Yeah. I’ve got an Artist Pro Wireless, and Sonar stuff has screwed it up in weird ways

Yeah there are a few games that you can try the demo on Steam but you’d think that’d be a more common thing. With full digital, it’s even easier then the old shareware methods

Cards had such neat names back then too.

Voodoo Banshee Rage 3D Pro Ensoniq Soundscape (soundcard)

I’m kinda glad it didn’t get to the point of “throbbing purple speedster” or whatever, shit’s kinda boring now

I’ve been fairly happy with Alfred locks using ZigBee. There’s still a Bluetooth+App component to those as well for adding choices but you don’t need it to use ZigBee for locking/unlocking or viewing status.

Don’t use the wifi bridge though. I briefly tried that and it connects to some address hosted in AliCloud of all frigging places

Yeah but by “connected” I’d assume that at least means with a public IP. Running a stock Debian 5 or 6 system with SSH vulnerabilities could result in the same thing.

That isn’t too say that you SHOULD run an old winXP system, but absent allowing a way in or out going somewhere bad the still needs to be a way for the malware to initially interact with the machine

The only way I could see this not being a complete shit-show is if they integrate them into the game in a way that makes sense, which has been done in places before. Banners along the roadside in a racing game (which exists in real life), a sci-fi hologram advertising “new-new-new coke, now with added element-320” as you walk by, etc

But since it’s EA we’re more likely to get an ad for hemmoroid cream during a loading screen, and the loading screen will be extended to ensure it plays the whole ad

In remembering the original, I feel like the tone was similar in Intergrade. Yeah, we all probably have mostly memories of a certain “serious” scene with Aerith and a certain brooding edgy vampire type, but there was plenty of cheese to be had in the original.

I actually played through GoW just slightly before FF7. Yeah it’s a more serious - and Christopher Judge is the boss (even if he didn’t say “indeed”) - but it had some weird bits of cheese too and overall, it had the advantage of being a new plotline rather than a remake/modification of something that originally had an audience with 80’s-born teens.

I’m actually a bit of an initial naysayer on the remake. I didn’t trust the change from ATB to ARPG style combat, chopping it up into episodes, or just the fact that Square has frankly been fairly disappointing in several of the last few released I’ve played (the plot of FFXV was a disconnected trainwreck and FFXIII was a grind).

That said, it came out on PC and then hit a sale and I quite enjoyed it. Yeah there are cheesy bits, but many of them feel pretty intentionally cheesy and overall I felt it paid decent homage to the original, especially the Don Corneo part etc

Plenty of people have OLED TVs that last longer than that, depends on the use case.

My laptop has an OLED screen and I’m pretty sure it’s older than 5yo now. No burn in. No dead pixels

Not good for real-time rendering, but it still has potential for rendering 3D still scenes or frames of a video, or a small studio might have those 80 CPU’s in a render-farm and not need to worry about supply-issues for GPU’S

Yeah they’re not always maxed, but I’ve got a lot of stuff running on those cores, I’ve just found that they lag a bit for some heavier workloads as the CPU’s have a lot of cores but not a huge top speed.

The main concern would be increasing power output without increasing my power bill

I’m hoping we’ll see some good energy efficient server kit as well. My current VM rig runs dual 16 core CPUs but they’re older and a bit pokey. It’d be nice to have something to move up to that isn’t going to screw up my energy bills

For companies that have a legacy product depending on the old OS, but unpatched vulnerabilities because said OS is EoL, maybe this may one day be an appealing option.

Yeah the Docker version hated me, mainly due to it sometimes getting a bit behind on updates and then having schema mismatches if I ran an update in that missed the previous one. No issues with the Snap thus far

Yeah it’s funny to mention NMS, as what I’ve heard from most people is that you’d have money AND get more value by buying that particular today over Starfield

I have a little 3D printed housing which I keep my power supply and controller in. Thus far it’s survived 3+ years outdoors with winters hitting below -30°c and summers above 30°c.

Biggest issue I’ve had so far has been the getting the strips to stay in place where they’re tacked under the overhang

Nice. First BAR and now this…2024 might be a good year for RTS

Holy Shit. Just realizing that the Xbone had already been out that long

A few who have falsely claimed that actually ended up getting charged with false reports IIRC

You can set the automation to fire after a reasonable delay, so that if something is firing continuously you aren’t getting constant/overlapping messages.

Not with any of the ones I’ve bought recently (also from AExpress)