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  • The changed the driver model and broke compatibility with any device that didn't get updated drivers. Which created a fuck-load of ewaste and unnecessary expenditure as people had to replace otherwise functional devices.

    It also ran like absolute dog-shit even on PC's that exceeded the recommended requirements by fairly significant margins.

    And until Vista SP2 came out, it remained a buggy, broken, mess of an OS.

    Also, given the promises Microsoft made about Project Longhorn (Vista's cancelled predecessor) and the several years worth of delays Vista had Microsoft had no excuse for releasing an OS that was buggy, poorly optimized, and incompatible with most hardware more than two years old. Vista was supposed to release in 2003, it came out in 2007.

    Windows 7 was what Vista should have been and what Windows should have stayed.

  • If you're in a country that typically drives on the left, and you're driving in the far right lane on a three or more lane road, you're still doing it wrong. That lane is for merging and exiting. The far left is for passing and the center lanes are for cruising. There might also be turn only lanes, which unless you're turning can be safely ignored, because the only valid reason to be in a turn lane is if you're turning.

  • Pretty sure the term "prepper" is just shorthand for "doomsday prepper" or something to that effect. People who think the collapse of civilisation is, if not imminent, a strong possibility within the next human lifetime and are preparing for that.

    I am definitely not that. I just take precautions against the specific emergencies that occur where I live with a level of regularity.

    Blizzards knock out power for hours sometimes into a day or two once or twice a year. We have multiple earthquakes a day, typically in the M1 to M3 range, but M7+ are once a decade events, M9+ are once are century events. Being ready for reasonable natural disasters isn't prepping, it's just smart

  • Just all of my entertainment is stored locally, either on my NAS, or in the form of physical media (books, blu-rays, physical games), so I'm prepared for a long term internet outage. I can also run everything in the house from battery backups and a generator for about three days or possibly up to a week if I immediately turn off everything that's nonessential. Longer, if I'm in a position to get additional fuel for the generator.

    I also live in an area that's prone to earthquakes so I have a total of two weeks worth of nonperishable food and water split between the bedroom, office, and main living area of the house. Along with first-aid kits, Tylenol, ibuprofen, emergency blankets, and spare cold weather clothes.

    I'm generally pretty well prepared for the major emergencies that can happen in my region of the world. Those being prolonged internet/cell outages, power outages, and earthquakes.

  • A 2011 GMC Terrain. It burned oil like none other. The power steering would occasionally just not work upon starting the car, requiring me to turn it off and on again a several times. Sometimes, I'd stop at a red light, the engine would die, and when I'd restart it it'd go into limp mode. And traction control and AWD would occasionally just give out, which can be dangerous where I live due to ice and snow.

    The thing was a hazard and GMC and all associated brands can fuck right off.

  • Is there not a way to take assembly and automatically translate it to some higher level language?

    Edit: Post-post thought: I guess that would basically be one step removed from decompilation which, as I understand it, is a tedious and still fairly manual process.

  • Well, that's awesome. I primarily game on Linux and steamdeck compatibility seems to largely carry over for my systems and no EA app is a definite plus.

    Hopefully, the game itself is stable (Linux gaming not withstanding) and actually good, the marketing has been kind of hit or miss for me.

  • You can get a pellet printer as a 2nd printer, either as a modification to an existing printer or as a complete printer, and then you don't have to worry about most of the difficulties of recycling your waste. Just ensure your keep different types of plastic separate and stored in dry containers just like you would store filament. Then you just need a shredder, which are pretty cheap, and you can create small plastic chunks that will work in the place of pellets. This avoids most of the cost and difficulty associated with recycling, which largely comes from the extrusion process.

    If you wind up needing to dry the pellets, its basically the same process as for filament and removing contaminants is less of a concern.

    If you also do injection molding, the pellets can also be used for that.

    While creating new filament on hobbyist scale is difficult, finding other ways to reuse the plastic at the hobbyist scale isn't hard. Just requires being willing to do it and a little bit of creativity.

  • I think it's Legion; a series based on an X-Men character named Legion, who is Charles Xavier's neglected schizophrenic son, but because of licensing issues they couldn't include most X-Men characters and as a result they created a story that doesn't really feel like any other superhero thing and is instead very weird and very trippy.

    I haven't watched it since it's original run and don't remember much more than that, but I remember liking it quite a bit. I might rewatch it soon.

  • I'll second Portal 2, and other's mentions of Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime.

    It Takes Two is fun, but if you're paying attention to the story I found it to be a bit preachy about what the writer thinks a good relationship should be.

    Smash Bros and Mario Kart are both competitive not co-op.