Streptember

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35PUIhDUFZo

Very relevant.

Basically, it’s a combination of new foods and exposure to new bacteria.

Highway 145, mile marker 78.

It is.

Lack of sleep and leisure time will do more damage in the long run than the short term benefits of 16+ hours of learning a day will ever do good.

At least it’s digital rights control now instead of your rights depending on a fragile piece of plastic and aluminum.

What good is legally owning a game if I lose access to it just because it physically broke? I’d still have to buy it again (or pirate it) if anything happened to the disk, so IMO, it’s a wash.

We give up legal rights in exchange for extra short term safety and convenience. And if Steam or the developer ever takes it away from me, I can always just go pirate it to get it back.

I’m fine with the dongle because all I ever use the headphone jack for is for listening in my car (no bluetooth), so the dongle just stays on the end of the aux cord in my car.

No dongle would obviously be better, but it’s a very minor inconvenience for me,

And the two established businesses just artificially lower their prices to keep out the competition, forcing the third to stop trying to compete.