When I was doing work experience in around 1995, I did mine at a local computer firm. A few days in, the doorbell rang. I looked over at the security camera. It was four lads in balaclavas.

I thought we were going to get robbed. The boss opened the door, put his hand over the camera, and returned a few seconds later with his hands full of SIMMs. Which he dropped on the table in front of me.

“Test these will you” he said, and that was it. That’s what memory theft was like. A bunch of lads breaking into offices, nicking the RAM from the PCs, and selling it local computer shops who would sell it right back to the offices they stole it from.

Not one guy having an expensive package stolen at random.

That would be scalpees.

I went into Netflix recently to find the same thing. Hardly anything visible on screen, just a handful of massive buttons.

You can see maybe two movies to the right of the main one, and the top half of the row below.

I assume this is just to hide the fact that there’s precious little worth watching on it.

Also sounds non fatal, so not the kind of thing they worry about on packaging.

I got around that by being a bad pirate. If I’ve watched it, chances are I’m nuking it in a few days from my download drive to make room for something else.

I saw the Legion Go S for £399 at Costco as well, with 4 times the space. Is there any downside to that one over the Steam Deck? I think it’s marginally better performance and a slightly bigger screen, but is the compatibility as good?

A PS5 currently costs less than £300. I can’t even get 32GB of RAM for that, let alone a GPU or any of the other parts.

PC gaming is dead for now. The only affordable way is Steam Decks and similar.

The tolerant left everyone, yucking someone’s yum!

It’s also what happens when there’s no jobs for 6 months of the year. It’s no surprise that a lot of the seaside towns in the UK are also on the list of the most deprived towns.

I don’t think anyone hates Star Wars more than Star Wars fans.

Kids these days don’t even squash coins on the train tracks.

Still, they’ve got dodgy Temu e-bikes to kill themselves on now.

Well it requires a verified source for the data. I don’t see why it excludes open source at all.

In fairness, the PS1 Dualshock was damn near perfection. There’s a reason everyone has copied it ever since.

Before that, you should have seen the bullshit we had to go through to move the camera around.

Like a consent button will stop them doing it anyway. Consent is something for little people. They don’t believe in it.

Every time I use that site it says I am unique. So is that good? Surely if I was trackable, it would match me against the previous times I’d been there.

Or maybe the site is just spouting a load of clickbaity nonsense?

King of the Hill is the better show.

You don’t even need AI. Just pay staff less and charge customers more, and give the stolen money to shareholders. Ta-da! That’s the CEO’s job done.

So are closed source developers.

While singing “I want to break free” at full blast.

I tried to get one to write an interface to a simple API, and gave it a link to the documentation. Mostly because it was actually really good documentation for a change. About half a dozen end points.

It did. A few tweaks here and there and it even compiled.

But it was not for the API I gave it. Wouldn’t tell me which API it was for either. I guess neither of us will ever know.