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Given their boner for AI, I don’t think Windows 12 stands a chance in hell of being even remotely decent.

How about simply V?

I hereby petition that the community be renamed to somestupidquestions

Apparently gmtp is a reliable tool for transferring music to a Zune. Or this: https://github.com/whoozle/android-file-transfer-linux/

AI strikes again.

Only works if it’s an incandescent light, but…

Flip one switch. Wait a few minutes. Flip it off.

Flip the second switch and go into the room.

If the light is on, it’s the switch you flipped most recently. If the light is off but warm, it was the first switch. If it’s off and cold, it’s the switch you didn’t touch.

Even better! Thanks for pointing those out.

Well, I’ll take Manifest v3 over AI, so I guess I’m switching to Vivaldi.

This year was a good year for games.

Hades II is a fantastic roguelike that sucked me in for weeks.

I got convinced to play Project Zomboid by a couple friends. I get the hype now.

Project Diablo 2 is an excellent revival of LoD with rebalancing, new features, and controller support. So much fun on the deck.

Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii was yet another great addition to the off the rails nonsense that is the Yakuza series.

Yakuza 0 Directors Cut was also a good remaster and English dub. People shit on Yong Yea as Kiryu but I like his performance. Could be because I never played the game in Japanese.

Also spent a lot of time playing Subnautica. An oldie but a goodie, especially with a multiplayer mod.

Yup, this was a good year for gaming.

EDIT: Oh! Can’t forget Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound. Pretty fun, challenging but sometimes a bit cheap in the challenges. One optional challenge relied on firing a knife through a narrow gap, but there was no reliable way to line yourself up. And since it was timed and at the very end of the challenge, if you mess up you have to do the whole thing all over again. Other than that, really fun.

You don’t.

Happened in Saskatchewan too from what I’ve been told.

Remote and alone. Fuck AI. I’m capable of working on large projects by myself, and if I’m in charge of dev and QA I can hold my work to my own high standards.

If you use company resources they absolutely can claim ownership on whatever you create. That much I do know. Though to be fair I’m in Canada so our laws will definitely differ in some ways.

I’m just glad to live in a country where companies don’t get to own people.

Like, things you work on during your personal time, using personal resources, belongs to your employer?

That sounds illegal. I don’t know where you live but that does not sound right.

Just the other day my buddy was telling me how he would play Warzone 2100 with friends and they’d just focus on base building. Combat was consensual and didn’t focus on destroying opponents’ bases.

Speaking of Pokemon, I’ve been playing one Pokemon challenge runs for a while and they’re fun. You modify the game to choose a specific mon as your starter, and from there on you can only use that mon in battle. If it faints, you reload. You also can’t use items in battle. You can have other mons for HMs to navigate the world, but otherwise you clear the elite four with one Pokemon. If it’s gen 2, you also beat Red.

My current record for Crystal is something like 11 hours in game time using Jolteon. Since it’s so grindy, playing it on an emulator at 4x speed makes it so you can literally complete a run in a single day depending on your starter.

An old ASMR video - not a particularly good one, but one I enjoyed anyway. It was about a futuristic themed space travel agency. The woman in it described various planets as viable options, and at one point offered a tour guide whose name was something like “Loop Hole”. I remember that because it was such an odd name. At some point in the video she receives a Facebook message (not part of the video, likely a mistake, but the notification sound is there anyway). The background was wood paneling, kinda looked like it was filmed in a trailer.

It was made private on YouTube years and years ago.

This is huge! Guess I’m gonna throw another hundred hours at the game.

Gamify the process. Get into Pokemon Go, Ingress, or some other game that requires travel. During each installation, leave behind a little Easter egg. Not for the customer, but for the next tech who has to service the meter. Change it up.

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