Thief: The Dark Project

I still keep playing it with all the gfx patches, it’s a masterpiece. 2 and 3 are not bad either, but the original is unmatched. Love the user generated mods as well.

Nah their website got hijacked and instead of an ISO they spread malware. The system itself was never at risk, if you ran it.

I upgraded to Windows 11 last week after my laptop initially came with it 2 years ago, but was so bloated and slow I installed Windows 10 from USB.

With the EoL I reluctantly upgraded due to company policy, and it was running surprisingly smooth. Really thought they’d fixed it. Only that two days later when I booted the system, I had a blue screen - the first one I have seen since Windows XP.

Page fault in non-page area 0x50 - google suggests reboots, or if they don’t bring any progress, boot into safe mode and update all drivers. Only that I couldn’t boot into safe mode, the BSOD locked me out.

Second suggestion was faulty RAM. Did a memtest from boot stick, no fault.

Third suggestion was to run checkdisk and scm or whatever it was called (some system file integrity check). All good.

Fourth suggestion was to boot into recovery mode, roll back into the system image the Windows 11 installer created, and redo the upgrade. Only to find out that the system restore point had not been created, despite the info box during the installation that this was happening.

Last suggestion was to reinstall Windows 11 from the repair mode, and select the “keep files” option. The offline installer crashed at 25% repeatedly, the online installer moved to 92% and stopped there. Repeatedly, again (tried 3x, and it takes about 1h to get there).

After all that frustration I had enough of that shit and installed Windows 10 IoT LTSC with updates until 2032. When the time comes I’ll either have a new job where I can use Xubuntu, or Microsoft installed on a chip in my brain. Let’s see.

If you’re seeding more than one file to more than one concurrent user, chances are, your drive needs to switch around and buffer quite a bit left and right to get the material you’re seeding cached. That sounds like fairly formal behavior.

Samsung is also a synonym for useless bloat, locked boatloaders, intrusive ads, and every other hostile feature ever. They are the last one to open up their phones.

The Edge 70 Ultra comes in Q3/4 2026, that could be a hot contender.

They enforced the verification, but discord was supposed to delete the images right after.

if anyone got that notification, there could be chances that they’d run

That right there. People who forgot to update their address and got unpaid traffic fines and stuff will settle them when they are eventually found, but the flight risk for serious criminals weighs much more.

Hm ok. Guess I’ll pass then.

Could you share the text? Or at least a link to some website where they explain what pdf I’m downloading? Deep links to documents that might potentially contain malware are not exactly trust inspiring.

Yup. I’m on my second now because of an international relocation, but the first one is still going strong at my dad’s. Bought that thing 14 years ago, was the first series that came with network enabled printing instead of USB (though it has a port).

They were both good, but not really long. I got portal one and two as a bundle and completed them in a single Saturday.

Thanks, maybe time to try again. I used it years ago but the results were not great.

What are you using now? I’ve been toying with kagi for a while, but the idea of having to use an account that ties all my searches to me doesn’t sit well with my sense of privacy, and none of the others get results remotely close to google.

You think? That generation will have kids who buy the same crap and won’t listen to their parents, just like the kids now don’t listen.

China is prosperous, don’t let anybody fool you. But people are deeply, inherently selfish and love money more than everything (yay, communism!), so if they can save 30 cents by taking a roll of toilet paper home, they will.

As someone who lived in China for 7 years, the alternative is that the next best person who enters the bathroom takes all available paper home.

In my entire time there, I can count the number of times where paper was available on a single hand, with spare fingers.

Naturally, everybody carries a box of tissues at all times.

NewPipe as well, without any update either.

What’s that supposed to be? Never seen those before, and I’m in my 40s.

It’s a nice concept for interpersonal relationships regardless of the setting, but it’s got limited applicability in a results driven setting.