So i tried to connect steamdeck to pc using usb and i read its immpossible because steamdeck is a computer and some explanation on quora about strong master slave relationship. But then why is it possible for android phones to connect to pc whilist also having the ability to use USB and other usb c accesories. Also why cant it...
An option for me to buy a house has come up very suddenly and it seemed like a good idea at first - but I look at a mortgage and think “that’s 15 years I’ll spend paying back, at absolute minimum. Probably more like 25 years” - how can I possibly plan that far in advance?...
I purchased a home for $485,000, with 2.74% interest rate and a 0.25% PMI through the native American home loan plan back in 2020.
With taxes and everything my monthly payments are $2,600 to the penny.
If I wanted to rent a two bedroom apartment, I would have to pay $2,100 a month in my area, if I could even find one that cheap.
So for an extra $500 a month, I get several thousand dollars a year off of my taxes, I get easily three times the space, and I get to do with my property anything that I want to do.
And, assuming nothing crazy happens in another 20 years or so it will be mine and all I'll have to do is pay taxes.
Assuming nothing else goes wrong, if I decide to move in another four or five years, I will be able to recoup a huge percentage of the money that I have spent on this home, if not actually turn a profit off of it whereas if I had only paid rent during that time period all I could do would be to leave with what I happen to have on me.
A mortgage is a huge responsibility. Owning a home is a huge responsibility. But it's also an opportunity to build up my finances and to establish myself.
Since owning a home for the first time since I went to college my net worth is greater than $0.
One thing to note is that if it is at all possible for you, as soon as you get your mortgage pay one additional mortgage note.
That $2,000-$4,000, whatever will go directly to the principal and will save you some multiplier of itself in interest fees and knock months if not years off of your total mortgage term.
And if you can, pay an extra $100 a month or whatever you can fit into your budget alongside your mortgage premium.
Assuming you actually pay off your mortgage over the full term any extra money that you pay down on the principal will pay themselves back to you in decrease of the total purchase price of your home.
If you have a legitimate plan to move out within 3 to 8 years and to sell, then maybe you don't have to worry about that so much but if there is even a chance in hell that this is your forever home then it's well worth it to spend that money.
Most personality tests will not tell you anything about yourself that you didn't already know, it will not give you any insights into the correct way to live your life or what is going to work for you.
However, it can help you frame things about yourself in a new light or to help you come to understand the way that you work inside of a larger social picture.
So they don't work to tell you who you are, but they help you be who you can be.
YouTube first spoke about pause ads last year when it started trialing them in select regions. At the time, the company said that when you pause a video, it will shrink, and an ad will appear next to it....
Lucky! I found mine on the side of the road and I had to stuff all the strings back into it. Took me ages!
Then I got like this dinosaur infestation I had to wipe them out with a fucking meteorite, and now I'm pretty sure I've got humans and I don't know what to do anymore.
Yeah they're following the IBM playbook of being the operating system that businesses run.
I just wish they would take a hint and release a paid version that has none of the ads, none of the bloatware, and none of the bullshit.
I feel confident that I could pay them just as much money as they would ever earn from mining my data and annoying the ever-loving fuck out of me and I would be happier about that.
But since they won't do that fortunately there's things like Atlas OS.
I'm of the opinion that everything that gets passed off as a meme isn't necessarily a meme. Sometimes they're just funny pictures. (Actual humor content may vary)
Memes should have something to do with a commonly understood phrase or thought in the culture and highlight those.
Of course, with enough push those funny pictures can become memes but ideally they would start as a meme and then have comedy added to them.
This post was inspired by a dream misadventure I had last night where I was just minding my own business getting gophers out of the rice field, then suddenly on the intercom/announcements (which I did not expect to have in my dream, since I was outside, not in a building), a voice said “attention, this is a representative of...
I wrote it out as if it were the spec script plot of a movie.
Guys out with his friends watching the eclipse and all of a sudden some other guy walks up behind him puts an umbrella up and covers over the view right at the apex of the eclipse. He turns to look at that guy and the guy says don't look at the Sun. As soon as he says that all of the main characters friends suddenly explode in a puff of dust.
The guy starts freaking out and then eventually they end up working their way back to the house as he has the other guy the angel explains what is going on
It's the end of days. the eschaton. And the Sun is claiming every single person it can.
This guy claims to be your angel. To prove it he shows obviously hobbycraft Dollar store wings and a Halo that's clearly being supported by a strand.
The guy says that there must be something going on I'm going to look at my phone as they're driving around and right as he's about to open up the news the guy slaps the phone down and it says don't look at your phone.
As someone who freezes the video should be able to see a picture of the eclipse on the phone, from a camera stuck pointing up at it and everyone who looks at it to turn it off instantly explodes
Why did the angel save the man? Is the Angel actually an angel? What things happen?
The angel says that the guy is not exactly the best dude in the world. And given that is the end of days this is the last chance you'll have to make everything right and the angel kind of goofed off a little bit so you know I got to figure out a way together to get him into heaven so that the angel also gets to go to heaven and to do that they've got to do some good deeds really fucking quick, well everyone that even catches a glimpse of a reflection of the eclipse Sun immediately explodes into dust.
To me, the differences are like the differences in the types of repairs that you need to make for a car.
People of color experiencing racism is like significant engine damage, white people experiencing racism is like failing to do an oil change.
One will require significant downtime and massive expense to properly repair, the other one inconveniences the driver and increases the likelihood of bad things happening in the future.
Both are still bad. They are unacceptable in a well-running machine that is properly cared for, and in the latter case, if it is neglected long enough it will lead to equal damage as the prior one, but as far as things that must immediately be addressed and repaired with with the utmost urgency, the former takes the Cake.
