@Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works

Do his balls hang low?
Do they wobble to and fro?
Can he tie them in a knot?
Can he tie them in a bow?
Can he throw them over his shoulder,
like a continental soldier?
Do his balls hang low?

How the heck will the software know to not allow editing documents after a certain day - did they just vibe code in a kill-switch into a recent update?

If so, could users roll back to an earlier version without this bullshit, or play with the local time settings to appear as though it’s before July 13?

If the answer is yes to either of these, it’s only a matter of time before someone figures out a way to patch out this bullshit. Which will work fine for personal users, but will likely fuck over SMEs that will likely be forced over to Office 365.

…and I actually prefer Excel over the Google/Libre/Apple alternatives, but seriously - fuck Microslop for this bullshit.

We knew the answer to this 50 years ago:

If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you. - LBJ

Not quite, Coles was spun off from Wesfarmers years ago - it’s its own thing now, unlike Woolies/Big W.

You’re right, we tend to distill value per dollar - but that’s a 2-dimensional equation: games can either be longer but more expensive - or shorter and cheaper.

As an extreme example, I have gotten so much value out of games like Minecraft and Vampire Survivors that my cost-per-hour played is in single-digit cents. Neither is pretty (graphically), and both were very cheap early-access titles when I bought them.

Comparatively, I can’t think of any recent AAA releases have had anywhere near the level of replayability of indie passion projects.

Bit of a tangent, but I personally think the gaming experience peaked in the PS3/X360 era - and the industry has been largely treading water ever since. Nothing that’s come out over the last two console generations couldn’t have been done on those earlier platforms (albeit with lower graphical fidelity).

How would you rank Max Payne 2 in that comparison? It was more fun (subjective), prettier (objective), but shorter (from memory).

It does, not sure if they will ship to the ol’ ex-convict colony 😅 - but I’ll definitely check it out.

Legitimately, SR4 was my introduction to the series and I absolutely adored the shit out of it.

If you haven’t checked it out yet - The Gat Out of Hell expansion had a very similar super-powered play-style.

This has been on my eBay Saved Searches for so long - it never had a local release here in Australia, so I’ll need to import from the UK.

Issue is, it’s not exactly cheap, doesn’t come up for listing very often, and often gets bought out pretty quickly.

It’s up there with Suikoden, Suikoden II, Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, Ghost in the Shell, Bishi Bashi Special, Un Jammer Lammy, and ofcourse Castlevania: Symphony of the Night as high-up on my PS1 collection hunt list.

Our annual electricity bill is projected to drop by more than half thanks to our battery install - from ~$1200/yr to ~$550/yr.

Paired with an EV-friendly power plan (5c/kWh between 12am - 6am), we top up our home battery above 60% to ensure we have enough for the day ahead.

But honestly, the biggest cost-savings will comes from switching over to an EV - this battery/plan combo would save us upwards of $3K/yr in fuel costs.

If this is the same issue as what Elijah experienced on LTT’s most recent Linux Challenge video - the. I believe the KDE developers are (finally?) acting to fix this functionality.

I’m a little too young for the Commodore 64 - my introduction were a friend’s Amiga 500 and a hand-me-down Amiga 2000 - but these look awesome enough that I would buy it just to display it, if only my hobby budget wasn’t already ridiculously over-stretched this year!

Seconding @SippyCup@lemmy.world here - if you have a smartphone that’s less than 5 years old, long-term I think it makes more sense to use that with a split/mount controller (something like an 8BitDo Ultimate or Razer Kishi V2).

That’s because our press lie by omission; the full headline ought to be: “[we want] young people [to] unanimously hate this and want Albanese’s head over it [and we will do everything in our power to convince enough gullible idiots of this as possible].”

AR glasses auto-applying your preferred FaceTune filters?

It’s weird that I’m actively rooting for China to do it’s thing and begin to rapidly pump out cheap memory modules in such high volumes that they are able to over-satiate demand and put a downward pressure on pricing.

Before anyone tries to accuse me of copium or some other affliction, I would like to remind you that this is EXACTLY China’s modus operandi for the past 20-something years.

Both Samsung & SK Hynix were just in the news for issuing their DRAM division staff annual bonuses of well over $300K USD from a 10-15% pool of operating profits. The margins are there for China to squeeze once their manufacturing capability catches up - and it’s catching up very quickly.

Watch that 8 hour workday quickly get moved first to 10 hours (capitalist argument being that it’s the new 1/3rd of the “day”), before ultimately consuming all additional 6 hours and having you work 14 hours straight like some feudal peasant serf.

The world is not America, there is no chance this would ever possibly happen.

I don’t think the personal market will completely die out, but it will definitely shrink by a significant percentage over the next ten years or so.

We’ll see a considerable volume of gamers move to thin clients, ditto for businesses, casual use (email, browsing, consuming media etc.) will continue to switch to mobile devices.

PCs will still exist as a hobby for enthusiasts, but we’ve definitely seen peak-component sales.

While far from perfect, most of it is routed underneath the rear back of the desk behind the modesty panel, using those magnetic cable management kits from LTT.