Sometimes good enough is good enough.
rainynight65
joined 10 months ago
If you had to give one piece of advice that is pretty much universally applicable, what would it be?
Sorry, I absolutely care about proper Ultrawide support. Currently the game is dogshit on an Ultrawide, with interface and mouse input being all kinds of screwy.
As much as I am loath to say anything about Musk, but he did actually found SpaceX - although that's probably the only company he founded (that still exists).
They are extremely relevant, culturally and historically. They broke new grounds for music, and a lot of today's music would simply not exist without the Beatles, or some of their contemporaries. That alone means they're not overrated.
However that doesn't mean everyone has to love them. It's possible to recognise their relevance without worshipping them.
For me it's the opposite. I don't get usable mobile signal in most of my house, to the point that our phones are set up with wifi calling, and if the internet goes down (like it did for 45 minutes the other day) there's not much I can do. But if I lie down comfortably on my bed, I get a usable two bars of 4G, enough to make calls and do a bit of internet browsing.
Oh, so you mean the cable that was included with my phone was overpriced, and somehow my phone would have been substantially cheaper if it hadn't been for the cable?
Strange how I've had lightning devices since 2012 and never bought one of those 'overpriced accessories'. But I've lost count of all the USB-C-to-something-else adapters I've got floating around.
I have Lightning cables that are five years old and still as good as they were in the first day.
Firefox.
It's the only browser which can give me certain very simple behaviours. For example, noise the bookmark toolbar a lot. And I want bookmarks from that toolbar to automatically open in a new tab when I left-click on them. Firefox can give me that, whereas Chrome and most Chromium-based browsers don't even give me the option. I have to middle-click or ctrl-click, otherwise that bookmark mercilessly opens over my current tab. Could I teach myself a new habit (middle-click instead of left-click in the bookmark bar)? Sure. Should I have to?
The only Chromium browser that was able to give me this behaviour is Vivaldi, and that had a whole lot of other problems.
The other killer Firefox feature is tab containers. Wouldn't want to go another day without them.
Maybe not the most unfun game I have ever played (I've played games since the late 90s), but certainly the most unfun I have played in recent years: Elex.
I liked Piranha Bytes' old Gothic series a lot despite its weaknesses and idiosyncrasies. The Risen games weren't that great, but the reviews for Elex were pretty promising. So I gave it a shot, and tried for about 16 hours to find the fun in it. I stopped playing when I realised:
- I couldn't hold my own in almost any battle because I didn't have good enough gear
- In order to get better gear, I had to join one of the game's factions
- In order to join one of the factions, I had to perform a number of tasks for them
- The factions were all just dickheads, and I didn't want to do anything for them, much less their dirty work
So yeah, no fun to be had with this one.
So not only do they want AI to take your job - you also won't be able to get another job if you don't wholesale buy into this shit.
I love the future.