(I try to avoid Amazon links. Try to support coffee-focused online stores, such as https://new.seattlecoffeegear.com. Buy direct from the manufacturer where possible) New to fancy coffee? I will not be able to explain what good coffee tastes like, you will have to discover it for yourself. Read the tasting notes, but don't expect "strawberry" to taste exactly like strawberries. (But heck, sometimes it does!) It's like wine: Tasting notes are directional ideas, not absolutes. Try single-origin pour-overs from the two or three most expensive (~$5+/cup) local cafes you can find.Trust me, spend $20 to find out if you've been missing out. Accept recommendations, but don't just trust people who say "this one is the best". If they don't have light-roast with tasting notes, find a place that does.Even if their lightest roast is "medium-light", try elsewhere.

-Kilo, 2023-11-10 Optional steps and notes are in italics, and important stuff is in bold! First off, install and start OBS!You might as well start VRChat (in VR mode, if that's your goal!) up-front as well, but you won't need it until later! Profile setup You can skip this section if you aren't using OBS for other things. Find Profile in the menu barChoose Profile > New (Click Profile, then New)

-Kilo @KiloCheetah Ok, there is something I want to make more visible. The narrative is that we've always been trans, and discover sooner or later this maybe-hidden truth of our inner selves. That we realize something immutable about ourselves, and stop fighting it. That's the Ur-trans-story. I've had wishes and dreams of being a girl since long before it would have been shorthand for "woman". I didn't hate my body, didn't hate my life. But I dreamed of life on the flip-side, unseriously, but frequently.

I couldn't find anything when searching for a how-to for removing the silicone cover, which came pre-attached on my ebay purchase, so here's me giving back! Tools: (tiny) #3 or 5/64" flathead screwdriver Even thinner pin/pusher, like a paperclip or #1 1/32" screwdriver The silicone cover attaches by looping over the hinges where the hard plastic "head strap" attaches to the HMD display. That means that install and removal both need to detach the head strap from the display. On the Pimax 8KX, these hinges are ~3cm (~1 inch) long, and the pivot pin is what we're unscrewing and pushing out to detach. Unscrew each pin and push them free with the paperclip or tinier screwdriver to detach the display from the strap.

(Retrieved by Dakra 2020-09-02 via https://web.archive.org/web/20190805085507/http://iam.yellingontheinternet.com/2014/01/29/raid-awareness-is-a-learned-and-practiced-skill/) Posted on January 29, 2014 by Hamlet Italicized quotations throughout are from my old raid leader Sebudai, well-known for his efforts to teach his raiders to be better at playing WoW. I’ve written many WoW guides over the past years, largely covering the details of min/maxing a particular class, but I always knew I was addressing a narrow slice of what makes a good raider. While there are reasons that players who know the nuances of perfectly optimizing their class’s output and ability use are prized, even they are no substitute for a raider who excels at the most important skill of all: not dying. Volumes have been written on how to do good DPS, healing, or tanking. If you raid or want to raid at an intermediate or high level, I imagine you have long immersed yourself in that discourse already. There are many reasons why existing WoW guides, forums, and discussions are largely about optimizing those roles. They are the primary way players are measured by themselves and by raid groups. Large parts of them can often be solved with math, leading to simple and easily implemented results. But most important, I suspect, is a widespread impression that I hope to refute in this post: that your awareness and survivability in raids is a part of who you are as player and cannot be changed.

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#1: RAM up to 8GB 4GB (or less!) just doesn't cut it these days. See if you can't buy an 8GB stick if your computer is upgradeable, or pay a shop a nominal fee to do so for you. Desktop DDR4 (288-pin): G.SKILL Ripjaws 8GB DDR4 3600 Laptop DDR4 SO-DIMM (260-pin): G.SKILL Ripjaws 8GB DDR4 3200 #2: SSD, if you don't have one Before anything else, if your harddrive has RPMs, you deserve better. An SSD drive is the #1 biggest upgrade you can make, and it's easy, too. External USB SSD: Samsung T5 ($90 for 500GB, $130 for 1TB)

https://ballotpedia.org is my primary resource, which is the source of all quoted text unless otherwise noted. If you want more background on anything, Ballotpedia is my primary recommendation. Heuristics Never make it harder to change our minds. E.g. no "if this passes with 51%, overturning requires 67%". "We have a government at home."