It is outright ridiculous to say that undergraduate degrees are standard and one would get similar education out of MIT and Oklahoma State University. The professors are not the same, the facilities are not the same, and the peers are not the same. May I ask: are you making this shockingly incorrect statement after completing an undergrad degree at MIT or Stanford or similar school, and being disappointed in it?

Who needs to stop taking themselves so seriously?

I’d like to remind you that we’re in a drought, please limit your shower time.

Ok many comments bash OP for the word choice “prudish” to point out this is a bad faith troll. I would also point out the issue with “hate sex”. There are people who are not prudish at all, and love sex, and still don’t want to see lewd things. Famously, arousal reduces thresholds for feeling disgust. I would argue that it is quite normal for humans to see overly revealing images of most bodies off putting, unless in an actual sexual situation. Then, there are people, I would be fine calling them prudish in the lack of a better term, as shyness kind of undersells this, who really don’t want to see, hear, talk about, or even mention sex. Someone like that can still really like sex- doing it, not talking about it. So “hate sex” is not the same as “don’t want to see explicit porn all the time everywhere”.

Or the grass is more resilient

I just realized what a fantastic headline writing loophole this is. You can add

, experts argue.

To the end of any headline, because it is true that experts can argue a lot, and the comma does the heavy lifting. See:

Training cats to dance could solve the RAM shortage, experts argue.

It’s even better than the good old

Can training cats to dance solve the RAM shortage?

4chan? I don’t know if it’s still around. I’d guess nobody except a clinically psychotic dude locked up in a basement with nothing just a computer would read a forum like that though.

Quite the dishonest argument, especially fuck off with the water is processed too line. The problem with processed foods is not that they go through a manufacturing process, but that the end product contains added sugar, salt, saturated fat, or nitrates in amounts not typically found in fresh homemade foods. The rest is semantics.

Depends on the bank and the type of account. I have an accont that had 0 balance and 0 activity for years, and it’s still open. I had an other account closed for inactivity (with decent prior notice). In another case, I have received an email from the bank that due to inactivity, I can either close the account or they will start charging a monthly fee.

Sounds like products like huel and soylent are just for you! Would be healthier probably.

Good find, it’s shady as fuck they healthy-wash the processed food. But your post is also interesting for a second reason- you care about eating healthy and do some specific diet, and yet you plan to live on frozen apple pie, whose nutritional value, traditional or not, is practically just sugar with fat? Unexpected choice for a conscious diet.

And a widow (around half of married people).

I would be interested in the reverse: a service that regularly scrapes a list of google photos shared albums and saves the new pictures to immich.

As most answers talk about writing, pretending that the question is a valid one, I suggest to take a step back. Crossing the ts and dotting the is is a saying, originating from times when penmanship was important in making good impressions in correspondence. Today, people use this saying because it is a common and short way to describe a certain type of activity without getting into specifics. People today don’t use this saying because crossing ts is always on their mind. Your question is like asking: when you look the gift horse in the mouth, what are you exactly looking for? And then lemmy users stating to make up stories how they one day actually got a gift horse but before accepting it they wanted to make sure vet bills wouldn’t be crazy high.

Sure, but daily changes in account value are not money lost. Sry for being too serious but there’s something about characterizing responsible financial planning as gambling that annoys me.

What is priceless about Reddit is its reach. In real discussions on niche topics, you get a volume and diversity of viewpoints that are simply not available here.
However, they have the algorithm, so you have to doomscroll through hours of low effort noise to occasionally bump into a good post.

Anyone wants to try commenting

I don’t care for communism

Why, how much did you lose with it? How did you do it?

I’m the same way. I have a PC but I don’t want to game at the desk anymore, and I have a deck but not everything feels right on the small screen. I was going to get the steam machine, but the price came in higher than expected, and I would also need to get a controller… I will wait and see how the release goes. But there’s some fomo, because the deck has been out of stock for a while (I couldn’t upgrade to oled)

Unrelated to the topic of the article, looking at the graph made me realize that GPUs didn’t use to be so expensive, and the change is not so recent.
I have been gaming on PCs since I was a kid, first on a 286 in DOS. I don’t remember what were the first games, but I think it was ASCII graphics. Sprites were of course even better.

https://cdn.mobygames.com/screenshots/2255336-prehistorik-dos-level-1-begins.png

I have been building my own computers for decades. I never wanted to spend more than necessary, so I only updated things every now and then, and I always picked a good value GPU from the budget to mid tier. I always understood that PC gaming has a niche where people build monster configurations with powerful GPUs to run games at max settings with unnecessary high resolution and frame rates. It makes sense for a hobby, it’s cool. But you don’t actually need that much power to enjoy games, right?

What I just realized is that the slice of people who look for high performance GPUs for games is likely much bigger than I thought. At some point the industry made consumers believe that you need 4k and 120 fps (or maybe more). That the point of PC gaming is to beat the specs of consoles. But that’s so not true. A PC is great because it’s a general purpose open platform to run whatever software you want. If a game is not fun at mid setting full HD 30 fps, it’s not fun. How many of the people dishing out north of $300 on a GPU are competitive e sports players or popular streamers? Probably most of them are not. 90% of the progress in GPU hardware is likely spent on generating frames that are not perceived at resolutions that are not seen.