None of that shit matters anymore.

Thanks

No because anything is better than being surrounded by hostile people in your own home 24/7.

Jurassic Park

Im making Sausage and Rice. First of many birthday meals this weekend.

Bullet for my Vladimir.

I cross a river and my first emotion is usually eww.

PA -> NJ

In fifth grade my teacher retired halfway through the year. He did nothing wrong, it was just his time to retire. So he taught half the year while training his replacement to take over. He is one of the best teachers I ever had.

On his last day he left us with this piece of advice.

“Credit Cards are a scam.” Then he explained in detail how they can be used to trap you in debt and keep you struggling. He said always use cash when you can, otherwise don’t buy what you can’t afford.

That was the only financial advice I ever got in all of my 12 years of schooling.

He’ll kill you on sight just to take the first word in your username without the s.

Are you gonna play the ‘That’s fair’ game? Meaning the first bad thing to happen to the phone you say that’s fair and leave it where it is forever just to buy a new phone to start over?

I’ll tell you why. Car wear and tear. Gas prices. Minimum to no tip. Or worse a tip that was changed to no tip after the fact. Traffic congestion and mileage of the trip.

There is a calculation every DD driver has to make to decide if an order is worth picking up or not. Tips are not guaranteed and they can be changed to 0 for up to an hour after the order. When a driver gets an order you see the projected payout, the pickup location, and the distance of the trip. You don’t get the details until you accept the trip.

The driver can pass an order but that is a hit that goes against your profile. Meaning at a certain point if your rejection rate is too high you’ll get worse orders and less orders. Smart DD drivers can calculate if a trip is worth it or not. The base rule of thumb is $2/mile before tip. So if a trip is offering $1 to go a mile it means no tip. At that point is the cost of gas worth it? No. Smart drivers don’t accept anything that.

In all orders the cost of the actual food isn’t factored into how much a driver gets paid. We’re not getting paid the restaurant’s cut. We’re getting paid to deliver. So if I see this order and the projected payout is like a dollar or worse 0.50 cents, I’m not taking it. It doesn’t matter what the mileage is at that point. It’s a negative transaction for the driver. You’re losing money.

So for most drivers if someone is that desperate for a candy bar they’re gonna have to tip minimum the cost of a gallon of gas for me to take it. Meaning they’re getting a super expensive candy bar. At that point you ask yourself if the candybar is worth it. To most people probably not. To DD drivers probably not. To a single someone desperate enough, even still probably not. If both parties involved are desperate enough then some lucky person is getting a candybar. Otherwise the only other way that’s getting accepted is if the order is grouped together with multiple orders at once.

Source was a DD/UE driver last summer. Broke even until my car was totaled. Then it became a wasted summer. I still don’t have a vehicle.

Lychee and Cura.

Lychee because I always liked the feature set for supports better than Chitubox.

Cura because I spent a couple days comparing prints side by side with Prusa and my printer liked Cura better. It gave me better prints all around. Prusa needed an endless amount of tweaking. I don’t mind tweaking but at some point enough is enough.

Why Return YouTube Dislike? Isn’t lowest/no engagement more effective these days.

Hyperlight Drifter

Cobalt Core

They’re in the same vein but it’s some of the best chiptune-esque music I’ve ever heard. They’re not these one note, one tempo, same vibe over and over again tracks. They have feeling and movement. Almost melancholic at times. Scary in the case of HLD. They remind me a lot of mid 2010s prog metal in some respects. Not the heaviness or the distorted guitars, but the melodies and creativity with sound that pushed music forward in those years. Like the last track of the Cobalt Core ost flows right into My Last Serenade by Killswitch Engage and it’s a chefs kiss of greatness. They’re both top 5 video game ost for me.

Lol those were the days. I remember Simcity 4 releasing back then and how quickly my mod folder blue up. Then by the time that game was old it was only 2.15gb and that was nothing. The jump from >10gb to 50gb games was insane. Now the jump to 100+ Gb hurts a lot. Any time a game is iN MB I do a little happy dance.

I hope to be on my own in a city I enjoy with a stable income.

Same dev. Different alias.

Yeah that’s how I learned to type all the way back in middle school.

That’s relative to the buyer. Of course only pay what you’re comfortable with. My Lily58 was less than $150, and the only reason it got that high is because I had to buy some extra controller boards after I broke one. Before that it was closer to $110 all parts included. Pre-mades are more expensive, but the DIY kits are a fun day project and are considerably less in cost.

Even then you are paying for a luxury item, and it’s a luxury for a reason. It’s like paying extra for custom fitted shoes. Knowing if all the benefits are worth it is only something you can decide. Most people will say they usually are though.

I had a pair of HIFIMAN HE400se. I’d put them at the top of all the headphones I’ve ever owned. Even for supposedly cheap Planar Magnetic headphones, they sound really really alive.