Tactical Breach Wizards and Into the Breach

I've played Into the Breach, but not Tactical Breach Wizards, adding it to the list. :)

Platformers: Celeste, Horace, Dustforce and Little Nightmares

Loved Little Nightmares, haven't played the others. Thanks!

Guacamelee

I've definitely heard of it, but never got around to it. Thanks for the reminder.

Wadjet Eye Games

Huh, I haven't played any of those, I'll add a couple and probably end up playing all of them. Thanks!

Story aka Walking Simulators

Firewatch and Jazzpunk are on the list, I have The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, but the others aren't.

These are some fantastic recommendations, thanks!!

Sure, but Biden is also super old (way older than previous presidents) and was showing clear signs that his age was catching up to him, hence the 50/50.

I don’t hate totp, I just recognize the faults in it.

Same, I wish I could use security keys everywhere. I have an older YubiKey (version 4?), and it doesn't get used because only like 2 services I use support it, and those support TOTP. I would switch all of my banks today if I could.

So I stick with TOTP because it's "good enough" and works everywhere. If I had more than a small handful of services that worked with my YubiKey, I'd absolutely bring it with me everywhere.

hate the trend of companies requiring an app for 2FA…

Yeah, it totally sucks. I have decided to just not install apps if I can get away with it, which is nice because tons of them don't even work with how my phone is set up (GrapheneOS, no Play services). So I'm going to be a thorn in their side as long as I can. They should just support TOTP since it's already ubiquitous, and ideally also support security keys.

Eh, I haven't convinced anyone, but I have gotten questions from my brothers about it. They don't come over often, but I've done a lot of work on my self-hosted setup, so I'll probably show it off at our next reunion (next summer).

My brothers both want to host video, and they've asked about ripping DVDs/Blurays. I've now finished ripping my entire collection (took a few weeks), so now I'm more well-equipped to answer questions.

would you be using that HDMI port?

Yes, absolutely. At work, we use MBPs, and I often ask someone with the port to connect to the TV so I don't have to go find a dongle (and those dongles can be very finicky). I've had to work around the lack of an HDMI port, and it's been incredibly annoying for the almost 4-years I've had my MBP.

My personal laptop has an HDMI port, and I also use it frequently to connect to our TV. It's something I'd use weekly, if not more frequently. This laptop is older, yet I still prefer using it to the MBP, largely because of the HDMI port.

Exactly. And with AI tools, getting a transcript and generating a summary shouldn't be all that hard.

All I'm looking for is a handful of bullet points that give me a reason to watch the video. I'm not watching a random video someone posts just based on the headline, I need a bit more reason to invest my time to contribute to the discussion. And if you provide a basic summary, I'll probably do the legwork and find some articles to add to the discussion while I'm watching the video.

Yeah, I'd need to run cable if I moved my machines to a closet, and I'm putting that off. I do plan to do that though, so maybe someday. :)

Fair. I grew up with 140 character limits for SMS and having limits on how many texts I could send, so I get it. But instead of cutting out punctuation, I used more direct language and abbreviations. Now that there's no real limit on texts, I'm a bit more wordy and am extra careful about punctuation, especially since I use swipe texting.

Agreed. And I really wish we'd have a popular resurgence of privacy, but it seems we're going the opposite direction where people prefer convenience and "safety" to control.

Yup, started with 0 and working my way through.

Some genres I especially like:

• puzzles - Return of the Obra Dinn, Manifold Garden, etc
• platformers - absolutely loved INSIDE and LIMBO, currently enjoying A Hat in Time, loved Psychonauts (Psychonauts 2 is on the list, but it's not really "indie" anymore), little nightmares
• metroidvanias - Blue Fire, Hollow Knight, etc
• point and click - Darkside Detective, Deponia, etc
• fighting/souls-like - Furi, Titan Souls
• story - What Remains of Edith Finch
• other - Recettear, Grand Mountain Adventure, Human Resource Machine

Basically, if it has really good gameplay or story, I'll probably like it.

It's probably more interesting to point out what I tend to not like:

• roguelikes
• city builders - I like high quality builders like Cities: Skylines, but indies tend to not have the budget
• rhythm
• stealth
• shooters - very samey; I'd rather play AAA, such as Doom

But then again, there's an exception to each of these (e.g. I loved Slay the Spire and Black Mesa). So honestly, I'd probably enjoy anything that really stands out as being unique or interesting.

I'm more interested in multi-bay enclosures, but as you said, the chipsets tend to be kinda crappy. And that's what makes me hesitate to use these mini PCs, my use-case is for a NAS, but these enclosures are kind of expensive and seem to have pretty poor components.

So for now, I'm using larger cases to hold the drives. But it takes up a lot of desk space, so these mini PCs are very attractive, if I can get a compact external enclosure to work.

TerraMaster, Orico

I honestly have never used either of these, yet they show up at a lot of retailers.

ASUS is a bit sketchy these days IMO, so I try to avoid them.