I offered him the bottle, but he pushed it away with a tattooed hand. “Nah man, I got demons to slay.”

He reached in his jacket and took out a cigarette. A lighter appeared like a magic trick and he lit up, a plume of smoke on the exhale.

“I thought you were slaying demons?” I asked.

He laughed - a rasping smoker’s laugh that caught in his throat. “Well, better the demon you know.”

I don’t do strictly fixed, but I do relative, for example my terminal is left of my IDE, my browser is right.

Using workspaces as instantly switchable ‘screens’ also helps make presentations and demos really slick, i find.

You can screen-share the whole monitor and then flick between your deck and code and a browser very cleanly with no window fumbling.

This is the way I always did it on Mac, and now do it on Cosmic.

Almost always I want windows to have the full real-estate of the screen (editor, browser, etc) so tiling rarely makes sense for me and instead I want to be able to rapidly change between windows.

So using whole workspaces as a side-to-side carousel where I can flip back and forth between adjacent ones in a moment has been my go-to workflow for 15 years already.

Thanks for the tip. In this case it was fine as the glued part was going to be completely covered by the new pads so any small mess was inconsequential to both the looks and the operation.

That post looks like it’s mostly people who already hated Nintendo (i.e most of Lemmy) taking the opportunity to meme about it and make jokes rather than genuine criticism from the perspective of people who actually wanted to buy a Switch 2.

And that’s kinda a big difference.

One genuine thing to remember though is Nintendo are making absolute bank on games, because every game on the system goes through them.

They can take a loss on the console and still make money later. That’s not necessarily the case with the steam box.

At one time, 800x600 very much was.

Heck, the first monitor I had which could do that resolution I turned back down to 640x480 because the higher resolution made everything far too small!

Nowadays even 1920x1080 is feeling cramped at times because there’s so much padding and chrome and bloat on every application there’s hardly room left for content

I had a pair of headphones where the pads were non-replaceable. They completely disintegrated and turned to dust, and that’s when I found they were glued on and not designed for replacement.

It was under 12 months since I bought the headphones so I contacted the manufacturer asking about replacement pads and stating I was happy to pay for them… Only for them to tell me (as I knew they would have to) that the pads are not replaceable and no replacement pads exist.

I was entitled to a replacement under law, and so they had to send me a whole new pair of headphones.

They didn’t even make me send the old ones back either, so I ripped the ear pads off and replaced them anyway! And now I have two pairs of headphones for the price of one!

Infuriating manufacturing choice to make consumable wear components non-replacable.

The photo may have been taken at 5 in the morning or some equally unsociable hour for playing sports.

I assume the photographer wanted the courts and streets as empty as possible to create the right mood for the shot

If huge tech corps are good at anything, it’s swerving around laws or simply deciding to ignore them.

They’ll argue that since you consented, it’s not spying.

And they’ll put something in the terms that it’s your responsibility to inform people around that your or their conversations will be recorded (lol, as if anyone would - but they’ll claim that as a defence).

And if they end up in court and get fined, even millions is just a slap on the wrist compared to how much they made from all that juicy data.

Laws will not stop them.

If we look at this on the basis of “how much does it cost to put a typical amount of RAM and storage in your computer?” then I bet we’d be going all the way back to the 90s.

Like seriously.

I don’t think I can even answer that question. Inside-our tech has really evolved since the old days and I couldn’t say hardware was intrinsically better or worse based on that like I could at the time.

I’ll be buying the Frame no matter what.

I also had the OG Rift but since I moved to Linux it’s been nothing more than a paperweight.

I could go to Meta, but I honestly don’t want to do that to myself. The way I see it, the Frame is the only way I get to keep a small amount of privacy and dignity in this world which increasingly has neither.

So I’m saving up my pennies.

Your digestion is pretty much on pause first thing, but after some breakfast, a little time and (most especially) that first cup of coffee, things are moving again.

This is very common and anyone who has worked in an office will know that 10AM is prime shitting time. It’s basically the porcelain rush hour.

The Triple Fried Egg Chilli-Chutney Sandwich is a sandwich from the BBC sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf.

It’s a meme sandwich. But I made it, and it’s actually good. Especially if you’re hungover.

It’s three slices of non-fancy white bread (hence the triple) with two fried eggs in each layer (4 in total!) all smeared with a generous amount of Indian chutney, and hot chilli sauce.

If you make it right then according to Rimmer at least, it should feel like you’re having a baby

I personally like to cook my eggs Thai-style, which means heating a generous amount of oil and cooking them fast and hot so the bottoms get all crisped up while the yolk remains runny.

That’s perfect for this sandwich, which should be yolky and gooey and impossible to eat without holding it over a plate (unless you don’t care for the state of your floor.)

Now if you’ll excuse me it’s Sunday morning, and I have a hangover to attend to.

Exactly. It’s not as if companies were being intentionally pro-consumer then any more than they are now, they just seemed that way as they hadn’t figured out how to tighten the screws as much, and especially how to do it cost-effectively in the consumer segment.