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Cake day: August 10th, 2025

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  • If you don’t shy away from python, I just use the requests library most of the time:

    homeserver_url = “XXX”

    access_token = “XXX”

    room_id = “!XXX”

    url = f{homeserver_url}/_matrix/client/r0/rooms/{room_id}/send/m.room.message"

    headers = {“Authorization”: f"Bearer {access_token}",“Content-Type”: “application/json”,}

    data = “msgtype”: “m.text”,“body”: “Question of the day!”,}

    response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=json.dumps(data))

    Alternatively I also have a bot I use in NodeRed connected to Home Assistant.

    Double Alternatively, I’ve used AppRise successfully within various tools like ChangeDetection to notify me via matrix.




  • But the customers don’t see this. You buy a $60 brand new game on epic vs steam vs nintendo vs prime vs anywhere else: the game isn’t more expensive on steam because of their fees. The game is still $60, the publisher and studio make less money. In fact steam doesn’t even set prices, the publisher does. Steam takes 30% to use the platform. Is that too much? Maybe, but this doesn’t hurt the customer, this hurts the people wanting the profits, mostly the game publishers.

    Taking this down to 10% won’t drop the price of the game, it reduces the amount of money steam gets. The publisher gets more money. That’s what changes. A few small indie games where the studio is also the publisher might drop the price, but they will be few and far between.


  • Depends on the girl and the number of babies you’ve had. If you’re on your 4th baby people will be able to tell sooner than your first.

    For your first baby, generally it’s unnoticeable for everyone in the first trimester including the mom. Second trimester is probably pretty safe too, this is when you might start looking a little fat by the end, but not really pregnant. Third trimester is when the majority of the weight is gained, and the baby grows the fastest. In the last month of the third trimester the baby gains like a pound per week.



  • I had a cable isp issued modem that did the same thing, except it was closer to every other week. I replaced the modem with a nice arris surfboard. Fixed the problem for me on Spectrum for the last two years. Only needed to reboot once every 6mo or so.

    Lately though, they’ve been upgrading the network in my area (gigabit bidirectional cable, yay) but the service has sucked on and off for the past two months. I’ll have bad days where my internet is struggling to hit 20mbps down. Rebooting my hardware rarely helps.




  • Depending on how you make the game some launchers can make sense. You can set display options before launching the game. Back in ye olden times some games would launch by default in a set resolution which often made changing that in-game difficult as it would be off screen. Also makes your first time launching it a better experience than some low-res garbage. Also, without a platform like steam they can handle updates.

    That being said, I don’t think most modern games need those functions. Graphics engines are pretty good at getting screen resolution from your os (not perfect). And platforms handle patches and updates.

    Now they’re mostly there to gather metrics and shove ads in your face, and enforce drm.