I was actually doing a tonne of research back in April on Martens vs Solovairs. Ultimately: go with Solovairs. I’ve had mine since April and have had 0 issues since finding the right ones and getting through the break-in period.

A few of my notes:

• Go down 1/2 a size. I recall reading a Reddit thread where users said to go down a full size. I wear a 10, but a 9.5 was the right size for me. I did have to exchange mine, but it was free so Injust had to wait
• There definitely is a break-in period. The shoes will be a bit uncomfortable, but shouldn’t be unbearable. Once they’re broken in - a week for me IIRC, they’re a dream

As other lemmings have mentioned: Martens used to be good. But something happened, Martens switched to cheap labour & cheap materials, and a lot of the original workers left & started Solovair.

I’m in the apple ecosystem so I’ve got AirTags.

I use them for:

• Vehicles - so I can find it if I go to a big venue / in case it gets stolen
• Pets - we recently had a cat in our family run away. Turns out they do that if they know they’re going to pass away soon, so we don’t really have closure / can give them a proper burial
• Checked luggage while travelling - If it gets lost, we can tell the airline which airport it’s at to help them find it

I feel a class action lawsuit incoming: “Advertisers using customers likeness in ads, without providing compensation”

Clearly it’s a screenshot of a blurry photo

This was my rig until I got a cross-body bag. Now everything goes into the bag, except my phone. That way I don’t need to carry everything around while I’m at home; and I don’t need to keep loading / unloading my pockets at night or going out

Flaky Layers 🫦

• Start business. Business very small, want business big. Big business happier than small business.
• Need money to big business, small business not enough money.
• Ask another big business for help small business
• Big business tells small business: We give you money, you get big, you owe us money back.
• small business always trying to be big business

I’d talk to the parents first and let them know what their kid did and how your kid has expressed that they’re not interested in their kid in that way.

Then I’d probably sit down with both kids and explain to them that while the gesture is very nice, from your perspective and in your culture, this level of gift is seen as a dowry. Usually dowry’s aren’t given unless both parties are for sure interested in each other romantically.

Now as a teenager, hormones are running wild, and so a friend may come off as a lover. I’d say you’re stepping in and declining the offer to prevent a friendship being ruined. I personally was in the exact same situation, decided to stay friends, and they’re one of my best friends to this day

No, I don’t think so?

As an amateur photographer myself, I gotta say this is an awesome pic!

I fully flipped over every device in my house off windows about a week or two ago, and so far so good!

I’ve been daily driving linux on my personal laptop since 2009 (16 years now!?) for school / work / personal work-esque stuff, and my work laptop is now OSX. A few weeks ago I flipped my gaming machine from windows to popOS and been quite pleasantly surprised at how well gaming on Linux is these days. So much so, I convinced my wife to let me flip her gaming machine to Linux as well.

The only hiccup I’ve recently had was having to deal with windows-only, non-steam software. Ie. insta360. Luckily, there are compatibility layers / emulators I can use to be able to run it. It’s slow, but good enough.

At this point, there’s no good reason for me to go back to Windows or anything Microsoft. It’s even become a red flag when I hear a business is using Microsoft’s products. I want to hope Microsoft gets a wake up call at some point soon and turns the ship around, but I think they’ve got too many big-company deals to have to worry about their consumer products being shite.

A great example of what’s wrong with streaming services today

I will put money down that it will not. A game that’s in development for this long will not live up to any level of expectations

I’d like to point out that one 747 is ~$400 mill… [source]

Final boss of Dark Souls

#7 Can instantly see inside any empty container

Everyone that watches Love Island and won’t shut up about it are now transparent

So the UN?

Linkwarden user here. Can confirm - it’s a great tool to dump links for later. I’ve setup an iOS shortcut that lets me share links directly to linkwarden. Super handy

I’m definitely going to raise my kid on older games (maybe not the Atari 2600 per se, but same idea). Newer games don’t teach you how to think or persevere, but adjust feed your dopamine receptors so you’ll keep buying the next game.

Look at Pokémon. Green / Red / Yellow: tough as shit. Grinded my Pokémon so they’d level up so I could beat the gym boss; and learned that some strategies were better or worse against various problems - ie. certain types of Pokémon were better against other types. Now? You can walk into a gym with a level 3 Magikarp and win the game.

There are some exceptions like Dark Souls / Elden Ring, bbuutt the general trend for the industry is to make the games trivial, flashy lights, and include day 1 DLC for all that mmoonneeeyyy