Nah, I am more of a single-player kind of person. I was barely any good in my prime 25 years ago and I have only gotten worse since so I stick to mostly RPGs or other action style games.

Is he really the reason? I just started trying a bunch over the past month through vm’s to see which one I like the best because I want to take the leap soon. I am doing it mostly due to the video game performance and compatibility reaching high enough levels that I don’t think it will be a big issue anymore. I also listed out all my current Windows apps and looked up what the alternative is, and from what I see, there is nothing left that won’t run on Linux anymore. The next step is seeing how some compare to what I am used to.

I can’t be the only one who is noticing its current state and just wanting to try something different. I don’t hate windows like everyone talks about it online, but I am at the point where I am noticing they are only going to get worse with privacy and continue to make awful built in features that do more to benefit themselves over you. So the 2 lines have crossed paths, and I think it’s the perfect storm for Linux soon.

1 episode at almost 2 hours long is nuts! I was going to watch it, but realized I don’t have the time at the moment.

Dam, they couldn’t even do 3 days? Monsters.

That’s roughly what I have now, and I only have about 200gb left, so I kind of wish I could get a little more right now. This is across 7 drives. I really hope storing data becomes faster and cheaper in the future because as it keeps growing over the past few decades, it gets longer and longer to replace and move this much data…

Omg I really have been out of the loop. I originally filled my 8 bay NAS with 6tb drives starting back in 2018. Once they would fill, i added another. 3 years ago, I finally ran out of space and started swapping out the 6tb for 10tb. Due to how it works, I needed to do 2 before I saw any additional space. I think i have 3 or 4 now, and the last one was 2 years ago. They did cost around $250 at the time, and I think i got 1 for just over $200. The fact that I can more than double that for only $300 is crazy news to me. Guess I am going to stop buying 10tb now. The only part that sucks is having to get 2 up front…

I guess it depends on the time of day. If it was morning, probably 6 hours because my kids would now be home alone, and as soon as my wife gets home in the afternoon, there’s no way she doesn’t freak out. Maybe even less since my one kid has a phone that can only call my wife. We have so many things we do every day that if any of us went missing, it would be a huge red flag pretty quickly. Thinking about it now, it feels kind of sad. I like freedom, and right now, I guess I have very little of that, lol.

Yeah, and its most likely only due to them killing Windows 10 in the fall, which means a lot of companies have been working hard this year to replace a ton of computers before October. Anyone who has been down this road with 7 to 10 knows it will just cost more money if you need to continue support after that. They sell you a new license thats good for a year that will allow updates to continue. It doubles in cost every year after.

Funny enough, I had the complete opposite experience. I didn’t necessarily use Samsung then either, but I would get the phone that was normally rated the best or highly reviewed. I think i came from an LG to the first pixel phone. Pixel was the first phone to ever give me issues. Felt it vibrate one day in my pocket and I looked at it a few min later and it was in permanent boot loop. Tried a lot of things, but my one regret was forgetting to turn on developer options with the usb so essentially the phone was bricked. I couldn’t access it or do anything, everytbing was lost and support was no help and told me they couldn’t replace it. Last time I used them. I also wasn’t a fan of how hard they tried copying an iPhone at the time. Since them I’ve mostly used a Samsung either the Note and now the higher end galaxies and love them. Only thing I dislike is their own line of apps for everything that I disable immediately.

I agree, but don’t forget that every year, things get harder because everything is trying to find more ways to take that extra money from you. From schools, companies, and government they are all figuring out ways to come up with new mandatory requirements for stuff that normally ends up being a new fee or payment on top of what you used to need. For example when you are in school, you probably need way more certifications in things which costs more money either by a 1 time fee or sometimes yearly fees and a lot of this never existed 20-30 years ago. I feel like we pay for literally everything, and it all keeps going up as well. It’s hard to get ahead when everyone wants a piece of your pie.

People being ok with their own lives being uprooted for someone who should mean absolutely nothing to them is insane.

I have one of the pro’s from a few years ago and I am just finding out now that they have software. Thanks, i will look later.

We’re gonna need more laws against the homeless soon. About to be a whole lot more to deal with. Can’t tolerate that /s.

Thankfully, nothing like that has happened here, but we have a break glass account that only 2 people know of, and it’s locked in a safe. Also, my place has gotten so good at firing people they know how and when to do it to minimize risk. Like end of day when they are all packed up, and if its a really high up person, top admins are contacted prior and held on standby to disable everything as soon as the word is given. This includes admins. If they are remote, they will normally lock them out of the laptop first and make sure access is gone before letting them know.

My wife has that option as well. It takes 10% out of each paycheck, and she gets 1 additional check in the summer months of the money that was withheld. We are terrible with money, so doing that is a must, but I do wish we could just set that up ourselves instead of allowing them to hold that money.

It’s true, but not always fun or paid. Depends on the contract. A non tenured teacher can be let go at the end of the school year, and they normally let them know if they are coming back before leaving for the summer. They are then allowed to collect unemployment for the summer, but i am not sure if this applies to every state. If you are tenured, you do not lose unemployment status, but you are also not paid for the summer months either. You either set aside the money from the year yourself or use the program they offer that takes 10% out of each paycheck, and they deposit it once per month you are off.

Honestly, im still big into gaming so im not sure how I missed this. I did have kids, I do have way to many responsibilities, but that just means I don’t play much or at all lol. I still keep up with most of the latest news and watch trailers. The substitute for E3 was always the dumb company showcases that happen around the same time and this year I think summer game fest had a lot of new stuff to show. I am strictly website news only, I never got into podcasts like it seems the entire world is now.

Yeah, from way back. I didn’t realize it got bigger or kind of took the place of E3 in any way. I’ll have to take a look because I loved E3 growing up and was sad I never got to go once.

Holy crap! I forgot all about this comic. I think the craziest part is me trying to find the last one they made only to find out its still going! Impressive.

I think the saddest part is that we all thought the same thing. Minus the part of thinking about it, though. Thanks for letting us know!