Remember when a new major version meant something major changed?

Was nice as it prompted me to go read change notes. Now I have no clue when it’s a collection of minor things or has actual major changes unless I go read every set of change notes.

The relevant info is ~20 paragraphs down for some reason, and is presented out of order. TL;DR:

In its 2017 judgement, the European Commission found that Google had illegally promoted its own comparison shopping service in search results, whilst demoting those of competitors.

Google spent seven years fighting that verdict, issued in June 2017, but in September this year Europe’s top court – the European Court of Justice – rejected its appeals.

People also are increasingly realizing that Ubisoft games are all very bland and…the same. People enjoyed it the first time, but why buy a new AC game when you already have essentially the same thing in you library already?

Ah, the good 'ol: you have three options, choose two!

Though, not paying annually for multiplayer access certainly helps with the financial ruin problem. ;p

Jump over to PC and choose both 140fps and quality. ;p

I’m at least happy we are past the era of ‘the human eye can only see 30fps’.

Why wouldn’t it cook a non-bread?

• You will almost certainly have to stick a fork down into the vertical style bread toaster to retrieve the hotdog, which is hella unsafe.
• It’s also almost impossible to clean the vertical style ones, which isn’t a problem for bread since the extra bits just burn off, but it is a problem for other foods like meats, as bits can easily rot in there.
• Meats can also drip grease onto the elements, which will cause a fire.

I’m not sure what cookware you have, but it sounds like you may be pretty limited on choices/space. I would highly recommend swapping the vertical toaster for a toaster oven. As they are basically little ovens that you can cook almost anything in, including toast and hotdogs.

If you are talking about the vertical style bread toaster, don’t cook anything that isn’t bread in those. If you are talking about a toaster oven, you can wrap it in foil and bake it.

A solid alternative, and what makes a hotdog’s flavor really pop, is cutting it into 6-10 pieces and pan frying it.

Yep! He is pretty popular and does some nice reviews. He generally likes pointing out negative aspects a bit more. But he is one of the more honest and amusing reviewers out there.

He is the same guy that used to do the Zero Punctuation reviews.

Baldur’s Gate 3, good for up to four player coop.

Borderlands 1 & 2, too.

Yeah, I still don’t want my computer screen recording everything I do. Nor do I want the computer of everyone I give my personal details to (think DMV, ISPs, utility companies, etc) to also screen record all the information I give them. This is a massive security nightmare.

Unfortunately you need to forget about it for another number of years. As only two of the three parts are out. Part two took them four years after part one, so safe to guess the same for part three.

Also, the names are exceedingly confusing:

• FF7 Part 1 is named: Final Fantasy VII Remake (2020)

• FF7 Part 1 Enhanced is named: Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade (2021)

• FF7 Part 2 is named: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (2024)

If their goal is to get people to completely check out due to long, long release schedules and confusing naming, they are succeeding.

They are suing over a patent though (ie, a technology). What you are talking about is a copyright suit.

Unfortunately we don’t know what patents Nintendo is suing over. And I struggle to think of a patent issue that would generate a good faith claim.

Yeah, I was decently interested in it until I found out the whole game won’t actually exist for years. Maybe I’ll get the bundle at a deep discount 8 years from now, assuming I even remember it exists.

I’m not sure how much time you are given and how much ‘hands on’ is desired, but you could buy a bunch of cheap, old, used desktops (that all use the same parts) and teach the kids what the various parts do (CPU, GPU, motherboard, PSU, SSD, RAM). Then have them build the computers and install linux on them.

Maybe pre-wire the PSU to most of the parts to save time during the build day(s). You may also want to have the CPUs pre-installed so you don’t get bent pins galore.

This entire idea would be massively benefited by a TA that could assist working with groups.

I was pretty pumped back when they announced the app store. I thought it was going to be more like a linux repo, but with optional paid items. I wanted a one-stop-shop for updating my computer.

Then it turned out it didn’t support desktop apps (for a very long time) and had none of the advantages a linux repo has. Used it once, and realized I had already wasted too much of my life on it.

I enjoy how Amazon talks a big game about how great they are for the environment and their pledge to stop climate change, then they force workers to commute to the office who have been happily doing their jobs over the internet.

Ok, but what if an entire programming language is made of whitespace?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language)

Pain, absolute pain. Can we please not have another debate?

We can tie that in with shorter campaign seasons too.

One Time Pads are nice, as they are the only mathematically proven way to encrypt something in a way that it cannot be decrypted without owning the key.

Honestly, given how annoying the alternatives are, I would say just buy a USB drive and put the bios file on there. You can get very good ones for under $20 and almost free ones if you don’t mind having an old tiny one.