They were also the easiest to use offline. I needed internet to set them up, but once they were up, as long as I didn’t want to ever use the app, they didn’t actually need a connection to operate.

A single player offline videogame, even!

It’s doable, but a tedious pain in the ass.

Oh, fantastic. Good to know, thanks!

Hard to chuck unity in the bin when you don’t use unity.

We’re lucky there are enough other engines on the market at the moment, but eventually someone will need to spearhead a FOSS engine with blackjack and hookers.

Your visas are hard to get without a job, and the only jobs hiring foreigners are… big tech companies. I tried Ireland for years before giving up and going elsewhere.

It’s a just ok panel. Tends to look really washed out.

20% has been dead for almost a decade…

I think the post you replied to was sarcasm.

OpenScan scales. Their electronics and software are great, and you can set up your own mechanics pretty easily. I scaled mine up to can things approximately the size of a basketball, but going to human size should be easily doable.

I specifically made a new account on an instance that allows downvoting just for transphobes.

My take’s always been Monetization ruined YouTube.

I do have a UPS for some of my stuff. I was planning on getting another small one for some networking stuff, but no reason I couldn’t get a bigger one to cover another device.

Ah, I do have a UPS for sensitive electronics, though I need another one for some other networking equipment anyway. That does make it feel more approachable. Maybe when my life stops taking a big steamy dump I’ll look into this with more earnest. Thanks for the overview!

That would be fine from a storage standpoint, except that the up front investment is significant compared to what I’ve paid Dropbox so far. I have to be my own resilience, redundancy, security, and and integration specialist. Can you even connect to a NAS on Android? I’d have to set up tasker or something for auto photo upload. Our power is not reliable and goes out frequently. I would have to learn how to expose it to the world outside my network. I’d have to monitor and replace dead drives. And that’s just me, while the other people on my account also need space and access, where they either have to set up their own NAS or use mine, so I’d have to look into file sequestration. I’ll have to re-automate everything to not use Dropbox APIs. There’s a much bigger mental load hidden behind “getting it up and running” that made paying someone else attractive. I’d’ve paid up to triple for continued unlimited storage, but now that there’s no option entirely and the highest limit is stupidly low, I have to rethink my entire workflow.

Wait, the cap is 15TB? I run a small image processing business and I’m right about there with my businesses data, currently.

…guess its time to NAS, but I’d really rather pay someone else than assume the hassle

Sure, but second rate employees deserve workers rights too. We should at least be careful to not build our rights on their backs.

Because nether of those actors fit either of thsoe actors. Why aren’t Max Castella and Mike Erwin the first choice for this???

No, Holland is Jak. Pratt is Daxter.

We also expect much more from sequels these days. Most old games’ sequels are just more content on the same engine with minimal new features. Spyro 2 was Spyro 1 with swimming, ice, and powerups. I don’t remember Crash Bandicoot 2 changing anything but the hub world. Did Guitar Hero make any major changes between 1, 2, or 3? Nowadays, Elder Scrolls gets significant engine upgrades between each game, as does Halo, as did Horizon. Totk’s biggest critique is “its just DLC cuz it’s in the same engine”, even though there have been some substantial, non-graphical, physics based upgrades.