I am not sure why but one day every international Skype user I know switched to Viber. I wonder what impact Viber had on Skype.

(I loved the Google Music recommendation engine, RIP)

This will never cease to sting. Google Play Music was so good.

Before I moved here I used to think temps in the negatives were crazy, but you really do get used to it. Plus, good cold weather gear makes a huge difference.

I’ll tell you what’s crazy, the 95°f+ with 90+% humidity we used to get in Louisiana. There’s no getting use to that. I don’t miss that one bit.

That sounds amazing.

Wyoming my guy. -20°f, I’m still bagging at my car and taking the cart back to the store. Five minutes isn’t going to kill you…maybe.

I like to rawcart it without protection. Don’t judge.

I bring it back to the store, like a proper child of the light.

EDIT - ProTip: Leave your reusable bags in your car. When you checkout tell them you don’t need bags and to just put the groceries back in the cart. You can bag the stuff at your own pace once you are back at your vehicle. No self bagging stress, no "I forgot the bags stress, no extra work for the cashier, no need for a bagger, and you help the queue move faster.

Nah homie. We are on that Cyberpunk expressway.

My company is one of the top large data management firms specializing in Oracle in the world. What Larry is proposing is impossible with Oracle. He has no understanding of the limitations of his own product. Or he does and is just talking out his ass so he can scam the gullible Trump administration out of billions of dollars.

I left Facebook years ago but I still.have to use its marketplace because up where I live, it is the only way to buy and sell used stuff. I fucking hate that.

The number of examples of media becoming unreachable to paying consumers keeps growing.

Warner Brothers (Max) is the greatest example of this. Years of content from Cartoon Network just disappeared, leaving the consumer no legal avenue to enjoy some of their favorite shows.

I do not advocate for piracy. I advocate for archiving.

It is definitely covered by Anne Rice.

Baldurs Gate 3

I just searched using Kagi. It fares poorly. Normally I get better results but “glb file format” seems to be a cursed search. Nothing but AI with the exception of one Wikipedia result and one Reddit post.

I will try “how to parse data from a glb file” and report again in an edit.

EDIT: Solid hits from the first try. It seems that search engines are being swarmed by generated garbage for open or vague questions. The moment you get specific, the AI slop seems to fall off…at least on Kagi.

I use Kagi specifically because Google and DDG were too infested with AI garbage. There is no escaping it. I get less generated slop, but I still get plenty.

I have a few from the same fire sale. I should mess about with them.

The quiet part is the agreement with others you completely disagree with almost always, and even often despise.

How hated must you be when suddenly leftists, tankies, fascists, conservatives and liberals find themselves in quiet agreement about their feelings on your murder. Even the silence from gun control advocates is deafening.