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That article is a bit out of date and wasn't really true anyway. The people who are creating Pretendo, who wrote the blog post this article is based on, did an update on the situation, specifically calling out the media for their sloppy articles:

With that said, some outlets did a less than stellar job at reporting our last post, not covering some topics fully or accurately.

TL;DR: Many of the issues have already been fixed, even going so far as there are now entirely new servers in place to act as a proxy for Amazons servers to work around some security related incompatibility issues.

A lot of people are replying as if OP asked a question.

I think part of that is because outgoing links without a preview image are really easy to confuse with text-only posts, particularly because Reddit didn't allow adding both a text and a link simultaneously. Though in this case the text should've tipped people off that there's a link as well.

As for the actual topic, I agree with OP. I often forget to do it right when speaking, but I try to at least get it right when writing.

It's a great game but that's indeed one big issue of the game. Most of the game is pretty lenient when it comes to difficulty, but there are a few bosses that come with pretty enormous difficulty spikes. I'd recommend looking up how to power-level when you reach those sections.

I'm currently playing one of the games in Last Call BBS: 20th Century Food Court.

For anyone familiar with the Zachtronics catalog of games it's like someone bolted one of the programming games onto one of their factory games, but the programming part is done using cables. Unsurprisingly, programming with cables gets quite messy, so even after a short break I usually have to restart a puzzle because I don't recognize what part was supposed to do what anymore.

So yeah, great game, would recommend.

It's a completely different game and genre, but that's exactly what made the space exploration Outer Wilds so great: One seamless solar system, fully handcrafted with literally zero filler content. Not even a single location. No matter what you find, it's always meaningful and connected to other things in the game.

Of course, that doesn't mean it's the only way, but it really highlights the limits of procedural generation.

The way WSL1 worked is actually quite interesting: The NT kernel always had the capability to run multiple subsystems, with Win32 only being one of them and there were subsystems available for OS/2, POSIX and later UNIX. WSL1 was pretty much a revival of that feature. So WSL1 is indeed somewhat like Wine, but making heavy use of some features built into the kernel. So yeah, no real boot process happening.

(Also it's kinda stupid that the 'S' in WSL2 still stands for 'subsystem', despite not using that feature anymore.)

A nice grid lined notebook and a mechanical pencil is still my favorite.

If only my default font wasn't so bad that it causes data loss.

Well, this took place more than a decade ago, probably even before the above video was made, and I am actually using Arch right now. Still have a Win11 partition though. And another PC with Ubuntu, just to make everyone mad.

I always love seeing that video in the wild, but vibrations affecting performance and vibrations causing damage are two entirely different things, particularly because that performance drop might be the needle parking itself to avoid actual damage.

As a personal anecdote, I've once installed Windows on a laptop while sitting in the back row of a car driving on not-so-great roads and while I wouldn't recommend it, the laptop was still good years later.

Speaking of, the entire concept of laptops wouldn't have worked before SSDs became mainstream if HDDs were actually that fragile.

Yup. For companies it's much safer to connect the dots with the giant amount of available metadata in the background than risk facing a huge backlash when people analyze what data you're actively collecting.

Which is why people need to call out the tracking that's actually happening in the real world a lot more, because I don't really want my search-history leaked by proxy to people in my proximity either.

That looks very interesting, mostly because it's so different. I'll have to take a closer look later.

I didn't mention it, but that's actually my one (small) gripe with Joplin. It would be neat if I could access my notes with any markdown editor without having to open it through Joplin. That said, I don't know how I would've handled the file structure differently while keeping features like the history alive.

Just tried it for a bit. Looks pretty sleek and has some nice features, but it seems like it's not open-source, which is something I'd like to avoid.

Just yesterday I was stuck in a game and decided to look up some guides. The results were basically Steam discussions and websites ripping off the answers posted there verbatim into articles.

The worst thing is that this was still one of the better search results, because at least it wasn't full of the usual AI-generated drivel.

I mean, a good chunk of caution is warranted, but this matter of fact (heh) statement without any supporting evidence isn't really helpful either. Particularly because this isn't just Google, but all major players in the smart home area: Apple, Amazon, Google, Samsung and the Zigbee Alliance. I heavily doubt that any of the other players would freely give Google any sort of access.

Interesting. As far as I can see you can pair Matter devices either through the HA app itself, Apple Home or Google Home, so I don't think it's required. I'll keep that in mind though before I get my first Matter device.

you’ve got Google on security so you know your privacy is getting invaded

Is there anything actually to this or just tinfoil-hat rambling?

did it get any big updates this year?

This year was officially called 'Year of the voice', so that was the main focuse, but pretty much every monthly update comes with all sorts of neat enhancements, including plenty of improvements to the Matter/Threads integration.

Pretty weird that such a long article doesn't even mention Home Assistant once.

I understand that it's not the easiest to set up for the average person, but given how much pain all these online services and different hubs have caused the author, it's weird that it doesn't even get a shout-out.

It's not a full-blown 'Year In Review' feature, but the 'Game Activity' extension does add a lot of interesting stats. Don't know if it can create those charts retroactively though.