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There’s a bit of an echo in some places.

I tried. I really tried to like GIMP. The main reason I don’t like it is because it’s trying so hard to be a professional picture editor and the UI.

Why can’t I deselect things? Why does something need to be selected at all times? Let me just click a button and remove the selection outline and deselect things.

No. I won’t help the dev team because I can’t code to save my ass. I turn wrenchs and fix things for a living.

I use other, simpler pic editors. Why should I learn to fly a Boeing 747 when a Cessna 172 will get me where I need to go? I’m making a shit post once every three months, not professional art.

But the version does matter. We all have a game that was updated that either broke it, removed content, or changed it so drastically that it’s like a completely different game. And if the older versions aren’t available, but the game is still being sold… should the older version be public domain whole the current version is being sold?

These are important questions.

Look, I’m not outright disagreeing with your first point. I think going that way will be a massive legal headache for just about every business.

Mainly because of patents, copyright, and all the BS, but that’s a whole other thing. I’m mainly thinking about software.

New software v1.0 is released and then updated to v1.1? Is it a new product? If so, does that mean that v1.0 should be free if they only offer the updated version? What constitutes software not being available in a legal sense?

I thought it was for people to suck corporate cock and post terrible hiring stories.

It’s more like our corporate overlords weren’t making enough on microwaves alone and decided to push air fryers.

Naming schemes that aren’t clear are absolute garbage.

What if you’re new to it, and there are 6 different recent versions of something all named with a description instead of version number? Is Jumbo newer than Mega?

Fuck it, I’m ranting about this because it still upsets me.

I wanted to buy a 3DS to play Shovel Knight and Binding of Issac. Reading up on them, BoI would only play on a New 3DS XL. Cool.

Went to the store and bought a new 3DS XL only to find out I got the wrong one. What I wanted was a NEW 3DS XL, and what I got was a 3DS XL that was new. There is a difference, and it took me 4 days to notice, and I was working out of town for the next month. So I can’t return it. FUN!

So screw naming new versions of things with names instead of numbers. But somehow, Microsoft screwed that one up.

KISS: Keep it simple, stupid.

“You can have ten or twenty or fifty drones all fly over the same transport, taking pictures with their cameras. And, when they decide that it’s a viable target, they send the information back to an operator in Pearl Harbor or Colorado or someplace,” Hamilton told me. The operator would then order an attack. “You can call that autonomy, because a human isn’t flying every airplane. But ultimately there will be a human pulling the trigger.” (This follows the D.O.D.’s policy on autonomous systems, which is to always have a person “in the loop.”)

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-closer-ai-drones-autonomously-decide-kill-humans-artifical-intelligence-2023-11

Yeah. Robots will never be calling the shots.

But it’s not an ad. It’s a prompt telling you that getting premium has more options than free YouTube.

And it's the exact opposite with YouTube.

Wanna watch a 30-second video? Absolutely not.

Wanna watch a 5-hour documentary about a topic you've never heard of? Of course.

I only have a Twitter so links are easier to follow.

I found they were on the Google play and wanted to play them all. Dragon Quest 1 went fairly well, beat it in about a week off casual play.

Dragon Quest 2 went poorly. Turns out there’s a bug in the game that makes random encounters MUCH higher than it should be. Just getting to the first town took me a week because moving more than 3 tiles generated an encounter.

Still haven’t beat 2 because of that.

As a millennial, the thought of ditching my smartphone is a thought that keeps coming up.

I’ve never donated to Mozilla before, but will now.

1. Doom I and II with who knows how many hours since Christmas 1996.

2. Minecraft since 2011.

3. Binding of Issac with close to 1k hours.

4. Factorio with 850+ hours and currently rising.

Here’s the thing. Reddit had me hooked on it like no other until the API fuck up. Pretty much dropped it on it the spot.

After the first week it dawned on me how much time I was spending there.

So while I setup here, much less time is being spent online overall. But the interaction has jumped up immensely.

My garden is looking better and I’m hitting the gym much more often.

I probably would do the same as I love what the job entails.

I’m pushing 40 and basically have everything settled and really don’t need a lot. Have my house, garden, friends, ect. Money would just be a nice stress relief at this point.

Only problem I could see is that at the place I work is a 503©. So when/if the higher ups learn of my winnings, they’d either beg for donations or fire me.

Probably the former as the department is already short staffed and you need a license to do this job.

Tended to my garden. Hard to get info if you don’t post info.

WrestleMania 2000 was a blast.

I like to take a step in, press my floor button and not turn around. Facing the back of the elevator even if someone else gets on.