Or because of the crack epidemic.

And “stranger danger” is actively harmful.

I do wonder what they think will happen when that child goes off to college and experiences the unfiltered world they were shielded from for 18+ years.

And the funny part is, statistically, we were much, much less safe in the 80s.

Yep. This map seems like not much more than a heat map of general violent crime in the US, which is firmly caused (not correlated to, caused) by higher levels of poverty.

There are such things as non-alcoholic mixed drinks.

If I’m going to advertise for Avast, then they can pay me.

As a kid, I always was just given a budget for Christmas. Thankfully I don’t have kids myself, but if I ever change my mind on that regard, I’d probably do the same thing once they’re old enough to be an active participant in such a discussion.

I assume an actual musician would be able to judge and appreciate a guitar’s quality and worth. The kind of person who would scoff at spending $100 on a guitar probably doesn’t need a good guitar.

A car breaking down absolutely can be a serious problem. Car repairs get expensive fast - often an expense people simply can’t afford - and most people in the US rely on their cars to get them to work. No car, no work, no job, no money, no fix to car.

I always thought “first-world problem” was just a self-deprecating joke, or an acknowledgement that you must have it pretty easy if the problem at hand is the kind of thing you worry about.

Do not trust 5TB of your data to a Seagate.

Do not trust 5TB of your data to a Seagate.

Well-educated doesn’t necessarily mean experienced in unrelated matters like finance. Engineering school doesn’t necessarily have a Common Scams And How They Work seminar and knowing how to build an engine doesn’t matter if you don’t know how a money order works and how it’s exploitable.

I have over 250. Admittedly, I only use them for limb damage and use food for real damage.

Your job sounds terrible.

It isn’t (always) about not having their shit together. Just in hardware terms, it’s impossible to thoroughly test all possible interactions of components a customized PC can be built out of, any one of which might not play nice with any other part for no good fucking reason. The scientific explanation for this is…

Shield and Shadowplay do come from nvidia’s website. They’re not required (yet), but they install unless you do a custom installation. As is the “GeForce Experience” app.

Wow, that sounds like horrible luck. But AMD is notorious for its driver support. My laptop has an AMD GPU and so did an old computer of mine, and I just plain stopped updating my graphics drivers because they’re always problematic.

Well this is certainly an entry in the Most Depressing Lifehack competition.

I simply bought a large quantity of powdered caffeine and (this is important!) a milligram-accurate scale for precise measurements.