I hope Zen disables this by default, or completely removes it if that’s an option.

Such features should be disabled by default, but as a user of Zen, I really hope it'd be possible to enable AI features.

I’ve owned two model Ys over the past 5 years or so. Zero maintenance issues. I also had a 2020 Model 3 that I recently sold and it had 1 issue with the small secondary battery after 5 years. Tesla charged me ~$140 to come to my house and replace it.

I always loved Alien and Blade Runner because of this shared aesthetic. It gave the sense that the doomed ship Nostromo departed Blade Runner earth.

Owners of Frank Lloyd Wright homes licked their lips with glee when Bladerunner fans made the bricks-and-mortar movie-famous.

How Deckerd can afford to live in one post economic meltdown is a bit unclear. And those whisky glasses are worth a mint now too.

"Enhance" indeed.

>How Deckerd can afford to live in one post economic meltdown is a bit unclear.

He's part of a precarious minority of semi-technical functionaries, armed bureaucrats afforded generous promotions and great inner leeway amidst the post-meltdown order of things, in return for their unquestioning allegiance to the same

Retconning 2049 into that was.. Hard.

Personally I prefer the PKD book. It was more nuanced. But the aesthetic of the first film was just wondeful. If somebody had sold cold cathode flouro umbrellas when the movie came out they would have cleaned up.

>Retconning 2049 into that was.. Hard.

After Deckard did an exemplary job, everyone liked it so much that they they replaced his entire cadre with simulacra.

>Personally I prefer the PKD book. It was more nuanced.

Oh absolutely! Just recently bought a fake animal and pondered it. Love PKD for selling various angles on the same trip for decades; wonder if his OG exegesis can be read anywhere...

Gosh, apologies. I hope you catch this -- my burner email was wrong. It's robcrimedoer, no period.

I have a copy. Send me an email and I’ll upload it somewhere for you. It’s not a great read, but it’s interesting in places. You can use rob.crimedoer at gmail.

In the "Deckard is a replicant" version that Scott has defended for years, I assume he's simply living in someone else's place (unaware that it's not his own).

That certainly makes sense. Everyone else is mostly occupying leftover spaces.

Many go off-world to create real estate opportunities?

One other semi-unrecognized advantage Valve has over consoles is their generous return policy. I’ve bought many games on a whim knowing if I don’t jive with it I can safely get a full refund. Contrast that with my Ps5 where my 2 year old managed to smash buttons while I was tied up on a work call and bought COD for $69 bucks… no way to refund it and I’m not a fan of shooters. Basically Fd on that one.

I’ve made dozens of returns without a single issue on Steam.

I made one return on the PS5 in a similar situation, and it was a painful ordeal.

What about backward compatibility?

Try to run the original mario 64 on the switch without having to buy it again

My experience is otherwise. I returned one game and got banned from buying other games for a month - during a sale, so I missed that sale and was out of sync with friends for a bit.

I don't give a shit for the money, but fucking my social gaming time was unforgiveable. I still use Steam, but don't fucking trust Valves return policy.

Is there anything more to this? I’ve returned dozens of games that I didn’t end up liking and the only consequence I’ve faced is that games with trading cards don’t start dropping them until 2 hours of play time, which I think is completely fair.

There most certainly is. This is not Steam’s default refund procedure in the slightest. I’d be willing to bet they were abusing the system somehow and support caught them red handed.

I'm not sure how to abuse the return system. It's not like I pirate anything from Steam. And I used the return process through Steam - exactly once, as mentioned above. If I wasn't meant to do a thing, then I would think the process should not let me do it. But I returned it in good faith, for a game that managed to make me rage quit in less than an hour - I like to think at least that I am usually patient but I wasn't putting up with that shit.

If a Valve employee with rights to look into it is reading this - I'd love to know what I did so wrong. But given that human explanations from modern software based corporations are non-existent, I will assume I was treated as per their returns policy.

And the outcome has worked in Steams favour. I buy for (account) life now, for better or for worse. As previously mentioned, I don't care about the money so much as the social.

But my decision making process to drop the significant money required for Steam hardware will assume the return/warranty is worth precisely zero.

