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ace, 7 months ago

A possibly metal battleaxe.

ace, 7 months ago

Got myself a proper full-time job, my apartment got renovated, and I’ve ended up becoming an Evocati.

My life isn’t particularly interesting when it comes to large-scale changes.

ace, 7 months ago

I’ve spent literally the entire last month working on tooling to orchestrate our asset management database for NAC (Network Access Control) purposes, and somehow I still didn’t think of this.

ace, 7 months ago

Yep, but if you run out of storage space then The Factorio Way™ has always been to use some kind of destruction method - from handgunning a wooden box to using a mod to vaporize it into the ether.

ace, 8 months ago

The one that explicitly states in its license that you’re not allowed to ship anything using it?

ace, 8 months ago

Precis landat tillbaka i Sverige efter att ha gått en hel vecka med kurs nere i Prag.

Är nu en SANS DFIR NetWars Champion -medalj rikare, även om jag också är rätt så trött efter hela alltet.

ace, 8 months ago

Inte den blekaste aning hur jag lyckades med det. Tog nästan fyra timmer efteråt för adrenalinet att rinna ut helt.

ace, 8 months ago

Back when I used to dual-boot, I had Windows on its own drive just for when it gets these ideas in its head.

Had a slightly similar - but also very different - experience that finally weaned me off of dual-booting though.
Back when Windows 10 was releasing their “fall update”, something had broken in the updating procedure and Windows would - on every reboot - attempt to install said update and then fail and roll it back.

At least until it at one point suddenly “succeeded” in installing the update.
The updater took ages to run, and then when it finally rebooted the entire drive was just gone. Partition table was still there, but messed up. Partitions were still there, but contained garbage in their superblocks. Even the EFI binaries were trashed, and the Windows setup couldn’t recognize it as a valid Windows install to attempt recovery on.
I ended up taking a block-level copy of the entire drive from Linux, ran a bunch of file restore tools on that to try and recover what little data I had stored on the Windows drive itself, to some success. And at that point I was long past fed up with the mess that was running a Windows desktop, so it was also the last time I’ve ever had Windows installed on physical hardware - though I have had to load up VMs to run a couple of horribly written hardware OEM tools since.

ace, 8 months ago

Well, it also says ‘Premium Attractant’ on it, so I guess you might find yourself with healthy buff bucks either way.

ace, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

If they actually put trackpads on them then Windows wouldn’t be as much of an idiotic decision.
Windows with only sticks is absolutely insane, Windows with trackpads is just less smart.

ace, 8 months ago

http://www.quickmeme.com/img/63/63f480d6a7ac62f4192b79a557c1a49e1be3be345c092da3d0f2e39927f77a76.jpg

A.k.a. do you have a larger version?

ace, 8 months ago

I’ve had to grab PPDs for the printer system at work, but generally nowadays printers do tend to work with the default system.

ace, 8 months ago

I feel that the problem right now is that Starfield can be both considered a Game of the Year contender as well as an absolute waste of money and time for different people, and they can both be completely correct based on their personal preferences.

Personally, I’ve already played all the Starfield (~45h) I’m likely to play for a long while. It turns out that the majority of the gameplay - random exploration, radiant questing, etc - are things that absolutely bore me, and the crafting/construction/research systems are far too rudimentary, pointless / siloed from the rest of the game, and clunky to keep me particularly interested either. So for me it’s a very mid game, something I’d at best recommend picking up at a significantly discounted sale a few years from now - when there’s enough mods to actually make it interesting.
On the other hand, some people I’ve spoken to turn out to absolutely love the radiant questing and proc-gen worlds, a few of them now having more than twice as much time as me in the game - and still loving every second they can spend in it.

ace, 8 months ago

I love their response to (paraphrasing) “Are you going to do another Darth Vader and alter the deal on us in the future?” - “Oh yes, potentially every year.”

ace, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

To me it sounds a lot like “We don’t really want to answer that question, so here’s a bit of technobabble to ease your mind.”

I mean, writing your own linked list in C and then summing its values could be considered as having “a proprietary data model that calculates”, but it has basically nothing to do with the question on how they track such things, just hints that they’re not using an existing - and proven - tracking method.

To clarify; they took the question “How are you tracking installs” to mean “With your tracking data, how are you counting installs”, and then basically answered “We add the numbers together”
This is a complete non-answer, and it seems to suggest that their actual tracking method is likely unreliable.

ace, 8 months ago

It’s nice to see that ReactOS continues their slow but steady progress.
I’ve actually more than once helped test versions of ReactOS for research IT at the university where I work, since for some reason even modern equipment sometimes comes with Windows XP -era software - alongside requirements for network access.