Fonzie!

Well that’s not really an improvement…

So you’re saying this was a stupid question?

In Netherland we call that “kontkussen” which both means “butt kissing” as a verb and “butt pillow” as a noun.

Valuable information source becomes bot recycling machine…? Hey, I Reddit before!

He said he wouldn’t!

Yep, my prev. CEO capped working from home to 1 day a week and treated it like we were requesting a holiday.

“I have such a nice office and then nobody shows up, you know how much that hurts?”

Man, how far removed from reality can you be?

“Deaf” just means that you have such profound hearing loss that you can’t communicate verbally properly, most deaf people do register sound albeit very badly.

I, for instance, have about 75 dB hearing loss, I don’t hear people walking, and barely register high heels on tiles, I don’t hear cars driving either, but I do hear it when they sound the horn; to give an idea of my deafness.

But I do know what spoken languages sound like, and what rhyming means. And how weird English spelling is, compared to its pronunciation. (English is my second/third language after Dutch and DSL, if that matters)

That said, there are people who really can’t hear anything, I know someone who’s ossicles (bones inside the ear, vital for hearing) don’t make contact, he’s never heard anything. He’s aware certain words sound alike and (in Dutch) mostly when their spelt the same, but only because school / people around him told him that.

Sometimes updates require a game to be restarted. With a launcher it never needs to REstart, it will be started fresh afterwards anyway.
I’ve noticed Genshin Impact on Android (which doesn’t have a launcher) regularly needs to restart after updates, while the Windows version (which does have a launcher) never requires in-game updates nor restarts.

It’s also in general a good place to centralise account management (esp. if parts of the game would need to be reloaded if another account is logged in!)

Lastly, although this is more of a side-effect, but it gives a good place to shows recent news/posts of the company about their game to players, such as when there’ll be downtime, in a way that’s practically impossible for the players to miss.

Not if the managerial position paid 50k and changing oil pays 150k

We do meteorological here in Australia so December to February style.

I think they’re from Australia.

The only software that could do that for me was Steam; saying when I played which games how long, and if it appeared to be on a Steam Deck or not. It did not nearly track all the Deck data, it seems if the Deck has no Internet connection for long enough it kind of just discards data it held and it never gets synced to Steam. For my desktop it was accurate, but only the game time stats it already let me know it tracks.

Since nothing else could “wrap” my annual data I think I’m going fine.

This is just “work smarter not harder” re-invented.

Myeahh I’ll take gold.

That might be a fair point, I don’t know about vampire anatomy.

Ok but the back issues after laying down that long would be insane.

“Disney has gone woke” has to be the stupidest thing to say, they’ve been woke longer than I’ve been around.

I thought you were joking (missing /s) but judging by the comments you mean it?

I don’t think this sounds plausible, no. You’d try to make yourself look completely every time if that were the case.

VPN doesn’t necessarily block telemetry, and some providers, like NordVPN, have tons of telemetry in their clients alone. Even if they come with “blocking telemetry” in their VPN, I guess they want to be the only one hoarding your data.

Use tracker blockers/firewalls, TrackerControl is a good open source app on Android for this, a PiHole can block a lot of tracking traffic as well.

Walcat, if you will.

My dog would indeed go one of his usual routes, just whichever one he liked most at the moment.

Then he got old and him leading the way would mean pissig over the neighbour’s hedge and going back to the couch.

Now he’s not walking anymore. Well, maybe on clpuds.