I describe adulthood as an ever-increasing amount of rituals to maintain normal.

I had a coworker preparing a customer database that arrived via sneakernet. He typo’d a variable during an rm -f step and ended up wiping the device because it was his working directory and the variable was undefined.

The heart skip when an rm command runs longer than expected.

My place switched their backup service for OneDrive, and I lost everything twice.

yeah, it was wild. I was trying to do set up some computer labs. Debian was the first suggestion in the guide:

After the second reinstall of Debian, I gave Fedora a try as it was the second to be suggested. Only to be greeted with this:

It took me forever to realize that dash-dot at the top left was not some stylization and was a button to show the overview.

funny you should say it like that. I just recently I tried using Debian’s default GNOME desktop and thought I had corrupted the install somehow. I reinstalled the OS two more times because it kept dumping me into a nearly blank screen with no obvious buttons to click aside network/sound/power.

I’m used to LXDE, KDE, and Cinnamon, so this was completely foreign to me… and trying to find the web browser had me at a caveman level of confusion.

I buy mainly physical games.

Will I preorder a AAA game that will have 18,000,000 copies sitting around after 6 months? Hell no.

Will I preorder a physical title from a small-medium dev/publisher that I will never see again? If they have a track record of making stuff I like.

I swear 95% of the stuff Steam recommended is reasoned with because it is popular and not because it’s something I would play.

Even when they say it’s related to a library item, it’s not even tangential. Like… Escape the Backrooms is not like Terraria. In any sense. They put that there because Youtubers are selling it.

Yeah, for me it was Technos Collection 1. :(

I’d like to add two more things:

It was the generation of HD remasters, so a lot of older (high quality) titles are available on the platform, such as the Dead Rising games, the Mega Man collections, almost all the Resident Evil titles, Devil May Cry collection, Bioshock collection, Final Fantasty X/X-2.

And most importantly, since they are last gen, they are not stupidly hard to find yet.

you missed fear

Might be an unpopular opinion (but that’s what makes it cheap): An Xbox One.

It’s got a fairly sizeable library at 3,067 titles and a backwards compatible list with 632 games from Xbox 360 and 63 original Xbox titles. So you have plenty of choice depending on your gaming tastes.

It’s the last generation, so many stores will be clearing out the old inventory at a discount. Popular titles like Mass Effect Trilogy or Borderlands Handsome Collection will be a great value for the money. If those are your style.

ooh, that’s a tough sell. I absolutely love my Evercade, but the library is hard to get. If you don’t snap up a popular new release, it’s likely to vanish forever. Major FOMO.

Yup, 60W.

More than enough to power one or two drives but when 3+ were writing I’d have a random disconnect.

Tried different hubs, of increasing power. Same thing.

How do you keep it properly powered? When I tried something similar, some drives would randomly vanish because the peak power demand exceeded the supply of the hub.

Can’t recall the first with certainty, but I think it was when I was driving in a heavy snowstorm on the highway and witnessed an 18-wheeler jackknife in the opposing lane, eventually coming to a rest in the divider. Since stopping was only going to put me in danger, I had it call it in and give the mile marker.

I’m fairly certain it wasn’t a medical emergency, but given the snowy conditions it wasn’t going to be fun for anyone involved.

I learned the VP9 sort after I saw how randomly abysmal the encoding is for AV1.

Just look at these numbers:

and a direct comparison, same frame from AV1:

and then VP9:

use --compat-options prefer-vp9-sort

yt-dlp -f bv*[ext=mp4]+ba[ext=m4a]/b[ext=mp4] -S height:1080 --compat-options prefer-vp9-sort --all-subs --no-warnings -v https://www.youtube.com/watchx

No joke! I see nothing on shelves to resist purchasing.