I’d add 4 into that list. I really hated that game. I never played 5 though. Maybe I should give it a go.

Yeah! This ^ Lasik doesn’t sound worth the risks at all.

I just tried one match of it and one of the differences was not different in either picture.

I just started Shin Megami Tensi 4 on the 3ds. It’s my first time playing a game in this series and it seems cool. Maybe after I get through that.

This has been in my backlog for 10 years?!?

Well not reliably.

I can’t find it now and I do not think it really applies here. But someone stated that being high IQ could lead to academic problems as the high IQ learner would understand or see things that the professor could not causing the professor to mark it as incorrect.

I guess this is the idiocracy version of it.

Using public WiFi can be dangerous. I still use the hotel wifi when traveling though.

But if I’m doing anything important I’ll turn on my vpn for extra protection because you do not know who is snooping on your data.

A lot of data being transmitted is encrypted but the person in the middle could still see which sites you are accessing, just not the content.

There are some attacks that can downgrade your connection so the stuff is not encrypted, but I don’t think that is very likely to happen due to other safety mechanisms.

In addition to this, even someone collects your encrypted internet traffic, they can’t see what the data is. But once quantum computers are accessible, they can easily break the encryption and look at everything.

I don’t believe quantum resistant encryption is currently being used for https connections.

Another thing that could do is make sites take you to an imposter site. So google.com could take you to a clone of that site and try to get you to log in and reveal your password and email address.

Kinda lame, but at the same time I get it.

So, I guess I’m sticking with OneDrive and Microsoft email.

I wish I could pay those prices for a co-working space! Wow, it is so cheap.

If anyone needs to talk about their problem 1v1, just send me a DM. I’d be happy to talk to you. I’m white, male, and in my 30s if that makes a difference.

One of the best things I did to change my life for the better was to stop caring about what other’s think. You can basically laugh off any criticism and the people who will seriously be mean to you about something are not people to keep in your life.

When I go to a bar, I do not need to order a bitter IPA, I’ll get whatever sweet cocktail I want. If someone calls me out for it not being manly, I just tell them the manliest thing is doing whatever the hell you want. I’ve never had someone say something to me like that and be serious about it, but whenever a hear that joke, my response always shuts them up.

Just do whatever you want and stop worrying about others. If people reject you, then get new people.

You should do the therapy one. It is kind of fun once you realize that you can basically just say whatever the hell you want and won’t be judged or interact with the person socially. You also can be assured that it is kept secret (with a few serious exceptions) by law.

It is kind of freeing to just open up about the hardest things to talk about with anyone else.

I’m in a pretty good place mentally, but I still check in with my psych every couple months. Usually just to vent about stuff that I do not want to discuss with people I interact with socially.

That is such a crazy amount of money on license fees, especially when you consider that there are mostly free alternatives. I am always choosing foss options as I build my small business.

Right now, I am using onedrive, and Microsoft for my business email. Which I think comes out to like $5 a month.

My understanding is that for reliable email, you need to host with microsoft or google otherwise you are more likely to get sorted into junk mail. If that is incorrect, please let me know.

I don’t really think so, the person buying it would need to use laundered money to buy it otherwise it could draw suspicion.

I think we might not be seeing all the advancements as they are made.

Google just showed off AI video with sound. You can use it if you subscribe to thier $250/month plan. That is quite expensive.

But if you have strong enough hardware, you can generate your own without sound.

I think that is a pretty huge advancement in the past year or so.

I think that focus is being put on optimizing these current things and making small improvements to quality.

Just give it a few years and you will not even need your webcam to be on. You could just use an AI avatar that look and sounds just like you running locally on your own computer. You could just type what you want to say or pass through audio. I think the tech to do this kind of stuff is basically there, it just needs to be refined and optimized. Computers in the coming years will offer more and more power to let you run this stuff.

If you don’t want to smell like “Sharkhammer”, then good luck getting a girl to even glance at you.

Same, a large breakfast makes me feel queasy too. I never met another person like this. I usually don’t eat until noon.

But, 10AM and later, I’m not queasy.

I live in a country with a strict outdoor smoking ban and I love it.

There are dedicated smoking areas for people to smoke outdoors, but they are really small and cramped with smokers.

It’s actually really nice, you never see or smell people smoking unless you wonder too close to the designated smoking areas which are often really out of the way.

The streets are not really clean here, but at least it’s not cigarette butts. Even things like vapes need to be smoked in a designated area, but sometimes people do it on the street anyway.

My point is that a tax expert will need to actually do it.