself grinding out praxis kits, and in fact buying them would've probably spoiled the experience.

Then there's about a million jrpgs like the Tales of series, or falcom's trails series, where you can buy high potency healing item kits as DLC. Again these are absolutely not needed to finish those games. But they'll make certain achievements a lot easier. And again this has been going on for a long time.

I don't know, while I think this stuff crosses a line (and the fact that they deliberately hide it from reviewers shows they're well aware), the line has been steadily moving for a long time. Personally I have never once in my life bought one of these dlcs (I actually hate when they make them free in complete editions! Don't break game balance as a "bonus"!) but obviously people do cause they keep selling them. I have no idea how gamers reset this. But at the same time, review bombs are just...kind of lame. People will be looking at steam reviews 5 years from now and not even remember what the controversy was.

So I get very confused over which protocol is which. I think the cheaper keys lack support for OAUTH. Which is required for things like windows login.

FWIW the items to do this are also available in game. I haven't played yet so I don't know how reasonable it is to get these in game.

I bought a couple of yubikeys but haven't fully implemented yet. When 1password has full support for using a security key in place of a passphrase, I will consider using them as my primary unlock method.

I have to say that the Google Titan appears to be better bang for your buck than yubikeys. The FIDO2 yubikey is $55 which is pretty pricey considering you will probably want multiple. I'd be really curious if there's a strong argument against using the Google keys.

I've found diced fennel bulb to be a good aromatic, too.

Sherry is good stuff. I use a lot of port in savory dishes too.

You'd think they would've included the whole continent of Souther America.

Very much so. Do it even if you have to force yourself. Do it outside in sunlight if you can, too. There have been lots of times I've dreaded working out beforehand. I don't think I've ever once regretted it after I exercised.

I've never heard of doing this and it seems extremely strange to me. If I want onion flavor in a dish I would typically chop up an onion.

You do similar with risotto too.