Am I the only one who thought this was Tom Scott for a moment?

I loved that phone… As soon as I put Cyanogen on it. I voided my warranty on the second week in a rage induced by the home screen taking 30 seconds to load. Samsung always has sucked at software.

One company I worked for decided it was a good idea to name a bunch of firings due to performance “Project Panda” 🤦

Fuck mint, I spend months trying to get rid of it from my last place

Just a Canon EOS 2000D, it’s my first DSLR, so I have a fair bit to learn.

They are the softest things I’ve ever touched.

Here Wego is the worst maps service I’ve ever had the displeasure of using. Amazon used to use it for deliveries (maybe they still do), and it took almost a year to get it to recognise that my house was not 8 miles away on a completely different road. It messed up the Amazon routes as the route it picked was all in that same area, except my house, that was 8 miles away.

The satnav keeps telling me to take the third reich…

A few things:

• I disagree that LCD is good enough, especially for living room gaming. It is the best and most significant upgrade I’ve ever done, by a long way.
• In terms of Steam Survey, again no arguments from me, oled monitors are rare, I was arguing that TVs are not.
• There isn’t such thing as content that works well with OLED, everything looks significantly better, especially with HDR, which almost everything supports and has done for a significant period of time.
• As someone that has been using an OLED TV for 5+ years, burn-in really isn’t an issue, there’s not a trace of burn-in on either of my TVs, or any of my portable devices with OLEDs. The only time I’ve ever experienced burn-in on an OLED was a Nexus 5, which is so long ago, that it’s almost irrelevant. In the case of the Nexus 5, the only reason it ended up with burn-in is because I enabled the developer option to keep the screen on at all times, resulting in the status bar burning into the screen. All modern OLED displays take burn-in into account and run screen cleaning occasionally, which isn’t noticeable as the screen just appears a black. So unless someone is running a news channel with a static logo 24/7 on the screen, they’re not going to have issues with burn-in. It’s worth noting I have an OLED TV on my desk too (that one was indeed on sale, for ~400 IIRC), and that has static content such as an Apple logo (work laptop 😞), on it for hours each day, with no burn-in.

I’m not sure sub-£550 ($700) with reasonable sizes (42"), really counts at expensive AF anymore (not cheap but not expensive AF). But each to their own.

Monitors no, TVs very much so.

I’m not sure that the NIC on one of the most popular Asus motherboards is really outside of everyday user territory. In my case, it’s a realtek onboard ethernet chip.

On a “normal” distro the drivers for this are pretty easy to install, and is definitely something an everyday user could achieve (double click a single file in the download from realtek).

Honestly, even for a living room PC it’s a pain. My living room machine uses Corsair fan controllers, so I had to battle to get OpenLinkHub installed, and a realtek 2.5gbe card, which I attempted to get working and gave up (kernel src package does not match the kernel for some reason). Not overly fun.

Honestly, I had been ready to leave for a long time, and I had been caring for them almost 24/7 for years. The main reason I hadn’t left was that I was concerned that they’d end their life. There were many reasons why I didn’t want to be in the relationship anymore, health aside.

There was an attempt to take their own life and I realised I had no emotion and honestly felt like it would have been easier if they didn’t make it. My brother realised something was wrong so came to see me and it all came out. The next day I was trying to just go on like normal but couldn’t, something just snapped. She went to stay with her mum and I had time to think and confirm how I felt. This last part was probably the most important, as it was vital to make sure I didn’t regret the decision.

My advice would be: be honest, say you need time to think, give yourself the time and space, make sure it’s right for you and if so, leave. If they don’t give you the chance to think, then I’d say you have your answer. That’s much easier said than done however.

I’m sorry to hear that man. Dating after a long relationship is so hard, but I do hope you come across someone kind who appreciates you for who you are, emotions/feelings and all.

I can’t imagine how hard it must be to go through this with a child too, but you sound like a good father.

Nope, UK

I decided to end a relationship and marriage, after being together for 13 years. For the first time in years I put myself first and realised that I needed to be out of the relationship. Coming out of this has been very difficult and I’ve been struggling with my mental health since.

I started dating again, and have had two horrible experiences where my feelings were just put aside and it really hurt. Both of which ended up with the relationship ending. It’s like I’m not allowed to have feelings or struggle. 😞

Is vodka a root beer?