Man, I don’t know honestly. I believe i first saw / read it on IRC in the 90’s…

and now I’m turning to dust. haha

Thanks for being social!!!

"Wow, how cool is it that she’s 13 and already works for the FBI! "

I am so, so close to doing the same. Still have a small partition carved out for CoD and Windows. I just find myself booting in to it less and less.

Thank goodness MicroVision seems to be keen on continuing to flog that dead horse with a Warzone focus, means I can finally be free.

Thanks for the rec! Typing on it now. Pretty decent so far. I dig the hover on the word as i swipe

Also posting from a Pixel 7 running Graphene for abouta year. No issues, I use Fdroid for most apps and Aurora when I have too. Only bummer is I haven’t found a good FOSS keyboard with swipe. Really miss gboard for that and gif insertion.

I built my entire cloud storage strategy around Google drive because it had very simple integration with my previous seed box provider. Like, I could run Plex from the cloud through them directly off of my Google drive and then mirror that to local storage.

Super slick and easily usable setup. In a push to completely de-google my life the past 2 years I had to figure out an effective migration strategy off of that stack.

It was a total pain in the ass. Not to mention moving the rest of the people on my family plan off of Google as well. The majority of them are fairly tech savvy and even with that in mind we struggled.

I am now 100% self-hosted and learned a shit ton about docker along the way but, I couldn’t imagine trying to do the same thing with a group of entry level users.

The last sentence resonates with me. I too wore a robe and wizard hat back in the day.

There was a great response to this from Gabe several years ago (looks like 13 years ago, fuck, I’m old)…

https://www.totalgaming.co.uk/93-of-steam-users-born-on-january-1st/

There’s always one!

Must of been how they used the little red nub.

What?! 9000!?!

I get that for some users. In my case, 90% of what’s in the catalog that I’d be interested in I already own. I know this isn’t the standards, but it’s what happens when you’re an avid Steam Gamer with a Humble Sub and a collecting problem.

I joined Game pass to have Xbox live to play with my console buddies and for day one exclusive access. At this point, I’ve moved most of them on to PC and Xbox has done nada with my 5 or so years of subscription.

You know, that’s fair. They haven’t shit on us… yet. 😁

I renewed by doing the $1 dollar deal again a year or two ago… racked up another 3 years at the time.

As a Game pass user from Day 1 I evangelized it to everyone I knew. Especially going in to this console generation.

Now though, I see no purpose to it. Microsoft has dropped the bag in a unbelievable way when it comes to dropping exclusives / first party games.

It’s not so much the Netflix of games as it is the Tubi…

I run O&O Shut Up 10 on every install of Windows 10 and 11 I need to suffer through. There’s still a bit of manual config to remove search bar and other GUI stuff but it’s a pretty great, free tool.

You also might want to script it to run on boot as Windows loves to revert changes after updates as another commentor noted.

As a reddit refuge and former long time troller of r/sleepingdogs, this warmed my heart. Ty stranger.

We had a pretty big event at Game Crazy. I think those shirts finally got retired after my kid grew out of them quite a few years ago.

I unfortunately… put them in the dryer to much throughout the years and they seem to have shrank. Yeah, that’s what happened.

Aww man, good to know! I wish we had a microcenter nearby. Closest one is at least a state away.

Maybe they’ll ship it. Haha

Went to the one in LA on a trip recently. Was awesome to see that much great music on one spot again.

It’s wild that we probably won’t see a return to those types of stores ever again. COVID really put the final nail in the coffin.

As an avid Bawls drinker, I 100% agree with this sentiment.