When was this, exactly?

I’m amazed there’s anyone out there who hasn’t heard of Jim Fucking Sterling, Son

I ran 7 on a Dell netbook for a few years, and it worked great (though, naturally, not as great as XP)

Because mice are a solved problem. New phones can ostensibly have new features, better cameras, better displays, etc. Similarly, new cards and CPUs can give you measurably better performance.

A new mouse is something you get when your old mouse is broken, and if that’s happening every year, then there’s a big problem.

Made by the same team as the Pro Pinball games, which is why it’s so darned good.

Off the top of my head:

• The entire Pro Pinball series
• Yoku’s Island Express
• Creature in the Well
• Pinball FX3
• 3D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent
• Metroid Prime Pinball
• Epic Pinball
• Addiction Pinball

The MD game you’re thinking of is likely to be Psycho Pinball.

It’s probably a typo

I have to question in what world one would need “the latest mouse” every year. The only reason is if Logitech makes such a crap mouse that it starts to fall apart, thus necessitating a new one.

The only other avenue is that the mouse just gets more and more bloated with additional “features” year-on-year.

The principle isn’t the worst, but the implications are less than ideal

The CEO of a corporation should be the living embodiment of that corp. Kind of like Subway in Community

Unless you’re using a non-Chromium browser, that is.

I pay for it because I thought it was a trustworthy service that had earnt my money. Instead, if they continue with stuff like this then I’ll go back to not trusting subscription services again.

This and the new LLM “feature” in ProtonMail suggests that someone higher up has had a sniff of the techbro kool-aid.

Makes sense. Cheers!

Fair enough. I got one because it was the cheapest domain… though reading some of the other replies, I probably shouldn’t try to do anything like email with it!

That’s the second time I’ve seen someone cast xyz in a negative light. What’s wrong with it? (Genuine question, in case it needs saying)

I’m not sure the NES was affordable per se. On release, it cost about $500 in today’s money. And then you had to buy games at extra cost. In a world where you could go to an arcade with your pocket money and have a decent amount of fun, I don’t think it was a great value proposition in the eyes of many.

I know the topic isn’t about HR, but as a huge fan of that game, I recently replayed the non-DC version and found myself really appreciating the yellow tint. It ties the aesthetic together, and the DC always looked a bit flat and unfinished without it. But that’s just me.

NPM

Nginx Proxy Manager, I assume

Oh no

Pretty sure I was fooling around with LimeWire at that age

I don’t see you contributing much of value either…

if I get an idea I am not happy until it start making money

That sounds extremely unsustainable

Might be worth trying to find a refurbished HP ProLiant MicroServer. There are a few on eBay UK within the £200-400 range. You can sometimes find professionally refurbished units as well.

Why not? It would help massively with the ‘affordable’ criterion

I liked GLIDE, which was suggested a few years ago, though I can’t remember what the acronym was now

It’s got that weird typeface too.

Correct!

My dad had a Raspberry Pi running Kodi, complete with a bunch of Totally Legit plugins which allowed him to watch anything he wanted. Thought it was legal and above board because… wait for it… it’s open-source

I hate to be nitpicky; but that’s a decompilation, not a demake.

‘Demake’ usually refers to a game that gets remade for a system older (or less powerful) than the one it was released for. A good current example is the in-progress Super Mario 64 demake for GBA.

‘Decompilation’ is where one reverse-engineers a game (or any software!) back to its original source code, or close enough that when you build it, it’s identical to an original copy. So, the goal of the Lego Island demake is to produce source code that can be built into a fully binary-compatible copy of Lego Island, indistinct from what’s on the original CD.

My dad got into Kazaa in the mid-00s, then Limewire, before discovering Mininova and TPB. Just kinda saw what he was doing and thought it was interesting. (We were often told not to touch the computer as it’d “knock off his download”…)

I seem to recall one of the first things I pirated was… er, Pirates of the Caribbean, which I watched with my friends huddled round my laptop. Quality times.

I tend to use objects in space. My media server is called phobos, and my AzuraCast server is called dorado.

They’re a bit meaningless, though, so when I do my planned server upgrade this year I’m going to go with something different. My pfSense server was called sibyl, so perhaps something along those lines.

By that logic, nothing is reliable…? Because you could say that about literally anything

I’d say try one of the older Tekkens, 2-3 or Tag Tournament. They feel a lot better and punchier to me.

It’s an RPG, of course it does! Particularly if you decide to give your character the ‘Bloody Mess’ perk, which causes every enemy to violently and horrifically explode in a shower of miscellaneous chunks.

Here’s one - https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/43063/The-Megaprocessor/

That’s pretty impressive. I’m especially surprised about the 8GB RAM considering that was a lot even in the early 2010s.

Must’ve been an office with money, then…

Could spend your 12 hours making it run! Plenty of tinkering opportunity there :D

If it’s an office desktop, we’re probably talking a low-end Intel Pentium with 256MB RAM. If there is a discrete graphics card, it’ll be one of those ultra-basic ones, but chances are it’ll be onboard only. There’s probably a CD-ROM drive (DVD drives were still quite expensive!) and USB 2.0.

I think they’re referring more to the aspect ratio - watching a 16:9 film on a 4:3 display isn’t the most optimal method, to put it charitably