I am almost definitely going to buy this. Sounds awesome, enjoyed their Pathfinder games though they were a bit maths-heavy (which is the classic cRPG experience, don’t get me wrong!) for my taste.

And, if anyone is interested in this, I will once again take this opportunity to also recommend Starsector (https://fractalsoftworks.com/). It’s like a 2d top-down The Expanse: The RPG and it’s rad as hell. I’d be remiss to not mention it.

I hear you! Hardware fragmentation is a serious issue, very difficult to deal with as a small team, so I can’t hold it against them, but I really wish I had been able to put it on my old Note 9 instead of buying a Pixel 😑 (doesn’t have to be a Pixel, there are other supported devices, but it’s easiest and works best)

Have you tried CalyxOS (https://calyxos.org/)? Review from a year ago seems pretty good (fair warning: Reddit link). I’m keeping Calyx in my back pocket in case Graphene goes tits up.

Yes, I’ve used all my apps pretty seamlessly. I had to turn on “exploit protection compatibility mode” for some of them like banking, but they work fine. You can get Google Play, and it runs in a sandbox, but I use Obtainium and Aurora Store (Aurora in particular would be of interest to you, it’s just a frontend for the Google Play store which allows anonymous connections: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.aurora.store/). I moved to Aegis for my 2FA because I was looking for a way out of the Twilio/Authy ecosystem. I don’t play games on my phone, so I can’t report back on how those work.

Anything compatible with Graphene OS (https://grapheneos.org/); a second-hand Pixel will work best, if you can find one cheap. I use it as my daily driver on a Pixel 7a and it’s great; it’s the most stable and easiest-to-install custom ROM I’ve ever used, and I’ve been rooting my Android devices for over a decade now.

I was skating at the local ice rink, and tripped. I think it was an Olympic-sized rink, but that might have been the pool… it was pretty big, anyway. I bounced my head off the ice so hard I saw blue and red fireworks (only time that’s ever happened to me), and slid half the length of the rink on my face wherein I crashed into the barrier. That shit hurt, I still remember it vividly 30 years later, but luckily nothing broken. My mum was simultaneously aghast, and relieved and amazed I wasn’t more injured. She was convinced I’d have fractured something in my face when she saw me fall.

Hey friend. You sound like a caring dude, full of love for your family. I’m sorry you’re going through this, a few months is very recent. Ten years is about how long my marriage went too, though she and I didn’t have kids (and I ended up moving back to the other side of the world) so it was a much cleaner break; and it still took me years to recover. I went through a series of bad relationships because I didn’t wait to work on myself first, and I got emotionally abused as a result. First silver lining: you still have the chance to avoid that mistake.

This feeling sucks, I know, but you know your boys love you so you’ve done a good job as a dad. My new wife and I both have bad relationships with our fathers (though not for lack of trying on our parts), so make no mistake: you could have done worse, and your boys are lucky to have you.

It sounds like you’ve forgotten how to live as you, without your family around to carry for. Is there anything social to do in your area, aligned with your interests, that could bring you some community? For example my (again, new) wife and I have each other, but we’re in a strange state with no family or friends within 1000 miles in any direction. We recently decided to find an improv class because we both want to work on the skills it teaches, but our main goal is to make some new friends.

I just thought, as well - at least one of your kids plays games a lot, which is a golden opportunity to spend time with him. Maybe you can get a game going? Some of my best memories with my dad are of playing games together when I was little. I still have a soft spot for Gauntlet Legends on the N64 from the hours we spent playing that. Loads of great games to play together, too, in 2025 - hit me up if you need suggestions (⁠☞ﾟ⁠ヮﾟ⁠)⁠☞

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Honestly, my only issue was the lateral force of a click jiggling the cursor, but that can be sort of compensated for using the thumb to brace the mouse. Actually moving it around was fine, it’s not too heavy, it positively glides across my mousepad. But check the sizing guide; they are indeed bulky compared to a normal mouse as you note. I don’t think the bulk affects the comfort at all though, for me anyway.

