That’s fair.

Might have been. The way I heard it, the toggle was a button, like the turbo button.

When I was a kid, first using computers in the mid 1980s, blue LEDs were considered to be impossible to make.

So my basic bitch IBM clone only had red indicator lights.

The implication is that people who grew up with newer technology had stuff that was fancier than the stuff older generations had, which is objectively true.

I’m sorry that you didn’t get the joke, and I’m sorry that I had to explain it to you.

Good luck with life, seems like you’ll need it.

Blue?

Look at Mr fancy pants over here with blue power indicators on their childhood computer.

Most of us made due with red, or if you were lucky, green.

I don’t think I’ve seen these words assorted in this order before.

Hey now. Most of these people don’t know about turbo…

They certainly don’t know about the “magic/more magic” button…

I don’t mean to imply your job with writing your thesis on it is easy, the proof needed would be no easy task.

But it’s hard to flip through a history book and stop on any page, and not find something on the page that’s harmful to nature.

Proving that it’s harmful would be the part that’s hard. Finding the occurrences of harm is easy.

Seems like an easy subject. Just saying.

Neat.

Thank you for your unsolicited opinion.

Idk, I’ve never tried to run 30 year old games on modern systems.

I’m just not that nostalgic.

And? How does this indicate the daily active player counts for the games supported and not supported?

I see why people have a problem with this. I get it.

But we need to realize that all of our “elected officials” do this kind of pandering quid pro quo shit.

The struggle isn’t Democrat vs Republican. It never was.

It’s rich versus poor, and if you’re not sure where you land, welcome to the poors. Additionally, “poor” in this context isn’t even what most people would consider to be “poor” … If you can’t sit on your ass and make 6 figures per day, you’re probably closer to poverty than you are to the people who run the country.

What everyone needs to acknowledge is that it’s us (poors) vs them. And we have the numbers. They turn us on eachother in the name of the Lord, or democracy, or freedom, or whatever the fuck… But not money. Let’s never talk about the money. As long as they can keep us fighting amongst ourselves, then they will continue to win. Every day that goes by that we continue to allow these chucklefucks to stay in power and stroke eachothers dicks with the money from the public purse, is quite literally another day of labor they’ve stolen from us.

We’ve been taken for all that we’re worth. As long as we can still bleed out some money that they can take, they’re going to keep squeezing.

The argument isn’t Republican vs Democrat or liberal vs conservative. It’s us vs the 1%.

The faster everyone accepts that, the faster we can fix this shit.

Is this quid pro quo?

Because it sure feels a lot like quid pro quo.

It’s nice that my rant came though coherently. I get excited sometimes.

WFH or at least the flexibility to work from home, is something I bet strongly believe in. I know some people who prefer to work from the office and I’m never going to speak poorly about those people or their opinions. For some, they just don’t have the room to do it, others prefer the atmosphere/environment of the office, some have chaotic homes and the office is much quieter and allows them to focus on their work better. Whatever the reason, both should be fine for any job that can be done remotely.

Obviously, you’re not going to be able to work remotely for your local fast food joint, flipping burgers, remotely. As an easy example. Construction also comes to mind. Can’t build something when you’re nowhere near it.

For any job that can, it should be a viable and acceptable option.

Denying it is just going to make workers that want to work from home, resentful of the managers that are mandating it.

As they say, people don’t quit jobs, they quit bad management. Treat your people like adults and they’ll stick around for years to come.

I’m not going to throw doubt on the 90% number. Statistics are made up and generally don’t mean anything. “90% of games” … In what context? Games on steam? Games ever made? I don’t think I’m going to be playing sierra titles from the 90s… What about Flash based games that used to run in a browser? Do they count?

I don’t know and it doesn’t matter.

The only thing I want to say is that the “10%” that don’t work are usually pretty popular.

I’d like to see this metric based on average player counts. What percentage of gamers, playing games right now, could play on Linux.

IMO, that would give a much more relevant indication of how viable it is for most gamers to switch to Linux.

I’m still using Windows 10 and no, I didn’t buy their extended bullshit. I don’t even run the latest version of Windows 10. I also have an update server setup so I don’t usually get updates often because I need to go approve them. But I also work in IT and I’ve seen every social engineering attack type that’s been used since the 90s and I know when to not click on something. I haven’t needed an anti virus on my personal system in 20 years.

To say I’m not worried about it is an understatement.

This is one of my sticking points for working from home.

I already sacrifice so much of my time to working and sleeping that I barely have time to live and do what I want to do.

I don’t want that time eroded away in traffic, driving to an office where I’ll be doing work on a computer, remotely helping people as IT support. I don’t see the point in wasting time, gas, and my sanity.

Above and beyond that, I am the king of my domain. When working from home, I can customize my space however I see fit, so that I can do my best work. I already have space reserved in my house for my PC and a keyboard and mouse I’m comfortable with and enjoy using, along with multiple displays. I’m running 5 right now… All of this is mere steps away from my bed, fridge, and sofa.

There is no argument in the world what would convince me that returning to the office is necessary .

For the past 5 years I have been living proof that we do not need to be huddled together in one place to effectively do our jobs. I will die on this hill.

I get to enjoy the space I pay for, the way I want to, and as long as that isn’t negatively impacting my ability to do my job, I will not be convinced that it’s somehow not as efficient or as good as working in an office.

IMO, the only reasons we are being forced into returning to the office is for middle management to feel like they’re doing something by literally looking over your shoulder, and so that business owners can justify spending so much money on the property where their office exists. Either they want to keep leasing the space from their fat cat real estate friends, or they need to somehow justify owning a large piece of land because their company is so big and successful, and they can waive their big building around like a dick to impress all the other CEOs.

It’s pathetic, it’s employee hostile, and I’m fucking tired…

Wait, what was the question again?

I dunno why where it’s being used would be relevant… Unless horses are scientists

They do. Ever have “banana flavor” stuff that doesn’t seem to taste anything like a banana?

… well, it does, it just doesn’t taste like a Cavendish banana. It most likely resembles the tates of the gros michel.

It’s not lost forever. They have seeds in the global seed vault, and there’s a few small growers still producing them.

You can actually buy a box of them still. They’re expensive as all hell, but you can do it.

Get a few friends together and put some money into a pot, then buy a box and have a banana party.

At least it’s tasty blood?

Idk, I’m trying to find the silver lining here.