Nowadays I’m even starting to find it annoying on a browser with adblock, but without NoScript ! Quite a bit of nonsense disappears when you take the few seconds to only enable the scripts a page actually needs

Also, YouTube specifically is a horrible experience without an extension like UnTrap to turn like 75% of the buttons off.

Just looked it up, really disappointed it doesn’t do the 3D part. (yes, I’m part of the few people who always had it on and set to max depth)

I cannot describe how disappointed I was in the switch when it came out, and the situation isn’t much better now. It took one huge step forwards, yes, bus also ditched a ton of really good features :

• No cameras !?
• No microphone !?
• No analog triggers
• No 3D display
• No stylus support
• No Streetpass
• No personality (fun apps, menu music, themes…)

Even the Motion controls, which are still a thing, do not feature any IR reference point, making the Wii still the best implementation of motion aim outside of VR.

The games are great, but these days I personally play the Wii U and 3DS more often, because unlike the switch these platforms still offer some experiences that are just not possible elsewhere.

In fact, the Wii U and 3DS are currently the only consoles I would recommend actually possessing physically. Wii U emulation is really annoying (though Steam Deck can get there, with a cable in the way), and good luck finding anything for the 3DS that does the 3D part any better than a New 3DS XL.

We really need to teach everyone to use ad blockers. Ads have not existed on “my” internet since the 2000s…

I would have thought that, as I have played closer to 8 hours, and I am bored with it 😂 glad it’s still fun for you though 😊

No. These principles are supposedly designed to help those inexperienced programmers, but in my experience, they tend to do the opposite.

The rules are too complicated, and of dubious usefulness at best. Inexperienced programmers really need to be taught to keep things radically simple, and I don’t mean “single responsibility” or “short functions”.

I mean “stop trying to be clever”.

Getters and setters are superfluous in most cases, because you do not actually want to hide complexity from your users.

To use the usual trivial example : if you change your circle’s circumference from a property to a function, I need to know ! You just replaced a memory access with some arithmetic ; depending in my behaviour as a user this could be either great or really bad for my performance.

99% of code is too complicated for what it does because of principles like SOLID, and because of OOP.

Algorithms can be complex, but the way a system is put together should never be complicated. Computers are incredibly stupid, and will always perform better on linear code that batches similar operations together, which is not so coincidentally also what we understand best.

Our main issue in this industry is not premature optimisation anymore, but premature and excessive abstraction.

As a vegan, this has been my main meal because I’m pretty lazy (usually wrapped in a tortilla with guacamole, but I also eat it plain)

The gas issues are only a problem for a few days / weeks until your gut biome adjusts !

This sounds an awful lot like idolatry to me, which is supposedly forbidden in Christianity.

In my personal experience, the only games that don’t work are those that explicitly choose not to :

• Fortnite
• PUBG
• Roblox
• Valorant

I’m not much into competitive games myself, so the only one that’s inconvenient in this list to me is Roblox. There are a few really fun games on their platform that I wish I could play on Steam Deck, as used to be possible.

Self hosting looks interesting, but I’d generally rather keep things offline. Even as a software developer, I value simplicity, and most online “services” I find entirely superfluous ; self hosted or no.

Jellyfin ? How about a big external drive with movies on it, just plug it into your viewing device of choice.

Hosting my notes ? I take my notes on physical paper. (Loose sheets, because notebooks have the same scaling issues computer notes have. Sometimes I just want to splay everything out on the table and do big picture work. That’s also why I only use one side of the sheet.)

Music streaming ? I dont even know if you can self host this one (probably yes) but I’d rather just copy the file over ; even a huge library doesn’t take that much space.

Photos ? I just have folders on an encrypted drive, with some backups elsewhere. Though I guess Immich looks interesting…

Documents ? Okay, I should self-host this one. For now it’s all local, on-disk (encrypted of course, there’s no good reason not to), but it can be quite inconvenient if my only copy is at home on my desktop.

So no, I don’t self-host yet, and when I do (hopefully soon) it will be only in a limited capacity ; mostly out of a convenience concern, privacy being a distant second.