Bioshock (series) for the incredible story, world building, how they explored philosophical concepts in a video game.
Mass Effect (trilogy) also had a really great story, I really enjoyed how it went from some small events that didn't seem imporant to such a grand scale where you have to save the freaking universe.
Control which had a really interesting story, incredibly good looking and creative graphics, and some truly epic moments.
And I have to add a honorable mention for Factorio and Kerbal Space Program... Factorio really tickles my engineering mind, and KSP does an incredibly good job at teaching how rockets work.
What are you going to use it for? You have to give us more details, a vague question will lead to generic answers that will probably not be the best choice for you.
You haven't used Ubuntu Server... The resolv.conf is managed by the network manager (NetworkManager if I recall correctly). But if you configure the DNS in NM it won't survive the reboot because there is another layer on top, cloudinit.
In most places, lights are placed on the ceiling. This is fine for generally lighting a room, but if you need to do something intricate that's not directly under the ceiling lamp it can be hard to see. Even simple things like plugging in some cables under the desk.
Having an expresso machine doesn't mean you will drink 10 cups a day. It will just make the cups you drink taste better and be more enjoyable. Personally, I avoid coffee after 6PM and don't have any problems with sleep. I'm also fine without drinking coffee, some days I prefer tea or just water.
Kindle hardware is shit. It's built extremely cheaply, and it's not made to be repaired. I have a Kindle with a broken display, asked Amazon support if it is possible to replace it, they said it's not and they don't sell parts.
It's not just Google. The Internet has been getting worse over the last years. People don't make sites any more. Blogs have moved to closed and centralized social media platforms. Forums are rarely used, most communities moved to platforms like reddit and Discord.
Most of these platforms make finding content very difficult. You won't find articles posted on Facebook, Twitter threads and Discord discussions in search engines. You have to create an account on their platform, then use their shitty search (or be subscribed to the right people) to see it.
In my experience, HP machines are very good. At work we switched to Dells, and I absolutely hate them. I've encountered a lot of problems, bad drivers, puffed up battery, stupid Dell software (like the piece of shit WavesMax that comes with the audio driver and needs to run in the background, otherwise it won't switch from speakers to headphones when you plug them in; it also applies shitty audio effects on every every audio device. If you turn it off and switch the playback device, it turns back on).
Do people actually use non - english keyboards? All my computers that I ever owned used the standard US layout. If I want to type in my language, I switch layout and I've simply learned where the characters are. But 99% of the time, I'm using the US layout.
I'm not addicted. I hate it. It's a horrible chat app. I especially hate the lack of threads (or at least pinned posts) in groups, I have to scroll through pages of garbage to see that important announcement. I also hate that it's linked to my phone. If I want to use it on my computer, because I hate typing on phones, it needs my phone to be always connected.
I'm stuck with it because everyone else is using it.
I honestly don't think it's so bad. There are some things which make it look ugly, the Hungarian notation, the fact that it's a C API which means everything has to be functional and there are many limitations, and there is a lot of legacy stuff kept for backwards compatibility. There is a lot of "we did it this way before we knew the right way of doing it, but now we're stuck with it because of backwards compatibility.
I think MFC is a lot worse. It's basically a C++ API that wraps a lot of things from the win32 API. It heavily relies on macros, and I really dislike it in general. And don't get me started on COM.
Bioshock (series) for the incredible story, world building, how they explored philosophical concepts in a video game.
Mass Effect (trilogy) also had a really great story, I really enjoyed how it went from some small events that didn't seem imporant to such a grand scale where you have to save the freaking universe.
Control which had a really interesting story, incredibly good looking and creative graphics, and some truly epic moments.
And I have to add a honorable mention for Factorio and Kerbal Space Program... Factorio really tickles my engineering mind, and KSP does an incredibly good job at teaching how rockets work.