We’ve had that in Germany for many years but for the last few years, many supermarkets in my region have stopped using the tokens. Looks like the “training” worked though, as I still never see any unreturned shopping carts on parking lots.
Train driver as a young child, then later game developer. I’m a software developer now, not making games, but pretty close as I mainly work with game engines. Due to various reasons I’m now considering quitting IT altogether at some point though.
Basically all porn I consume is fictional, so I don’t have that issue.
I’d say I’m at a very fluent level when it comes to understanding and writing. Most of my media consumption is in English and I can understand it just as well as German. I even think in English sometimes.
Speaking is a slightly different story though. I can still communicate just fine, but my English becomes much less eloquent compared to my writing. I just don’t get to practice it very often and even when I do, it’s usually talking to other non-native speakers, so we’ll both be talking at a relatively basic level.
No, and I don’t think any country really is nowadays. I expect it’ll still be a better place to be than where the bombs are getting dropped though. Unfortunately Europe quite often had the misfortune of being that place.
If you do decide to go (and I can certainly see why you would), you definitely shouldn’t try to apply for asylum, but get a proper work visa for your country of choice. No country currently accepts asylum applications from Americans as far as I’m aware, certainly nowhere in Europe. And even if you somehow managed to do that, coming here as a refugee is no pleasant experience. You’d spend at least a couple months living in poor, very crammed conditions among people from countries where homophobia is much more widespread than in the US.
If I ever decide to leave Europe, my plan was always to go to New Zealand. Seems like a good place to escape global geopolitics and/or a possible WW3.
He probably would have tried to do even crazier things than Trump, but I doubt he would have had a similar cult of personality around him, nor the loyalty of the republican party that Trump has. So I imagine he would have been impeached very quickly and things might have ended up slightly better.
Probably Minecraft. Can’t say how many hours, as it doesn’t get tracked but I started playing in 2009, when it was still a free browser-based game. Had a server with all my friends on it and played it pretty much daily for a few years.
I still remember my first day at school, especially getting my Schultüte, which had a steam train design.
How are the ecosystems? Does the choice of brand lock you in or out of particular titles? I suspect his main goal is to play gorilla tag and similar.
The Quest has its own ecosystem of native VR games that run directly on the device. You need to create a Meta account to use the headset. However, it’s possible to sideload apps to it and you can stream PCVR games to the Quest.
Is Metaquest 3 an objectively good/decent product? What are some viable alternatives?
As of right now, the Quest 3 is a decent-choice hardware-wise, probably the best in terms of pure value and it has the largest userbase. The big downside is that it’s made by Meta. It’s also a bit of an unfortunate time to buy a VR-headset, as it looks like the upcoming Steam Frame will be a better choice, once it releases. If your kids birthday is still a few months away, it might be worth waiting for a bit before buying anything. It’s completely unknown when the Steam Frame will release though.
Something like a Pico Neo 3 could potentially be an alternative if you want to avoid Meta. For purely PCVR, there is also the Valve Index, but that’s more of an enthusiast-level device that requires a more complex setup using base stations for tracking.
He’s got a decent phone and a half-decent PC. Will the same headset work for both?
The PC should work. It doesn’t stream phone games.
How much HPU (if any) is required to drive one of these decently?
GPU I assume? Well, for one thing, it can run games standalone, though those games won’t have impressive graphics. For PCVR streaming, I’d recommend at least something like a 1070, preferrably something much better.
I was still a high-school student. Got baptized and confirmed in 2008. Bought an iMac from the gift money and became a bit of an Apple fanboy for a while. I’ve since left the church and no longer like Apple.
They have been doing this for years and only yesterday, I decided that I won’t tolerate their behavior.
You write you won’t tolerate their behaviour anymore, but only 2 sentences later you write that you’re hoping that they’ll stop picking on you if you do this. That’s not just tolerating their behaviour, that’s encouraging it.
I decided that I need to get a stable grade first, no matter what.
Depriving yourself of sleep will be extremely detrimental to your mental and academic performance. That’s just biology and no amount of “grindset” can change that.
Upon considering my routine, I found out that If I need to do well in my studies and overall life, I can allocate myself only 4 hours of sleep at most. And I need to continue this for at least 4 years.
Then you need to reconsider your lifestyle and not your basic biological need for sleep. Ignoring the latter will make you miserable and ill very quickly, along with being so detrimental to your academic performance that any time gained will be worthless.
There have been some recent studies on Dementia/Alzheimer’s that seem quite important for prevention, such as the link with inflammation such as periodontosis and viral infections..
So far, I don’t. Xtorm and Recable are some I’ve seen mentioned.
Those “overpriced” products in your local stores?
You’re supporting your neighbors.
Depends. If I wanted to buy some cables locally, it’d have to be at the electronics store the next town over. It’s part of a chain that was just purchased by a Chinese megacorporation. They sell a single brand of shoddy quality cables for a huge markup, all made in China. At that point, the more ethical choice would be to purchase some Made in Europe cables online (just as pricey, but at least my money won’t go to China).
Naming generations like that wasn’t really a thing in Germany until American pop-culture brought it over, so these days we also use Millenial, Gen-Z and so on. That said, an important generational divide was those born before WW2 and the generation immediately after. When the latter people became adults, they started to question what their parents were doing during the nazi era and how it could be that former members of the nazi party still held public positions in Germany. They started a protest movement that would finally start Germany properly working through and taking responsibility for the crimes of the nazi era.
Mushishi is a great one. Love the calmness of that show.
Having a healthier sleep schedule.