thequickben
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- Comment on Microsoft wants Windows Update to handle all apps 4 hours ago:
Would you though? Many people say the same thing but here we are. Windows is still dominant in spite of all its failings.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 day ago:
I disagree with you. The story is amazingly written. Dialogue, character motivations, their fuck ups, everything is fantastic.
- Comment on [Debian Stable] Which Static Blog Generator: blag, Jekyll, Hugo, Lektor, Pelican, staticsite? 6 days ago:
Docusaurus. It supports markdown, and you can also use JavaScript if you like.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 dev calls Randy Pitchford's $80 Borderlands 4 comments "gross" because it implies the FPS is more important than "making it day to day" 6 days ago:
DLC now costs $60. If you can’t afford it, sell a kidney /s.
- Comment on A growing number of young chinese people are avoiding Starbucks Coffee. US executives are furious. 1 week ago:
Funny enough, the most expensive coffee you can buy is made in elephant dung. Probably still tastes better than Starbucks coffee.
- Comment on A growing number of young chinese people are avoiding Starbucks Coffee. US executives are furious. 1 week ago:
The oven would do a much better job, and I don’t get to try pork flavored coffee. That’s a win win situation.
- Comment on A growing number of young chinese people are avoiding Starbucks Coffee. US executives are furious. 1 week ago:
It’s a great roaster!
- Comment on A growing number of young chinese people are avoiding Starbucks Coffee. US executives are furious. 1 week ago:
Image Coincidentally when I saw this post I was in the middle of roasting a batch.
- Comment on A growing number of young chinese people are avoiding Starbucks Coffee. US executives are furious. 1 week ago:
Starbucks coffee is shit anyway. Support your local roasters and shops, or roast your own if you have the means. It’s a great and delicious hobby.
- Comment on Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices 5 weeks ago:
It’s not too complicated but you don’t get some things for free like with Synology. It require work to setup scripts for offsite backup for example whereas Synology has a backup app with a UI.
For storage, I used to run ZFS in a raidZ2 configuration. If you do this then I suggest having a cron job running a script that can alert you if the pool is unhealthy. This is again something that Synology does for free.
You could also look up trueNAS core and see if that’s something that fits for you.
- Comment on Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices 5 weeks ago:
I own a Synology NAS. It’ll be the first and last one I buy. When I need an upgrade I’ll go back to building my own again.
- Comment on Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN 1 month ago:
At least Sony had some justification. A new and expensive cell architecture. It was ground breaking for its time but cost too much.
Nintendo is giving us something the steam deck and other pc handhelds can do, and trying to charge $80 for games that will almost never go on sale. I can buy old steam titles for less than $10, show me an old Nintendo title that can ever sell for that amount. It’s just not a good enough proposition just to have access to a handful of $80 Nintendo titles.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 2 months ago:
That assumes the person using obsidian is a software dev or a sysadmin. Most users aren’t going to want the extra hassle, or they might be unable to do these things.
- Comment on Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything 3 months ago:
What are you going on about? I don’t work in a space with a monopoly. My employer doesn’t have free money. They compete in a huge market and make money while doing so. Not every company has the business model you described. The world would not run if that was the case.
- Comment on Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything 3 months ago:
Yes. That’s at least half of the work I do on a daily basis. How else do companies in the same market compete with each other if they cannot add on to functionality and remain static? That’s a quick way to lose market share to your competition.
- Comment on Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything 3 months ago:
Software engineer here. You’re completely wrong. The amount of work it takes to maintain and extend functionality to existing software is even bigger than the original cost of building it. Get some time understanding how software teams work and you’ll understand. There’s a reason C Suites are hoping AI generated code can replace developers. They can’t hire enough of them.
- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 3 months ago:
How did time pass so quickly? 😞
- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 3 months ago:
Your math needs some work…
2025 - 2011 = 14 2011 + 6 = 2017