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OK. another "Haus Decor Note"... There are 4 decor items you can get in the BFA version of Darkshore. An Elven Brazier, A forsaken brazier, A Banshee Queen banner, and an elven light sconce. They drop off the rares. The rares are "kill once per week per character for loot".... EXCEPT for...

This seems to be normal for the Ozympic track. Essentially it slows your digestive metabolism a bit, which is the appetite suppressant side of it. For me it's always been about the math. If you have a smart watch (like I have a Samsung Galaxywatch) it can help you by giving you an estimate of...

Modern MS Sync isn't bad. The original versions weren't horrible, but were primitive. I still remember when we got my wife's Escort in 2013 I am tinkering with it and see it has a wifi access point built in for some reason. I turn it on, connect, and run nmap. Dear fucking God..... I can...

Oh yeah, we still had my employer based insurance, and they still billed a ton to it. But you end up paying a premium out of pocket for that heightened level of attention and dedication. When I said it added a hundred or two to the budget every month that was on top of having my insurance for...

Insurance DOESN'T cover it. If you're in the US, google up "Concierge Doctor" in your area. The idea is you pay a yearly "membership" to the practice essentially. What this allows is that instead of being like a normal PCP where the Dr needs to have thousands of patients to make the practice...

My caddy is metallic gunmetal gray, but only because I was going the CPO route so it limited my options. The option I did want (Kona brown leather interior with metallic blue exterior) was officially called the "unicorn build" because so few were made in the initial run.

I will say this. I do agree with @Cad in that everybody needs to be engaged and involved enough to be an active participant. if you have an IQ north of 120-ish you shouldn't have any problem understanding medical terminology and situations. Hell, when @Mrs. Haus had her kidney and other...

I'm in the bucket with @Onoes in terms of how well financially the rest of my family is doing relative to them having figured out that I'm doing pretty well relative to them. I only have one relative who even skirts around wanting to borrow money and asking, that's my brother in law. But one...

NGL, one thing which let me down a little in player housing is the "Last Architect". He had daily quests, each quest will give you a piece of decor. There are 50 quests in total he has. I thought that once you hit that 50 mark either he'd just start randomizing, or you'd get some last "big...

When I bought this house I was lucky. The previous owner was an Electrical Engineer for Raytheon. They had converted the existing 2 car attached garage into a home office and workshop for him. Then they build a detached 2 car. So I have a space for my 3d printers, and various "small...

Ah yes.. the "we need to start using the garage as well.. a garage again" moment ;) I had the same thing with our 2 car detatched. It had devolved over time into a combination workshop/storage shed for us. Then when I had to do some major structural work on it (replacing a lot of studs in the...

Maybe we just lucked out... Maybe it's the fact that she drives very little... All I know is that I had pooled up the cash to get her a nice CPO compact SUV (probably Lexus, maybe Audi from what we were shopping around) and she came up with the idea of "Can we just get the new features I want...

If you read up earlier you can see I've already done this into my wife's 2013 Ford Escape (it had a crappy Gen 1 Microsoft SYNC system). Drop in Sony head unit replacement has worked like a dream, plus the Maestro module to integrate with the cars onboard capabilities gave her new features she...

I'm hoping for that as well. But also I'm aware that the drive by investors to see everything through the lens of ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) is pushing every type of manufacturer to try to figure out a way to turn whatever they make into a "service" with a "subscription". The auto makers...

And now as a friendly public service announcement. Remember, we don't take down the Xmas avatars until the Epiphany (Jan 6th) ;)

Yes, but Anaconda will never hold the crown for worst special effect snake so long as copies of "Hard Ticket to Hawaii" are still floating around. But that was late 80's. Potentially a whole different "bad fake snake" genre....

So I have been tinkering with things and looking at how to build a model. Obviously I don't have the data centers to train a model from scratch but I was looking at incremental retraining/additions to models. I've been looking at the concept of LoRA (which is small scale adjustment/retraining...

