I've tried Lutris as recently as last month. Clunky as hell and ended up not working. Heroic is also clunky, but hey, it works. Which is basically how I'd describe gaming on Linux in general, but it does keep improving.

I've never been able to get Lutris to work correctly, and while I've managed to wrestle Heroic Launcher into working, the ui/ux is so horrible and unintuitive that I'd just rather not use it.

I expect a lot of us nerds already have a "mini datacenter" homelab from parts we've scavenged over the years. If someone wants to pay me to upgrade my home infrastructure I'm more than willing to talk about it.

They should, if nothing else verify that the generative AI didn't add lies to their resume. Because it will. And then you're the one who comes off as lying.

At this point I wouldn't even pirate a ubisoft game.

Microcener is my happy place, and iFixit make great tools... in fact I've bought many iFixit kits at Microcenter.

You know, I take that back. I'd like to think they couldn't make centurylink worse, but I wouldn't bet on it.

A while ago I switched to centurylink for my ISP, and they did what I thought was impossible -- they made me miss comcast.

Regular-I can do that.

I remember at the time a number of people suggested they use (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction.

Yeah, I've had even xscreensaver segfault and just GO AWAY rather than, I dunno, recover and restart. Just leaves the screen completely unlocked. To the point where coworkers who share an office would IM me to ask if I left my workstation unlocked on purpose.

I don't know why I love this story, but I love this story.

This would have been useful information 20 or so years ago...

The lady in this story lives 80 miles away from work.

Even if there was a direct, private road from her driveway to her office and she got to drive at 80MPH the entire time, it'd take her an hour.

Look, I live less than 20 miles from where I work, and if I took public transportation it'd take me almost as long as it takes her - between 3-4 hours. And I would be *very* limited on when I could leave because buses only run by my house on a very limited schedule. And I live in Minnesota, so there'd be a lot of waiting outside in the Minnesota winter.

Yeah, public transportation is crap a lot of places (San Francisco NOT being one of them - and she's lucky she hooks up to that one)! and stories like these are hardly news.

Anyone in my neighbourhood who USED to have open had mysteriously produced messages telling their owners to lock them down. I believe the printers were the funniest ones.

There are no commercial entities anywhere near me that would have an open network. Definitely not within any kind of range of my house. Unless that TV has a robotic arm that can plug itself into an ethernet port, it ain't happening.

Good luck. There aren't any in my area.

(Plus I can always put the TV's MAC in my DHCP server and set it's IP to 127.0.0.1).