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.

I just cross posted this from another area. But I am also curious what a .45 revolver would do.

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.

There’s an old school program called spinrite that is designed to stress test them and gives you a little report at the end.

Those old school drives were built like tanks.

I still have a few ~100MB drives in my things and you can feel the difference in quality compared to today.

I always wondered what would happen if you shot them lol. Thanks for satisfying an age old curiosity.

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.

(I literally tried to remove all the quick settings, but there’s a minimum!)

Oh yes, this bothered me deeply the first time I encountered it.

I’ve been doing tech support for a couple decades and I have had the pleasure of training many people from all walks of life on how to use these things. Some of them never used a smartphone or even wanted it.

In the early days blackberry had an edge with the keyboard and minimal apps. It was very corporate and standardized.

As we moved onto early android phones it did have very helpful features to make it more like a dumb feature phone. Using these was a huge boon with those that didn’t care to learn how to use them or really just didn’t get it.

As time went on, these features were dropped or made irrelevant by other invasive features (like the busier and busier notification drawer)

What I found curious was many of these helpful features didn’t go away entirely but were locked behind a secret corporate mode. This more extreme level of control is typically exposed through MDM software.

I’ve found over the years that apple devices (these also have a corpo mode) are easier for the elderly to use as the UI has largely stayed the same and the OS treats you like you’re dumb. It has better accessibility options and my elderly customers love talking to siri.

I feel like as the knobs and levers generations dies out; the attention manufacturers and designers put towards this demographic dwindle drastically.

I remember the old GameBoy with the contrast knob on the side was super useful, and something like that may be useful. But there is also the argument if you’ve reached this point in life today, you’re probably not going to use it unless forced to. And teaching people who feel forced into something is unproductive and often makes them more afraid of technology. Some would say leave them to the wolves by this point. (not how I feel)

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.

I told their grandmother how silly they are.

Straightened them right out. (Happened with my close friends family)

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

Trade in offer poor value.

I can sell mine often for 3x what they offer.

He broke his joycons

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’m a big fan of init 0. My friends say I’m living on the edge but if an application can’t handle it, I don’t want it.

Have a slice!

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.