Can you renounce US citizenship if you become a citizen of a different country?

After the whole article, I still don’t know is she’s voting for or against trans people being forced to use a bathroom matching their biological sex rather than gender.

Duh. It’s weak because of Brexit, it needs to be soft touch because it’s lost the influence to be anything else.

At this point I think Keir Starmer is actually a covert conservative trying his hardest to undermine and destroy the Labour party for decades to come.

A very minor one, but only in a roundablut way. Valve weren’t targeting a performance boost, but a battery increase. They went for a newer generation of their processor with roughly the same processing power and slightly more efficiency. The thing is, because of the added efficiency it can sustain high loads without throttling for longer. Between that and the minute differences in processing power, it happens to have a tiny bit of a performance boost, but it’s very very minor.

With the vibe of this drawing, I feel it’s asking for a weed plant pot strapped to a frog.

I love this, thank you so much!!

I’m going to add another thing I’ve learnt in the past couple of years. No organisation method is perfect, and IT’S FINE to ditch a method and try a new one. No shame.

No, you haven’t failed, no, you’re not “incapable” of doing GTD or using Kanban or Todoist or whatever. It can be the case that your life has changed and what seemed like a good method 6 months ago, just doesn’t work anymore.

The reality is life changes quickly, and when you’re a student at 22 you need different strategies and methods to when you become an intern at 23 to when you have a decent but different job at 26 or when you become a manager at 38. And in between all those things there are many small steps - you move countries, you start living with your partner, you have a child, you start your own company, you decide “fuck it, I’m not working a 9-5 anymore and I’m going to live off advertising things on Tiktok”.

Whatever happens with your life, it’s a process, not something static. So as tempting as it is for us NDs, you can’t blame yourself when your method fails to contain the huge chaos of the neurodivergent mind. Plus let’s face it, if you have ADHD you’re likely to get bored of it and at that point it’s better to find something new than to just give up altogether on the idea of organising.

(Same advice applies to many other fields, e.g. exercising - gym might stop working for you but you can always start swimming, or bouldering, or whatever, up until your life changes and you get bored).

I think a better purchase in the fujifilm realm is the instax link wide printer.

Your phone is likely to already take far better photos than the Evo and will get upgraded over time anyway, improving the quality of your Fuji photos. Plus, if you eventually get a DSLR (or mirrorless given we’re in 2025) you can also print instant photos off that.

The Evo only has a 1/3" sensor (an iPhone’s is far bigger and nicer) and a 16mm equivalent focal length, which means nothing like bokeh or subject separation - it’s almost literally a 2018-spec wide-angle phone camera sensor attached to an instax printer.

For me it’s a no brainer. If you already have an iPhone or any phone that takes semi-decent pictures, the instax printer is cheaper and gives you that link to the analogue world.

The other instax you have serves as a “semi disposable” camera that you can still keep but that you care less about (e.g. for going to the beach).

This category normally is considered EV rather than hybrids because of the ICE not being connected to the wheels. They are usually called “EREVs” for Extended Range Electric Vehicles. The BMW i3 with the optional range extender of the first generation Chevrolet Volt / Opel Ampera are examples of it.

PHEVs (Plugin Hybrid-Electric Vehicles) are what they’re called when you can charge the vehicle as well, but the internal combustion engine is connected to the drivetrain rather than just the battery.

When the iPhone X was released (2017), the £1000 pricing was considered ridiculous. Most flagships at the time cost about £600 (this is what the 2016 iPhone 7 cost at launch, with the iPhone 7 Plus having a starting price of £720).

Obviously this didn’t stop Apple from selling them like hotcakes and establishing an immediate +30% increase of the flagship smartphone prices.

Today, a Galaxy Z Fold starts at £1800. This is a +146% increase over the 2017 release price of the Galaxy Note 7.

According to the bank of England, we’ve seen a total inflation of 34% in the 2017-2025, while phones have increased their prices by >100%.

So yeah, no surprise there. As phones keep rising in value, they are going to continue becoming an increasingly desirable target for thefts. A gym bag full of smartphone boxes can easily have over £20k at retail prices, and easily fetch £10k when sold at a hefty discount, but a smartphone store doesn’t have the security measures of a jewelry store. I can see how it’s attractive to thieves.

That they’re not republicans in disguise.

This 100%

So this is what AI is good for!! Install a few datacentres, train GPT-7, and boom, icy moon is no longer icy or uninhabitable.

I don’t use Heroic that much so I might be misunderstanding things, but isn’t that exactly what the OP has said wants to avoid?

How are you launching the games, through Heroic? You could create multiple shortcuts to Heroic as non-steam games, one for each game you want; this is what I do for GeForce Now. Then use a decky plugin to change the cover / etc on the menu so that you have different icons for each game.

Also, if you look up the ID of a game on SteamDB, you can set the name of your “Non-Steam game” shortcut to that (e.g. 3792227499) and when you open it you’ll get access to all the custom gamepad layouts people have made for that game. They’ll stop showing up once you revert the name to something more readable, but this will give you temporary access to set one.

Sorry if this is not very clear, my brain is working at half power right now and I feel this message came out a right mess. I hope it’s a helpful mess though!

What’s the purpose of saying “god” so many times? This reads like a prayer for the ML model 😂

For the Sony? As an “enthusiast” the app is not the problem, the problem is more that the sensor has almost 50% surface area than what you find on a Xiaomi 13/14/15 Ultra, a Vivo X100 Pro / Ultra, Oppo Find X7/X8 Ultra, etc.

The app is a problem if you just want a “point and shoot”, and then you could install a GCam and deal with the hacky bits. However, if that’s what you’re after, you’re likely better off buying a Pixel / Samsung Galaxy anyway.

As someone who’s moved from Sony to Xiaomi, I think their flagships are great phones… Going through an identity crisis.

They are heavily marketed towards camera enthusiasts. So much so, that they’ve neglected the automatic camera modes, and the collective wisdom says that to make the most of them you should take photos in Pro Mode.

…which would be great, except for the fact that Sony put a 1" sensor in the Pro-I (well, they technically didn’t use the whole sensor, but still) and never attempted that again. Then you have Xiaomi, Vivo, etc, actually making phones for camera enthusiasts that can, in Pro mode, produce minimally processed images with better quality, as they are the ones using Sony’s best smartphone sensors.

Then you could say it’s marketed at people who want everything on a phone: SD, microphone… But then you have Sony’s recent shift back to 1080p screens. So if that’s what you’re after, 1400€ on a flagship with a 1080p is a tough sell.

If you consider it’s a “flagship for everyone” rather than fitting it into one of the niches above, then the lacking auto mode on cameras and the near-zero spend on marketing materials in Europe and the US makes zero sense.

So… Which one is it? They aren’t exactly cheap so I haven’t been able to buy another Xperia 1 without understanding this. The Xiaomi 14/15 Ultra has many caveats but it is unapologetic about being a smartphone for photography lovers, so I knew full well what I was getting into. As a product, the Xperia 1 VI was thoroughly conflicted.

I won’t be the one calling the UK blameless, but that’s rich coming from the country that’s doing what they are with ICE (which is just the latest one in a long list).

In my experience, the more straight a person is, the dumber they are about anything computer, broadly speaking.

Wow, really hot take here. Who people have sex with has nothing to do with their capabilities or intellect. That’s just as bad as staying “the gayer someone is, the worse they are at sports, broadly speaking”.

The rest I agree, as someone who works in the field yes, many of us are LGBTQ+ folks, but still not a majority. Which still results in people like me meeting, and engaging with more straight men than gay peeps.