The woosh was over your head two posts back.

Learn to read and you'll have your answer.

DVD rentals are like prostitutes. You don't pay to be able to have them. You pay for them to leave afterwards.

Paris

My wife recently bought a new laptop and, to both of our surprise, it was configured out of the box to save data to OneDrive instead of C:. She's not particularly tech savvy and one day Chrome complained that storage was full. She did a web search of the error and it recommended deleting data from OneDrive, which she did, assuming that her family pictures were only backed up there - not primarily stored there - and ended up losing important data as a result of this.

Thankfully it must have been that particular OEM that chose to do this. I had installed "vanilla" Windows 11 on a custom PC build and that didn't happen - and we just bought a new laptop for our new business, different brand, and that was the first setting I checked (not an issue).

Still... companies pushing this type of crap on users is just batshit. Offer as an option, sure. But fundamentally re-configuring core functionality that people who have been using the OS for decades take for granted is just madness.

DNF is Dandified YUM. You can still use most yum commands.

Well, no. You can see the difference between BL2 and BL3 despite them both being cel shaded games. You want fancy visual effects and the lighting still matters.

Also, we should be clear that Unreal isn't just a graphics engine, it's a whole game engine, and I don't think that we should be surprised that UE5 is a bit heavier and is doing more things. BL4 is a more open world game; I'm sure that's doing something.

Anyway, I haven't played it yet, and launches these days all seem to be a bit difficult for companies, so I'll reserve judgement until I get it on sale on Steam.

It's using UE5, so I'm not sure what you're getting at here? That it didn't need the new engine? That UE 5 is worse somehow?

Also, they can't drop the cel-shaded look, it's part of the character of the game. I'm not sure what they would transition to--more realism? That would be weird.

The school administrators, unlike the people who actually make the schools work, such as it is, tend to be paid pretty well.

I get so tired of hearing the school systems stress technology so much, because they are inevitably 20-30 years behind in their understanding of how to best utilize it, leave alone secure their systems. I always fantasized about teaching a computer class that didn't even touch a keyboard for the first half year...

I recall Windows 3.51 was quite secure for the time. But once they merged the DOS branch of the OS with the NT branch, things got a lot worse for several years.

It's good to hear AWS has never been hacked because just about every other company with data has been. A lot of people rely on AWS, and what you are saying is accurate and if they are running their systems correctly, there can be a reasonable expectation that they will be secure. That's nice to know.

> What I learned is that teachers have literally no time for anything.

The school system in the U.S. is notorious for this. Teachers get so much stuff dumped on them, much of which has little to do with actual teaching. It's a truly thankless job that cannot be fixed by dumping more money into the system. It's fundamentally broken. There are plenty of good teachers, but their effectiveness becomes more and more fettered every year.

Source: father of 4, and husband to a school teacher

In my experience the two worst things to combine are "education system" and "technology".

If the script kiddies are hacking your system, you've got bigger problems.

Is "script kiddies" still a thing?

I'm so old.

If you don't plan correctly in an ICE, it doesn't start at all. The 12v battery won't turn your engine over.

There are drawbacks to EVs still, for sure, but we talk about ICE vehicles like they've solved the problem of extreme temperatures better and they really haven't.

I mean, you tell yourself that if you want, I guess, but there are two eras: pre iPhone and post iPhone, and the Android phones before the iPhone did NOT look like a modern smartphone. That was Apple. And Samsung and various Chinese brands still copy Apple to this day.

It's really just a fact, though you can cover your eyes and wish it weren't so, if you want.

Apple's phones never used thunderbolt. If you're talking about lightning, you'll note that before Apple made a cable where it was impossible to plug it in upside down, Android phones used micro-USB, one of the worst interface standards. There has been some talk that Apple itself was the progenitor of USB-C and they gave it to the USB standards consortium, but I've never been able to verify that. They WERE on the committee that developed it, though.