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Does free university also mean free housing and meals? If not then you might still want to set some aside for university or invest some in some account that lets you easily access the money if you need it in the coming years. Beyond that the rest of the advice in here applies: take some amount for something fun or useful, pay off/down any debt you might have, and invest the rest. You’re young so I assume you don’t have much debt. Investing with a long-term mindset can work fantastically for you at this age. Obviously there’s a lot of short-term uncertainty in the world today, but if it’s money you don’t need now, the long-term risk/reward or cost/benefit leans heavily towards investing what you can now.

TL;DW: the seats don’t recline, even in first class

Do you mean for sharing links on Lemmy/the Fediverse? There was discussion around this a while back and in the end the consensus was that it was most useful to just use the direct YouTube link as the primary, then optionally include a link to an alternative front-end. That way it was easier for people to use their own preferred front-end, and it avoided a problem we were sometimes running into where enough people would try watching a link at the same time that it would overwhelm the alternative.

I’ve certainly considered it just for the upgraded image/TV compatibility and I think the price is reasonable, but their products always seem out of stock and I would assume the original devices are still less-expensive, though less compatible with current TVs

Interesting website; I did not know New Hampshire has a secessionist movement.

Did you click the wrong discount? $79 is the price for 100.

There’s a part of me that would be tempted to buy a Nintendo 64 if I ever found one, just for the authentic experience with Mario Kart 64, Goldeneye, and a few others.

The classic tracks usually vary some in newer versions of Mario Kart. Typically I’d say it doesn’t make a difference, mostly cosmetic, but sometimes it’s significant. SNES Rainbow Road is one I’d say is dramatically easier in the remakes, and I’ve seen comparisons showing wholesale changes on others to the extent they’re hardly even the same track. It mostly seems to impact the SNES and GBA tracks, though. Not as many real differences in tracks that were already 3D models.

Don't go in expecting any multi-player features at all though, this is firmly designed as a single-player experience. And, honestly, that works against it. The AI drivers are…quite often complete morons. Completely bunching up, smashing into each other in groups around some corners and so on. If you're going to make a pure single-player racer, the AI needs to be better than this.

Do you know the name of the settlement/power plant in the distance?

“Yeah, let’s try it. [Korean-style steak sauce is] not something I’ve made before,” says Mancuso, remembering his script, “so I could definitely use the help.”

Then at the end of the article they embed an Instagram video from 2023 of Mancuso making a Korean-style steak sauce. chef’s kiss

It just makes me think of certain old crappy Sony TV production monitors that would stop working in color but if you hit them in the right place they’d work again for a little while. Sony sold the parts to fix them for more than a new monitor so a lot of stations just put them places where it didn’t matter if they were black and white instead of color.

Why is it in Argentina?

Why were you punching the PC?

I can’t remember going to anything besides Godzilla Minus One

Which they mention:

If you look at the exploded x-ray-style animations in Apple’s keynote, you’ll notice something else about the inside of the iPhone Air. The computery parts are all up in that bulge at the top, which Apple calls a “plateau.” Not just the cameras, as we’re used to, but also the SoC and almost everything else.

That makes sense if you want a really thin phone. But it also makes sense if you want to make a foldable phone, which is just two thin phones with a hinge. All the computer guts can go in one little bump, and both sides can be filled with battery.

We still don’t escape physics though. That second half of the phone still has a screen that has to be powered, so the overall battery life is likely to be very similar to that of this year’s Air.

I guess so, since they don’t have their hands on one yet

I take it the playfulness is a good sign for Sandy

The best way to get a long life from a battery is to have a bigger one than you need, and only charge it to around 80% of its capacity. This can increase the overall useful lifetime of the battery significantly—up to 4x in fact. But with a battery running at its limits, like that in the iPhone Air, charging to 80% might mean the difference between lasting through the day, or having to top off the charge to get you over the line.

Apple knows this, which is why it has introduced a new MagSafe battery pack, which takes the claimed max video playback from 27 hours to 40. Of course, this means that you have a battery stuck to the back of your phone, and despite the promise in the keynote that you can still slip the package into a pocket, what’s the point? After all, the entire reason for buying the iPhone Air is that it’s slim and light. If you’re going to use the battery all the time then why not get the 17 Pro, which has better cameras too?

However, its method of preparation is polarizing, and it has been negatively compared to Lunchables.

When I was a kid I was pretty excited to get the “pizza” Lunchables

I remember when one of the Guitar Hero games was first released for Xbox, they soon had a big problem where lots of guitar peripherals were behaving strangely. I think in the end the whammy bar wasn’t always going to what the sensor read as 100 or 0 or something like that because of weak springs or poor physical fit with the plastic, and in the end the fix was basically to adjust how the values were read in software.