Spouse and I have kinda settled into a nice routine where we listen to a podcast together immediately after putting sproglet to bed. We drink tea and listen to No Such Thing As A Fish. She knits and I play Rollercoaster Tycoon on my #gameDad. Sometimes we light some incense. This is our transitional time of shifting gears between work/parenting and doing our own thing for the rest of the evening. It's very cosy and nice.
Between the occasional playing with mucky/oily hands because I have the gameDad with me in the car, and simply putting so much time on the joysticks, I've pretty much completely worn them out. Fortunately this Anbernic RG353V uses bog-standard Nintendo Switch style joycon joysticks, so I've ordered a pair of replacements that should be here tomorrow.
So I guess expect a little disassembly thread in the next few days :)
@ifixcoinops Wow, that's terrible. What's even the point of using hall effect sticks if you need to set a bigger deadzone than my 20 year old joystick?...
Looking like I’m going to have to bail on my current web hosting service because they renew at too steep a price than I can afford for a little blog site and two domains.
I keep seeing HostGator, inmotion and DreamHost show up as well-rated sites with really affordable (introduction) packages.
Does anyone have any experience with any of those services? Good/bad/ugly?
@reay I've used InMotion's shared hosting for a friend's WordPress site and generally not had problems. Sometimes it can be a bit slow but for the price that's kind of to be expected tbh.
Watching a mutual ask for printer recs and receive a chorus of tired tech folk going "Just get a Brother, they're fine" and man
MAN
Like this is actually kinda fascinating honestly, Brother is now the best printer brand, the one that every Computer Person recommends, and is it because their printers are good? Their printers are fine, they print, whatever, no, it's because everybody else's printers have gotten Innovated out the wazoo, every innovation making them way worse, until it's gotten to the point where I wouldn't have one in the house even if it were free, and meanwhile Brother's have remained consistently Fine I Guess, which now makes them the best printer manufacturer simply by virtue of them opting out of the Who Can Get Crappiest Fastest race
Brother have gotten to where they are now, by NOT innovating
EDIT 2023-11-27 2130 UTC: I muted this thread a while back because wew lad this got too big. I won't see your reply but the lurkers (and commentors) of Hacker News might.
@ifixcoinops You're exactly right and I'm terrified of the day Brother goes to crap. Their printers do exactly what you need them to do, no more, no less.
I remain stunned that Microsoft can ship something as buggy and infuriating as Teams and people will buy it. At this point it seems like IT departments would buy a pile of burning dog poo if it had a Microsoft badge on it.
Also if anyone knows how to make Teams behave itself please share your secrets..
(Linux support now the desktop client has been canned, working notifications, fix the bugs with Bluetooth headset handling... maybe even the webapp working in Firefox?)
@philpem Do companies even use it for any reason other than that it's bundled with the rest of O365? That's why mine uses it, unfortunately...
I will say that the webapp works fine on Firefox, at least for me. (I mean, working by Teams' standards - it's a pile of crap no matter what.) I mostly just use it for the chat features though, no video calls.
@philpem Oh Christ, that's awful. Shouldn't the browser pick that anyway? The few times I've had to do Teams calls it's one awful bit of jank after the next.
@Tvorsk@philpem Don't pay for Slack and Zoom, just pay the invisible cost of a million inconveniences and broken features hamstringing your organization. But hey, that doesn't get recorded on the balance sheet and you saved 0.5% of the budget, so don't you look good now!