You had me until multi-account Outlook access. Why not just use different browser profiles?
That said, the Outlook application is necessary for lots of things, like saving email files (record keeping) and mail merges, but the number of accounts has never been a problem for me. I have 9 active email accounts spread across three/five different platforms (depending if you separate corporate vs. free), and I use web apps (by choice) for all of them, aside from popping Outlook open for the aforementioned mail merges and digital record keeping for email files.
But absolutely true for Excel. It frustrates me so much when I'm stuck on a computer with even slightly outdated versions of the Excel application. SORT, FILTER, TEXTSPLIT, and so many other functions are so much simpler than the many workarounds I used to kludge together.
But fuck Teams. The application is just as garbage as the web app. Those two fail/crash ten times more than all the other apps on my computer *combined". I've crashed three times in a single meeting. It must be vibe coded, bolted together, janky, spaghetti code.
... But I'm not sure if it aged well for anyone without nostalgia for it.
The combat has two options, but they aren't balanced with each other: real time or automatic/calculated, but 8-directional movement with a tiny FOV with absurdly fast hero characters on massive maps don't play well. Yet, depending on the matchup/combat system choice, you can have 1 hero defeat thousands of troops, or thousands of troops die to 20 archers in a tiny castle that was built between the end of your turn and the start of combat. It's a bit silly, and very exploitable.
Also, it can drag on for a long time after it's patently obvious who's going to win.
The level up system is pretty cool, though, both in individual matches and with your commander. And the story/challenge missions can be proper hard, for those looking for a challenge.
I'm Canadian, but I was diagnosed with a 15 minute phone call with my GP. Granted, I have professional training in this area, and had examples prepared to match DSM criteria, but adult diagnosis can be very straightforward.
Yeah, idk what parent poster is talking about. I totally didn't spend the bulk of yesterday afternoon redoing a small project from scratch because I couldn't decipher what I did two months ago. Nope. That would be ridiculous! So glad my human-written code is so much better than AI code.
Great game. Highly recommended if you like the idea of challenging turn-based, tactical combat that plays like a puzzle game. Doubly so if you like the sci fi aesthetic.
There's great replayability, too, since your starting mechs completely change your strategy. I played this game enough to win a few times, but I never figured out how some of the starting teams are supposed to be played. I'll go back to it at some point, when I'm feeling the itch.
FTL (by the same developer) is also great and is a bit more forgiving of misplays, so I'm able to win more often (well, on easy/normal mode. Yes, I'm a scrub.) It's real-time but with limitless pausing, so it plays more like a turn-based game.
The Overton Window is shifting further and further Right by the day, and it makes me sad.
We have a (small "c") conservative government in Canada, and I was celebrating his victory because it kept the (big "C") Conservatives out of power... But our government's policies are alarming, and are only good insofar as they aren't as terrible as what we'd have with PP in charge.
If this were happening somewhere else – in Latin America, say – how might it be reported? Having secured his grip on the capital, the president is now set to send troops to several rebel-held cities, claiming he is wanted there to restore order. The move follows raids on the homes of leading dissidents and comes as armed men seen as loyal to the president, many of them masked, continue to pluck people off the streets …
As a Canadian with young children, I worry for what their future will look like, with an American dictatorship to our south.
They're also used as cleaning tips for small/targeted applications, especially when you don't want lint from a Kleenex or paper towel lingering. Makeup application/removal and electronics cleaning, for example.
I think (not a doctor) the ear thing is because if you go too deep you can cause some serious damage, and they can make wax buildup worse by compacting it. If you stay close to the ear opening, and do circular motions to swipe wax away, and clean your ears often enough that you don't get dense wax build up, and don't "double dip" to introduce potential pathogens, then I think they're pretty safe to use? But that's too many caveats for lots of people, so I think ENTs often deal with people damaging themselves with them.
Hall effect joysticks would be great. The rest I don't really count; obviously, better performance/bigger screen would be an incremental improvement, but I don't need it. The OLED screen is plenty big enough.
