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Cake day: August 11th, 2023

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  • Yes because here you can’t get a driver’s license without learning how to drive a manual transmission. All your lessons and final driving exam are always in a manual transmission vehicle. (Portugal, 28 years old)

    However I know many people who switch to automatic after they’re done with their exam because they don’t want to deal with it. I’ve always heard that manual is for people who like to drive and auto is for people who just need a car to get from A to B.





  • I started getting invested in a TCG (Digimon) for the first time ever a couple months ago (magic, YGO, pokemon etc. never did it for me before).

    One of the selling points (at least currently) is that most decks are fairly affordable (less than 50 bucks affordable) and viable and even the very competitive decks shouldn’t set you back much (with less than 100 bucks you can easily make a top tier tournament-viable deck) .

    Problem is I really started digging lots of different decks and discovering new favorite digimon and how they play and now I’m several hundreds of dollars of investment in both in cards and accessories (not even counting merch…).

    I regret nothing though. It has helped me get out of the house (I work remote) and interact with people which has been very good for my mental health, and it gave me a way to revive some of my childhood nostalgia.



  • I totally feel you OP. I have a 500+ GB music collection I refuse to give up for streaming apps (which don’t have all that music anyway). But I also acknowledge the vast majority of people install a couple apps, take a couple pics and videos, and that’s about it, so I get why 128 is the default.

    My solution was to cough up money for a DAP (specifically the Fiio M11S). I know it’s outside the budget of most people and definitely a super niche purchase, but boy do I feel relieved knowing I can plug my 1 TB SD card in in it and have all my music whenever I want to (plus other neat features like an actual audio jack and no audio resampling). And it also means I’m no longer restricted in my phone choices which is wonderful.

    Maybe it’s something for you to consider over a NAS or other local server solutions that require more upkeep.