boo hoo mf

I miss xfire too.

So that’s what happened to them

Yeah! I can’t be bothered with all this shit, I’ll just be a wagie instead.

Heheh, stupid pillow.

That’s really moving, OP. I’ve had similar feelings before, discovering (or merely even noticing) the finished result of someone’s labor of love - someone who was no longer in the world.

My grandfather’s homelab and media setup was, and timelessly now is (since I backed up disk images of some of his computers) like this to me. Despite my years of my own joyous tinkering, in many ways his setup still eclipses mine. “Self hosting” wasn’t really a thing yet when he was doing all this, since we hadn’t yet moved to a highly web-centric, SAAS-dominated world, but he’d have been super into it. What’s left of his computers are now quietly falling into disrepair. But at least I have some of the data. He’s been gone over a decade, still miss him.

And my axe!

I use it on both my iPhone and my GrapheneOS phone. Great on both.

Hnggg crenellations

Yea, this was a common occurrence when I used to rely on PayPal bank transfer. Apparently individual merchants can decide whether to accept it or not.

That pic reminds me of something. Anyone else remember when “flatscreen” was the cool marketing hype for monitors/TVs?

Microsoft and Apple are both privacy-disregarding monopolistic megacorporations. The difference is Microsoft is slowly degrading in competence and their PR machine is no longer able to compensate

That was a good game, I used to destroy everyone at local split screen

Hopefully one day they remaster it in high refresh rate, 4K, on PC… but I’m dreaming, that’ll never happen

Tremendous lag!

It does seem unlikely that, regardless of interest in playing the instrument, sales would’ve done anything but slumped in recent decades. Can’t really envision buying brand new guitars being a high priority for young people who are seemingly worse and worse off over time

Mass media kinda already does this. Paging Edward Bernays!

Laptop form factor is very ambitious! Huge respect. I would love to give one a spin

That would be cool.

I guess my AMD Bulldozer TV PC is gonna have to go in the ewaste bin though. Its already stretched to its limit running Linux Mint, Firefox, uBlock Origin and Sponsorblock as it is

You’re a big guy

I get the sense that’s what .NET itself is meant to be

It’s a very insular ecosystem IMO, and the lines between .NET, C# and Visual Studio are very blurry

I love this meme so much

Where you’re at now sounds particularly bad, but having worked fully remotely for a few years myself, it definitely isn’t guaranteed to be better for your work-life balance. It’s difficult to separate the two spheres for one thing, and you can still end up in a situation where you may get requests, messages and pings come through at any time, constantly.

I’ve worked for roughly half a dozen employers so far. In my experience an employer may SAY they value employee work-life balance, that’s no guarantee they actually will. They may also genuinely believe they prioritise it, but still fall hugely short of what other employers can offer.

Fuck burnout culture though. Also fuck teams that celebrate “heroes”