I agree, and it's usually the fact that I'm brining up research, or asking questions about root causes, and things such as that that my PCP would often gloss over, but this PA seems to take seriously and dig in on which is why I appreciate her. My PCP loved starting off any diagnosis with "So...

This has been a strange experience for me. I have had the same PCP for around 15 years, even through them moving practices. Within the last year it finally happened where I am getting nudged into using her PA instead because she's "always booked" unless I want to schedule an appointment 2...

Unfortunately realistic take on a situation : https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/apple-carplay-general-motors/684799/ TLDR : Get ready to lose Apple Carplay and Android Auto in cars as car makers realize they can just remove those to force you into buying data plans and features...

That's been one of my biggest concerns involving the GLPs, the downshift in metabolistic energy. That's one are I fight against right now, I'll have cycles I go through where I just have serious issues generating the energy to get up, get moving, and do shit. I don't want to put more of a...

I felt this way for quite a while, now I am embracing better living through pharmaceutical sciences. I'm still not taking a GLP because I don't have that much weight, and I know the stuff I'm about to get back on (Testosterone supplementation, creatine, and possible a couple other bits once I...

And today I come to you to refresh my hatred of modern Ford vehicle engineering. Earlier I think we covered how @Mrs. Haus decided that instead of a new car we should just "rejuvenate" her existing one since it still has stupid low mileage and she doesn't drive a ton. The last step of this...

They make this point a few times in the comics , usually when he's sparring with Wonder Woman and she hands him his ass repeatedly because she was raised for combat and comes from a straight up warrior society, and has near equivalent tier strength to him apparently. As for this movie, it will...

I did not realize how good I had it.... @Mrs. Haus , some number of years ago, did a kickstarter for a "fancy mouse", and gave it to me. I've used that little workhorse for years now, and it started flaking out (would disconnect and then reconnect itself rapidly and the OS would say "That USB...

(As has been discussed a bit elsewhere)... I'm in cybersecurity, I suppose we're "AI Adjacent" as we have explicit AI security tools we sell. Admittedly only 4-5 of the "major" cybersecurity players I know of were above the S&P. But our top two competitors are both on that list, just sucks a...

Depressing moment for the month.... Realizing your company didn't beat the S&P500 this year.

Reading comprehension for the win, I mentioned that I couldn't have been happier with this turn of events. So in theory the comment should have been in the pickle tickle thread, but it was a response to someone being rustled by Chicken Noodle Soup dinner. heh

Oh yeah, @Mrs. Haus and I were chugging up into the M40+ territory just as a duo (Two DPS, no tank, no heals, no brakes!) and that was before I hit 999 vers, but there are a couple which are bugged on certain bad mechanics that don't scale right (like Eye of Azshara) and if you get those as your...

My brother in law went hard Texan on Christmas dinner this year. Turkey? Spiral ham? F that shit... Brisket and pulled pork. I don't know if I could have been happier with the outcome.

OK. I am officially in jimmies fully rustled mode... After making it a point to let me Tism flow and grind it out I get to 99,999,999 Infinite Power and despite reading multiple places about it being there, there is no FoS for it. In the write ups, including a couple blue posts on it, it was...

@Mrs. Haus getting ready to do some last minute baking for Xmas family get together tomorrow..... Looks like I'll be steering clear of the banana nut bread...

I think the very first rule of being "that girl" is that you don't need to point out or try to convince people that you're "that girl".

She bought a car with speedometer that goes to 130 and damnit she's going to get her money worth. (Full disclosure, my Caddy speedometer goes over it's max tested track speed, which I brought up as potentially false advertising when I bought it. At the advice of my counsel I am not disclosing...

And now a day later on a serious note. I find myself this morning at a juncture, a fork in the road so to say, and looking at a decision which might define my remaining career trajectory until retirement. I've been in cybersecurity sales for around 15 years now, as a pre-sales technical...

At what point does that vTuber realize they're literally just the first iteration of it? A human using an AI animated "skin", then the AI gets better, then the AI starts not needing a human to do it's talking. Assuming that vTuber isn't already actually an AI. I will admit I couldn't take...

Important identification guidelines for us olds...