Pirate it? Yeah, I’ll probably do that.

So a tiny bit of jobs but a huge strain on their water and electricity resources. Fuck Alphabet and the rest of these vultures.

Sure but they are both special versions, I’m just taking about regular Windows

It’s free in the EU for an extra year, but afaik they’re requiring that you have an account signed in on Windows.

Otherwise apparently you will be able to a year’s support via 1000 points on the Microsoft rewards website.

I think Enterprise versions don’t require it either.

It’s the reason I feel stuck too.

Bending the knee for the fascists. Despicable

They removed all the sound puzzles, where the little wooden balls hidden everywhere made a noise of an animal when turned, and they had a number on the other side. They replaced it with looking through a telescope with a special lense on.

When you start the game and walk over the bridge to the right, through there they changed the entire layout.

They added some extra paths that changed the game around the big dome.

They changed the fire ball puzzle at the top of the big dome, now it’s super simple but more effort (you go into the weird black void and open some valves and press a button.

I’m sure there are a lot more.

I hate the changes to Riven. They modified it to cater to VR and it really made me dislike it. I looked forward to the remake since the Starry Expanse project was started, that was like, 2009, and when I played it I felt so disappointed.

I’ve tried 2 times and couldn’t push myself to finish it

I loved that age too

Holy shit

That said, the published findings are just an estimate — and that estimate relies on a lot of estimates.

Isn’t that the entire point of his channel? To highlight obscure new tech and report on it? I don’t feel like he’s trying to punt anything, just maybe overly optimistic sometimes.

Time for the EU to adopt FrejaID

Just remember that we still need more signatures on the EU one, to rule out bot and incorrect signatures.

To lay off? They laid them off on Wednesday, this news is out of date. I was laid off too, fuck Microsoft and all their subsidiaries.

Whoever did their UX and control design should be fucking shot.

In what world does a crafting game not close containers with the tab key? Why the fuck are some of the exit buttons clickable and some of them you HAVE to hit escape, why do I have to hold down E for SO fucking long to take everything from a container, why do I have child lock to get off my bike?

Using the building tools is fucking annoying and painful, god damn. It’s like they’ve never played a survival crafting game in their lives.

Nah, I don’t think it’s mismanagement, it’s just planned job cuts to make the financials look better.

Why did MS lay off 3% of its workforce after having something like 15% more revenue than expected? It has nothing to do with mismanagement.

The corpo bullshit reasons they give are just thinly veiled lies.

My work PC was upgraded to 11 last night, when I go back to the office I’m switching to Linux.

We (large European gaming companies employees) have been trying to get a CBA for a year and a half now, sometimes it takes time.

VPN

Graphene is being used in certain high sensitivity/quality sensor chips.

That’s really awesome

Same could be said about 90% of things humans do.

While I agree, we don’t do enough, can you say your job directly impacts the environment for the positive? If not, then you, like me, like them, are part of the problem.

Plasma gasification can self sustain and generate power

It’s so fucking weird

I guess, but I dunno, that still seems dubious to me.

I never understood why people would want polluted air and water, blows my mind.

Cool, with the phone on silent (which I don’t do) I’d have missed that too, and would have been cancelled and rescheduled.

This adamant denial that phone calls are useful is weird.

Tell that to the delivery driver that called me because they were outside with my groceries.

Only if it’s right by you or isn’t in your bag or something. Hence audible alerts, they break through the physical barriers.

I don’t really get the whole not answering the phone thing. I hate phonecalls but I always answer my phone.

The amount of important calls I’d have missed if I buried my head in the sand like that is insane.

Sure if 90% of the calls were sales or scams I’d think differently, but there are ways to prevent that too.

I find it weird that everyone has their phone on silent all the time too. If mine was on silent I’d never look at it unless I’m bored.

Maybe it’s time to design a super slim case for mine that has a keyboard, only I worry it’ll be top heavy

I think I’m okay with that tbh. I miss my Blackberry Torch. Full touch screen on the front and a slide out keyboard

God I miss real keyboards like this.

BTW, I work for one of those evil games companies that do reprehensible things, because I like having a good working environment and having a well paying job. You too have a good day.

With every word out of your mouth, you paint a more detailed picture of just how shitty a person you are despite your supposed ethics.

Feel free to pick up the brush and continue painting at the bottom of this message…

I use GPT and CoPilot at work and they’ve definitely made my life easier and me more productive. I guess that it depends on what management expects of the employees. It’s not a magic bullet.

Also freelancers are saving the day? Whelp, looks like full time jobs are on the chopping block then. And I wish that this was restricted to the American corporate hellscape but unfortunately their bullshit is like a bad infection that spreads across the world.

Same here. I’ll pirate the security updates for the next 3 years and then switch. Fuck Windows 11 and fuck Microsoft.