Thank you, I really appreciate that

This entire month sucks. Hopefully, though, things will get better!

Honestly, that’s fair. Maybe I was being a little too harsh, plus this gen did come with more customizable settings (IE, setting to “performance mode” or “fidelity” mode)

I feel like every single year just gets worse than the last. Very possible it could be as simple as more widespread social media, but 2015 seemed much less scary.

I feel like we hear this every single time though. “Largest tech leap in a hardware generation” very much means “we’ll bump the graphics a little, we’re still targeting 30fps though”

SimCity had great ideas (thinking of SimCity Societies in particular here) but as others have mentioned, piss poor execution.

Cities Skylines came in with good execution and stole their entire market share from them.

Man, I love Debian. It’s not the sexiest distro, but it gets the job done damn well

I don’t even trust Steam, let alone Mozilla. I don’t think I’ve ever had any credit card auto-fill on any browser I’ve ever had

The Linux Experiment is regularly sponsored by some of them (IE Tuxedo)

How to Disappear Completely is so good

I don’t have any musicians that consistently make me feel that way, so have a list of songs instead:

• The Price of a Mile (Sabaton)
• Doomed (I Prevail)
• Let Me Be Sad (I Prevail)
• Soon You’ll Get Better (Taylor Swift ft. The Chicks)
• Wildest Dreams (Taylor Swift)
• Tess-Timony (Ice Nine Kills)
• When the Party’s Over (Billie Eilish)

The really irritating part is that tools like Playwright let you end-to-end test your product across the big three (Chromium, Firefox and Webkit). Which, most of the time, means these products that specify “Chrome only” simply aren’t E2E testing with modern tools.

Hopefully a similar situation to Palworld?

Windows Defender should be more than good enough for most users. Just make sure to use an adblocker (such as UBlock Origin), only visit HTTPS sites as much as you can (you should see a lock in the corner of the URL bar on most browsers) and ensure you always virus-scan programs you downloaded before running them.

Also, exercise caution on the Internet in general. Never just click “yes” when a program asks for admin permission - make sure you check exactly which program is trying to do it and that the publisher is reasonable. Never exit read-only mode on Office-suite documents unless you know the document is for-sure safe (exiting read-only mode allows macros to run).

Doing all of this, Windows Defender should do fine. I’m assuming 99% of this is common sense for you though, since you’ve already found your way to the Fediverse!

Anker is always good!

Really good, solid cables of varying varieties (preferably braided). I’ve had many cables for years and never had to replace them (or if I did, it was wayyy after their due date lol). HDMI and Micro USB were the big ones for me

That’s why there’s mods! Also, if the caves get samey, you can always go end-busting or build a new project.

Minecraft. There’s always another automatic farm to create, a new cave to explore and a new mod to try out! Not to mention the fun that multiplayer brings…

This likely breaks your company’s terms of use. This can definitely lead to termination, especially since the other OS would likely not be monitor-able by them (opening them up to potential liability, along with the myriad of other issues)

In Atlanta it’s like a -55% chance it works