this is Linus Torvalds, the guy who originally wrote Linux and is still in charge of kernel development

male, female, or anywhere in between — the spots go all the way down

Regular prices for my location in the US Midwest are around $11 for a 12-pack of Coca-Cola products — that’s twelve 12oz cans. Sales are frequently run for “buy 3 (12-packs), get 3 free”.

You can get roughly the same per-can sale price by buying flats of 35 cans from warehouse clubs like Costco every day without waiting for a sale, but the warehouse clubs don’t carry every Coca-Cola product, usually just Coke, Coke Zero Sugar, Diet Coke, and Sprite.

Pepsi products cost roughly the same.

the AI hype cycle has blown past NFT levels of stupidity

haven’t used Google’s search engine for a long time, but a quick test seems that appending -ai to your search still returns results without the AI overview at the top of the page

the results are still loaded with trash and ads, though, and this won’t work if you’re searching via voice on your phone

Sí, pero OP usó el género incorrecto.

Bohemian college towns tend to be pretty cool. Bloomington definitely doesn’t fit the standard Indiana mold

of course they ate the crayon, they couldn’t read the instructions anyway

I have a lesbian friend who picked up doing her nails as a new hobby during COVID, and she progressed from basic polish to giving herself full coverage extensions over the years. She did a set of stilettos like these that looked fabulous and I told her as much, but I asked why she left the nails on her right middle and ring fingers natural. As soon as the question left my lips I realized I’m an idiot.

hrm. I never thought of doing that, I’ll give it a shot. Thanks!

I’ve gotten so used to having the extra re-mappable buttons on the back of controllers that I won’t use one that doesn’t have them, and have even modded both of my DualSense controllers to add them. The 8bitdo controller I mentioned has ‘em, plus it has hall effect joysticks, so IMO it’s even better than the 1st party “elite” controllers and it still comes in at half the price. If I were going to make heavy use of the extra touchpads on the Steam Controller I’d definitely be buying one.

looks great, but I’ve been pretty damn happy with my 8bitdo Ultimate 2 which goes for ~$55 US. I use it on the PC and the rare occasion I fire up my Switch. I have no doubt Valve will make the Steam Controller an excellent piece of kit, but going by what’s been released I’m not sold on it being worth almost 2x.

The 8bitdo controller doesn’t have capacitive touchpads and motion control only works on the Switch, but I’m not entirely sure I’d get much use from those features on the Steam Controller. I never use the capacitive touchpads on my SteamDeck, and gyro control has never been more than a gimmick when I’ve used it on other systems/controllers like the DualSense. I use it more for quicker character selection on an on-screen keyboard than in games. For people who DO make use of those features constantly, maybe the extra value is there.