Is it a norm for the government to just go on a paid vacation when an uncomfortable question arises?

AI at least has its uses and can do something (not always well, but it can be helpful 1/10 times). Blockchain mania was insane though.

It was like “Why don’t we incorporate a retina scanner into our TV remote”

Mint is better IMHO, it’s based on Ubuntu which is in turn based on Debian, but includes quality of life improvements and newer packages. Debian is nice for servers, but I would get something that is stable but still has faster updates for my desktop

I remember seeing a version of snake that runs on a car dashboard as an easter egg (like, literal dashboard, tiny screen where the gas milage is shown)

Any good litrpg recs? I’ve only read solo leveling and it was good

Really cute, has some rough edges and the performance on deck isn’t stellar (30-40fps in the main menu), but it’s a great looking project. Hopefully it will get updated to be even better

So are you basically making a more modern flash game? I think all flash graphics were vector and that gave them a really cool look

What would be better for desktop use? It’s simple, with wizards and help for setting up almost everything, has support for all the ubuntu stuff like ppas and deb packages so if there is a linux package for some software you are usually covered, and it also doesn’t restrict you from doing whatever you want, so you can change it to your liking (and at least there is a stable base that you start changes from)

Even when people were saying that MS turned a new leaf and that they are better at managing all the studios that they buy, and that they’ll make more better games for Game Pass to be a success, I knew that this was coming. Microsoft has been nothing but consistent in this one thing: it’ll pivot hard in one direction, pour tons of green into it, hire the best people, and then fire everyone and abandon the idea forever.

Zune, Windows Phones, Kinect, and now I guess XBOX. Well, looks like it lived long enough.

historically nobody noticed when you didn’t clean up a machine-translated subtitle

I don’t know about that, it’s super noticeable when that happens, it’s just that it mostly affects languages other than English, so it did not get noticed by Western media unless there is a review bombing campaign after a particularly atrocious localization

Oh yeah, and every restart takes 10 minutes of “preparing updates”

Valve takes care for brand new stuff on steam usually, except for kernel anticheat stuff where they can’t fix it.

Step 5. Watch it reboot overnight and download even more useless bloat

Psychonauts 1 and 2.

Some of the most imaginative big budget games in existence, from themes to art style to level design

What have you been playing

Jak and Daxter 2 via opengoal on Steam Deck. Such a clunky game, but it runs beautifully (except I had to stop right now because it crashed in the middle of the mission, but that’s one crash in several hours). This game feels like a sequence of levels that are just hard enough to be infuriating, but without feeling impossible. And the characters make it more interesting and easier to keep trying the same mission 20 times in a row.

Thanks for doing these, this is some top quality content!

I wonder if Microsoft is making dev mode free because hackers got close to a working exploit in retail mode. There was one shared almost an year ago, but it required a specific app from the store that had been deleted since, but maybe it led to something behind the scenes.