We played the crap.put of that game back when I had an Oculus rift. I assume there is a non-VR version (?), but having the defuser working in VR was a riot!

No weirder than any other accent, TBH.

From a US-centric POV, I always thought the stereotypical Aussie accent kind of sounded like a Texas-ification of the “standard” UK accent. Including the use of wacky phrases and slang.

The original Coke Zero was absolute perfection in a can. Sometime in the 2010s they rebranded to Coke Zero Sugar, which was sweeter and less “sharp” tasting than Coke Zero.

I feel like they have shifted back to the original a bit, but I’m not sure if it’s gotten better, or if I’ve just gotten used to it. But yeah, that OG Coke Zero with the sweetness dialed back was super refreshing when ice cold.

Yeah, the title of the thread is worst names ever. That’s on an orthogonal axis with most likely to make an 11 year old boy giggle

I had to check and make sure I didn’t make this comment and forget about it!

Fucking avocado and white rice…

Honestly, just health care in general being locked behind insurance to the point where people conflate the two conceots entirely!

Dental insurance in most cases is closer to what health insurance should be: an entirely optional, and generally affordable, policy that can offset major expenses. Not an expense that rivals housing in magnitude and is required for most people just to access the basic care needed by nearly everyone.

I had the opposite. In 2007 my mom convinced me it’s conventional wisdom to buy as much house as you can afford, because historically it is one of the best investments you can make.

Thankfully all I could afford at that time was a pretty cheap house…

I was so excited when first got a roomba 5 or 6 years ago, but that faded so fast after it turned into an endless stream of notifications that it was caught under furniture, stuck on a cliff (the edge of a rug), full of dirt, couldn’t find its base, or trapped under a maze of dining room table legs.

I love the idea, but man that was $500 wasted. I’m sure they are better now, but I cant bring myself to buy another one.

I have messed up steaks by salting them too much. But if you pat them dry the day before, sprinkle generously with kosher salt, and them leave in the fridge on a wire rack for up to 24h, it removes some of the surface moisture and helps you get a nice crust.

Packing in salt would definitely ruin them 😩

The best way to get an avocado to ripen immediately is to plan to eat it in 3 days.

Upon receiving that psychic message, they will commit every bit of energy into ripening ASAP so they can be overripe in 3 days.

Wait what? No, it’s from Undone (The Sweater Song)!

Or am I coming down with the 'heimers?

Edit: It’s actually Say It Ain’t So. Alzheimers confirmed.

It was pretty common when I was in high school in the 90s. But for some reason the kids I knew insisted it was fuck-a-nay.

Semi-related, I’ve always liked the Weezer lyric “Somebody’s Heinie is crowding my icebox”.

It’s a great vague double-entendre, IMO.

What does it mean to truly have free will?

Your brain is billions of electrically-reactive cells and interconnections, and your consciousness is electrical impulses shimmering around those cells in a more or less stable way.

A belief in free will implies the belief that you essentially have control over the physical mechanism that makes up you. A brain may not be a fully deterministic machine in the sense that a certain input condition may not always result in the same output, but it seems like a stretch to say that “you” both directly result from and directly control that mechanism.

I’ll have to give that a try, especially if it means one less thing I rely on Amazon for.

Zojirushi is the GOAT as far as I’m concerned. No other brand I’ve used has kept my coffee hot for as long as they do.

My only gripe is that they like to over-engineer the cap/pouring mechanism in their travel mugs, which makes them tough to clean.

It’s been awhile since I’ve had to replace one, but if I recall you want to get the plain stainless interior for coffee / tea, as it picks up less staining and odors than the coated interior.

Slightly off topic, but there is a product called Astonish, which is amazing for cleaning travel mugs and other things that collect coffee oil buildup. Its hard to find in the US at least, but can be found on Amazon.

Not to detract from the glory of that pizza, but that’s more like 0.3 square meters.

11 square meters is literally the size of a bedroom lol

I think what they were looking for (after a cursory search of the post title) was literally gas prices, not electricity prices lol

Personally I deal with it by prioritizing the data.

I have about the same total size Unraid NAS as you, but the vast majority is downloaded or ripped media that would be annoying to replace, but not disastrous.

My personal photos, videos and other documents which are irreplaceable only make up a few TB, which is pretty managable to maintain true local and cloud backups of.

Not sure if that helps at all in your situation.

Would facial recognition meet your risk tolerance? That generally requires your eyes to be open, which is at least harder to get around, compared to someone using your finger to unlock while you are unconscious.

Ultimately, you need to figure out your threat model and which risks you are willing to tolerate in the name of convenience.

If any possibility of someone using your biometrics to access your phone against your will is unacceptable, then a PIN is a better solution.