My wife and I are in our early 30s and bought our first flat in a student-y area in town. We thought given that we are still prone to the odd late night or having folks over for drinks we’d still fit in but it was a total miscalculation.

Our student neighbours are seldom up late drinking and instead they have phone alarms going off at 6AM to get them up to go to the gym on Saturday mornings when we are nursing hangovers. Mostly we sleep through it but sometimes I wake up dying of thirst with hot flushes to the sound of their alarm.

What’s wrong with kids these days??

At least you aren’t polycystic!

I’ve noticed some of my pals have become more insular since getting married which is a mistake IMO. When you hit your 30s it becomes harder to make friends so you need to tend to the ones you have.

I’d piss off the wrong person with an excess of style with ease

There’s kind of a tipping point when you reach physiological maturity then start (slowly) degrading

Yeah despite it being a misconception, it’s more like you start slowly dying in your mid-20s as opposed to that being a definitive age of maturity.

Mastodon

This post made me install Vampire Survivors on my phone and it felt like an old flash game I used to play on miniclip during IT classes in school. Some of the assets are completely stolen from OG Castlevania too (I’m sure this has been pointed out before).

Anyway, like 45 mins passed and I have no idea where the time went. I can see this game being good for public transport, waiting rooms, etc.

We’ll rejoin but you need to be patient. Give it 10 years and we’ll be in the customs union, 15 and we’ll be back to where we were in 2016 with less opt-outs.

Both can be true. Unity has gone down the toilet a lot faster than most people predicted.

Also effects last for nearly a day

Nope, the devs got screwed by Unity who promised them performance increases on fancy new features they were early adopters for but those never came. Performance is still terrible; not sure if it is still rendering every individual citizen’s set of teeth but it was doing that at one point.

There doesn’t need to be a conspiracy for the average person to have bad taste

There was a point where the terminal emulator environment just clicked in my head. Binary and library paths, specifically dynamic linking. Compiling with the correct flags… Just building a small CLI tool in C.

Then having all of that wrapped up in tmux with a mixture of emacs and vim on the side. Essentially my whole user environment felt like a flexible IDE where I was coding close to the metal.

I guess history and a sense of being part of an established culture.

Do also want to point out though that Americans talk their country down on here. It’s a place of extremes but that diversity in theory means anyone could find their niche. They also have pretty much every biome you might want to live in from desert, to parks to icy tundra - I can see why you might not need a passport.

Start off with a github pages static site so it’s free and you can get a feel for it. I’m assuming this is for blog posts? I’ve seen some cool blogs about how to use embedded mastodon to add comments to your blogs (assuming you link to the blog page in a mastodon post).

I used to have a CrunchyRoll sub but since I caught up with Overlord I cancelled it.

At the moment I’m watching Sakamoto Days and Dan Da Dan which are both on Netflix so haven’t had to resub to crunchyroll yet.

I use i2p for torrents exclusively. It’s slow but totally private so I can seed without needing to mess about with a VPN.

There is a slightly smaller community but the people on there have similar tastes to me: linux textbooks, GOG games, jazz albums, etc.

Just avoid talking about politics with them. Ultinately neither of you are in control of world events so focus on what you have in common instead of jettisoning someone from your life for something almost as superficial as supporting a different sports team.

I’ve read a few articles that said they actually are bringing in Indians at the moment.