Oh I understand now. Forgive the misunderstanding - in my area you can take public transit or rented bicycles to campsites. And not wanting to spend the night around eachother regardless of separate sleeping areas is valid. Maybe a walking tour of a historical area in a town or city would be nice? There’s sometimes free pamphlets or audio tours that can accompany a walking route.

Camping! Assuming that you and your friend would be fine spending the night in separate tents. Campsites are usually $30-$50 and often have pools, fishing holes, hiking trails, minigolf, etc.

Related xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/

7" non-OLED screen is a hard no from me, regardless of everything else.

I think it’s interesting that Microsoft is leaning into Windows on Xbox devices. It lends credibility to the rumor that the next Xbox console will run Steam natively.

What’s a computer?

Choccy milk and cookies. It’s been my weekend treat since I stopped drinking a few months ago. It feels childish but it makes me happy and keeps me off the booze, so I’ll take it.

A House-like TV show about troubleshooting computer issues would be absolutely fascinating to me and a dozen other people. All along you thought it must be drivers but it turns out that the exact RGB configuration used on the case fans combined with the anime waifu wallpaper caused a slight over-voltage on a RAM chip resulting in game crashes and only Hackerman was brilliant enough to see it.

I finally got a Plex client up and running on a raspberry pi for my CRT TV. So now I can watch all of my old movies and shows without swapping out a DVD when I’m comfy.

Yatta and the related flash animation comes to mind. There was a period in the mid 2000s where every anime con had a group of buff nearly naked guys wearing nothing but a leaf as tribute.

Yep you got it. So for people with only minimal vision issues it might not be worth it, but for those with severe vision problems it may be worth the risk even though their vision likely will degrade slowly back to their original prescription.

The sample size of that study was only ~300 people. A study with 20,000 participants in Singapore found that 90% of patients had 20/40 or higher vision after 10 years. It found that high-myopia (-14+)(the most extreme form of near sightedness) patients had a much higher rate of regression, with 39% of those patients losing 2 points or more from their vision within 10 years of tratment (and likely choosing to wear glasses [not listed in the study] or get retreatment [27%]).

So basically, if you have extreme vision problems before LASIK you’re much more likely to have to wear glasses again down the road.

Also, worth pointing out that almost everyone will need reading glasses as they age regardless of LASIK. This conversation only surrounds glasses for near sightedness.

Two years, and I had to wear headgear. Not sure if that’s still a thing, but it was a big metal contraption that went around your whole head. The pain was unbearable and I had no social life from how weird it looked.

That sounds absolutely amazing. Adding it to my reading list.

Rereading Ender’s Game. I had first read it when camping years ago and somehow misplaced it when I was 5 pages from the end of the book. I was so salty about it that I never picked up another copy to finish it until now.

I think it’s good that I waited because the political B plot hits home with the state of the world today.

Edit: I finished the book tonight. I was not prepared for that kind of trauma.

The title is intriguing. What’s it like?

That would contradict Rule 30.

Idk man, air conditioning is pretty nice.

Traveling to hang out with my old college besties, then a pride festival

Zoos are awesome! Share some pics later.