Should have asked your daddy for a small loan of a couple millions, an all expenses paid for Ivy League education and an extensive network of high value contacts.

It’s really all on you, if you think about it.

Going to be? The vast majority of appliances are still sold without this nonsense.

There was at least one company selling this sort of thing as a product back then. It was more efficient than conventional electric heating, if I’m not mistaken, even without the income from mining.

Were you expecting him to execute half of Wall Street on day one?

The only times it has failed on me was because either the storage device or RAM were faulty. It’s definitely worth it to check both for errors every once in a while, as financially devastating as it is to replace either.

The old version. It’s an experience closer to release, but safer.

Not too likely at this point. The game is relatively old and few people still care about it. Not enough clout for someone to take another shot at it.

It’s also been heavily discounted already, which means there’s even less of an incentive.

Eh, it’s really not a bad game. The villain is highly charismatic, visuals are very good, gunplay is as fun as in FC3 and 4 again and the world is large and detailed. It’s a solid power fantasy, far better than FC5 in my eyes.

Hypervisor is much riskier on Windows and more complex to use. Empress is a conventional crack.

However, Empress’ crack is based on an old build of the game, with much less content and fewer bugfixes.

There is no widespread migration of desktop users from Windows to Linux and I doubt there ever will be. Can we finally bury this delusional idea? It’s far more likely that the desktop PC dies almost completely as a device category used by anyone but professionals and a tiny minority of enthusiasts than for this to happen.

AI is more like 50% right on a good day though. The user was obviously speaking in hypotheticals.

I’ve worked for an org where Firefox with uBlock Origin were standard for everyone. They knew what they were doing.

After their recent Nazi symbolism affair I’m not really feeling like spending any money there.

They knowingly used runes associated with Nazism in a promotional newsletter in a manner that only Nazis are using them - and they knew they were doing this, because this e-mail was deliberately not sent to users who had set their account to German; this kind of thing is illegal in Germany. If you had set your account to English, you still received the mail, even if you were in Germany. What followed was a dishonest non-apology, while the developer of the game they were promoting was utterly befuddled why gog had done this to their title.

Because you know they’ll always work. Linking directly to posts on various pages comes with the risk of directing people to dead or altered content.

Spotify competitor. Pretty decent in my experience, although it’s been years since I last used it.

Thanks for taking the time to write this in-depth reply!

The disadvantage is that this is the first time I’ve heard of Friendica (and I usually hear about these kinds of things much earlier).

Yup. Recording TV shows and movies aired on TV was far more common than copying tapes. No copy protection to worry about (although there were some attempts to prevent fast-forwarding over ad segments, IIRC) and you only needed a single tape mechanism instead of two.

Wow, that’s oldschool. I haven’t even thought about IRC for at least 15 years. How actively is this still being used in general?

You likely already have a smartphone, so why not just get a controller that plugs directly into its USB-C port? Then load up whichever emulator you want. Chances are, your phone is considerably faster than most emulation handhelds anyway.