You’re probably just too young to remember. Come, stay a while and listen.

In the before times, you would have to check a paper booklet which could tell you the “days”, “times”, and “channels” a tv show or movie would “air”.

If you weren’t at home, or wanted to watch two things playing at the same time on different channels - you would miss out. This was a big deal at the time, because television was a social experience you would talk about with friends at school, or colleagues at work.

Before DVDs became commonplace, many homes had VCRs that were capable of recording these shows or movies onto cassette tapes that you could then watch at your convenience. But once DVDs became the home “standard”, VCRs were getting mothballed and homes needed a new device in order to record said shows.

Along came TiVo and other similar DVRs; capable of recording directly onto spinning discs of rust lovingly called “hard drives”. This would have been in the early 00s, before Netflix was ever a thing - and digital media distribution as we now know it today was limited to piracy, and required expensive broadband internet access.

As a bonus fun fact (unless I’m mistaken), that PSX hybrid was Sony’s first implementation of the much-loved cross-bar interface, later found on both the PSP and PS3.

My new favourite meta game; is it written by AI, or by someone Autistic?

♥️

This looks very promising, will check it out when I get home tomorrow night!

My understanding was that tiling doesn’t allow overlapping windows, is that not the case?

I am a complete novice at this, to be honest.

Windows PowerToys still offers this feature, and the shortcut can be remapped and disabled.

I think I’ve got it set to triple Ctrl on my work laptop? Really helps reduce the accidental triggers.

As an aside - I’m still trying to find a similar solution to FancyZones for CachyOS, don’t suppose you have any suggestions?

I honestly wish I could quit Excel - it’s literally the last vestige of Microsoft in my non- professional life, but I find LibreOffice Calc a bit too needlessly different to be able to fully switch across.

That’s next year’s edition of Call of Duty.

Barney, is that you?

SQL - understanding how to interact with databases will be an incredibly useful skill for whatever rabbit hole you next want to fall down.

They didn’t; GameTheory on YouTube actually went through the numbers pretty recently, and of all the games available physically - I believe sales were ~50:50, or slightly trended towards physical.

Actor best known for playing laughably dumb characters, turns out to actually be laughably dumb.

Playing to his strengths, I suppose?

…all the more reason not to trust the fatality figures that the US has released, IMO.

I am only going off skepticism of the Trump administration, coupled with the casualty/fatality ratios of other recent conflicts.

That is not all that accurate; “muscle mass” lost during a relatively short fast (1-2 days) is due to glycogen depletion - ie. you’re burning your sugar stores, and your body sheds 3-4mL of stored water for every gram of glycogen burned.

If you stop to think about it, it’s a bit nonsensical to claim that the body would burn additional calories (that it doesn’t have) to convert existing muscle into fat, rather than just burn existing fat stores as a fall-back source of energy.

Muscle breakdown only really begins when the body starts to experience a significant shortfall in required essential amino acids over a prolonged period of time, or significant physical stress.

Can confirm, clay tablets can last thousands of years to archive your grievances data.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/complaint-tablet-to-ea-nasir

Lemmy only accepts bespoke, artisanal, hand-crafted shitposts.

I’m probably being overly skeptical - but even if the timing was already locked in before the announced cuts at id and elsewhere; you can’t argue that they wouldn’t at least be trying to shift the news cycle across.

Microsoft/id desperately trying to salvage some good will after announcing a tonne of layoffs?

Fuck that noise.

• Immediately started laying off workers after launch.

Which is so fucking braindead - they could have just as easily leveraged that now-experienced team to get a Assassin’s Creed - Rogue remake out in good time, especially as that has more of the same Black Flag ship mechanics, and most players missed out due to the transition from PS3 > PS4.

I learned from my wife that you can start a meeting by yourself using the Meet Now button on the Teams calendar, and that will keep you flagged as Busy.

I am surprised that these tables are able to support the weight of all of the CRT TVs in the thumbnail - I can’t help but think we’re only seconds away from disaster.