I do! I was developing pretty bad RSI from my traditional keyboard/mouse setup so I got:

• An Evoluent Vertical Mouse D: https://evoluent.com/products/vmdm/
• A Kinesis Advantage 2 (which I recall you and I have talked about a bit before): https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/advantage2/

For me, the keyboard was the fix for my wrists. The vertical mouse didn’t help at all and was much more frustrating to use than my Deathadder because clicking now jiggles the cursor a bit (because the force of the click is now sideways, rather than down into the desk). However, it did help a lot when I started getting elbow pain from the regular mouse. Of course, I later discovered that it was just transferring the strain from my elbow up to my shoulder, once that started to hurt…

Nowadays I’m just back on my exercise plan, and nothing hurts anymore 🙌 Obviously working out won’t fix wrists though. If I recall right you’re using Colemak on a regular board for your wrists? May be time to try the “full swoop” or whatever the style of the Kinesis is called. Or if I misremember and you’re already using an ergo board, I hope the vertical mouse helps!

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Someone hasn’t tried to drive in the five boroughs…

Hmm. Those are good points, particularly if people were expecting human-translated subs when they subscribed. If they’re gonna use AI it should be clearly marked on their site. I appreciate the breakdown; I wasn’t aware of the intricacies involved in translating foreign works.

Edit: seems like there’s more to the job than I thought, TIL

Sorry, but why is this bad? Translating is drudge work, like data entry, that should be done by a machine so humans can go do other more interesting stuff. I’d argue that if nobody knew before now, the generated subtitles are good enough; I’d also point out that automatic CC/subtitling has been around and in use a lot longer than ChatGPT and nobody batted an eye until recently.

That’s a distinct possibility! I know you said you don’t have OCD but you don’t really have to have that specifically; overgrooming is a feature of anxiety-related disorders like OCD because it’s related to anxiety, so it can show up in less-severe forms as a disordered behaviour even without you suffering the full pathology. Worth keeping an eye out next time you feel it coming on, see if you notice anything else about it.

Do you notice any stimulus or frustration that happens around the desire? Like a patch of skin that won’t stop itching, or an emotional trigger - maybe something agitating you at the time that seems unrelated?

You’re basically saying that everyone that can have anything to do with the database and systems around it are corrupt and working together.

No, just the person in charge has to order it. People do what their bosses tell them. Rules and procedures don’t matter if the people in charge ignore them. And again, you’re not getting access to any of the data we’re talking about in the first place, because the government would have to grant that access, and you’re not a person as far as they’re concerned in this scenario. What organisations have you worked for that would just give out information to a person they can’t verify the identity of?

That’s a ridiculous conspiracy theory.

No, it’s happening now in the US. You seem woefully under-informed to be trying to comment on current affairs. Maybe stick to your own country until you’re up to speed.

Network-attached storage is pretty proscriptive for what these machines actually do nowadays. Especially the home ones like this, tend to end up pulling multiple duties like media server, homelab, etc. Heck, a dedicated resource for local AI projects is a use case I built into my custom-built NAS using an old 2080 I had laying around after an upgrade, precisely because I want to be able to use my desktop for other stuff while the model is running.

Exactly. People are capable of changing and the left is supposed to believe in redemption. This purity-testing dead-to-me bullshit every time someone forgets a pronoun or whatever is a cancer that’s setting our movement and message back every time we fall into the trap.

Changing yourself is hard. We all deserve acceptance and support when we pull it off, for the good of all.

Logs, eh? You know those are just text files, right? And how do you plan to get access to them to prove any kind of mistake or malfeasance, exactly?

I believe this is called an “impression”.

I’m not saying a parent can stop them, I’m saying giving it is a bad idea. A parent can tell their kid why they shouldn’t do it, ask them to wait until they’re older, and let the kid make the decision if they find themselves faced with the choice. Children don’t have a lot of disposable income typically though, so obtaining drugs is proportionally more difficult without help.