Please don't take this the wrong way but I'm sitting here genuinely going "what the fuck?!". I'm happy for you in recognizing and killing the addiction even if it took you multiple attempts.
If I can implore people anything its to understand that the problem is addiction and it comes in many forms. To many people they quit one addiction and they move to another because as an example, gambling is not the problem. The unhealthy relationship to it is
I'm saying this as someone who is immensely close with a functional alcoholic and when they have "quit" the alcohol is simply replaced with something else. The addiction is the underlying problem.
Ignoring the lack of updates if the game is buggy, games back then were also more focused on quality and make gamers replay the game with unlockable features based on skills, not money. I can't count the number of times I played Metal Gear Solid games over and over to unlock new features playing the hardest difficulty and with...
Anecdotal but in my career in corporate this has been the order of operations
Employees get any old equipment free if asked
Employees can pay for any old equipment if asked at a reduced cost
Employees can't get any old equipment
The reason was they company wasn't getting any benefit to give away the equipment. Then it was too much of a hassle to write paperwork for the sales which are then used to write down refreshes. Then they just blanket sold to another company which as an employee you then have to engage but with no discounts.
These big businesses make money hands over feet but god forbid they let Joe Employee keep his old laptop for his kid as an unofficial perk of working there.
Had the game day 1 (Xbox). I understand and appreciate it was a different experience for PC users but I experienced no major technical flaws specifically those that worsened my experience.
That said, never pre-order personally but I will be buying day 1 regardless of media.
Around 2000 or so, I used to work in tech support for a software company who had like 5000 Windows-based customers and 5 running Solaris. My boss chose me to learn Solaris when the previous "expert" left. I bought this book and started hacking. Good times!
In Canada and something similar. My aunt got breast cancer and my mum has since been diagnosed with leukemia. Of all the stresses they have dealt with, money has never been one of the things.
It's absolutely cruel that we would do that to a human being in such a tough time. Why any nation would prioritize profit over someone's well being is beyond me.
That said, Canada isn't perfect either my son is diabetic and we still have a lot of profit inducing flaws. It's just when you compare them with "the greatest country in the world"... Well nothing really compares.
Edit - changed pancreatic cancer to leukemia. No idea why my brain wasn't working this morning. Point being fuck the BRCA2 mutation.
I would disagree and say it's more akin to a philosopher king hence less anarchy and more monarchy. It's all good until the king dies and let's see who succeeds them.
With support ending for Windows 10, the most popular desktop operating system in the world currently, possibly 240 million pcs may be sent to the landfill. This is mostly due to Windows 11’s exorbitant requirements. This will most likely result in many pcs being immediately outdated, and prone to viruses. GNU/Linux may be...
Herein lies the rub where the discourse online always fails. It's easy to blame the rich, corporations, politicians, etc. but the end of the day they're simply doing what the masses want. We are the problem.
Now that said, I understand the appeal of blaming a smaller segment of the population because it's easier to shift blame and it's easier to force change that way, but rest assured Apple stops making a new phone every year their brand dies unless everyone stops doing it. They're doing it because we are conditioned to want it.
Same I find the engagement is raising. The threads here are more sincere. Sure it’s not as active when it comes to some things but that’s fine IMHO. Building an online community right takes time.
I invent an elaborate language around smells and my farts become my voice as a combination of musk and vibrations where the scent and timbre of my fart mean different things depending on the context.
You know someone on the team (probably me) that is gonna pontificate TF out of the comment too and you’re gonna get a 10 min diatribe on a 5 line function lol
Full scan of 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue took 1.4 petabytes of data, equivalent to 14,000 4K movies — Google's AI experts assist researchers ( www.tomshardware.com )
Become one with nature ( lemmy.world )
After 10,000+ hours grinding, MapleStory's first level 300 player slams the brakes at 299.99 to rant about the MMO and then quit, all on a dev-promoted stream ( www.gamesradar.com )
Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability. ( lemmy.world )
Ignoring the lack of updates if the game is buggy, games back then were also more focused on quality and make gamers replay the game with unlockable features based on skills, not money. I can't count the number of times I played Metal Gear Solid games over and over to unlock new features playing the hardest difficulty and with...
The World’s E-Waste Has Reached a Crisis Point ( www.wired.com )
Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative ( ibis.wiki )
Pixel 8a gets more expensive: Colors, prices, memory of the new Google phone ( winfuture.de )
Reddit literally shilling their own stonks to users in direct message, reveals that CEO gets paid $193 million last year ( lemmy.world )
ELDEN RING Shadow of the Erdtree | Official Gameplay Reveal Trailer ( www.youtube.com )
My GenX gamer ass whenever someone brings up boomers. ( lemmy.ca )
I won't ever not think this.
Found this ancient tome recently... ( i.imgflip.com )
Around 2000 or so, I used to work in tech support for a software company who had like 5000 Windows-based customers and 5 running Solaris. My boss chose me to learn Solaris when the previous "expert" left. I bought this book and started hacking. Good times!
What I'm paying to find out I don't have breast cancer. I have insurance. (Ultrasound and mammogram in the USA) ( lemmy.world )
OpenWrt, now 20 years old, is crafting its own future-proof reference hardware ( arstechnica.com )
TIL that operating system Linux is an example of anarcho-communism ( en.wikipedia.org )
Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them? ( gadgettendency.com )
With support ending for Windows 10, the most popular desktop operating system in the world currently, possibly 240 million pcs may be sent to the landfill. This is mostly due to Windows 11’s exorbitant requirements. This will most likely result in many pcs being immediately outdated, and prone to viruses. GNU/Linux may be...
Lemmy's active users are up again for the first time since the exodus ( lemmy.ml )
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Miscommunication ( startrek.website )
what caused you to get into Linux?
What caused you to get into it, are you an evangel and are you obsessed?
Activision Explains Huge Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 File Sizes ( www.ign.com )
Lemmy active users down, comments steady and posts up
So since the mass-exodus from Reddit we can see that the total amount of active users has gone down rather heavily: i.imgur.com/MeQok2F.png...
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ysk - your account doesn't exist on other instances and communities don't overlap
User accounts are fragmented and just because you signed on at lemmy.world doesn't mean your account exists on lemmy.ca....