This reads like an inner monologue from Disco Elysium.

Is she eats peanut butter, is it Peanut Butter Jelly Time?

Still a little bit better than our German chancellor. Being more disliked than Trump is quite an achievement!

I tried playing Lorn’s Lure last weekend, it starts off pretty strong - you’re a robot that’s been wandering around in decrepit underground structures for hundreds of years, looking for a way out. You have to do a lot of platforming and climbing. I got into a massive shaft (a bit like the “Silo” series from Apple) and had to slowly climb down to progress.

I got randomly dropped down when hanging around on certain walls for no reason at all, to the point where I was literally five meters above the next progress point and died because of the fall damage. I then looked into the Steam forums and saw the developer saying he decided to build the game with linear pathing so people wouldn’t break out of the map.

It’s just shitty design to give you a massive level with a seemingly open approach to traverse it and then make a lot of the walls unclimbable, so I quit and will never come back.

Back in the day I also ragequit Driver 1 because of that stupid training level at the start. :D

I quit Skyrim when they threw a mandatory stealth mission at me and I hadn’t leveled Stealth at all. Granted, most people don’t play it for the underwhelming story anyway…

I’ve worked decades in the industry

That doesn’t mean anything. I have seen senior developers who built up “street cred” for decades fall into the vibecoding trap and deskill themselves rapidly.

That’s what you get for buying a cheap device, sadly.

Not always. I bought a Unihertz Titan 2 for 250€ last year and it can be easily unlocked with Fastboot. They even put the full firmware packages up on Google Drive so you can restore a bricked device with SP Flash Tools.

God that is just awful.

When I played “Psychonauts: In the Rhombus of Ruin” I got reminded again that this thing actually exists.

I have a coworker who’s doing all of our UI and screen designs. Every time he has finished a design he immediately wants to talk about it and randomly calls. Sometimes when he spots small errors in a live project (“this looks a bit wonky in Safari”, “the headline here needs three pixels more margin”), he wants me to immediately fix them and gets pissed when I finish my current task first.

Dude, we all have work to do here, yours isn’t (always) the most important one. I am very close to escalating this to my boss, because it gets increasingly difficult to ignore it and sometimes it feels like he’s cosplaying as my manager.

In short: I hate getting interrupted when I’m in the middle of a task and I hate someone breathing down my neck. I’ll get to it when I get to it.

“Senior AI Engineer”

Anyone can talk to chatbots dude.

This tutorial from Modded Warfare can help you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbnJbbAgQ-k

If you want, you can also check out MrMario2011’s channel, he’s also excellent at explaining all of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze3UMdMakvk

Game ISO’s are available on Vimm’s Lair.

“he lost his games”

They never belonged to him in the first place. :( At least the PS3 has been hacked to death by now, so it’s easy to just put HEN on it and get all of the games back for free.

That joke only works in German because “treffen” has two meanings: meet and hit.

On some popular subs, they added new moderators and brought the subs back online by themselves. It was a total shitshow and a clear sign Reddit didn’t give a fuck about the wishes of their voluntary moderators and users.

They had a really bad POSIX subsystem that was coded by an intern, so they could say “We’re compliant” and get some sweet government contracts.

NCommander made a lot of videos about it on YouTube and had to patch the hell out of it to even get the most basic programs to run.

laughs in jailbroken PS5

That’s definitely default behaviour, the start menu is a resource hog. I can recommend StartAllBack.

Same here, I only use it for VR as well (Reverb G2 support is BAD on Linux).

It’s so fucking annoying when you only boot into Windows every few weeks or so, it immediately hogs my CPU pulling down updates (which often takes 20 minutes or longer).

When the Steam Frame comes out I will finally ditch this dumpsterfire completely.

I feel this post in my heart and just wanted to say I support you 100%.

What I really hate about macOS (and iOS) is Apple prioritizing fancy design over functionality. Liquid Glass is just bad UI with shitty contrast, to the point where they had to dial it down before the final release to make it somewhat useable. And doing things like hiding the username field in Apple Mail so you have to enter a fail state first before it gets shown to you is absolute garbage. Apps don’t have to look as clean as possible, they have to be fucking functional.

…and why are we still including .DS_Store files when zipping a directory and creating them on network drives? What is this? 2001 Windows XP with its useless Thumbs.db files? Even Microsoft has long moved on from storing thumbnails in this way.