Same and I’m from the southeast us.

If it were me, I could not rise above and forgive. But that’s me, and how I feel has zero bearing on you and your boyfriend’s relationship. I also wish you both the very best and a long and happy relationship. 💙

The enemy of my enemy or some shit.

Flirting is a means of communicating that a person likes another person. If no one flirted, then meeting people would be even more difficult than it already is.

It just feels like its only purpose is to be a magnet for narcissists.

I’ve seen a few dating profiles near me with women claiming to be in Mensa. I’m glad they mention it, as it’s a dog whistle for me to move on to another profile that will inevitably ignore me because I just don’t stack up.

~That’s meant to be funny.~

Sometimes the best response is no response at all. Silence can be deafening.

You are allowed, and sometimes encouraged, to not say anything.

If you have a hot water tank, that hot water is just sitting there getting cold just waiting to be heated up again. A circulating pump puts that hot water to use by circulating it through the pipes, which has a nice side effect in cold climates of preventing the pipes from freezing and bursting. I doubt it wastes much energy as you think.

If it were 25-30 years ago, when there was a risk of physically damaging (i.e. blowing up) hardware, and I’d agree with you. But in this case, the worst is to have to reconfigure things back to their defaults.

As for retroarch, what would be your suggested alternative?

I’ll be the first to admit I have no idea how any of what I posted works, but I do know it works. Maybe the tv game mode didn’t do anything for my Bluetooth, and maybe the other settings I changed did. All I do know is my gaming experience is so much more responsive now. And if any of this helps other people, then all the more better. 🤷‍♂️

It has been amazing. I’ve been playing Faxanadu all day, and before I found out the game mode on my TV, it was hit or miss if I could make the jumps. Now I feel like id never have gotten so far in the game because of the tricky jumps. And all with an 8bitdo Bluetooth controller (sn30).

Damnit I was going to make the same joke.

I used to do that in junior high. It has a very sweet flavor, and gets you pretty fucked up.

I should also note that I now have breathing problems (asthma). Not to mention that with the 2A climate these days (USA), it’s probably not worth getting shot over when trying to steal people’s Freon.

Don’t blink. Blink and you’re dead.

An argument can be made that all actions people take are for their own self-interest. Even things like helping the community is done for reciprocal benefits for yourself plus the general increase in respect.

I believe if the act benefits someone else more than it benefits yourself, then that is what differentiates selfless from selfish.

I don’t usually feel one way or the other about other people’s upvotes/downvotes.

But I try to use my upvotes/downvotes as a barometer for how well something I posted or commented on was received by the community. If I’m being massively downvoted, I will try to consider what about my post or comment warranted the negative reaction, and I might reconsider what I said, or at least how I said it. If something is upvoted, it does give me the warm fuzzies knowing that other people agreed with, or enjoyed, my content.

That nobody gives a shit about you, especially if you are in any way not mainstream, and they’d rather you not exist than to help you.

I’d send them back. Looking at Amazon, they don’t have 4tb nvme that cheap. And putting aside potentially being mislabeled, would you really want to trust your data to “Generic”?

I’ve always blamed Adobe for the subscription mess, and that started in the early 00’s.

Yes.