You can’t say that, they gave us Bedrock Edition!
Really wish they hadn’t.

I watch the Daily Silksong News. Tomorrow, for sure…

They also make it unreasonably difficult to move a wiki to another platform, even if the wiki’s owners and the community want it.

VS’s built-in .NET debugger is top tier, though. Especially the ability to edit code while it is running.

I wouldn’t consider it a “hack”, but I’m always baffled by the number of people who don’t use any kind of content blocker on the web, then complain about full-page ads, pop-ups, and autoplay videos. It’s like going to a cheap motel with a lady of the night without bringing condoms.

This video explains it all in 19 words. Democracy relies on intelligent, informed choice. Republican voters typically lack one or both.

Time-based one-time passwords. It’s been used for years for multi-factor authentication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_one-time_password

Our generation would have at least done something creative, like smear shit all over a bathroom stall, or leave scorch marks on the ceiling from deodorant flamethrowers, or scratch up a window with the teacher’s quartz crystal… Kids today don’t have the same spirit.

Yep.

We used to have one at home. It’s like a clam shell – the roll sits in the bottom half, the hinged top half closes on top, and the paper is threaded through a wide gap.

It was popular in former Soviet territories. My guess is that many households only had poorly-built outhouses and no reliable supply of toilet paper, and this design protected the roll from water damage.

You can use an offline account with Prism Launcher (I recommend flatpak), but only if you’ve logged in with a Mojang or Microsoft account at least once, or found some other way to bypass that requirement. It has integrated mod support and you can have completely separate game instances.

X11. It will outlive humankind.

That’s not the kind of diagonal I expected. I thought it would be something like this:

Let me guess – Java developer?

This. I’ve had issues at work while imaging classroom computers where some would finish in ~30 minutes and a few would need hours. All of the computers used Cat6 cables. This being a classroom, and students being absolute wankbags, they kept yanking the computers and kicking the cables, so the wires came loose from the plugs. I later used ethtool to debug the slow computers – the switch would only allow 10baseT link modes.

On Linux? Update packages and reboot.

On Windows? I think Nvidia is updated by Windows Update, but you’ll have to manually download the online updater tool for AMD cards. There’s really no good method to automate it on Windows other than clicking on the pop-ups, which I find equally hilarious and embarrassing.

Modern, performant computer graphics is an incredibly complex topic full of hacks, workarounds, and edge cases. It’s possible that an update to DirectX/OpenGL/Vulkan caused some edge case interaction between the application and the graphics pipeline to fail somewhere. Updating the GPU driver (mesa, nvidia, amdgpu, or whatever Windows equivalent) could mitigate that failure.

I remember having to update the Nvidia Windows driver when Cyberpunk 2077 was released to fix an issue related to transparent foliage (transparency is always a pain in the ass to deal with).

I’m not saying they can’t. I’m referring to a point that was championed in many a post by some .ml figures calling for the bot’s decommissioning. I don’t use the site (can’t even recall its name), and can’t speak for its credibility.

I guess I didn’t make it clear that it was second-hand information and not my personal informed opinion. In my defense, I was running on 4 hours of sleep.

IIRC, it lists a zionist/anti-Palestine news website as highly trustworthy. I can’t tell which side is right, I have it blocked.

Shiny disc with hole in the middle. Look through the hole and you can CDs nuts.