I would have said… Way in the past… That Windows had a UI that worked and it forced developers to follow basic standards vs the dogshit programmer-led “design” found in most FOSS. But now Windows UI/UX is worse than anything a programmer could/would design.

Circa 1997 I was making some innovative new games, employed by a dude who’d put millions of his own money into the company. He was completely nonplussed when I brought him 20 CDs in a sealed box to remove from the building and store off site. He thought I’d lost my damned mind and blew it off as ravings of a stressed dev. I pointed out real threats to our IP including the hardware failures and even so far as the building burning down. 2 years of custom art and code gone. “Unlikely. Relax.”

After I moved on… an ex co-worker who’s still a longtime friend, tells me a different division lost a huge amount of FMV over some whoops-I-destroyed-the-wrong-drive blunder. 20 days to render on an 8 or 10 machine farm. Poof - No backups. In 1997 even with top-of-the-line gear it took an insane investment to render quality 3D.

The friggin’ carelessness irks the shit out of me as I type ahah

Yeah it’s a 45-minute unbreakable opening tutorial sequence that is totally unskippable and totally unnecessary.

Oh Lord I hated everything about that game, but I don’t want to go off LOL

It’s just an incredibly soulless game, towns are filled with cardboard cutout npcs, there’s generic guard, wandering peasant, blah blah blah

Fighting, even on Blood level, is trivial

“Searching” around with witcher senses is an absolutely pathetic mechanic

I’m saying this based on personal experience, having gone through a really bad hygiene phase when I was extremely depressed.

It took me a long time to figure out why the stink was not coming out of my clothes despite repeated washings, vinegar/borax/alcohol/etc treatments, everything I could think of.

I ended up using cheap pet odor enzyme spray. Have since learned there are other more expensive enzymes, but I’m happy with the pet spray cuz it works.

I just have to jump in here.

The lingering B.O. in clothes is dead bacteria which still stink - you need enzymes to actually accomplish anything.

Vodka and vinegar are useless except for certain applications and for “fresh” sweat.

To cure hiccups:

Hyperventilate for about 30 seconds; breathe out until your lungs feel like they’re going to implode; Without intaking breath, smoothly chug a 12oz glass of water.

It will “reset” your spasming diaphragm and stop the hiccups.

Welcome to the block list, child

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I managed buildings. There is no scenario anywhere where anybody would be allowed to linger in a common area

I saw a commercial in the 70’s for Starburst. All of them were the same pattern: Person pops candy into their mouth, next scene is them taking off hang-gliding.

I thought if I ate a Starburst I’d get sent flying off a mountain like the hang gliders. Not in a fun way… eat this candy and you’re getting flung to your death off the top of a mountain. (I didn’t understand what a hang glider was either)

Agreed, and this article is written backwards.

Problem: Audio is a low power (relatively low data) signal that goes over wire. Audio data (not audio) sent via USB needs decoding into audio before it gets sent down the headphone wire. Implementation fails due to insufficient bandwidth. Graphs and textual details go into details about the bottlenecks.

Thank you

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That’s more informative, thank you.

I’m not pretending to be any kind of expert, as you can tell from my initial inquiry I’m not familiar with this, I was only responding to the way it was portrayed to me in comments.

Because it sounds like they were employees not IP owners

Are we in the same reality? No, because the question is what do we need to do to make the Fediverse better.

You being here isn’t one of those things apparently.

The influx of new users in the last 4 months has shown me there needs to be some disincentive for posting the same regurgitated sentiment-based shit that you see every time you log in. Regurgitated sentiments and memes represent 95% of the content… yes AI bad… Israel bad… Cheese powder face man bad… I feel depressed… I can’t afford a house… robots took my job. How many times can we as a community re-state what we already know to be true.

This is Reddit 2.0 let’s not kid ourselves.

That’s a bit of a different presentation than “stole” just saying.