How can I prevent Windows 10 from upgrading to 11? I have a gaming pc that's basically just for VR, and is ~5 years old. I play non-VR on my SteamDeck, so really I just want to keep my old pc gaming box running on 10 for (occasional) VR gaming at this point... also, pretty heavily invested in Steam (VR and non-VR) so I really prefer not to switch to something like Meta Quest, etc.

Agree - plus it’s a FF fork so it allows UBlock.

Ublock lite works just fine

Until you want to block a custom selector.

"There has to be a round in the chamber for a round to be fired" seems sort of tautological if I'm being honest.

Very, very few serious people would argue that anyone carrying a firearm should carry it without a round in the chamber. Yes, "Israeli carry" is a thing, but is almost entirely endorsed simply as a training carry-over from a time when people carried different weapons of widely varying mechanical safety features in a very unique high-threat environment.

If you're carrying a firearm professionally, or in the US "recreationally" for personal protection, carrying without a round in the chamber will be seen by most people as a pretty stupid decision.

As a Sig 320 owner, and someone that knows at least 3 other sig 320 owners, I disagree. None of us ever carry our weapon chambered. I probably know 10+ guys that own guns, including a few police officers, and I'm going to ask the officers about this because honestly, I would be surprised if they even carried their weapons chambered.

I wouldn't carry with a round in the chamber if I carried a 320 either.

There is zero chance that those police carry un-chambered

Your experience is an outlier.

My father was taught to use condition 3 carry (unloaded chamber) with a 1911 in the 1970's US Navy. It all depends on circumstances.

You might not, but this is exactly how a pistol like this should be carried.

The usual response to this is that if you don't carry with a round in the chamber, you could spend the rest of your life racking the slide.

That's exactly how guns are supposed to be carried. Exceptions exist, but if you're carrying a gun you ought to be ready to use it.

N=1. Just because your wife's business doesn't fall under the conditions that the article is talking about, it doesn't mean that her business is the norm.

Sure, my experience isn’t with sharing, basically. Nice.

I'm just planning on tipping less to make up for it. In California minimum wages are already $20/hr, and on top of that so many places expect a higher %ge, tip, just cutting my tip by the 10% they pay in tax and being done with it. I pay taxes on my wages. They should too

Agree - I’m 58 and still do the same workout I did in my 30s and 40s including 3 sets of 15 to 20 pull-ups depending on the day. I also still skate (hockey) 2 -3 times a week with a bunch of retired pros (echl, nhl, etc) and typically put up a bunch of points every skate (possibly slightly more assists now but I attribute that more toward enjoying that more these days and not needing to be so flashy)

>"3 sets of 15 to 20 pull-ups depending on the day"

It is always 20 for me. 4 sets. I am 64. I used to do 30 when I was a teen but I was much lighter then. also lots of swimming, cycling, hiking canoeing etc. etc

That’s awesome. I’m 60 and find pull ups are getting harder. I’d be delighted to get 20 in a set.

Prolly because I was doing those all my life. Funny that even after more than a year long break at 50+yo due to trauma it only took me a 1.5 month to recover from 5 to back to 20. I guess once you do something long enough body just gets accustomed.

You are reaping the benefits of having an active fitness regime in your 30s . The average 50 year old who starts exercising today will never get to your fitness level .

I don’t think I’m convinced of that. Most fitness measures saturate as you approach a limit. For example, you can build muscle mass rapidly in the first couple of years but it slows dramatically as you approach your genetic limit. It only takes a few years of consistent training to get to that asymptotic level. So on that measure, you can basically “catch up” to your hypothetical “always trained” self.

While you might not be able to get to the exact same level of fitness as if you had trained for years, I think you can get fairly close. And without a doubt, you can drastically improve from wherever you’re starting.

Ah, interesting that explains why my gains are way slower this year, which is my third year of being consistently 5 days/week in the gym.

I do have a question: is there benefits in pushing harder if my goal is just health, or should I keep my training as is to limit injuries?

I'm 36, so not related to the article yet.

What about the relative fitness of the average 50 year old who starts exercising today vs the one who doesn't when they both turn 65?

Rowing machines seem to be one of the best approaches to attempt it, though.

Are you still taking rapamycin and if so what are your observations from taking it for the past few years?

Ditto - I’m on Zen browser a FF fork, it’s a clone of Arc and quite love it. No way I’m going back to chrome or any chromium browsers.