Has it really been 20 years? Damn, I'm not ashamed to admit I don't think I ever finished the game in that time.
Each playthrough ended in fucking around with gasoline, pissing out some innocent bystanders that happened to stray too close and taking out the rest with cat-silenced guns. Bonus points if the cat gave out and was launched straight into somebody's face, vomit all around. Good memories playing this with my younger brother. 😁
Imagine you're a GitHub employee tasked with leaving a nice message for the 1 billionth repo. Seeing that counter tick towards that joyful moment, anticipation builds.
What would it be? The next Linux display manager? Something as impactful as Docker or Kubernetes? The early beginnings of a radical new OS?
In the Netherlands we stopped adding fluoride to the drinking water decades ago, amongst others because of a dramatic increase in reported migraines and bowel issues during the period we did add it. Stopping fluoridation didn't cause any dental Armageddon, so it is definitely possible to get rid of it without adverse effects.
However, and here lies the issue I suspect, we actually have decent dental care, brushing your teeth is ingrained from early on and almost every toothpaste contains fluoride.
I'll happily trade your razor blade slot for the crumbling linen-covered iron electrical wiring inside metal pipes in our 50's house. Don't worry, we are busy replacing it all. But if I'm suddenly permanently offline our house probably burned down. 😋
But is it really Window's fault when a software vendor decides not to support a newer Windows version, or a manager thinks cutting costs by not renewing a support contract is a great idea? I've seen plenty of software fail to compile on Linux because of, for example, slightly newer (or older) glibc versions being present. It's not as if using Linux means software will magically run on every version out there.
Seeing how they screwed over Mick Gordon, the composer for the previous two installments, I'll vote with my wallet and skip this one. My backlog is big enough as it is anyway.
Yeah, FO3 wasn't perfect, but at least it had its darker edges. Feel like a slaver? Sure, no problem, you can enslave random wastelanders and sell them for profit. Screw over BoS? Broken Steel let you do that, RIP Citadel. The Pitt gave an antagonist with a motive which turned out to be a bit more nuanced than it initially seemed. You could roleplay a fat-shaming, racist PoS if you wanted to, instead of presenting only safe options.
Meanwhile a Bethesda game like Fallout 3 had its fair share of flaws, but gave you plenty of opportunity to decide if you wanted to be the good guy or not. Blow up a town? Kill off all residents of Tenpenny Tower, or whack all the ghouls that want to take up residence? Why not all of them? You decide!
It also wasn't afraid of locking players out of quests if they behaved like an asshole. I liked that, why would somebody try to work with you after you just gave them the proverbial finger?
Far better than 'oh golly, you just told me that I'm not a nice person. Well, that's not very neighbourly of you, but I'll pay you my life-long savings if you hop over to the next hub and return my package that I conveniently know is collecting dust over there, but can't be bothered to fetch myself'.
I know, and the 'fuck Microsoft' is completely warranted for that. But shouting that and then coming up with a story where somebody enabled it themselves and subsequently lost their key, that doesn't make a lot of sense. Unless it was to illustrate the dangers of FDE, but in that case the point could have been made a bit clearer.
But how is that relevant to your 'Fuck Microsoft' if he knowingly encrypted his device, which is how you make it sound?
I've enabled FDE on one of my Linux devices, I've already had to mount the filesystem in a rescue environment once because a failed update caused the system to be unable to boot. I would also have been hosed if I had lost the encryption key. Ok not really, because that's what backups are for, but you hopefully get the point.
Good point, although admittedly I've had my fair share of Wayland-related issues with KDE. Unless you want those few extra FPS in a game or HDR, is there really a noticeable difference from an average user's perspective?
It is Ubuntu, not my favourite distribution, but easy enough that they are able to work with it. Most software is also either available through the included repositories or has a dedicated Ubuntu executable.
It also has LTS versions, which are supported for quite some time. That way you can set up a system which they can use for years without having to deal with major changes during that period.
Lekker. Kan ik je er ook een Haags Hopje bij aanbieden?