Unfortunately BT’s systems are a hodge podge of different systems written and built over the last 40+ years, in various states of development from brand new, bleeding edge, to abandoned, running on an excel spreadsheet. To say the overall system was “designed” is to misunderstand the size and complexity of BT and its legacy systems. The fact that it works at all is a miracle borne out of the sweat and talent of great engineers hampered by busybody managers.

They couldn’t go full steaming at that point, X Cloud wasn’t fully ready, and gamer sentiment was against it on the whole. The Series S was intended for this use, but the timing was off. So they set about building up infrastructure using massive AI investment money, which also increased the price of hardware, eventually releasing a console costing over $1000 pricing most gamers out of owning the top end hardware, making the Series S type devices much more appealing, and getting them onto the streaming service, raking in fixed income off everyone, and raising prices when the investors want another payout.

I’ve been using Manjaro with Cinnamon for about a month now. It works great on an old Lenovo with 12gb ram. Probably going to stick with it when I build my desktop.

Just a bit more rainforest, no one will notice.

Until recently I worked for a big telecoms company as a software engineer. We had time set aside for self development and non-work projects. Originally it was half a day a week, but we found it better to be a day every fortnight.

You could learn a new programming language or tool, build something just for fun or something you thought was useful for the team (we built a custom dashboard with notices etc., a quiz engine for weekly quizzes), or add functionality to a project that wasn’t specced or requested, but you thought could add value.

After a while, a department wide code wars league was set up to challenge and learn, we had a yearly Easter egg hunt that involved solving puzzles to find prizes, people did lightning talks to teach things that they’d learnt, workshops, etc.

So much knowledge, skill and confidence was added to the team that was worth way more than what we’d do on any normal day. I’d recommend it to any technical team to try something similar.

“And with God as my witness, I am that fool!”

So Wolfenstein is fair game because that’s clearly satire, with roided up, mecha Nazis, but this is bad because… robot Thatcher? Sure, that makes sense.

FucKonami

Facciotina di Cazzo

It has a flared base, knock yourself out.

There was a guy who changed his name to Sydney Harbour Bridge because he could.

At least it has a flared base.

Just played Tell Me Why, as it was free. Played well on the deck with all the graphics turned up. I enjoyed the story, and it’s nice to see a game with good queer representation, both trans and gay. It wasn’t a long game, maybe 10-12 hours, low on the replayability unless you’re a completionist. Light puzzle solving, great theming, and a nice soundtrack. Overall I’d give it a 6/10. I didn’t regret my time playing.

It’s not. Plant estrogens have a similar structure to human estrogen, but do not work the same in the human body. You can tell this is true because otherwise trans women would be downing soy milk like there was no tomorrow.

Finally a Google product I don’t mind then sending to the graveyard.

I keep getting “can’t connect to server” when I try to log in. Anyone else having the same issue that was able to get around it?

Apparently it is a Ubisoft published game and is in the Prince of Persia series, so no lawsuit needed.

Playing oh so much Vampire Survivors. The number of unlocks just keeps going up, but it’s keeping my ADHD brain engaged.

Foundation is super chill. I haven’t played in a while, so no idea how it’s changed in the last year, but when I last played, I had a lot of fun with it.

Houses and roads are built by the villagers, while you place and customise key buildings. There’s lots of flexibility in how some buildings are constructed, like pubs, monastery, and the lords manor house, with other buildings having upgrades later on you can add to them.

Adding little details is also good fun, with random statues and other rewards popping up from time to time. Definitely recommended.

Do the X-Wing/TIE Fighter games next!