Centralisation makes things easy.
If it takes more than 1 minute to onboard to a new service, and especially if you have to overcome any learning barrier (such as what 'instances' are and how to choose one) then the vast majority of people will immediately throw that option out and won't even consider it.
People like bluesky specifically because it gives them something almost identical to what they had before.
I think you discovered the loophole in that you also get to teleport back in time to 2012, if that's the specific time you experienced the restaurant.
True friends?
The ability to be my authentic self, and mutual trust.
I'm pretty introverted and most social interactions are draining for me. My few closest friends are those where I don't have to put up even the smallest emotional facade, and therefore can genuinely enjoy relaxing and spending time with on a primal level rather than feeling worn out by it.
I also want my closest friends to be people I can have meaningful and personal interactions with. Sometimes of course you just hang out and play some games and have fun, but if the conversation gets deep I need to feel safe that this happens from a place of mutual respect and that nothing said will get somehow used against me down the line.
Probably the same things people look for in a partner, to be honest.
山尺工卞工几呂 勹丹尸丹几ヨ己ヨ 工己 ヨ丹己と!
I saw a brand a while back, can't remember exactly what, something like coffee or chocolate, and they were using this fake Japanese for all their product names and merchandise labels.
It was certainly the most surefire way to instantly demonstrate to me they have no actual understanding of, or connection with, Japan or Japanese culture at all.
"Yellow" isn't just a colour match though, there are very significant historical prejudices with the association between 'yellow' and 'Asian'
Exactly! What sort of logic are they even trying to apply there? Basically saying "We put a lot of time into our tech demo, and it came out better than expected, so we're going to charge for it!"
That's just crazy.
The whole principle is that the intro experience is supposed to be free. It exists to get people pumped about the cool new thing they just bought and excited to play with it.
I guess Nintendo decided that - since you already bought the console - they don't especially care if you are pumped or not. They already got your money.
Back in my days working as .NET developer on Windows 7, I came into work one morning to find a colleague fuming that his machine had died on him.
He spent the whole morning reinstalling Windows and getting his environment set back up, and then pulled the branch he was working on, happy to finally be done with setup and get back to work. Ran his test suite and bam, machine crashes!
It was only at that point the penny dropped. We took a look at his branch, and sure enough he'd accidentally written a test that, when ran, deleted his entire C: drive!
That particular lesson made me very careful when writing any code that does things with the filesystem.
As the video suggests, it's an impending problem in many places in the world, US and UK included.
And the bitter truth is that all of us could have avoided this, if not for the insatiable greed of the 1%
If the wealth earned from economic growth was spread fairly, we could all be working half the hours we do now, with all the time for socialising and family we could want.
And the real irony is that when people have more free time, they will spend their time and money on the culturally enriching things that the government is otherwise being forced to try and subsidise and give grants to keep afloat. Visit historical sites. See a play, pick up a creative hobby, eat out at independent small restaurants.
But instead we are working longer and longer hours for less, leaving us with no time for anything, and that sends all our surplus money into the exact industries that are exploiting us. 11PM depression impulse buys from online megacorps, and food delivery through gig economy apps where the delivery person gets next to nothing and the app reaps the rewards.
People are stretched to breaking point. It's inevitable that at some point, this is all going to collapse.
Yep, that's specifically the meaning :)
Golden = Made of gold
Gilded = Covered in a thin layer of gold
The gold and the thin layer was the 1%-ers, with rampant corruption and harsh conditions for everyone else.
Well in this case I meant closer to a hub, but something that converts the USB-C ports on the mac to other ports, including USB-A for the flash drive.
I left that at home, so I was unable to plug the flash drive in.
Dongle itself is a kinda broad catch-all term https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongle
Yes, which is a big part of why, despite allowing transfers, it still sucks.
Steam has this crazy concept where as a game gets older, you don't have to pay as much for it as when it was new! Pretty wild, I know.