My take is that Borderlands 1 was boring, Borderlands 2 had decent game play but was held up by excellent writing and characterization and every Borderlands game since has been trying to recapture the magic of the second game but just feels hollow. They aren’t terrible, but they aren’t amazing either.

There is a lot more yikes in the article than I was expecting.

Garuda is built on the zen kernel and ships with KDE, I have been using it for a year now and it meets all my needs.

No carrier has cell service at my house but maybe they will add a sat phone.

My ACL says my TV can’t talk to the internet.

This disclosure was from last year and the exploit was patched before the researcher published the findings to the public.

Me: I have been using Linux professionally for 20 years, I can edit fstab.

Also Me five minutes later: I am glad I have live boot stick handy.

Ultimately, the plant stumbled upon the most advantageous adaptation on the planet - being useful to humans.

I stopped reading at Financial Tech startup. From that alone I know what kind of people we’re dealing with here.

Absolute favorite is Outer Wilds. The only thing I don’t like about it is that I can’t experience it again. A true masterpiece of a game.

After that, probably Noita for sheer insanity. Deeply unfair, but getting a god-run going is that much sweeter. It took me ~100 hours to beat it the first time, now I can consistently win if I try but I’m addicted to doing stupid things to see what happens.

At one of my prior positions they outsourced all the junior engineers to this firm that only had windows desktop support experience.

Actual escalation I got:

contractor: I am trying to remove this file that is filling the drive but it won’t let me

me: show me what you are doing.

contractor (screenshot): # rm -f /dev/hdc

another one did rm -rf /var to clear a stuck log file, which at least did solve the problem he was having.

After that I sent out an email stating that I would not help anyone who used he rm command unless they consulted with a senior first. I was later reprimanded for saying I wouldn’t help people.

if your router is able to you can set up ACLs to allow the TV access to your network but not the internet.

His pro-natalist views are literally eugenics.

I had an Atari 800XL as my first PC with 2 5.25’’ floppy drives and a cartridge slot for which I had only 2 games: Pengo and Galaxian. On the floppy drive I was able to play a ton of games including Ultima 4, which really got me into fantasy RPGs.

A wonderful game, but I have always been fond of its spiritual predecessors: Starflight and Starflight 2: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula.

My network guy yesterday: "I took down one of your gateways after fat-fingering a change that assigned it’s IP to another device "

Me: “Cool. Thanks for letting me know. Nobody complained. I’ll just resolve the alarms.”

No honor among thieves.

I managed to get everything moved over except some google data, man they are bastards. I am happy to be a little more extracted from their ecosystem though.

Yeah, running /e/ on the new phone, so it isn’t an option.

They seem to load in but not anchored to the geometry (they appear far below the ground level). Support suggested it was either my nvidia driver or the window renderer (Qt).