I haven’t used Reddit since I made my Lemmy account aside from when it comes up incidentally in conversations or online searches.

Reddit isn’t anime friendly and I don’t wish to support organizations that feel that way.

The TOS movies were my fave. But TNG had the best TV series in my opinion.

I watched DS9 last because they went pretty deep into space magic and I wasn’t into it.

What I’ve noticed over the years has been how accessible the unity engine is for new developers.

So many unity games tend to look the sameish. They use the same free content packs and follow the same tutorials. Unfortunately this engine also sucks for performance and it’s easy for it to feel slow and clumsy without extra effort.

After the popularity of Minecraft and Fortnite, it seems like every developer has been chasing that dragon. Bolting survival, crafting and grinding into their games.

It can be done well, but most of these games feel like classic mmorpg grinding, while offering nothing enjoyable in exchange.

On top of that there are predatory games that attempt to normalize the behavior of paying to win or accelerate earning something. Many unfortunate kids have been fooled into spending thousands of real dollars on what equates to nothing. In older games you earned outfits and characters based on skill and achievements.

Many modern games feel hollow and gross.

Have you seen the movies?

Depends on how much he loves Data.

Everything I Wanted - Billie Eilish

I feel like you could do a really dark Scrooge themed story from it.

Video games in general, I’ve never stopped playing them.

There was a period of time where I thought I stopped liking them. But it was just because everything new was trash (early access slop or f2p nonsense) or my anti-genres.

Railguns, there already exist prototypes that destroy themselves. So close!

Crash up derby it. 👷🏼‍♀️

I just experienced this over the last couple days.

Both operating systems died on my dual boot system. Long story short they killed each other.

So I switched to my laptop and made a boot disk to try and fix them. To which I discovered my favourite flash drive was acting up.

I searched through my things for about an hour until I found another.

To my horror I discovered massive file system corruption. But, that’s ok I have backups I’ll just install Linux again.

Oh wow, the installer can’t understand that I want to use luks with a filesystem that supports snapshots. And the work around didn’t work anymore.

Many tedious tasks later I’m in the os. Only for an update to fill /boot and kill my system yet again. Also screw you AMD for making your GPU + Rocm package ~20GB post install. (Unrelated but why?!)

After all that I try to get my games going again but this new game I got the DRM screwed me over.

Fine I’ll get windows going again …Only to discover the new windows 11 installer is super buggy and refuses to let me install in any way. (I have multiple drives all tested fine too)

I had to resort to doing a oobe deployment. Finally got into Windows and none of my USB ports work. More effort later I’m in, bypass the Microsoft account nonsense.

While playing my game Razer decides to do a firmware update on my mouse and it goes dead in the middle of some serious PvP action…

During this entire process I also managed to break my phone and my internet went down.

So the lesson from this story is to also backup your operating system(s) have a extra mouse handy and take better notes.

:D

I can understand your perspective.

My concern is from a tech support perspective I’ll be required to stock at least a few of each variation and need to teach people which ones and how to replace it. Plus the ecological concern of perfectly good batteries are going to waste because the next model can’t use them.

And I’ll inevitably have clients that will attempt to use the wrong one while on a mission critical trip to somewhere. And of course it’s not available anymore or some other road blocker.

This problem was mostly solved ages ago in other small electronics with things like AA batteries being a popular standard.

So I’m hopeful for a future where there’s an AA equivalent for phones and laptops.

I hope they standardise the battery too. Otherwise we’ll be back in the early 2000s where every submodel of phone had a unique connector.

Don’t money shift it, pay attention to the road.

Break your project down into bite size goals. With rewards.

Start with cleaning the bathroom. Take a nice long bath after.

Focus on the rubbish in your bedroom, go for a small walk to the variety store. (Consider having a monster drink)

When you come home focus on loose clothing on the floor. Put them in the wash.

Carry on this routine. If you trust yourself not to be too distracted play some old DVDs in the background.

Carry on with this pattern, doesn’t need to be all in the same day.

Did you do the dishes yet?

Always depends upon the setting and people involved.

Your traditional romantic dinner is almost certainly going to involve wine. (In a stereotypical western culture setting)

My dates have typically been in a more casual environment. Being invited to parties (alcohol or more), movie theaters (typical movie house snacks), Beach (cooler of water bottles, pop, light snacks, or whatever is available there)

DO NOT push your date to drink or do anything they aren’t comfortable with.

Informed consent is key.

We are all people trying to make it on this blue marble. Don’t leave it worse than how you found it.

I use my two monitors in this configuration. (Not my image)

It’s fantastic for reading documentation and manga.

Since you’re using Ubuntu you can probably sign up for Ubuntu Pro, free for personal use last I checked. This provides you with additional security updates. (I would suggest using the LTS branch)

Look into hardening your os and apache installation. Such as using certificate based authentication exclusively for SSH.

Put this box on a separate network (such as a DMZ).

Create regular backups and do recovery drills to insure it’s working as expected.

For the current era I would suggest these two.

Kevin Penkin

Satoru Kōsaki

Yeah.

Occasionally I’ll come across scenes in an anime that are so out of place but hurt.

ideally approaching -25c