Peffse @ Peffse @lemmy.world

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I love how the arstechnica article words it like you will never need FAT32 and it's silly to consider it.

I had to download fat32format I don't know how many times because I needed to format an extra large SD Card or USB drive for some device. Microsoft really shafted exFAT's adoption with their licensing.

There were WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too many secret caves in DKC1 to try to 100%. I did try to complete DKC3, but I don't think I achieved it.

I'm the kind of person who has no issues with moving on from a game with only 20% of the achievements/trophies unlocked after beating the final boss. If it's not fun, it's not fun.

I think the only two games I set out to 100% were probably Super Mario World, or Donkey Kong Country 2.

I dumped Brave when it decided to install its VPN as a service without my consent. I had so much trouble ripping out all the traces of that.

It's like I cursed myself. THE DAY AFTER posting this I found out that the enclosed battery in my phone is swelling, and I have no method to remove it.

They've even start hoovering up stuff that was sideloaded so that it integrates into their store.

They tried to "update" my VLC but since my binary was signed by F-Droid it fails... and fails... and fails... No way to tell them to stop trying.

Nah, people are just better at prioritizing.

Unfortunately no, I haven't found a fork under active development.

I had to switch to uMatrix after NoScript broke all embedded media. It seems to still block all the 3rd party scripts, but allows 1st party by default so less severe website breakage.

I personally don't think that would have worked. We've seen repeatedly from multiple companies that selling anything as an "addon" just results in failure because developers can't assume that people will have it. You have to bake the function in the lowest SKU or it ends up a novelty.

Perhaps if they rolled out the canceled Neptune as the half-step between Mega Drive and a delayed Saturn. It would have been the an excellent base SKU developers could target, with cheaper CD media as a bonus... but I just don't see an enhanced Sega CD/32X going up against the PS1 and coming out any better than the Saturn did. I guess they wouldn't have hemorrhaged all that money on wasted hardware though.

Oh, Sega was limping along well before the Saturn's failure let Sony finish them off. They completely fractured their market when they botched both the (expensive to manufacture) 32X and SegaCD, canceled the integrated (cheaper) Neptune, then failed to showcase the Saturn as their next generation while simultaneously making it too hard to develop for.

Even when Dreamcast finally became a clean-slate for Sega, it was far too late to serve as a 5th chance.

I really hope that tcrf doesn't take over. I STILL can't contribute to that website because it requires you to sign up for Discord and agree to Discord's ToS just to paste some stupid code into their bot.

I had to do a battery replacement on the L480. They had top-notch support on what part number to order, video guide on how to properly disassemble the case, remove ribbon cables, etc etc etc. I wish all companies had that kind of support.

I bought out both a T430 and L480 because of their build quality and stability, and just got a little confused as to whether the opinion changed recently or if they merged divisions.

I was recently provisioned a Dell and... well, I'm not buying that one.

I thought Lenovo was two different brands, one consumer (terrible) and one corporate (decent). Is that no longer true?

They really do seem dead-set on transitioning to a software rental company. Let the hardware languish and shove another tier of Game Pass into the marketing grinder.

It's criminal that companies are allowed to release products with sealed Lithium-ion batteries. Like... even excluding the benefit of hot-swapping them for better uptime, extending the product's life with replacement, and limiting the proprietary shapes... old Lithium-ion batteries swell and explode. So why are we putting them into the core of our products with no way to see the health and remove them?

One thing I like to point out to those people is that they are assuming it's accurate data collecting. If for some reason the data broker thought you totaled a car, you can't do squat about insurance agencies raising their rates because of it. You'd never know, you'd just see prices going up. Heck, everybody I know who has checked their credit has seen something that needed correcting. No way data brokers are 100% accurate.

Intel announces two generations of defective processors and AMD gives up that opportunity to recall their own launch? Must be something very wrong with the batch.