xyguy

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[–] xyguy@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago

I had a version of this in 2005 or so. 200 games was, of course, quite a stretch.

Imagine a 3 lane avoid the traffic car game (1) and the same thing with a spaceship (2) and also a man running (3).

Or breakout (1) and breakout but the paddle is at the top of the screen (2).

Mine didn't even have the calculator. :(

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Another casualty of the Warner/Discovery clusterfire it seems.

Not that Rooster Teeth were bastions of well-run businesses but still. If you have a favorite Warner or Discovery movie or show better get the DVD before its too late.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 48 points 1 year ago

That was absolutely their plan all along.

If they wanted to do time-based discounts, they could just blast a 10% off coupon to every app user in a specific geographic area.

Plus they get the bonus of user data when people sign up for the app that they can ~~sell to the government~~ leverage for non-industry profit streams.

True disgusting profiteering.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago

Failing to properly evacuate the city during a Tsunami because its easier just to clean up afterwards (Cities Skylines).

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was genuinely convinced they offered 10gig service in some markets. Doesn't surprise me that its all marketing nonsense.

Just a tip for anyone who wants to know, if you have Comcast business internet they'll tell you you have to use their modem but, you can swap it out with a 3rd patty modem and use the live chat service to get it activated. Then you can send back their modem for free at a ups store. Every salesperson will tell you its not possible but it absolutely is.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

I can't wait. As long as they keep the autotiling feature working as well as it does now I'm down.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

I didn't realize it was that recent of an addition to the NEC. Weve only lived in super old houses where everything was always needing completely redone. I was usually replacing 2 conductor and cloth-jacketed stuff everywhere.

That was around 2012 and I remember the electrician we hired at the time mentioned it being a thing so that makes sense.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is pretty much my setup anyway. I run Pop Shell on top of Fedora and add dash to dock.

I'm just absolutely hooked on the autotiling built into pop shell.

If its an official spin all the better.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Current national electrical code in the US (since the 1980s) is a neutral in every switch box. Before then a switch loop was allowed so you see a lot of older construction with those.

You also see newer construction with those where Uncle Dave™ decided it was easier to only have to run a wire down from the light rather than fish it up through the crawlspace, NEC be damned.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 57 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Hey at least you won't have to sign in anymore just to get automatic driver update checking.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There have been some smaller ISP outages in my area too.

There was a recently disclosed giant problem with DNSSEC that was suppossed to have been mitigated but I wonder whether certain DNS providers haven't been able to patch yet.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

TLDR: Android 15 is going to keep the Android System Webview ram-resident at pretty much all times so that when an app needs a "web popup page" it will load significantly faster.

Here is an article from Android Central detailing how the component works at relatively high level.

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