Haha, yes, he has played that one quite a bit!

Just tossing this out there, if your son hasn’t seen it yet, show him Portal. I showed it to my son when he was starting to get into computers and its still one of his favorites in college.

Can’t tell from the screenshot (need moar pixels), but that reminds me of the old software that would give Windows XP, 6 workspaces… It was so amazing but would utterly kill my old PIII with 192MB of RAM.

More like a GW of heat… Thankfully I’m sure that will counteract whatever has caused it to be over 80 degrees on my way to work before 0700.

Which is reason enough to go with Debian (I have an unreasonable issue with snaps).

Been on it for about 19 months now, it’s what Android should be.

Umm… Around the year 2000 I worked at a couple of different convenience stores in the south, ours were never cleaned, shit they were rarely changed with the exception of Mountain Dew and Dr Pepper because our regulars would tear through them. I remember the lines being clear…ish? They had the embedded nylon or whatever in the clear tube but ours were way nastier than my 18 year old brain wanted to realize.

Overall I liked a couple things I hadn’t thought of (NGOs), but the end of the article… that just sounded like any other consultancy service to me. Perhaps that’s too harsh but it doesn’t feel like a new career field (just my opinion).

As long as it doesn’t get too hot, or too cold… or to windy… Or wet… Come to think of it, a lot of stuff has managed to grind Texas to a halt lately.

Yep, I have a box with all my cell phones (as well as my wife’s phones) going back to 2005 when I was able to get my first one. Man I miss my Razor v3 and the OG Motorola Droid, at least I can still look at them.

Still rocking a Pebble Steel from a decade ago, I tried a fitbit and Galaxy one but this Pebble has outlived them all. Thankfully I managed to find a silicon band for it when the leather one finally gave up on me.

Years ago my neighborhood was wired for fiber, well all except for 24 of our houses because it wasn’t profitable, copper still came on our side though… Now that’s been turned off so the 24 of us have the option of cable or wireless.

Having to stare at a coil of fiber across the street on the end of the pole (not even buried fiber, its on the damn poles) while I enjoy overpaying for 48Mbps… so fast it must be high speed (seriously debated a wireless link to the house across the street but I’m a stickler for the rules).

I think being able to summon a 60 ton object falling from orbit could do a bit more than kill just one person. Definitely an interesting use though!

I’m not a Bing fan either because it used to be regurgitated Google results. For now I’m just self-hosting an instance of SearXNG.

Copilot is pretty good for Azure stuff though, really I just like it because it always has links back to Microsoft’s documentation (even though it’s constantly changing).

I used to use it… I thought it would take you straight to the first result (but it’s been a long time since I used it)… Now all the top results are hot garbage.

I’m just trying to see my kid through college and then I’m ready for something simpler. Goatops.com (well a copy/paste from before the site existed) made me chuckle and planted the seed, now I’m in the actual consideration stage of it.

I’m okay with servers being shut down eventually, my issue is we don’t know when. If they want to call it a license and that it will be revoked later, well fucking plan it out and tell people. Did the game get cheaper as the clock ran down? Did the people buying 10 years of access pay more than people that only got to play it once? I’m pissed for the people like me that sometimes take a few years to get to playing their games only to find the servers are gone and they thought they were buying something (or at least licensing something) they would get to use.

Of course they would probably find that if they told people how long they could use it, a lot of people wouldn’t pay them for it (i.e. their business would fail without intentionally deceiving their customers).

Throw in a dash of track-me-not (https://www.trackmenot.io/) and maybe they’ll start ignoring your search queries too! Worst case my actual searches are so buried in the bs deciding what to market would be easier from my screen-name.

I recently did out my old 401B after the screen fell off my Galaxy Active2. It charged right up and still lasts about a week.

Finding a new band was a PITA because of the weird segmented hinge bit but one person was selling diver bands for it on Amazon (I think it was Amazon)… Really not bad for a watch from a decade ago.

Edit: Yes, you can still use them without the OG servers being up, look up ‘Rebble’ (rebble.io)

I don’t remember offhand, but I think that’s buried in a restricted settings area… I needed it for something I can’t remember now.

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Settings > Apps >Special app access > Display over other apps