Maybe a better vehicle analogy would be hail damage.
People of color experiencing racism is like severe hail damage to the hood and roof of a car, which can cause the vehicle to be totaled and lose significant value even though it is fully functional, whereas white people experiencing racism is like a broken windshield, which can make the vehicle difficult or illegal/unsafe to drive but is relatively easy to repair and does not decrease the value of the vehicle any more than the cost of the repair.
Instagram is profiting from several ads that invite people to create nonconsensual nude images with AI image generation apps, once again showing that some of the most harmful applications of AI tools are not hidden on the dark corners of the internet, but are actively promoted to users by social media companies unable or...
Yeah it was fun in the beginning, after all who never thought about being transported to another world where you ate a big hero with swords and magic?...
You're in a new world. There's magic and sword play and monsters to fight. You get some skills and abilities that give you a decent chance to survive. I'm perfectly fine with that setup.
But what I want once you have been given that setup is an interesting world to explore.
Interesting characters to meet.
Actual challenges and hardships that have to be overcome by the main character.
Real relationships with people that have their own goals in life.
And character growth that happens organically given the constraints of the system.
We have far too many Mary Sue protagonists who never failed anything and never do anything wrong and who have so much power and are just so kind and giving in every single way and everybody loves them and nobody could beat them even if they didn't love them.
We have far too many villains whose entire character Arc is "hurr durr look at me I'm a villain".
And for some reason when those villains get converted into sidekicks they always become comical parodies of their former selves.
And finally, even in a harem situation, the main character should neither be asexual or a man whore. Let him have some feelings about the person he's with and not automatically fall into some unspoken love scenario with the women around him.
If you're going to have romance at all in your isekai anime, let the guy actually have some preferences and pick one person and stick with them.
Like I get it you've got to give people a taste of the familiar but the taste of the familiar is only to lure us in. Once we are in, you need to give us something new and strange and stressful and worrisome and make us doubt the outcome of the next series of events that are going to happen.
I have nothing against the harem situation, it's fantasy, and since magical fantasy women never have issues other than the "I'm not good enough for MC" arc and are literally just there to provide some function in the main character's life then it's fine.
I just would like people to have opinions about what they want.
Re zero did a pretty good job of that. Obviously the main character is head over heels for the main female protagonist, but he also stated that if he were to run away from everything, which is valid because he's only advancing the plot by dying horrifically over and over again that he would gladly take rem with him and be perfectly content with her.
Most of the small to mid size companies that I have worked for would choose a larger more established system that costs more even if it offers less over a self-hosted one that they had to pay some sort of fee for.
Is like this weird idea in the business world that if you're using Foss systems that it must be completely free, and that the reason why you are using it is because you are broke or cheap.
My guess is that if you're going to start a MSP you can do that with Foss and probably have a lot of success as long as you've got the sales chops to get the contracts.
Then you can funnel some of your customers money to foss well also increasing awareness and adoption of the better free and open source software programs
I've seen it once, and I seem to be practically psychologically unable to cry, so rather than crying I walked around feeling like I was carrying a hundred pound millstone around my neck for about 4 days.
It's a beautiful movie with every last single one of the studio Ghibli traits that you have come to know and love.
But it's not a cartoon for little kids. I highly recommend that you watch it at least once if you haven't, just don't let your kids watch it until they are adults.
There is a small chance that it is on Disney Plus, but I don't have a Disney Plus subscription anymore so I can't verify, I just know that they purchased studio Ghibli.
why cant we connect 2 computers using USB
So i tried to connect steamdeck to pc using usb and i read its immpossible because steamdeck is a computer and some explanation on quora about strong master slave relationship. But then why is it possible for android phones to connect to pc whilist also having the ability to use USB and other usb c accesories. Also why cant it...
First-time home buyers: how did you feel about getting a mortgage?
An option for me to buy a house has come up very suddenly and it seemed like a good idea at first - but I look at a mortgage and think “that’s 15 years I’ll spend paying back, at absolute minimum. Probably more like 25 years” - how can I possibly plan that far in advance?...
Your body is completely dark except for the 1 molecule outside layer that light hits.
Is there a "personality test" you've done you found helpful?
Most are made up and silly....
Apparently, the sidewalk ends inside someone's vagina. (lemmynsfw.com)
YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' (www.androidauthority.com)
YouTube first spoke about pause ads last year when it started trialing them in select regions. At the time, the company said that when you pause a video, it will shrink, and an ad will appear next to it....
Make straight lines straight again! (lemmy.zip)
Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements. (www.tomshardware.com)
Am I the only person who doesn't like memes?
If Start menu ads in Windows 11 aren't bad enough, something worse might be on the horizon (www.xda-developers.com)
What was your most recent dream?
This post was inspired by a dream misadventure I had last night where I was just minding my own business getting gophers out of the rice field, then suddenly on the intercom/announcements (which I did not expect to have in my dream, since I was outside, not in a building), a voice said “attention, this is a representative of...
Racistm (be polite) (retrolemmy.com)
Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps (www.404media.co)
Instagram is profiting from several ads that invite people to create nonconsensual nude images with AI image generation apps, once again showing that some of the most harmful applications of AI tools are not hidden on the dark corners of the internet, but are actively promoted to users by social media companies unable or...
meme, and reality. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Hello guys, I’m curious about this meme, is there some literature where I can find someguides to test this? Thanks....
Am I the only one who's sick of the isekai?
Yeah it was fun in the beginning, after all who never thought about being transported to another world where you ate a big hero with swords and magic?...
Pick! (lemmy.world)
Me irl
What's your fave movie of all time that you love to recommend to people?
For me it’s Interstellar, it never fails to make me ugly cry at least twice during each viewing