I played it on the first day, and played it for days. It was actually really fun and I had a lot fewer issues with it than I had with Dragon Age 1 that I played a little while beforehand.
Supposedly the console releases were particularly bad. I played it on a laptop with a 2060.
It took like 15 years for Daggerfall to not be totally broken, so it isn't really a "new" normal.
I remember SiN was unplayable when it first came out, but a couple years down the line it was a pretty decent game (as long as you weren't opposed to its aesthetic, which I wasn't)
I love tinkercad, but it leaves me reliant on Autodesk which I'm not happy about. I would like to find something simple to use that doesn't rely on a server someone else runs to operate, and that includes activation servers.
I can vouch for the power of a nuc, they're basically laptop grade hardware.
Dominant failure modes are fan failure and ssd failure. The latter can be solved by using a quality ssd, the former by keeping your nuc out of dirty areas. You can clean it up if it gets dirty, but it's a high risk operation, I've seen fan blades break.
It seems to me like missing the forest for the trees as well.
A stationary chunk of solid plastic will probably give off negligible micro plastics, but unless everyone is wearing 100% natural fabrics there's going to be tons of tiny synthetic fibers floating around in the air from clothing...
Since most redditors fail at voting and use the buttons as "I agree" or "I disagree" buttons, it becomes pretty easy to have a normal mainstream opinion and get absolutely crucified because you accidently wandered into yet another echo chamber. Let's say hypothetically that you were a new reddit user and not a user for over 10 years, and you walk in and say a normie opinion, and then get downvoted into oblivion by an echo chamber. What does that look like to the victim of the downvote brigade?
Originally downvotes didn't matter, they were just imaginary internet points. With automod minimum karma limits, for a brand new user, now not only did your post get piledriven into the dirt for what would normally be an uncontroversial opinion, but now your ability to interact elsewhere on reddit has been compromised.
After that, lots of people who might otherwise be good users will just say "forget that" and leave, further enforcing the echo chamber.
Something about defederation, definitely. Seems like every second day I'm seeing another post about defederation like it's a more core feature than posting.
Really, the same reason I didn't upgrade for 3 months, it's a piece of invisible infrastructure unless something is wrong. I only noticed the upgrade because I was going in to add another static dhcp binding for a new server.
I was on reddit for a long time, and at first it was a great place to discuss and debate, but over time I noticed it became more and more locked down until the only thing you were allowed to do was agree with the stated opinions or you'd face mod actions and downvote brigades.
I tried some alternatives like voat, but I just felt like going from being free to agree with one set of opinions I don't really agree with to being free to agree with another set of opinions I don't really agree with.
I have gone all-in on the fediverse because it feels like the one place where I see all kinds of people being themselves, and that's what I want to see. I might hate people's opinions, but with the structure of the fediverse at least I have a better impression that they're authentic opinions and not just what it's acceptable to say.
One thing that's really interesting is that general technological aptitude seems to have peaked with the millennials. A lot of employers are now complaining that gen z lack technology skills of all things.
I can absolutely believe that because personal computing went from being something where you basically have fully powered computer hardware with all the positives and negatives of that and the learning curve to being carefully sculpted and focus tested black boxes.kids aren't good with computers, they're good with facebook and YouTube.
Sometimes users see IT guys as mordac the preventer of information technology from Dilbert. Thank you for breaking my perfectly functional workstation again.
Coooooool!