But look at how many lines of code we shipped 🤣

I have visions of a “workaround stack” which is just layers upon layers of catching edge-cases without ever addressing core logic and we end up with some Rube Goldberg-ass codebases.

Yeah but the GDP grows by 80Bn

Kind of an interesting aspect of the nexus, PS console exclusives on Xbox via the back door.

Guess I’m going to have to upgrade, anyone know if I’m better off with a P5 Pentium or a Cyrex 6x86?

For me steam deck has killed any notion of getting a gaming laptop. Decent spec laptop (7yr old though) which I rarely need to take anywhere, gaming desktop 5700/3070 and steam deck if I want to game. Though I’m not much into multiplayer. Tbh even at home I find myself on the deck more than the desktop for gaming these days.

Merge/test/fix on a separate branch and then merge this into main when the freeze lifts?

Seems like a lifetime since he died, I hope his books are still popular in a hundred years. Gnu pterry.

This is a pet peeve of mine irl, people adding “ator” or “isation” or “ise” or similar to words to make new words we already have words for.

“We need to solutionise this problem”

No, fuck off, we already have the word “solve” we don’t need a new word, it doesn’t make you sound smarter, it makes you sound like a fucking moron who doesn’t know the word solve.

None of which makes the distro shite. The things I remember them getting shit for are:

Unity/mir

Upstart

Snaps

Amazon ads

Advertising their premium version.

Of all of those the Amazon thing is the only one I have a strong objection to. The rest I can’t say I’ve even particularly noticed the changes if I’m honest and most other Ubuntu users probably haven’t either. They seem to get a lot of crap for “doing their own thing all the time” which seems odd coming from the Linux community.

I came to Ubuntu initially because it was the new hotness, I’ve never really had an issue with it functionally in 12 years or so, so no real need to change.

Why not deb? Why not any number of other distros? I do run deb on my NAS as it goes and I’m not trying to stan for Ubuntu (honestly) but it gets a lot of undeserved hate. It’s not a super exciting distro or anything but it tends to work fine for me.

You can even plug em into your phone and transfer from there, super handy on the go.

Really? They did a ton of work to make Linux accessible to the masses, have an active and helpful community to help out if you get stuck, works really well out of the box on most hardware and you’re pretty much guaranteed there’s going to be a compatible deb available for it if you’re looking for software outside normal repos. Seems like a no brainer tbh.

You’re surprised the most popular desktop distro is still around?

I cannot believe the downvoting coming your way for this.

On one - how the abuse of this cannot be foreseen by the most clueless person is beyond me.

On two - are people under the impression that the current child welfare system is adequate for the children that are currently in it? What about that system makes them think it would be suitable to increase the number of children in care.

Fucking mental.

Dude, I heard this story once about a kid that got separated from his family at the airport, they went to Miami and he ended up in NYC.

Which is frankly ridiculous for the price of a switch. I can feel a switch 2 in my future because someone gave my kids a switch lite and there’s a few games they’ll get more out of on a big screen, but I will resent it.

I was too damn patient and missed the end of the steam sale this week FFS.

It almost certainly will be, but so is everything else.

I’m also assuming consistency is going to be an issue. Will characters look the same at the start of a sequence as the end? Or from load to load?

Amazing stuff, the devs were a decent bunch too, I distinctly remember pestering a dev to create a save game loader that would write saves from a disk to a vmu on the irc channel for wraggster’s dcemu forum. Might have to dig out my old Dreamcast if it still lives.

Plex too fwiw.