I’ve always answered “Fighting words” when someone asked if was American. (I live in Australia, and the assumption that my accent is American always irked me)

These days people who do ask where I am from do so by asking if I am Canadian, a sharp contrast to when I moved here over a decade ago. I guess some other Canadians have dropped the polite corrections and gone straight to growling.

Used to buy succulent seeds online, and sadly there were a fair number of scammers selling seeds for what appeared to be gorgeous, but non-existent photoshopped succulents.

Scammers gotta scam, and AI makes it easy.

Maybe you and I can go splits. You can have my share of the stone if I can have the pain relief part.

For real. Everyone already has their friend group, their clique, whatever. They often say they are open and welcoming, and sometimes are for a while. They don’t try to get to know the newcomer, regale then with stories of their already set in stone group, and make promises they have no intention of keeping. Newcomer leaves, and they don’t even notice or care to reach out, and if they do, it’s purely performative and there’s no follow through because they already have their group.

So far, so good. Thanks much for this!

Mint. I’ve gotten the popping/crackling to a minimum, but it’s still happening occasionally. (Oddly it happens most often with games that have sound disabled both by OS and via in game)

Thanks! Still having some problems with sound popping, but had that under Windows. >.<

Not surprised in the least. It’s all about maintaining incoming cash flow.

They cancelled my Win11 (from purchased Win10 eligible upgrade) key earlier this year when I replaced a failed motherboard.

Happy to be free of their ecosystem. Should have jumped free long ago.

It’s wild that one can experiment on a populace and get them to pay for the ‘priveledge’ do it to themselves or their loved ones.

Asha was absolutely put in place to be glass cliffed.

Not sure Xbox will be gone any time soon, but once Asha has taken all the blame they’ll get back to the same old BS.

I dropped it around the same time for the same reason. And yeah, got told I was overreacting and leaning too far into the woo-woo.

Same for wax (candles).

Had a tealight that I thought I’d put out the night before. It smouldered overnight, caught fire and my 5 year old woke me saying she could smell smoke. Half asleep, I poured tea on it.

Fireball to the face and a screaming child was a really unfun way to finish waking up. She was safely out of the blast, and luckily I had only minor burns.

Props to Grannycrackers for handling the aftermath with such grace and humour. Not sure I would be half as composed as her. (Or half as chuffed at getting to ride in a police car.) Hope she smashes her fundraising target.

Looking forwards to the news of the arrest of the no-lifer who swatted her.

I’d prefer text over audio, so long as I can skip the text when I am done reading. (Grr argh to the games that have both, but won’t let me skip because the NPC isn’t done speaking.)

Being able to choose either as the primary information delivery would be fantastic.