My games are less “nobody liked it” and more “a lot of people have never heard of or tried it”:

Ori and the Blind Forest

and

Ori and the Will of the Wisps

They’re absolute masterpieces. It’s like playing a video game version of a beautiful oil painting with incredibly tight movement controls. And the soundtrack…MY GOD is it good.

It’s one of those game series that I wish I could memory wipe to replay again. Sure, the story is a bit simplistic, but it hits the notes it needs to without dragging.

It’s one of the best Metroidvania games ever made, but it kind of fell into obscurity similar to other masterpieces like Titanfall 2.

Personally, I wouldn’t give AF if it was “fake”. Fake is perspective.

I got a free, second hand Framework 13. It had a dead motherboard, but was in excellent shape otherwise. I bought a newer gen motherboard and some second hand RAM to move from DDR4 to 5. Kept everything else.

Works great. Only paid ~$500 for parts.

Krafton is paying out $3 for every $1 earned. They made a shit deal.

Heh

There are some types of vehicles that don’t work currently for pure EVs. Long distance hauling vehicles, for example. Mostly because most EV charging stations are not pull through, so hauling a trailer while charging is a PITA. A plug-in hybrid would be perfect for this application, though.

There are also many people who live in places where charging at home isn’t practical. That’s thankfully changing, though.

Most people, though, should be able to drive an EV in America. I drive a 2023 Bolt and it’s fucking awesome.

I use GeoIP restrictions on WAN and use a TLS offload on a load balancer in front. Problem is the older members in my family look at me weird when I give them a URL, username, and password. They just ask if they can use their Apple or Google account “like we do with Plex”. So…for now Plex stays.

Jellyfin is great and I run both. However, sharing access with family is a PITA compared to Plex. I paid for Plex Pass lifetime at the $75 and have no reason to fully move. Keeping Jellyfin around in case Plex tries to rug pull lifetime passes, though.

Temptation intensifies

Well it’s usually cheaper during early access. I got the game for $32, so you could just grab it and then wait for full release.

I’m never usually an early access person, but Unknown Worlds has a proven track record. They’ve released two games from early access after a very open development period. Plus they fuck over Krafton if it sells well, so win win IMHO.

Yeah I own Destiny 2, but when I converted to Linux, I stopped playing it. It wasn’t good enough to dual boot for one game.

They’re getting rid of search entirely and making everything AI summaries. It’s literally just AI responses and nothing else.

I’ve gotten my money’s worth out of the $74.99 I paid for Plex Pass Lifetime several years ago. If they ever get rid of my Plex Pass and try to say “Lifetime didn’t actually mean Lifetime”, I’ll be gone.

Out of curiosity, why avoid Flatpak? I get snap or AppImage, but Flatpak is generally great.

Yeah it really needs to be on leadership to help implement these kinds of things at the state, local, and school level.

Never underestimate how fucking lazy humans can be.

Solution:

Warn the students throughout the year “If you use AI all year for your schoolwork, you will fail the exams every month or two”. Teach AI literacy, how it works, and the dangers of not learning the material and how it’s a snowball effect. Teach the “why” it’s important to use your brain to solve the problem, and state that they should be using their own words/math/etc. Students suspected of using AI should have a note sent to their parents early on to hopefully correct their path early.

Exams are paper and pencil only. No computers. No phones. No smart glasses. When students are getting an A on their homework and flunking their exams, it’ll be pretty obvious. Even a student who has anxiety about exams can get a C.

Except the whole point of education is to LEARN how to do it without these tools. If you’re just turning your brain off and handing in the output, you are literally missing the point.

It’s like using calculators on steroids. There are times to use calculators and times to force mental math. You can teach kids AI literacy and usage habits, but letting them just use no thinking makes the entire exercise pointless. We might as well close schools, because having the AI generated your math homework or essay is fucking pointless.

My Xbox 360 RRoD’ed on me twice.

It also had its disc drive die THE DAY I got Skyrim on release after waiting in line for it.

I spent the next several hours learning how to flash the firmware of a broken RRoD’ed Xbox 360 so that I could replace my drive with its parts.

It was simultaneously the best and worst console I ever owned:

Best because I have a lot of fond memories playing Halo 3 multiplayer, Skyrim, etc. with my friends in my college apartment we all shared.

Worst because it was an unreliable piece of shit.