The sad thing about Oblivion is that there are in-game books in Morrowind and previous games that describe the empire as being in the middle of a bamboo jungle. The vibe comes off as the Roman Empire in South East Asia.

Instead we got generic high fantasy with the occasional guy wearing Roman armor.

Only as far as storyline and setting go. Other than that, it was an okay shooter.

Cutting costs and laying people off makes the books look slightly better (more cash on hand) which makes the stock price jump, which is all these ghouls want because they’re going to sell off on the high, and then bail out.

That’s not how it works. Making money today is the only thing these ghouls care about, ruining a company or brand is just dandy because they won’t be holding the bag when it bursts. They’ll have passed it to someone else. Someone else who will then work to gut the company even more before selling it to someone who will gut it and close it down.

And nothing of real value will have been made, but lots of rich asshats will be slightly richer.

They aren’t on the same level of fraudulent bullshit, but they’re close.

Fingerprint matching is done “by eye” and often involves an “expert” saying that one smudge is a 100% match for another smudge.

DNA matching is the only forensic science that’s worth a damn, and only if it’s done correctly.

Part of it is the fact that Ubuntu is an entry level sort of OS, it’s been simplified down and made easy. So the sort of people who have it are often less tech-savvy, and when something does go wrong, they ask a lot of pretty basic seeming questions.

This isn’t helped by some of Canonical’s design choices. Nothing overt, but Ubuntu has a flavor that’s distinctly Ubuntu, and knowledge of other distros is sometimes a detriment in solving problems.

Canonical is also a company that just rubs some people the wrong way. There was some data collection shit where they asked users to opt-out of collection, after installing the data collection app.

Then there’s Snaps… it’s their own unique take on program management. Which is a Canonical thing, reinventing the wheel so that they can have their own unique little thing. Like Mir and Unity, which were then both abandoned to the community.

It’s good that the community can take over when Canonical drops something, but still…

I just played through it.

It’s about 5 hours of content. The puzzles are interesting and mostly new.

If you own Portal 2, the mod is free to play.

The one thing he was at the company to do, was make good games that make good money.

Covering for rapists and threatening to kill employees is bad enough, but I can see a world where that sort of shit is, not forgiven, but swept under the rug.

That world is one where the money flows. It’s not a good world, but it’s one that’s understandable.

But fucking with the games and making shit worse? In a sane world, the Board would take a look at the company and say, no. this guy has to go for all of the above reasons.

That sane world is one where mergers and acquisitions are heavily scrutinized, and Blizzard was not allowed to merge with Activision.

Actual competition in the space means that the CEO has to actually be halfway good at the job, and maybe not a complete psycho. We don’t live in a sane world.

5th pin down on the far left side in the picture.

There’s no solder on the pin.

Most of the joints are questionable, that one is flat out bad.

There are a bunch of questionable solder joints.

Like half the pins.

But the absolute worst is the 5th pin down on the far left side. There’s so little solder used that you can see into the hole.

A few others are also a bit lacking as well. Almost all of the joints are ugly as sin…

I remember playing it a bit back in 2001.

And yes, it’s still around.

There are even two versions that Jagex maintains, the main branch, and Old School Runescape, which is based around how the game was back in 2007-2009. (but with new stuff still added all the time)

Brother is the go to because their stuff is basic and functional.

All the other companies have “innovated” to the point where their shit is unusable for daily use.

Strokes, but also broken necks.

And some of these quacks do “adjustments” on children and infants.

10-15 years ago, it was a problem dire enough to drive me back to windows until about the start of the pando, and I’ve not even thought about Wi-Fi drivers since coming back to Linux.

I did have issues with a cheap USB Wi-Fi dongle thing a few years back, but that was likely the fault of the dongle more than anything else, I know because it didn’t really work under widows either.

Daily Driver

Here’s someone using the term in 2011.

https://xdaforums.com/t/what-os-are-you-using-as-your-daily-driver.919218/

And I’m sure there are plenty of older examples.

But some others are here from 2015

https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34990

2017

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=222919

2014 (ish?)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/2njaz3/what_are_you_using_as_your_daily_driver/

All that from a simple google search.

I’ve never actually had problems with Manuskript, but then I don’t write anywhere near as much as I tell myself I should.

I also once paid for Scrivener, back when I still used windows regularly.

I seem to have a history of looking for an interesting piece of writing software, and then using it to write a chapter or two, then nothing more.

Another fun writing program (that goes to the other UI extreme) is FocusWriter. I actually managed four or five chapters of a story using it.

A program that’s similar in many ways is Manuskript

I’d say it does exactly the same thing, except you just download it and go. There are linux, windows, and mac os versions.

Then for the closed source world, there’s Scrivener. I’ll not link it because it doesn’t support linux. But same concept.

I recently switched my laptop to Garuda, it’s an Arch based gaming distro. It seems to mostly work right out of the box, but I did have to tweak a few steam games to force them to use my dedicated graphics.

I guess I could go in and force steam itself to use the graphics card via env… But I only have a handful of large games at the moment. It’s just as easy to set the requirement per game right now.

1; https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewelinaochab/2021/07/08/united-nations-concerned-about-organ-harvesting-in-china/

2; Some buzzwords that you don’t seem to understand the meaning of, with some conspiracy theory nonsense thrown in.

3; yup. US history is full of horrible shit, but we’re trying to be better. Well most of us. China is not trying to be better.

The US once engaged in genocide, and China is using that past to justify several ongoing genocides.

The US has often failed to fully live up to its ideals of freedom and equality, and China uses that to justify not having any freedom or equality.

The US holds freedom of speech as sacrosanct, often to the point where harmful ideologies are given platforms, China uses secret trials to jail people for the study of their own heritage.

The point being, China fucking sucks for anyone who isn’t a rich, ethnic Han, flawlessly loyal to the CCP.

Harvesting prisoner organs to give to the wealthy/party members.

Executing people for things they’ve said.

Quartering party loyalists in Uyghur homes, particularly the forced co-habitation of Uyghur women with male party loyalists.

The list goes on because China is a totalitarian dictatorship, and the US, for all its many, many, faults, is not.

The main difference is that the US is mostly trying to be better, and China is actively embracing the crimes against humanity.