It’s for local service discovery. Those services may be printers on your network, or another computer sharing music on iTunes (which is why as a Windows user you’d usually get Bonjour when installing iTunes). Or maybe it’s your Raspberry Pi.

It feels iffy because it comes bundled with other software without you being asked (IIRC) and it autoruns on startup. And I mean 20 years ago when iPods were a thing and people had to use iTunes on Windows, a couple dozen megabytes of RAM really mattered too. Hell I had 512 MB back when I had an iPod (and therefore iTunes)

It’s not, but I still prefer not pushing my config on others, or others pushing theirs on me.

Just gitignore that. Same for dot idea and whatever vscode adds, if anything

The good news is that the live service bubble burst so hard and spectacularly that we may see a return to actual good games getting funding after investors are done licking their wounds.

Did it?

I honestly have no idea what’s going on in that space anymore. I’m still playing Baldur’s Gate 3 because I’ve been extremely busy since about August 2023. Got into Act 2 yesterday! When I’m finished with that, I can get back to the game I was playing before BG3, which I STILL haven’t finished, which is Elden Ring. I got stuck there and bought BG3 lol

The only good thing about not having time to play video games is that you can fill the entirety of your video game time with awesome single player games.

It’s unfortunate, but if you’re developing a game and are in dire need of cash, Epic is your best bet.

Way before the whole store debacle, Epic also had a lot of grants and stuff, but those didn’t require you to give up publishing rights IIRC. Honestly, the EGS greed aside, they’ve been excellent for the gaming industry.

You already got an answer more or less, but to specify, Fitgirl is one specific repacker of games that a lot of people trust. She (or he, or they or it, nobody really knows) specializes in compression to make the releases quick to download on slow Internet connections. Of course if you’re sitting on gigabit download speeds or something, the decompression will take way longer than what you save from the download.

Yes, this happrned in France.

I was under the assumption that it’s not important to specify the country in online headlines because I can think of some countries whose citizens never do.

Well yeah but AOC has darker skin, therefore dirty immigrant. Elon Musk of course is lighter and has more money so he’s a trueborn American and his opinion matters.

Just don’t look up where either of those people were born.

Ah yeah, I’m a backend developer already, I was wondering what the heck a Shadow DOM is (as opposed to a regular DOM which I do understand). Luckily some of the other comments put together give me a decent summary.

ELI a Backend Developer?

I can easily buy enterprise drives for home use. What are you on about?

It’s 36 TB drives. Most people are planning on keeping anything legal or self-produced there. It’s going to be pirated media and idk about you but I’m not uploading that to any cloud provider lmao

The benefit of an anticheat can be replaced by an old-fashioned kick vote system. The downside of an anticheat is that I’d need to install Windows and a rootkit on my computer to play some games. Not a problem till a younger relative is over and you have to explain how your gaming PC won’t run Fortnite or GTA Online for security and ideology reasons.

They seem to be very hit and miss in that there are some models with very low failure rates, but then there are some with very high.

That said, the 36 TB drive is most definitely not meant to be used as a single drive without any redundancy. I have no idea what the big guys at Backblaze for an example, are doing, but I’d want to be able to lose two drives in an array before I lose all my shit. So RAID 6 for me. Still, I’d likely be going with smaller drives because however much a 36 TB drive costs, I don’t wanna feel like I’m spending 2x the cost of one of those just for redundancy lmao

Nothing left to configure? Install Gentoo!

… There’s a joke in Estonian about it, but it’s a really bad one lmao

Young woman is giving birth. The baby simply flies out, against a wall, dead. An appropriate amount of time later, she’s pregnant again and giving birth again. This time they put a nurse in front of her vagina so she can catch the baby. Unfortunately it flies out with too much power, hits the nurse in the head and they both die.

Third time, they ask goalkeeper Mart Poom to catch the baby. He does, for a split second the baby appears OK, but then he bounces it against the ground twice and kicks it out of the window.