Children’s carols aren’t obliged to make any kind of sense, but I always imagined it as an aristocratic lady with a huge country manor getting lovebombed with outrageous gifts from her suitor, just because he can.
Endless birds is less annoying when you can be like:
claps hands “Sebastian, put these in the dovecote with the others, would you please?”
“Certainly ma’am.”
The one that really stuck with me was COCKFAIS
I agree.
See you there 🙂 <- slightly fake or sarcastic
See you there 😀 <- TOO excited
See you there :) <- Natural, relaxed, and just right
The example being Sonic and Knuckles specifically is relevant, because despite being released and marketed as an expansion, that content was originally supposed to be part of Sonic 3 but was cut due to deadlines and development time.
Please name it and provide some information so we can check it out.
I just recently started using a JetKVM https://jetkvm.com/
It’s $90 vs $60 but feels very solid, and it’s open source on github.
The way I interpret it, Chihiro’s parents wouldn’t ordinarily act like that and did so only because the food (which we later know to be cursed) existed specifically to be a trap, and so had some magical lure on it that made it even more seductive and impossible to resist - like how siren song draws sailors to their deaths, even against their better judgement.
Indeed, her parents acting out of character is at least part of why Chihiro is uncomfortable with the situation.
On your other Arch laptop, obviously. You need multiple pre-owned ThinkPads loaded with Arch at any given time to maintain workable redundancy, just like you need several clean pairs of programming socks.
Like, yes and no.
For people who are somewhat familiar with Linux, Ubuntu is certainty recognised as being about as mainstream as any distro is able to be, and a safe haven for Linux noobs for decades.
In recent years however it’s Mint which has for whatever reason been constantly recommended as a go-to distro for people fleeing the evils of Windows, ramping up especially with the discontinuation of Windows 10.
So right now, Mint might be more of a beginner distro than even Ubuntu.
I don’t think there’s any pride in it, they are just going after what is the most profitable at any given time.
That’s exactly why I suspect they will choose to resurrect the Crucial name later, because given a choice between launching a new name nobody knows, or a name people recognise (even if it’s been tarred a bit) then recognised will be the winning and more profitable option.
That is, if they haven’t sold the Crucial name to someone else first.
Probably just the same brand, honestly?
News two years from now: “Crucial back in business”
It doesn’t make as much sense, to me.
Like sure - they could design a Linux phone with their own polished UI, and Proton so it can run Steam games natively, and that would be super cool! But what about the apps?
I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that for most people out there a phone is all about apps - in fact, completely synonymous with apps - and the sad truth is that Android and iOS have an absolute stranglehold on the app market.
There have been (and still are) efforts to develop Linux phones, but they are generally seen as rough experiments which for most people require far too much compromise - with one of the most significant compromises being that you give up all your apps.
Valve’s recent hardware successes haven’t come from making experiments for dedicated nerds, but from making polished hardware devices that you can put in the hands of a consumer and just work, and do everything they expect. That’s the strategy.
Now don’t get me wrong - I’d love to see a big-hitter like Valve with some financial clout try to make a phone. But this is an arena where even Microsoft failed, and heavens knows how much money they poured into phones before pulling the plug.
I’d love it, but I don’t think it aligns at all with Valve’s strategy, and I don’t expect to see it.
“Sweetie, isn’t he a little scary? Don’t you want a soft owl instead?”
“He’d not scawy! He’d nice! 🤗”
Similarly, youtube channels about disaster events that are just reading the Wikipedia page with some spooky music.
Tape and Dial have a similar etymology, but in modern usage tape has fallen out of use in favour of the more generic ‘record’, while dial is still current.
Dial is used a lot less than it was, admittedly; if you want to make a voice call it’s usually from a stored contact or a number on a website so we just ‘phone’ or ‘call’ people most of the time.
But the physical act of interacting with a sequence of individal numbers to initiate a call? We don’t have a better word for that than ‘dial’
Tape though, there’s a very real chance that a young person can hear ‘tape’ and not have the slightest clue what that means.
To dig into the term further, ‘meta’ in a gaming context is short for “metagame” and shares an etymology with other terms like “metadata” in that ‘meta’ means self, or about the self.
In image metadata, for example, the ‘metadata’ isn’t the image pixels themselves; rather it is data /about/ the image; the author, the camera model, or the GPS coordinates where it was taken.
If “metadata” is “data about data” then the “metagame” is “the game about the game”
What this means is looking at the game holistically as a collection of systems or mechanics, and even looking entirely outside the game to optimise how it can be played.
You might choose your character based on the strongest stats on the wiki, or make choices based on completely external factors - for example, choosing the time of day you play online to optimise for more favourable match-ups, or deciding what items you either sell now or hoarde now on the basis of predicting what changes the game developer might make in the future.
To use something like chess as a concrete example, the ‘game’ is moving your pieces on the board according to the rules, and reacting logically to where your opponent moves thieirs. Whereas the ‘metagame’ might be to get into your opponent’s head and to use prior knowledge of their personal playstyle against them, amongst other off-board factors.
All games have their unique metas, depending on the specifics of the game, and the meta always changes over time because it’s fundamentally a human factor that has as much to do with other players and the game’s community as it does the game itself.
That’s right. There’s an insightful blog article if you want to learn the full story.
You could get your PC upgraded for $99 if you also bought 24 months of dial-up Internet service through them. But you also had to pay shipping both ways, and be out the use of your computer while you did it! That seems so inconvenient I imagine almost nobody bothered. eMachines certainly expected people wouldn’t, making the whole thing little more than a carefully calculated marketing tactic. And it worked.
That said, their machines were very competitively priced even without the upgrade deal, and it really disrupted the incumbents, making them good value machines even if you didn’t take them up on the dubious “never obsolete” offer.
Hell yea