Their service was genuinely good for the short time I used it. You’ll note in my post that I would still recommend it to anyone who doesn’t plan on doing more than average browsing and light torrenting.

They just wanted an excuse to cut me off since I made more use of it than the average person likely does, and their ‘unlimited’ advertising means you can’t actually know what their real limits are.

For what it’s worth, I’ve been enjoying the heck out of AirVPN since then, with absolutely no issues.

It really is a great dynamic pose the artist made here.

Likely more accurate to say ‘know the future’ instead of ‘predict the future’, but the intent is the same. He doesn’t share what will happen, only what will likely happen.

People are being brainwashed with crap like “calories in, calories out” or “exercise more” but that’s just bullshit. It pushes the idea that too much weight comes from a personality flaw and not health issues, but yet any actual (and by that, I mean proper) doctor will quickly search for medical reasons for weight gain because there’s a million of them.

Genetics affects how the caloric intake is handled. It does not change the fact that adjusting caloric intake will directly adjust how much weight is even possible to gain.

Studies concluded that the presence of these genes increases the risk of obesity but does not necessitate obesity. This risk can be ameliorated by healthy food choices, increased physical activity and avoiding other causes of obesity mentioned in this review.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S147021182404572X

My chip is a couple years old and has started to cause issues on occasion with the more finicky readers. I just tap when that happens, but it’s still annoying when it does.

Yeah. https://kb.unixservertech.com/microsoft_windows/nfs_client

https://xkcd.com/830/

NFS over SMB, neither if you don’t plan on doing this like, weekly or more.

Omegas, obviously. Those bitches can’t even handle pregnancy like a real woman can.

“The compound is used as a brain-lesioning agent in scientific research.”

“Ibotenic acid is commonly used in research to create site-specific hippocampal brain lesions in rats”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibotenic_acid

I uh. I wouldn’t chance it either.

We literally know that people with germophobia ironically suffer infection much more because they shoot their immune system to hell.

[Citation Needed]

Dallas area. https://freeplayinc.com/faqs/

We have a local barcade, but with actually pretty great arcade games. They charge a cover fee, close down to minors early, and charge nothing at the games themselves. It is the best thing ever. Makes the arcade experience honestly better than it was back when it was actually big.

I love that there is a genuine argument for the first movie being darker, despite the gore scene in this comic about a theoretical second movie.

Anyone can learn to use an office suite on their own in very little time so there’s no reason to teach it.

That is one hell of a take. Do you say the same thing about building a budget?

Hobbies and meetups. It doesn’t need to be DND, but little hobby groups always start around the hobby, which then grow into little friend groups around that hobby.

My last DND group was started by me literally texting people I saw on the lfg sheet at the local game store. It takes work to find a group, or start your own, but it’s worth the effort to find a group of people to hang out with regularly.

Also, big gatherings are not a bad way to socialise. They’re just not a good way to socialise for me. Personal experience varies.

Oh! One more. If you’re struggling to sleep, and waffle house at midnight isn’t in the cards, put your body in timeout for a bit. Move out from the bed to a cold floor (like the kitchen) and lay on that for a while. Then, once your body knows that it could always be worse, head back to bed.

This assumes that the usual tricks, like good sleep hygeine such as avoiding screens before bed, aren’t available. You’re better off going with what science knows to work when you can, such as morning excersize, over a last minute tip like this.

So for those of you with diagnosed / actual issues that can’t be fixed with a couple habit changes, this won’t really work. But for everyone else, I’ve found these things to actually be super helpful when managing sleep and food.

To fix the nap issue, you gotta combine it with caffeine. (Quickly) drink some form of energy drink, and then take your nap. The caffeine will wake you up and you’ll feel a lot more energic about it afterwards.

To reset a sleep schedule (ie, you’ve been going to bed at 2am for the past couple days and now you struggle to get to bed on time for work) skip dinner and go to bed early. The lack of food and going to bed early is like a little soft reset to your sleep schedule. It’ll be a lot easier to get to sleep on time the next day after this.

Snacking throughout the day is the easiest way to gain weight. Lots of little food means you continually feel hungry and that your caloric intake is a lot higher than if you just had two or three proper meals. This is great if you’re trying to gain weight, but terrible for maintaining you current weight or trying to lose weight. If you’re trying to lose weight, you’ll likely be feeling hungry a lot and this isn’t really fixable, however, maintaining your current weight shouldn’t leave you feeling hungry all the time. I’m not a food person, at all, but picking better food options that don’t leave you feeling hungry before your next meal time is the better choice compared to adding a small snack to try to fix hunger.

I’m also not a normal person with regards to people / extroverted stuff, but I’ve found that big gatherings of people, like a bar or house party, are incredibly shitty ways to manage the need to socialise. A small group of actual friends is a much better way of helping with loneliness. I’ve been way happier with a small DND group meetup every week or so, as opposed to a meetup group every couple months. You gotta put in the work to find a regular group of friends, but it’s worth the effort to do that, compared to just finding a big party every couple of months and feeling sad about it.

The average spotify 3:40 song is going to be about 4MB. This only changes to triple (10MB at the same length for premium and high quality) that size when you pay for it.

If Spotify is using more than 50MB on the audio cache, they absolutely deserve to get ragged on for it.