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Am I obligated to be a pirate in Starfield if I got the game via piracy?

How often do you get existential dread?

I’m pushing half a century in an industry that is not kind to old guys. I try to fend it off but every now and then it hits me. I’m pretty sure this is not unique to my life experience, or it wouldn’t have a term :-)

What is Tom Bombadil?

He is not a hobbit, neither a man, but what is he? Is he a dwarf? A wizard? A god? Something else entirely?

I Can't Drink Now Like I Used to a Few Years Ago (26M), is that Normal?

I Can’t Drink Now Like I Used to a Few Years Ago (26M), is that Normal?...

Do any of you use Raspberry Pi’s ?

For those of you who use Raspberry Pi’s in your home environment, I’m curious as to what you use them for. What applications are you running on them? Do you have your Pi’s setup in a cluster?

For just $30 + $5 a month, I'm able to share everything with my family. Here's how.

(Disclaimer: yes, I bought a $180 4TB Crucial SSD too, but my family split the cost with me since they’re going to use my Jellyfin server. Whether that counts towards the final cost is up to you. And the electricity cost is pretty negligible to run a Le Potato as a server, but I guess you can count that too.)...

Would the internet be significantly faster if there wasn't so much farming of metadata / cookies?

I grew up during the dial up era of internet and remember how insane it was each time the technology improved, broadband, dsl, fiber etc....

Cowboys in westerns always have standoffs because the one who draws first attempts murder, to draw second is justified self-defense

Everyone is armed all the time and that’s normal, but to draw a weapon is an overt hostile act. A standoff therefore is a game of chicken because both want to kill each other and you want to draw first to have the highest chance of surviving, but even a bandit will hesitate to add a felony murder charge to their rap sheet. The...

If the body's natural temperature is about 98 degrees (F), why does it still feel really hot when the ambient temperature is 98F?

Shouldn’t it be the most comfortable temperature? 🤔

Backwards compatibility is the best feature of Xbox, and I don't understand why Sony is so far behind on this

When I got the XSX recently, it was so I can play Starfield when it comes out. That was basically the only reason. I did not realize the extensive backwards compatibility that this thing has. But since getting it, I’ve been playing FF13 trilogy, Fable games, Dragon Age series, Lost Odyssey, etc. Basically all games of note...

I'm so sick of dinky shitty devices with garbage rechargeable batteries

you always have to manage a million different cables for each one, and they all suck. why can’t we just use AAA batteries instead of these shitty lithium ones? it’s so fucking frustrating. where can I find gadgets that work while plugged in, or at least don’t need to be recharged every two fucking days?

[Serious] The revolution was successful! The old government is gone. You get to help write the new Constitution. What do you put into it?

What job do people take way too seriously?

Trying to revive r/aaaaaaacccccccce here on fediverse. Come visit us if you are Asexual and/or Aromantic, or just love our memes and humor.

You can find our community here at kbin.cafe/m/aaaaaaacccccccce...

Where are you? Can you move?

You know roughly where your body is at all times, but where in it is your “self”?...

Do posts from instances that don't allow downvotes have an unfair advantage?

By advantage I mean posts from those instances receiving more visibility than others on feeds that sort by score (active, hot, top)....

Why do SSDs have a more limited number of times data can be written to them, but RAM memory can handle loads of re-writes?

In a similar vein, why can we not use the technology of RAM to prolong the life-cycle of an SSD?

If an alien civilization were to visit Earth, what movie would you pick to show them in order to give them a summary of what mankind is all about?

In 2021, my company laid off 100 people. Later that same year, they hire me and others to replenish this loss

And now, fast forward to 2023, they are laying me off, along with another 99 people....

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