Because we love em!

Scratching in the "wrong" places tends to be either from frustration, or a lack of stimulation/appropriate places to scratch.

You probably already have some scratching toys/mats/spots, but try experimenting with different orientations; attached to a wall, 45 degree angles, those wave pattern ones, not just straight flat on the ground.

Also, try different materials. Some cats love that rope, others want cardboard, and some are very picky or want both.

If your cat is overweight and leaving streaks or not drinking enough, you should talk to a vet, ideally making an appointment with a nutritional specialist. It may be they are allergic to something in their food, causing intestinal upset. If that's difficult, you can also simply try giving pouches of small gastrointestinal wet food and seeing if that helps.

It may also be because they are too fat to clean themselves properly, and they butt-scoot to clean it that way? You can get special diet food that fills them but doesn't have as many calories.

Probably a capybara, or a cheetah. Both are rather chill animals, and cheetahs are fairly able to be domesticated (and have been multiple times throughout history) at least compared to other big cats.

Both are still a really bad idea, and the latter will probably result in injury or death. After having interacted with two Cheetahs through a rehab centre, I'd be open to try.

Either connect them to a docked Steam Deck by the TV, or my gaming PC, yeah. The Steam Deck is nice, but for an extended session it's quite a hefty device. Being able to have the same controls while laid back on the couch or reclined in a chair would be more comfortable I think.

I've said it before, just.. give me a Steam Deck without the screen, and I'll buy it. I need that layout, it's the perfect combination of features for me.

If I could be greedy, an extra set of back paddles and some extra "spare" buttons would be nice for flight/space sim games.

Both are up to date. I actually suspect this is an issue caused by the newer firmware, but there is only one firmware version available when I looked into it.

I ended up working around the problem, and just using the old NVME as the OS drive and using hibernate rather than sleep. It seems something about going into standby causes the problem, and the system going "cold" by parking onto the disk doesn't cause the same issue.

I've been having the same problem, and it's not Linux specific; this happens on both my Linux and Windows partitions. I've yet to find a clear cause and no amount of changes to power consumption or boot parameters seems to fix it. In my case, the unit is also the boot/OS drive for both.

I suspect it's something related to the NVME, since I did not have the problem with my 1TB unit, it only started after replacing it with a 4TB one. Both are WD, though I don't have the exact model on hand.

I'd love to hear back if you find a fix, because it's got me stumped.

Hell yeah, I would love this now, and probably would've loved it as a kid.

I'm not saying I agree with it, just what I've observed in other discussions.

I'm not happy with generative AI in general. It's worn out the novelty and is very clearly just another tool to extract as much value out of people while giving next to nothing in return.

Unfortunately, the cat is out of the bag, and the vast majority of people don't understand how it works or why it is a problem. Meaning that, not enough people make a fuss, to the point where no action is taken towards legislating against it in a meaningful way.

The end result is games like this, which find a position where it's not quite objectional enough for most people to make a fuss about it.

I think the reason most people are okay with it is, firstly, because it runs locally, not on some massive datacenter somewhere.

Secondly, the type of AI used is either not generative; for the "smart Zoi", feature, where it's basically just an AI driven NPC logic system; you tell them what they should act like in a prompt and it informs what they do and why, taking it a bit further than their basic needs.

Or, where it is generative, it's within its own ecosystem. It's generative, but for its own consumption, rather than polluting the general web with garbage content like most generative AI is. If this causes their own ecosystem to be drowned out with garbage, it's their own problem solve, not ours. They have a financial stake in keeping that ecosystem healthy to engage with, since I believe it's a source of monetisation?

I've played the game for a few hours, but unfortunately I've aged-out of enjoying this type of game I guess. I used to be a big Sims fan, but neither that nor Inzoi grab me as it would have 20 years ago.

The fact that this is normal in the US is incomprehensible to my European brain. I don't think the fluoride is harmful, I don't think there's anything nefarious about it all, I just think it's weird to add things to the water supply?

Water coming from the tap should just be ... water? If you want fluoride in it for better dental health, just add it yourself? Or use fluoride toothpaste?

I feel like if you start doing that, you kinda open the door to mass dosing of other "potentially beneficial" agents. And things we think are safe today, may turn out to be unsafe a few decades from now (see lead, plastics and a number of pharmaceutical compounds that turned out to be unsafe later after decades of use).

At this point there are so many of them, its literally just spam. Also, a lot of the time it's very NSFW stuff that doesn't get flagged at all.

The way you handle the maintenance and openness of communication, and your nuanced take on the world of federation reinforces my opinion that I made the right choice signing up here! Thank you for doing a great job!

And of course, congrats on the kid!

Stability, reliability, don't fix it if it ain't broke.

Some companies have a need to reinvent them every 6 months to justify some middle Manager's existence so they can pad their resume for the next overpaid job position.

This Is what it looks like when you don't have that problem

Give me the Steam Deck layout sans screen and I'll buy several.

So fucking fed up being charged out the ass for a few extra buttons and/or shitty build quality.

I went through RMAing SIX god damn Xbox elite 2 controllers before just giving up and getting my CC agency involved to get my money back.

I just want a controller with back pedals and touchpads for mouse emulation. Is that so hard?

I frequently amaze new colleagues when I show them that deploying an update for our backend application is a sub-second affair. Our pipeline keeps track of what git tag was deployed last, diffs between that tag and the new release, and uploads the files to each of the deployment targets. It takes longer for the pipeline agent to spin up from Cold on a Monday morning, than it does to actually deploy.

The core of the application is just php scripts, and those are either immediately up to date whenever the next call is, or swapped out the next time that component finishes a processing cycle.

Docker containers are nice, but nothing beats the cause of a stack trace being fixed, tested and deployed to the acceptance environment within minutes of it arriving.

This falls in the category of "looks shitty, but could be pretty good".

I once had a variation of this with devilled eggs with minced chicken cooked in a broth mixed in. It was fantastic, so meat in devilled eggs could probably work?

I mean, for 10 bucks anything is a decent deal. Those specs are pretty decent for a simple home server. I'm not familiar with HP thin clients, but I assume you can install a Disdro of your choice on it? My big reason to avoid HP is their crap software and warranties, both of which are moot here.

I would say relatively light software like tailscale, pihole and such would be fine. Docker containers might be pushing it, but that depends largely on what containers you want to run, same goes for nginx; by itself the requirements are fairly low, it depends on what you want to run on it.

Jellyfin might be a stretch, and as you alluded to, real-time transcoding is probably out. It strongly depends on the decoding capabilities of that chip and wether it does hardware decoding or if it all happens in software. The latter might be too much for it. If it can handle it though, it might be interesting as a media player hooked up to a TV, rather than acting as a transcoding or DLNA-esque server.

Oh absolutely. The reason isn't financial, the reason is cruelty. It always is with this shit.

The effect you are describing is "viral load"; the degree to which a virus is present in the body. This is an indicator of how infectious you are. It is especially important for people with HIV to see if they are "safe" or need their medication adjusted.

However, an at-home test will not be a good indicator of this. These have too many variables such as the site that was swabbed, time delays from the various biological functions, how well you used the kit and even variability in the kit itself.

To properly test for viral load, a blood test should be used. I worked with a company that tested for viral load via expelled breath, and while this was a good indicator of infectiousness y/n, and was faster than a PCR, it was not more accurate.