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  • Something updated and made a lot of plugins/addons/packages incompatible is my guess.

    Like when Wordpress used to update and suddenly 20% of the internet would look funny because their themes were no longer compatible. Or when the guy who made left-pad got screwed and retaliated by deleting it, and so so many things stopped working.

    Downside of modern programming using so many plugins, is eventually they will start becoming incompatible. So you need someone on staff who can identify and implement new solutions when that happens, and they seem to have fired whoever that would have been.

  • I like holding my wife and daughter too much for this to be truly tempting.

  • I am on chapter 907. According to the Royal Road page estimate, that's over 10,000 paperback book pages equivalent. It's a helluva ride, and the price can't be beat.

    Vuxten appears around chapter 50, iirc. He's not the first to recur, but he is a fan favourite.

    I tend to read it in bursts. I catch up about once every 3 months.

  • https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/33726/first-contact

    First Contact by Ralts Bloodthorne (no relation)

     
        
    Eight Thousand Years after the Glassing of Earth, Terran Descent Humanity has largely become a post-scarcity society based on consent and enjoying life. With the discovery of another ancient race beyond the "Great Gulf", events and history collide to draw the Terran Confederacy into war against a hundred million year old empire that has always won and believes it always will. With allies and enemies of multiple species, the Orion Galactic Arm Spur will be wracked by warfare the likes of which have not been seen. Cracked, harried, wounded, and damaged, Terran Descent Humanity willfully throws itself against the universe itself.
    
    "The universe hates you and will take away everything you love, laughing while it does so." - Terran belief.
    
    
      
  • Ha, I use the same! I didn't expect anyone else to be aware of the possibility, so I even had the link ready to share if anyone asked what I meant by "default".

  • Do the tabs still look like buttons by default?

  • School libraries - public libraries - book stores - private homes

  • I still use the IR blaster on my s5 when I go out. I never have to get stuck with fox news playing when I have it with me. It's from 2014 and still kicking.

    It also works on a lot on window mounted air conditioners, weirdly.

  • No shit. I'm saying the tools I had to make myself should come standard instead of wasting dev time on command line bullshit.

  • Making a little program that opens a window with some buttons to pin to my taskbar is infinitely easier than digging out docs and copy pasting into a command line every time I need to do anything. Paste the command once, done. It's like 10 lines of code, plus about 3-4 for each command I add. Maybe drag the window a bit bigger when I add the button.

  • I'm anti everything that requires daily use of arcane command line bullshit. I thought we were on the way to being over that when Windows 3.1 came out.

    If it needs to be done more than once, make it a button on a little program. I've rolled my own for any of them that can be triggered from the windows command line. But Docker and others that require their own unique command line I can't do that. I wouldn't be as annoyed by Docker if Docker Desktop just did all the crap it should instead of requiring command line bullshit every damn day.

  • I really want to make a "closed as duplicate" joke about yet another billionaire being stupid and tanking their site.

  • And tabs replaced with fugly buttons.

  • And to stop it from guessing what it thinks you really meant, change it to "Verbatim" search mode under the Tools button, bottom right below the search bar.

  • The content in question is unfortunately something that has become very common in recent months: CSAM (child sexual abuse material), generally AI-generated.

    AI is now apparently generating entire children, abusing them, and uploading video of it.

    Or, they are counting "CSAM-like" images as CSAM.

  • Siralim Ultimate on the deck while my daughter is awake, Fortresscraft Evolved on the pc when she's asleep.

  • Discord is great to hang out in large or small groups, but it is nearly useless for sharing information beyond a few pinned comments per channel. Their search is extremely "fuzzy". Searching for anything and what you want is likely to be buried in results containing common words that look kinda sorta similar to the word you searched.