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CachyOS has been phenomenal for me. Coming up on 7 months now without using windows beyond as a moonlight client on an ARM64 laptop (and windows server, because sysadmin gotta sysadmin.)

The people who are hung up on the plot are strange to me. It’s science fiction with time travel, and the black hole mcguffin tying it all together is as good of a rationale as any.

If you want things that only have “hard” science fiction, there are other stories for that. If instead you grew up watching stuff like star trek and enjoyed it then maybe you can appreciate it for what it is: a story with a whole load of emotion and science fiction.

All time travel is bogus as far as we know. Stories with it can still be entertaining.

I grew up with an NES as well. I started playing when I was a couple of years old, but I also remember going to the library often and reading a ton of books. Reading assignments in school were tough because i’d want to read ahead of the class, and the teachers were somewhat willing to allow it but they always wanted me to write reports about it and the one thing I would never do was homework.

I love good stories. I started reading a lot of the big epic fantasy and science fiction novels out there. Stuff that we’ve seen turned into movies, books and TV many years later. Game of Thrones, Sword of Truth, Wheel of Time, Mistborn, The Expanse, Ready Player One, American Gods, Gone Girl, Hunger Games… all kinds of stuff. I love a great story.

It takes a lot of patience to play story focused games, but when the systems in them are entertaining enough to keep me engaged I can’t put them down once i’m hooked. The end of the first act in expedition 33 hooked me so hard, and the overall art and extremely french story won me over despite my preconceptions.

It helps that I have a sizable amount of patience, and i’m usually pretty good at games of all kinds aside from the ones that require memorizing combo moves beyond monster hunter or something like dynasty warriors. Dodging in E33 is incredibly forgiving, only parrying requires precise timing imo, so you don’t need to memorize it much.

Right now i’m playing the shit out of warframe. The story is effectively nonexistent for me and the whole game feels like ADHD, and i’m reveling in it. I don’t know many people who play almost all genres though like myself.

Critic reviews are so all over the place. 73% for interstellar is wild, it’s #17 on IMDB at 8.7.

The threshold for rotten tomatoes critics though is about as low as the mariana trench.

I bought it without knowing the hype, only seeing a score and wanted to play a JRPG.

It’s one of the best games i’ve ever played. The emotional delivery of the story is on point. The gameplay is solid. The build variety is quite fun.

It’s difficult but not too difficult. The art is absolutely on point for me (art is always subjective.)

I would love to see a followup, and given the story there could be one given the openings left in the story to expand upon.

It was quite refreshing seeing the endings too. They are an awesome talking point and the fact that it’s not just a boring “good ending”, “bad ending”, “golden path” like most games fall into is great.

Easy 10/10 for the story, and total package.

Sure, but has he found the more money yet?

The modern version of this is AI datacenters.

In an amount of years all the crap they are taking up tons of racks for will fit in a cell phone and cost next to nothing.

Apple TV is basically the only streaming service I have respect for at this point, and I still hate the UI. They just have so many good shows.

They’re the only ones making great science fiction imo. Almost everything else is pure slop.

I totally understand man, but i’m talking about a prebuilt for $999. https://www.microcenter.com/product/699677/powerspec-g528-gaming-pc

I get the form factor, and I don’t think the price is too nuts for that given the overall market for the actual machine. This rando knockoff however that got a ton of free press is just a shitty system overall.

so sell the 5060 for the ~330 it sells for on ebay, and buy a 9070xt for 550 from walmart or 630 from mc.

It’s not that hard to solve for stuff like that.

It’s still $999 for a 7500x3d+5060 at microcenter. Why get “steam machine at home” when you can just get an atx build that runs circles around it all.

If you have some patience it’s very possible to find a deal out there just by looking at slickdeals every now and then until something pops up, but the best time to buy would have been before November '25… but there are always deals from time to time if you are patient and keep looking.

Zero surprises beyond the lack of a reservation queue, but I guess that’s what happens when you use distributors that dgaf beyond the sale.

It’ll be back ordered for over a year. People just want a cheap toy but the math isn’t there between nvme and ram prices.

Physical access and obsolete tier devices means this will largely just provide a jailbreak method for older obsolete phones and some other, weirder devices.

Someone who knows what they are doing won’t need a raspberry pi though. They just used one for their proof of concept and provided that code. Once a real jailbreak is here it will probably be as simple as plugging in a usb cable and running a program.

Yes, i’m a crowdstrike customer. I had that pop up on my feeds around 2am while I was high on my couch and went in and took care of the ~3 non-user systems that were affected in my org. I implemented a fix very quickly because it really was just one bad file.

Anything virtualized I was able to fix hands off. Also anything with an idrac or similar. It really wasn’t much work for us.

Blame windows and how it handles things honestly. Also blame the companies that had major outages with endpoints in places they couldn’t reach, and did not react quickly enough despite being massive companies with billions in revenue because IT is just a cost center to them. This stuff was popping up everywhere when it started in terms of any communications channel I look at, and a fix was available in under an hour.

Every software company is going to have at least one bad update every now and then. Microsoft has major outages all the time. AWS has major outages all the time. Don’t even get me started on the amount of man hours that goes into managing updates for windows based systems because it’s all just a fucking shit show.

I wonder if this will give them reason to consider an ML tool or something like crowdstrike to scan the repo.

People still use that site? I swore it basically disappeared and had been duplicated by a bunch of scammers that used the old archives and a handful of new posts to serve ads and sometimes malware. TIL it’s still around legitimately

They abandoned good writing and storytelling to tear down childhood heroes and throw away a ton of logic about how the universe works.

The Death Star, super star destroyer and Death Star 2 could have been defeated by anybody with a ship with a light speed drive willing to sacrifice themselves, a droid, or through automation.

Force insensitive people can just pick up a lightsaber and fight precognition trained Sith Lords.

It would have been so easy to make a good story in the Star Wars universe without destroying the lore. Fans have done so much work and there are no shortage of them with deep knowledge of canon. I blame KK. It’s all her mess.

I just want good, nuanced stories. Instead now luke is a failure. Anybody could have destroyed the death star, super star destroyer or death star 2 with a simple lightspeed jump. People who have no force sensitivity can go head to head with powerful force users that have precognition in a lightsaber battle too.

I get this is just one franchise but they could have taken the story in so many different directions without erasing so much of what has been written as canon. The priorities these days from these movie making companies seem to be money > agenda > quality art.

With the friendly and compliant response after being told let them have Taiwan, there’s absolutely no way a juicy bribe wasn’t involved. He got something and nothing publicly announced is of substance.

I wasn’t born yesterday. Most transparently corrupt president and administration ever.