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    Star Citizen backer bundle that was supposed to get me an art book, USB key, and a few other things. Will never get it even though they made over 1 billion dollars

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    Destiny 1 and 2. I should have learned my lesson with the first game, but the hype train picked me up anyway.

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    My wife has been sick with a persistent respiratory infection for six weeks. I have a shoulder injury. We haven’t been staying on top of the cleaning. We finally admitted that the house smells like one of those caves you age cheese in, and booked a cleaner to put it back in good shape so we can just maintain it going forwards.

    Last night, at my wife’s insistence, we tidied the house from top to bottom and wiped down the flat surfaces so the cleaner wouldn’t arrive to a messy house. 😟

    In her defence, she kinda saw the irony of it.

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      As others have said, tidying and cleaning are quite different things. Most cleaners will come to do the latter. If your house is untidy, it makes their job harder.

      You can get a person in to tidy up for you, but it’s usually a different person than the cleaner, and that requires much more input from yourself “Where does this go? Where do you want this? Do these clothes need to be folded or washed? Is this trash or not?”.

      Anyway. Yes I’ve definitely been guilty of tidying the whole house before our cleaner comes.

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      I hear you, but if you want the cleaner to deep clean, you gotta surface clean. Or just pay for twice the time.

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      There’s a difference between cleaning up and cleaning. You pay for the latter, unless you have a ft maid.

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    Music from Microsoft when they had the store and original DRM. They later shut it down and on newer Windows had no way to restore your DRM keys, so the music was useless/locked. Their support basically said “oh well”. Eventually I got around the DRM by an ancient version of Roxio CD burner, somehow because it came out before MS DRM it just read the track and burned it to CD, there was no DRM checking I guess

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      “Hmm, I don’t know what the fuck that was. Probably not important, I guess. Anyways, here’s your files.”

      -Roxio

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    Hmmm. I wouldn’t exactly call it a waste of money (yet) but my current smartwatch. It’s not bad or anything it’s just… not that useful. The fact that I have to charge it often, doesn’t make it better

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      I bought a smart watch and found it collecting dust. My new job is strongly against being on your phone while at work. Nothing against earbuds and a watch however. Now it takes me twice as long to send a text via my watch.

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      Apple Watch 7

      The health app is wonky. When it checks your vitals it vibrates. Think about this, you are wearing the watch at night and it vibrates which wakes you up. Stupid.

      Apple Music, here’s another one, let’s say you have your watch tied your phone and a Bluetooth speaker connected to the phone. Then use the phone to start Apple Music and stream some music to your Bluetooth speaker. The watch will tell you what song is playing that’s good.But let’s say that you want to use the watch to choose a different playlist. It won’t let you. It will claim you don’t have any device connected to the watch to play music. The watch should be telling the phone, but it never will. I don’t know if this is an Apple Watch or an iPhone issue but either way it pisses me off.

      Voice to text works great on the iPhone when trying to send a text message. Half the time won’t work on the watch. It willclaim you said one word when you said a different word. Why don’t I just text like most people do ? because I’m a super slow Texter with my thumbs and it’s much faster for me to hit the microphone.

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        The health app is wonky. When it checks your vitals it vibrates.

        I think you need to check your settings, because it definitely doesn’t do that by default.

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      I feel exactly the same. I bought mine mostly for hiking and the battery isn’t even lasting a whole hike. No tracking or anything.

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        I love my smartwatch, it usually holds charge for an entire day even with the screen on all the time. I think they stopped making them though, it is a Fossil smartwatch. I also like that it just looks like a normal watch at first glance.

        By contrast, I have bought a tablet twice thinking I would love to have one, and then NEVER know what the hell to do with it. My phone is easier to carry around. :/

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    Kerbal Space Program 2 as an Early Access game on Steam. Take Two poached developers those that worked on KSP 1 and then laid off the entirety of Intercept Games, the studio that they made for KSP 2. Even though it’s not being worked on anymore, you can still get it on Steam for an eye-watering €50, which was exactly what I paid (before the layoff happened, on day 2 of Early Access). This was after I had great experiences with other Early Access games like ULTRAKILL and Satifactory, so I thought that a company like Take Two wouldn’t fuck the pooch that hard. It’s playable, the graphics are neat, the music is very nice, and they did manage to add the science mode before it all went to shit, but I’m sad that the promised two other solar systems, planet colonization, resource extraction, automation and multiplayer will probably never be added. That is, unless someone else buys up the project and actually finishes it.