I (personally) would never use detachable controllers and wouldn't want more moving parts that could break. Haptics and adaptive triggers I don't care about improving. For sound, I prefer headphones for when I want "good" sound, too, so that wouldn't make a difference for me.
Even hall effect joysticks are only going to matter to me if my current joysticks break or develop play.
This one I'm excited for. A Steam Machine would be great, and my biggest gripe with controller play on my desktop is the missing trackpads mean Steam Input didn't work. There are games that I choose to stream to/play on my Deck over using my 1440p 32" screen on my gaming rig because I don't have Steam Input on my desktop.
I'm not really sure what's not perfect with the OLED already, lol. Maybe a second USB-C port would be nice, so we could charge it while using a non-hub device, or use a cheap hub to add even more controllers? That's a minor, incremental improvement, though.
It could always be smaller/thinner/quieter, I guess, but I can't think of anything I'd really want to change with my Deck. I have lots of minor pain points with other tech, but I literally can't think of anything with the Deck, so I'm curious if you have any specifics, or if you're just trusting that Valve has put some real thought and research into this and will surprise us with design changes for the better that aren't obvious.
Realistically, everyone should probably be updating their BIOS when building a new computer. Often, early updates have the biggest fixes, right?
We all should probably be updating our mobo BIOS periodically, at least for the first years or two when there are still significant potential updates/fixes, but I don't blame anyone who doesn't; it's not as straightforward as Windows Update doing everything for people.
My (major Canadian) Bank app (TD) has always just worked, no matter the state of my bootloader or root, and I've never bothered with Magisk Hide or anything like that to try to dodge root checks.
Even if the score is kept off, there's the angle of the Sun and cloud cover. There's just less sunlight to be had, even if the panels are kept clear of snow.
Hell, Vancouver Island gets practically no snow at all in many areas, and solar does much worse in its cloudy/rainy season (winter).
Liquid fluoride thorium reactors are designed to be meltdown proof. A fusible plug at the bottom of the reactor melts in the event of a power failure or if temperatures exceed a set limit, draining the fuel into an underground tank for safe storage.
Nuclear waste is way overblown as a concern. The total volume of waste is miniscule, relative to the power generated. Nuclear also uses almost no land for the reactor, compared with solar, and is essentially 100% dependable 24/7/365.
Solar is great, and costs are diminishing incredibly rapidly. And if the news of sodium-based batteries at ~9% the cost of lithium batteries plays out, then storing solar becomes cheap. Still not dependable for Canadian winters, of course. Solar also uses lots of land, and lots of mass of semiconductors (which of course has its own climate impacts to produce, ship, and recycle/dispose of).
I'm not super looped in to the technology specifics, but I understand that some modern nuclear designs are meltdown proof, too, so there isn't really any rational NIMBY case to be made against them.
Having read the whole article, they don't have any specifics that justify their concerns. They quote the price of nuclear facility construction, but don't contrast those costs against any competing technologies, so the numbers are effectively meaningless. They complain about nuclear waste, but their only evidence is quoting NIMBYs who don't want a facility put in close to them.
I'm open to being convinced that nuclear isn't in Canada's interests, but this article did not make a compelling case.
You had me until multi-account Outlook access. Why not just use different browser profiles?
That said, the Outlook application is necessary for lots of things, like saving email files (record keeping) and mail merges, but the number of accounts has never been a problem for me. I have 9 active email accounts spread across three/five different platforms (depending if you separate corporate vs. free), and I use web apps (by choice) for all of them, aside from popping Outlook open for the aforementioned mail merges and digital record keeping for email files.
But absolutely true for Excel. It frustrates me so much when I'm stuck on a computer with even slightly outdated versions of the Excel application. SORT, FILTER, TEXTSPLIT, and so many other functions are so much simpler than the many workarounds I used to kludge together.
But fuck Teams. The application is just as garbage as the web app. Those two fail/crash ten times more than all the other apps on my computer *combined". I've crashed three times in a single meeting. It must be vibe coded, bolted together, janky, spaghetti code.