Why is this the case?

*Skywind

Haha no worries!

Oh, weird. I use one regularly to disconnect the car battery and I’ve never lost any. News to me it’s a meme. Thank you for enlightening me!

That’s a 10mm socket wrench head on a zip-tie.

That is not Kensington lock…

I don’t get it (and I’ve read the books too).

I went wild and started using it for servers about 5 years ago and I shit you not, it’s far more stable than I would have thought. I parse the blog for update notes if there’s any big changes to anything I’m using but given most stuff is offloaded to containers, I pretty much yolo a yay -Syu every week. Zero issues.

I had more issues with Debian and Ubuntu due to bugs in stale packages or weird default configs than I have running bleeding edge vanilla via Arch.

Run Docker containers on it, one for media server, one for DNS sinkhole etc.

Firefox’s codebase is of the scale of an operating system. I don’t think people realise just how complex web browsers are. If you took the drivers out of the kernel, Firefox dwarfs Linux.

It’s not something someone casually just forks and carries on.

Snap. I love the form factor and would have been interested in a Switch 2 but after all this bullshit with taking down emulators and trying to patent throwing balls, I’m going to be voting with my wallet and Nintendo have list for for the next generation or two. I’ll survive.

It’s a string, dawg. Just maintain a database of hash and resource location. Lookup hash, return location.

Agreed. They’re also solving problems that may not even exist, building a tech stack that needs to be maintained in addition to the game itself and adding all the baggage of supporting users who have needs that aren’t catered for with that stack (for instance a specific Windows-only tool).

The game engine should abstract most of these problems away. The rest can be solved with standards like what linter/formatter for code, art asset formats and specs, etc.

Solve problems as they arise. Time is best spent writing the game.

You seem like a really unhappy, bitter, vulgar person. You should seek some therapy, especially if you occasionally think “why does no one like hanging out with me in person?”