I built a computer and didn't have high speed Internet about 18 years ago. Couldn't get Windows activated so a friend gave me a (Debian?) CD so I could get something going. Been keeping old machines alive with it ever since.
I beat that game at 10 years old with only my starter. Like I knew in concept you should train other Pokemon but I just had a level 86 Blastoise by the end of the game.
Same here. It was basically the only way to convince non technical users to use it. It's a better texting client than the default Android messages app.
I don't see why you don't share that you got the job offer and then tell your kids that you'll have to work out custody arrangements with their mother. And then share with the kids how those discussions go. I think they're old enough (as teens) to have a say in those discussions, as well as be privy to how they go.
There's no reason they shouldn't see it unfold in front of them; just make sure that you're never the one to specifically say "your mother won't work anything out with me so moving overseas with me would mean I never see you again"
This is what I did. I archived about 200 hours of home videos for my mom and grandmother. I tried to do it for my mother in law but her tapes had been stored improperly and they all crumbled as soon as I put the cassettes in the player.
I watched Jon Gjenset's stream where he implemented the beginnings of a BitTorrent client in Rust and of the four hours about 25% of it was spent wrestling with quirks in serde and reqwest.
It was pretty discouraging watching a pro have to fight the ecosystem so hard.
Last year I made a vow to put at least one hour into every game in my steam library (except ones I've played before or didn't work).
I had about 120 games to get through. It took me most of the year. I ended up playing some "hidden" gems I'll never forget ( Torment: Tides of Numeneria was a notable great).
Did I play Skyrim too? Of course. But I also got addicted to Risk of Rain. Were there some stinkers? Absolutely. But for every Dev-Guy (bad) there's a DiveKick (good). For every Serious Sam 2, a Warhammer 40k: Space Marine.
Some of my most played games right now are Into The Breach, Slay The Spire, and Vampire Survivors - none of them are complicated. They all respect your time.
I think what it is is the immersion. You know you'll be interrupted before you're "done" so you can't let yourself mentally wander off into the world.
I will say one practical consideration is that diamonds are really hard and don't get scratched. You may want to consider hardness for any replacement gemstone (rubies and sapphires are the next hardest).
I literally just bought Shokz (apparently the ones I bought are called OpenRun Pro- as I was looking up the model that I got, I learned that apparently I could have got some truly waterproof ones which I kind of regret not getting now, but these were already at the far edge of what I'm willing to spend) and have basically not taken them off in the 3 days I've had them. I couldn't give you a recommendation one way or the other on the specific brand, but they seem serviceable enough. I'm really more enamored with the technology itself rather than the brand.
I originally bought them because I had a hearing test done long ago, and as part of it they use bone conduction headphones to test your inner ear separate from your middle ear and outer ear. After that part of the test, my tinnitus was completely gone. It crept back in over the course of a few hours, but only in one ear. It returned to stereo tinnitus about 3 days later. I wanted to figure out the specific frequencies I needed to play via bone conduction to make that happen again. it was one of the first times I'd experienced true silence in my life, and and I haven't forgotten it.
One of the biggest annoyances I have with traditional headphones is how big of a deal it is when you get interrupted when you have them on. With the bone conduction stuff, your ear canals are never blocked so any interruption is handled just by hitting the play / pause button. This eliminates one of the main reasons I just straight up don't wear headphones unless I'm in an office environment and trying to be antisocial.
I also have a huge problem with sweat management. I'm a sweaty guy. I haven't done any kind of strenuous activity yet with these on, but they purportedly handle sweat like a champ, and I'm not running the risk of giving myself an ear infection by keeping them on for hours and hours at a time.
The only real complaints I have with these particular ones are that 1) they're awkward to wear with glasses, 2) It's basically impossible to get really nice-feeling bass with them, and 3) they put pressure in a weird spot on my head, so adjusting to them has been a weird sensory experience. I'm still not quite used to them.
(2) really isn't that much of a complaint because I really shouldn't be damaging my hearing that way, but (1) might end up being a deal breaker. I don't know. I hope that's not the case.
Tbh I live in an incredibly dry area and work from home; I've been commuting places I need to go exclusively via motorcycle for 2 years and I've been caught in the rain twice. I've had to Uber instead of ride my bike once.
Doesn't matter, in the end, because it's the same story for tons of us out there. The company I work at now makes a product that only works on Windows. It's in most of the power plants in the country. You've never heard of us unless you are one of half a dozen people at each power plant. There are thousands and thousands of companies just like mine, cranking out software that only works on Windows.
I think the only thing that will change this trend is the raspberry pi and machines like it. Make it so cheap to equip your employees with a Linux machine that it's impossible to ignore.
Even then, though, 10 hours of lost productivity a month makes the windows machine the more valuable buy for even a low paid employee.
I built a computer and didn't have high speed Internet about 18 years ago. Couldn't get Windows activated so a friend gave me a (Debian?) CD so I could get something going. Been keeping old machines alive with it ever since.