D-4got10-01 said @Demolishun Lucky you. Mine has died recently. When I plugged it in to the wall socket, a bit of smoke came out. Once I opened it up I noticed the tops of two capacitors had a convex shape. On topic, though: yes - I love the current generation. /s Assassin's Creed Valhalla had a day 1 patch of roughly 100 GB, IIRC. There are many more games like this, sadly.,@Demolishun I'm definitely planning on getting it fixed. Before I got a chance to unlock my old HDD in preparation for upgrading it, the console developed yet another ailment, though. I may need to find a service that can fix it, but the console is worth it.,@retoor Now that you mention it, quite possibly what happened there. Either way, that timestamp made me laugh. 'Here's a message from the past for you'.,As a general rule, whenever I am interested in something && the other person is much better at it, than I am. One such person is my oldest friend, whom I met at my fist job. We've been friends for roughly 16 years && I've learned a lot from him.,Some people have a problem w/ listening to reason. ...also seem to be lacking some common sense.,'General system stability improvements to enhance the user's experience.',@Demolishun In one of my past projects on Android, when you were in the Main Menu && pressed the Back key, the game would ask whether or not you'd like to close it. Choosing [Yes] would 'close' it... ...in reality, the game would simply minimize. A blatant lie, to be sure. IIRC the idea was to have 'quicker' startup of the game.,Cool stats.,Not sure how, because I visit the site very rarely, but somehow I've recently stumbled upon the '@whatever' channel on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/@whatever They somewhat cover this topic. ...mostly dating-related talks, as far as I've seen - yes, but it is related. I am not saying that one necessarily has to date to have children, though. One-night stands can have their consequences.,@retoor You're welcome, have a nice time off away from coding. Also - yes, having a kid from a one-night stand is fucked up. Wouldn't want that, personally, therefore I'm not engaging in those. W/ all the people in the world, however, there are those who are bound to disagree, as is their right.,- 100%'ed Heavy Rain sometime in 2010. - Detroit Become Human is in my backlog. - After spending _a lot_ of time playing the Prince Of Persia Warrior Within, I lost the ability to wake up when I'm about to die in my sleep... ...I just rewind the time to moments before my death && continue.,Definitely ! a complete list... would take me too much time to think about it, but: - Be intelligent. - Don't do stupid shit. /* Too often. */ - Be self-reliant. - Don't bother me w/ bullshit. - Whether it's good or bad news, just be straight w/ me. Never sugarcoat. - Be truthful. Bonus: - Some overlap in interests. /* The more, the better. */,Just leaving a comment to show my appreciation. All hail king Lothbrok.,Damn, these look amazing. Props.,Can't remember exactly, as it's been quite a while ago. It was either any of these, or some combination of: 0. Was frustrated w/ something tech-related. 1. Was looking for new programming-related jokes to fill the void left by devopsreactions.tumblr.com/ , which has been inactive for _some_ time. 2. Was looking for a solution for some problem. I had been lurking for a month, maybe two before I decided to create an account, as I felt it would be worth it. Am ! disappointed.,WTF, indeed.,I see something similar in my current company. At least w/ the leadership. Personally I don't get it. If it's needed / beneficial for the job && you don't understand it, don't ask for it to be dumbed down. _Educate_ yourself!,@Lensflare Very true. I see the trend of packing things tightly very often in multi-platform games && even in my own project. 'Let's take all of that info && display in on one screen.' ...end result is a lot of very small text that is barely legible.,@lorentz Ditto. I liked my Firefox w/ the sharp, rectangular tabs more, too.,I'm guessing 'grug' is a reference to this one: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/... Went over my head, but I had no problem looking it up. Sadly, people tent do be too lazy.,@Lensflare Thanks. Saw that one, too... 1st fucking result on google... Not sure how I failed to click on it, though.,@Lensflare Depends on the barrel.,Scammer / spammer testing our defenses?,People like mr. smiley make me very nervous.,@Grumm While still probable, less likely. Yes - fuck this.,@thelevenin By itself - no. There are certain indicators that tip the scale in the unfavorable direction, though.,Why crawl out, though, when you can:,Fuck. Definitely !something one wants to hear after such long investment of time. Hopefully the new project will be interesting / challenging, though.,Some time ago, I was up at night && wanted to check the time. Saw this thing pictured below. I found it just as funny as today's date, but that time happens every day, so it's not as grand.,Unfortunately, no. Back then my PC was pad-less / joystick-less. Had a C64 && a knockoff Atari 2600 w/ a whopping *1000 games that both had joysticks, though.,\m/,I am reminded of the Internet Of Dongs. https://youtube.com/watch/...,Vacation throughout the whole December... because why not? Installing Kubuntu 24.04 as I type, in the spirit of: 'Get to know something new.',Well... The current situation reminds me of the 1st time when we had a mobile game w/ Leaderboards. _Of course_ some fucktards decided they need to hack the thing to get the top places. ...had to deal w/ that BS...,@retoor Yup. I see this BS unraveling. I've noticed the bots upvoting my comments sometime this morning... which is like two hours ago.,@retoor As well you should be happy, having the wit, skill, && knowledge to deal w/ any bUfFoOn's BS. Congrats on a job well done. I was starting to entertain the idea of staying in the forest killing boars. https://youtu.be/_CKOYmBc-ow?t=32 /jk,@retoor Finally the comment's in there. Well, it's a new one, though. I previously had a notif of your earlier comment, but then the comment was not displayed. I had been wondering about that. Either way I finally managed to get the thing installed. For some reason the installation would just stall when choosing an encrypted partition. ...to be fair, my HW for experimenting w/ OSs is !exactly top-notch. Either way I'm currently setting the thing up. KDE Plasma is nice, as I'm already familiar w/ it thanks to Manjaro. Ubuntu's GNOME was off-putting to me.```