I don’t understand how people don’t indicate in general. It’s just so automatic for me, I’d need to make a conscious effort not to.

Sometimes I accidentally indicate because I’m going around a sharp bend that my brain registers as a corner 😂

Have you previously annoyed them in some way, or had a disagreement?

Were they in the middle of a proper conversation and might’ve felt like you butted in with a greeting?

It sounds odd. I’d have a think about whether you’ve previously annoyed them in some way, but if not then they might just be grumpy. In which case there’s nothing to worry about, and you just do you.

That’s actually a good rule of thumb for every scenario in life.

I’m sorry for your loss.

Driving used to stress me out, but you honestly just get used to it. Your brain just autopilots 90% of it once you’ve been driving over a year or so.

The 90% autopilot frees up your brain to focus on the big picture of what’s happening. You’ve just gotta be careful you don’t slip to like 95% autopilot where you’re not paying attention anymore.

You can’t polish a turd.

I don’t know how much I even want from a phone these days. Just seems like things have stagnated in the mobile market for the past few years.

I honestly don’t know what I enjoy more about my current phone compared to the one I had 10 years ago.

They can be used for communication, payments, maps, music, YT and browsing the web. I think I’ll just get a small, cheap phone next time, as it’ll still check all those boxes.

Soap

I have the exact opposite problem, I end up telling everyone that I’m drunk repeatedly.

Don’t you have to be in an almost pitch black room for it to look decent though? I also heard there can be pretty bad input lag?

It was quite a few years ago that I last looked into a projector so maybe they’ve gotten better, but these days massive TVs are so cheap I don’t know if it would even be worth it.

The meaning of OP’s question seems blindingly obvious to me, as long as you don’t take it too literally…

I’d say the DaVinci code would be a good answer, I’ve got a copy that I’ve never read. Same with the Harry Potter books as well.

The girl on the train is another book that everyone seems to own, but nobody reads.

The same reason anyone buys anything that they don’t use, they think they’ll enjoy it but in reality they don’t find time or lose interest.

Hmm, okay, sounds like focusing on the bits you do end up saying is going to help.

Maybe ask your manager or someone to give you examples of when you’re being disruptive and how to approach it differently next time.

I know that’s a bit awkward, but if you fundamentally don’t understand what you’re doing wrong then you need external feedback.

I also have that issue, so I try and focus on not going too far down the rabbit hole if it’s not relevant.

If I’m speaking to my boss I’ll say:

“This happens because of that, I’m gonna fix that”

As opposed to:

“What’s happening is X does Y, then Z occurs. That’s because of the A and B not being quite right, because B is blah blah blah. I thought about trying option 1, but that doesn’t work because blah, option 2 doesn’t work either because blah, but option 3 works because of blah blah blah.”

If they don’t need that info, then you don’t need to share it.

It sounds like you’re taking “over participating” to mean that you’re getting involved in too many conversations, when it actually sounds like you’re just dominating any conversation you get involved in.

It doesn’t matter that you avoid 90% of conversations if you’re still disrupting any that you do get involved with.

The key to being good in conversation is to actively listen and nudge other people to carry on talking. It sounds like you’re just waiting your turn then talking about whatever you feel like.

I don’t have any specific advice, except that you should probably focus on what you do say, as opposed to what you don’t say, if that makes sense.

I generally pirate first and buy later if I want to support a game. I think of it as voting with my wallet.

I pirated BG3, enjoyed it even though it’s generally not the sort of game I play. Decided that I want to see more companies making games of this quality in future, so went ahead and bought it.

Same with FromSoftware games, I always buy those as I want more games like that.

Ultimately, if you never buy anything then you can’t expect companies to make the games you want.

Yeah, surely it’s only a conspiracy if there’s proof of aliens that’s being hidden from people.

But I use my Tamagotchi everyday??

Seems like this could really be a long term hit for Valve, and well deserved considering the effort they’ve put in to make it happen.

I generally avoid praising any company, but they deserve credit for what they’ve done for Linux gaming as a whole, and not trying to lock things down to the degree that other companies would’ve.

I don’t know what OpenAI even claims that ChatGPT can do, but if you trust marketing from any company then you’re gonna get burnt.

I’m not defending the company in any way, more just defending that in general LLMs can be useful tools, but people need to make educated decisions and take a bit of responsibility.