I think авось has a general meaning similar to “god willing”, or “with some luck”, not simply some optimism. Like “авось успеем” -> “with some luck, we can make it in time”. I do agree it’s an old-fashioned word which I haven’t really heard in a while.

It was a very different company during first GTA.

Someone should make an updated version of this based on how well things are going for Russia in 2026

23%+9.9%+3.99%. There is a lot of pro-russian opposition in Armenia.

Honestly though? I got to a point where I liked how I looked and stopped. I could do a bit better in some areas but in general I look fit and well-built and that’s what I was aiming for.

Yeah, I also forgot to add that in a Russian bank, you can give the clerk your iPhone, they’ll plug it in their computer and install the banking app as a dev version or something. It’s fascinating.

Push notifications and having an icon on the home screen is important, I guess. Most Russian banks did improve their mobile websites but generally, people still prefer apps.

Well, it works as usual. The way it works is they probably add a spoof UI that only shows when they detect a reviewer’s IP, and when published, the app shows the regular banking app.

Haha. This happens so often, people have no idea. Every Russian bank does this, they publish seemingly unrelated apps under unrelated App Store dev accounts, share the links on their socials as fast as possible before the apps get taken down, then they just repeat the process when they need to update their apps. I guess generally they don’t pop up on global/US rankings but still, people use them and they get taken down all the time.

I’ve seen this on an electric Dodge Challenger (which is also quite ugly in my opinion). This hole and the wing above it act as a spoiler and fast cars need all the downforce they can get, so I guess this will become a norm for fast electric cars in the future.

Haha. Right now I’m untangling the mess of a small team that decided to use AI as their project manager (well, not exactly, but close enough). One thing I can say for sure is it did not work. Just like with development, you still need a human who knows what’s what to manage AI and keep it in check.

You can export the data as either CSV (for tables) or PDF (for pages). I’m not worried about lock-in, Notion makes it easy enough to switch if you want to.

Basically a Bob’s Burgers episode

Nice.

Westkust. Found them through Keep Driving, loved them, looked them up, and was super disappointed to learn they broke up. At least there’s Makthaverskan with some of their ex-members and a similar sound.

It wasn’t horribly laggy on my Pixel but it definitely was less performant than a page like this should be.

Can’t agree more, this is so true. My life was utter shit until 26. I was sure it would stay shit forever, because there was no reason something would get better.

Then I had to move to another country. This decision was forced by life events but it ended up being the best decision in my life. I had to “grow up”, learn how to work in an alien environment. I had to understand what I wanted from myself. I had to improve myself a lot. I’ve also met so many great people, had so many new experiences, and while I’m in a downturn right now, I am better than I ever was back then. Like you, I also feel a bit bad I missed out on some of the “fun” stuff from my 20s but in the end, my life experience got me to this point and I enjoy being here.

Growing up and figuring yourself out is the best.

I haven’t tried it yet since I can’t bother to switch from Trakt but I will eventually — Popfeed. It’s an alternative built on ATProto, that Bluesky thing.

Got it. Not really a big deal, but I’m a bit curious what changed since it worked before.

Odd. It’s Pixel 8a running Android 17 Beta 2. Here’s a recording of what I mean so there’s less confusion. The second transition (transparent one) works as it supposed to, I included it as a reference that some transitions do work.

But anyway, this is a super insignificant issue that doesn’t affect my use, so if you can’t reproduce it then it doesn’t really matter.

https://imgur.com/a/M9pfdsV