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TedZanzibar

@ TedZanzibar @feddit.uk

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  • Ubisoft has cancelled 6 games, including the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake | VGC

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  • Dammit, I was looking forward to SoT seeing as it plays pretty janky now compared to modern standards and I was hoping they'd fix up the combat a bit. That said, I only have the Xbox version to go off of. Is the PC version any good? Maybe someone will do a Black Mesa on it.

  • Even if it has mint frosting!

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  • Especially if it has mint frosting.

  • Fun

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  • Tell that to Michel Lotito who, allegedly, ate an entire Cessna 150.

  • 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space

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  • Yeah I was wondering the same thing. Didn't Abort just cancel trying to read that sector, while Fail would cancel the entire operation?

    Nope, I looked it up. Abort would completely abort the whole thing, while Fail was supposed to return an error code to the program so that it could decide what to do next. Like Ignore but less crashy.

  • 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space

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  • (A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail?

  • 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space

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  • They taste that way on purpose to stop little kids from putting them in their mouths and potentially choking.

  • 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space

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  • Remember how sometimes you'd put the disk in and you could hear the floppy part spinning for a fraction of a second to line up with, I guess the motor head, before it fully clunked in? That shit was peak.

  • NAS decision paralysis

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  • Synology walked back their requirement of using their own branded drives.

    First I've heard of this but you're right.

    It's really interesting how far I had to scroll down the search results to find it, as the top page or so of hits are from April when they added the restriction in the first place.

  • Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox

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  • Vivaldi is Chromium based, that's like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.

    There are plenty of Firefox forks that will be actively removing the AI crap. Waterfox, Pale Moon, Librewolf, Zen, Floorp to name a few. And these will all continue to support Manifest v2 and therefore adblockers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Web_browsers_based_on_Firefox

  • Do you feel sad about the fact that you'll probably die within 100 years (or less) and you (well... that's most of us tbh) can't do much to leave a significant positive legacy?

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  • I'm kinda sad that I probably* won't get to see how this story ends. Do we make it as a species? Do we end up in the Star Trek utopia, or do we wipe ourselves out with our own hubris? But I'm not sad of afraid of dying itself. My legacy will be doing right by my kids and hopefully setting them up to live better lives than I did, and I'm OK with that.

    *If I do live long enough to see us wipe ourselves out that will be pretty shit, ngl.

  • Strange things are afoot at Terok Nor

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  • You might be a king or a little street sweeper but sooner or later you dance with the reaper.

  • Wendy's to close hundreds of US stores in bid to halt falling profit

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  • Does this mean that people will finally stop posting that stupid "sir, this is a Wendy's" line?

  • First desktop PC in 15 years. Help me feel good about buying a Dell!

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  • OMG the tower even has a lock and a turbo button! My first (self-built) media PC was in a Silverstone case with a VFD display. They make some good stuff.

  • First desktop PC in 15 years. Help me feel good about buying a Dell!

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  • Bit of a catch-22 for me there. I want to run a local LLM for Home Assistant voice stuff and most of them are heavily optimised for Nvidia. At least the ones that don't take a ton of effort to setup.

  • First desktop PC in 15 years. Help me feel good about buying a Dell!

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  • Yeah I've recently got back into buying and ripping physical CDs so an internal optical drive would've been great, but it seems the fronts of modern PCs are dedicated to massive RGB fans. Gonna have to make do with something external.

  • First desktop PC in 15 years. Help me feel good about buying a Dell!

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  • Good to know. Last time I tried to share a partition between Windows and Linux it wasn't exactly smooth sailing but that was a number of years ago now.

  • First desktop PC in 15 years. Help me feel good about buying a Dell!

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  • Yeah agreed, and that's what I always used to do when it was just for myself. I did actually have a grand plan of buying parts and trying to get the kids involved in building it, but I'm in my 40s and out of the loop, and really I need something that kinda "just works" and that the rest of the family can use without me incessantly tinkering with it.

    That's why I talked myself into a pre-built, with the mindset that a project PC that takes time and effort to spec out and build just right can come later. But the fact that that pre-built isn't exactly how I would spec it is likely causing some of this angst!

  • First desktop PC in 15 years. Help me feel good about buying a Dell!

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  • I do already plan to shrink Windows down to a bare minimum (or possibly just clone it to an external SSD) and use something Linuxy as my daily driver. I'm mostly a Mint guy but I'm interested to give ZorinOS a go since they've just released v18. Might even try Bazzite for shits and gigs.

  • First desktop PC in 15 years. Help me feel good about buying a Dell!

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  • Thanks. I always manage to do this to myself with any expensive purchase. Yesterday I watched a ton of video reviews of it and came away pleased with my decision, and then this morning I started second guessing the whole thing. Been telling myself all day that the CPU thing isn't a big deal, it's leaps and bounds more performant than any console, and could still get fixed if Dell releases Intel's patch, but there's always that little nagging demon on my shoulder!

  • PC Master Race @lemmy.world
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    First desktop PC in 15 years. Help me feel good about buying a Dell!

  • Smart Homes @feddit.uk
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    Any solution for controlling dumb shutters?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Recommendations for running VMs on a headless server?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Just how secure are the various reverse proxy options?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    How safe is self-hosting a public website behind Cloudflare?