Seems a lot snappier for sure!

I bought it in September, and it’s still downstairs with the wrapping on it. I’m desperately trying to get through Watch Dogs Legion, and then I’ma give it a go.

And you currently have more snow than we do in Canada lol.

Nothing screams, “I’m a piece of shit”, like basically putting on blast you are a piece of shit. I, too, never fully agreed with DEI as a whole. But I understand and appreciate the context and the point, and the necessity. It’s nothing to be mocked.

I also don’t look at the video game industry for inspiration though. Somehow the video game industry has a more rape-y and toxic culture than even the grimiest hockey dressing room. All that incel rage, I suppose.

You might be able to find the APK somewhere for pandemic. Might not work for the modern android builds, that’s likely what it is. That game was hard a f___.

I was a Bluesky fan, until it was announced they took money from Bain Capital last week. They’ll quickly be forced into monetization, and enshitification, thanks to their new corporate overlords. Who just happen to be one of the greasiest PE firms in existence.

Don’t put your blinders on folks.

Anytime you see anything from this “Gamespot”, just ignore it. Total click bait.

Apple has been dead since Jobs took his last breath. He was pretty morally bankrupt too, but at least the products were innovative. Apple hasn’t done shit since, except milk a very milked out cow to death.

Definitely check the angle. Even having those hoods mounted down the curve a few more mm can knock everything out. These friggin road bikes lol.

Sounds like you have it roughly figured out though.

What about the reach on the bars though? Look that up to make sure there’s not a big difference there, before buying the seat post. The bars on my newest bike are 15mm shorter reach, so the stem is actually 10mm longer than the one I was running before.

That’s 50% of the battle. The grim reality is for some people, there’s only usually 1 or 2 styles of seats that will be comfortable for them, and it can be brutally expensive to figure this out if you try to do so yourself (not trying to push a fit, but…). Some people seem to be saddle ambivalent, I got a buddy like that, like you could stick him on a plastic 1970s banana seat and he’d be fine. But if you are like me, my butts pretty selective.

Case in point, I’m a stick of a person (6 foot, 165lbs), and for some unknown reason I have a crazy wide sitbone width, like my road bike saddle is something crazy like 168mm wide. Figuring that out was half the battle. But I still couldn’t get comfortable, and I’ve tried pretty much every manufacturer between my mountain bike and my road bike in the first half dozen years. My findings were for mountain bikes, my saddle has to be a WTB saddle, and it doesn’t really matter which one, but WTB or bust. It seems to be something with the general profile of the shape, not so much the padding. Whereas with my road bike, Specialized branded saddles seem to work best. Especially the ones with the Mimic insert, which are actually marketed towards ladies, but my bike fitter put me on one a few years ago and I swear by that thing now.

Sore wrists can mean your seat is a big too high too. Or your reach is too far. Try holding your bars 10mm back from your hoods for a bit, and see if your hands still hurt. It’s not always the stem either, sometimes bars can have too much reach as well, it kind of works in concert. But yeah pull your hands back for a bit and it’ll definitely feel kind of weird but just focus on seeing if your wrists still hurt after riding in that position for a bit.

If it’s better it’s your reach. If it’s not, drop the post like just a hair, and see if it’s better. It could be seat position too for sure, but I believe it’s usually reach to look at first if it’s in the wrists.

It sounds so cliche, but bike fit. It’s not even really an option on a road bike, at least in my experiences. Sure, on my mountain bike I can comfortably ride away like a slouchy gorilla flopped on the couch, but it’s got like 170mm of full suspension travel and this big cushy seat, and honestly you are always murder gripping holding on for dear life so you don’t even really notice anything about creature comforts.

That road bike though, I mean it looks awesome, but that thing is like riding a rock. It’s stiff as hell, everything is locked into place and there’s no give anywhere. Not to mention clipless pedals, and yeah, it’s uncomfortable unless someone slots you into that exact spot, at that exact angle, and I swear to god that magic spot must be like microns wide, we are talking human hair width kind of stuff, and no one will ever convince me otherwise. It’s like magic. You get someone to put you into that exact spot, and you could probably ride that thing all day long in your boxer shorts if you wanted to. Otherwise, it’s a death sentence for your genitals and your butt cheeks, not to mention all kinds of other soreness and unpleasantness.

Just go get a fit. They usually cost like a billion bucks, but there’s no cost too high for comfort.

I use Dynamics365 as my accounting software to keep track of my own personal stuff, which is tied in pretty tightly with excel, I wouldn’t be able to export anything without it. Actually I’m not even sure I’d be able to use it at all really. I also use Word more often than one would think, just for general around the house things. My investments too, like I use excel exports to do analysis on tables of data, stuff like regression and 50 day/200 day plotting, and general chart analysis. Probably could maybe get away with that on the free stuff, I’m not sure.

You don’t need pro to do any of this. The normal Office Home license is sufficient. And for personal use, it would be a real son of a gun if you accidentally downloaded them off the office website and then went to https://massgrave.dev/ and by grave mistake typed in a few of those commands

You probably don’t for personal budgeting and tracking of items for tax purposes. Any run of the mill spreadsheet will work just fine for that purpose.

I’m a chartered accountant though, like think of me as a free agent if you will, I’m not tethered to anything or anyone. I do professional work or give professional advice in exchange for currencies of various origins. My work as such, is a bit more complicated, and I need Excel. Sometimes I have to shared access to files for instance, or I need to share a file with someone, who won’t have libre because they are using Excel locked behind a corporate environment they don’t control. Libre Calc does have some unique functions that I’d argue Excel doesn’t have, but on the flip side Excel has more advanced functions, and xlookup, which I pretty much use every day. Google Sheets isn’t even in this conversation, and I personally have a hard dislike for Google Workspace apps in every form.

It would be nice if there was an actual alternative, and I think Libre would probably be the closest viable one. The gap is narrowing. Microsoft Office is atrocious in price, but thankfully easily hackable though, although in a professional environment you have to be more careful with this, than you personally would care to be. It’s also a memory pig for absolutely no reason, and so full of historical bugs they haven’t cared to fix for 30+ years. Plus some new ones that are infuriating. And you could set Microsoft Word on fire with no complaints from me.

Yes. I’m a self employed professional. I mean I have different computers, I have my laptop for instance which is for work only. But it’s still my laptop.

That new UX for outlook is infuriating though. I had to switch back to old outlook.

I’m an accountant. My life would be plenty hard without Excel. Google or LibreOffice are nowhere near sufficient. As much as I hate to admit that, because I’m definitely no fan of Microsoft, but for me there’s also no alternative.

I’m also old enough to wish that LotusNotes and Lotus123 won the race. LotusNotes especially, it was the shit.

Epic has had some good holiday giveaways over the years, but this one is a dud. This has to be the third or fourth time they’ve given Control.

…a wooden sloop suddenly pulls up, and a man shouts out

“Arrrrrr there matey. Have you tried searching one of the repackers?”