I’m playing Xenoblade Chronicles X on Switch 2. Only on Chapter 4. It took me a few hours of patiently waiting for RNG to drop White Cometite for Lin’s affinity quest. I read that many people were stuck on that. :) Fortunately, I was able to explore some other areas and do some simple tasks in the meantime.

That’s on Nintendo front, on my Steam Deck I’m playing AI: The Somnium Files off which I bounced some time ago, but it stuck in my mind and I gave it another go and it clicked this time. Different mindset and expectations, I guess.

Maybe OP is playing it off a cassette player like on C-64 ;)

The cheapest :P SAGUARO. I actually thought it was Spanish and only on the packaging I saw it’s a Chinese product. I just want to try it out and be able to trash it if I don’t like them, didn’t want to risk with something more expensive. I know that it’s possible that more expensive shoes might be a better fit but still.

I think that may be just Firefox… I feel like Vivaldi is snappier, but I still choose Firefox because it’s not Chromium. And uBlock works here :)

My personal GOTY 2025. Great game!

I liked Crouch’s “Dark Matter”, but it’s also sf. I used to only read fantasy, but have branched into other genres :)

McCarthy is one of my favorite authors because of his Border Trilogy.

Ah, I see. That sounds good, wish I could do that with my partner, but she doesn’t like the type of books that I read. However, the books she reads are somewhat interesting to me, but I am a slow reader while she’s a very fast one, so it wouldn’t work for two reasons — one is that she’d have to wait for me to catch up and the other is that I get the feeling of spending time reading something that I wouldn’t normally choose and the awareness of the books that I actually want to read sitting there and waiting for me. :) However, maybe if we did that with 1 or 2 books a year… I don’t really have anyone to talk to about books because most people around me don’t read :(

How do you read books together? Do you mean that one person reads aloud or something else?

I think my problem is the 1st person POV in books featuring Fitz. Liveship Traders is more like all the other fantasy series with a rich cast of characters and shifting perspectives. Meanwhile, we can only see through Fitz’ eyes and learn of his interpretation of who did what and what HE felt about it. We don’t really KNOW why THEY did something, including the villains. What I loved about Liveship Traders was how deep Hobb went into psychology of her characters. Especially

Back to Fitz - I was expecting something else from books with “Assassin” in their title ;) I thought he was the worst assassin in the world, haha. Eh, I wish I loved those books like you do. But there’s something to Hobb’s writing, I have to admit she makes beautiful prose, her books give me pleasure from reading the words and sentences, apart from the story (I am not a native English speaker, but I read her books mostly in English).

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Re WoT – did you mean Wheel of Time? It used to be my favorite series when I was a teenager. I am actually re-reading it after 20+ years, I’m somewhere in the middle. I learned it’s very difficult for me to read such a long series, though, because I keep forgetting everything between the books, it just takes too long for me.

Aw, and here I thought it was about barefoot shoes… Just bought my first pair after thinking about it for a few years.

I don’t particularly like the Fitz books, except the very first one, sorry. I read the first Fitz trilogy, then Liveship Traders, then listened to audiobooks of the second Fitz trilogy and now here I am, reading Rain Wilds. I am in the minority, since people love Fitz and some even ask if they can skip LT :) It’s the opposite with me.

Finishing Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb, I think I only have the last chapter left. Liveship Traders is among my favorite fantasy series, I’m liking Rain Wild Chronicles so far, but I’d say I enjoyed Liveship Traders more. But it’s only the first book of four, so that may change. It’s a slow read for sure…

Probably won’t read any more McCarthy after this.

So is this your first McCarthy novel? I consider him one of my favorite authors, but “Blood Meridian” was nothing special to me. Neither was “The Road” which is always highly praised and was my first book of his. The reason why I consider McCarthy a great author is his Border Trilogy, starting with “All the Pretty Horses”, it was so atmospheric and touching. There is always some violence but the focus of those books is elsewhere, it hits hard in the feels ;) So maybe, before you decide never to give him another chance, try that one more book. If you do, I’d love to hear about your experience.

I did from Apple a few years ago after I bought a new Mac mini, but there was some issue with my Apple Care subscription and they helped me to sort it out. I actually had to talk to a real person on the phone from another country (Ireland) because they needed to escalate. But my issue was resolved and they were very helpful.

I was going to ask about that – how to delete my account if I get locked out and won’t provide my ID. It sounds like a real hassle. I had my LinkedIn account suspended for a long time now because I don’t find that website useful, but I still wanted to have options. This year I received a few emails from them telling me that some of my contacts solved some online quizzes on LinkedIn and that I should try. Who has time for online quizzes?! That must be the same type of person who plays Solitaire on their Windows PC. And also they are probably bored at their job, I’m not (quite the contrary).

As a Linux noob I like your oneliner but I agree with @solxix@pawb.social

A more approachable way to do that would be to use wget and then manually run apt install with the downloaded file. That’s what I’ve been doing. :) Yours is “magic” ;)

we are like an inch (or 25.4 mm if you’re on metric)

Nobody says that in metric! I had to read it like three times. It’s “2,54 cm” (used the comma, too).

I switched to Debian a few days ago :D I am thinking of posting in this sub again but wanted to give it a few more days. But yes, still using Linux daily.

What kind of sensitive data do they collect, exactly? The article doesn’t mention it. I heard about those rules (but no specifics) a couple years ago which actually pushed down Spain on my to-go list.

Like KDE Connect which uses only the local network.