Over all I agree, with the one major exception being playing a new Fromsoft game. It’s only so often I get to explore a new souls game blind, and that is something I take the time to savor, so long as I can avoid spoilers.

Elden ring was the first one that my girlfriend and I got to play new / blind together, and it was one of the best times I’ve ever had gaming.

We are doing that again with the DLC now and having a great time.

I just found out last week factorio is on a system that I own. Turns out there was a major addiction missing in my life.

As a programmer, I knew I would enjoy it. What I didn’t realise was that in just a week it would literally make me better at my job.

I’m playing the game, and solving problems for work, I’m working, and solving problems in the game, in a huge feedback loop.

Can a video game make you better person? I’m not sure, but if they can, this and Kerbal Space Program are the ones to do it.

TIL that both Voyager craft are still operating, simply amazing.

In easy mode, maybe. I played it on hardcore permadeath and it took many, many hours to complete it.

Honestly, that was the one suggestion I put that’s likely well over 10, but damn it’s a good game.

Journey

Inside

Adrift

Subnautica

Humanity

I did not know inside had alternate ending, will have to check that out.

Ubisoft made splinter cell, farcry 2, ghost recon, and rocksmith. They did a lot of good things over the years. Problem is, they’ve changed.

That unfortunately is going to be app dependent as far as I know. Your phone can set if a given app will alert you, but for example facebook would have to filter which friend’s notifications get sent.

An app that let you manage notifications by user across multiple platforms would be amazing.

“I don’t want to hear from Jay today” would be an awesome checkbox.

In a documentary made during the 2016 election cycle Trump talks about how much better his PR team is because he doesn’t have to use traditional channels to reach his base, he can just tweet it when ever he wants to tell the world something.

He was very much using twitter as a primary communication channel from the begining, and this time around, he has both twitter and truth social as his basically his own.

Like that server in Mythic Quest, gather them in one place, unplug, and let them scream into the void.

It’s not so much a function of try, and yes, I’ve used it. It’s the fact that during lock down the whole company used Zoom and Teams, and changing systems now would take an act of God far above my paygrade.

Historically, Tandberg, later acquired by Cisco, was hands down the best video conference codec. I have no doubt their new line is just as good.

I can try forwarding this info to network security and see what they think.

Went to Infocomm this year, the audio / video trade show, to get the lay of the land on next generation conference systems.

The two main elements at almost every booth were zoom and teams. Those two platforms have completely replaced IP based conferencing, and when the tide turns like this, no matter how bad the idea, we’re stuck with it for five to ten years.

On both the hardware and software level, there just isn’t an alternative for corporate scale conferencing.

I may be able to make the argument against zoom for privacy reasons, but I suspect teams isn’t going to be any better.