Got caught in that trap at my first coding job. Made a sort formula and a sr dev asked my I didn’t just use the array.sort.

My answer: I didn’t know it was there.

There are a lot of good reasons from other users in this thread which explains why not to trust the company. My reason is that Manjaro as an OS is broken.

I’ve ran it on 2 laptops and both had system breaking bugs which corrupted the install after a few months. I tried installing just from their repo I’ve tried being careful when I update but every time the system would one day update and never turn back on.

Arch especially AUR supported arch is amazing. But Manjaro isn’t the way to use it.

I mean I downloaded it to see what Zorin 18 looked like. Didn’t get far when my keyboard stopped working in the VM

I thought all my files were already uploaded to Onedrive?

Chrono Trigger, and finishing the games first full arc. What would normally be the end literally showed me that this game had so much more, which expanded the more I played it.

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I live in a house designed by a boomer. Networking comes in the upper floor while nothing is in the lower

These power over Ethernet is the only way I can get networking down stairs.

Tried Linux to play games on after steam deck started getting good. Though my it was fine.

Then I got a new laptop. Tried to install windows 11. Required internet to setup. I installed Linux and haven’t looked back.

It’s on par with the NES version but omits the stair climb so you can actually finish it.

I liked the game loop.

Catch ghost upgrade weapons and accessories to help catch more ghosts.

I just gets boring after a few loops.

The Atari 2600 version is impressive though.

NES < C64 < 2600

Oddball games I picked up over the years.

Jurassic Park - follows the novel which has some fun set pieces. Difficult

Toy Story - TT game, and a fun “doom” level

Zero Tolerance- FPS for genesis

Scooby Doo Mystery- unless the snes game it’s actually a point and click adventure. Very fun

Like Sony, I like it when Nintendo isn’t doing well. When they feel comfortable they start doing the bare minimum to keep consumers happy, since they don’t need to win anyone over. Which leads to what I perceive as an arrogance.

Think back to Nintendo going from the Wii to the Wii U or Sony from the PS2 to the PS3. These systems had 3rd party support but it was because of the pure gravity of their success rather than being good hardware. So when the next box came out they continued as status quo and assumed consumers would pay since it’s from them. Only to find that no one did and they had to start making compelling games again to win consumers over.

This is why I loved systems like the PS3 and Wii U. Unique games like Splatoon, and Super Mario Maker as well as Uncharted and Infamous came from Sony and Nintendo trying to convince consumers to buy from them again.

And it worked. Which helped their next systems sell well too. But then the cycle repeats and we get the current market. Without serious competition and both Sony and Nintendo carving out their own niche I don’t know if we’ll see another flop, but I am hopeful since when they are trying to win consumers, we see some fun games.

Hummm, lots of good suggestions. Honestly what I would do is get something cheap that works. Then learn what your needs are.

3D Printers are a tool, and like all tools there are cheap ones which break in 30 seconds if you are actually using them. And tools which will last a lifetime but cost a fortune.

As someone who started with the (at the time) budget printer, the MonoPrice Select Mini. My suggestions are are follows.

200mm x 200mm x 200mm heated bed. This is common for printers who are clones of the i3 and isn’t hard to get cheap.

Doesn’t require proprietary software or can use open source software. Back in the day some printers would only take gcode from their proprietary slicer software. Flashforge comes to mind. But just check if what you are buying has a profile (even community made) for you slicer. Prusa and Cura are the 2 popular ones everything else is based on.

Automatic bed levelling. Whether it’s magnets like a MK3 or a touch sensor like the ender 3. So long as it can mesh bed level out of the box it’s fine. So long have I tried to dial in my printer only for it to need to be dialled in again.

Finally check Amazon or other sites for replacement parts. This is a machine and parts wear down. You don’t need to replace everything, but belts hot end assemblies, print beds and sensors are a going to break and need replacing.

For my recommendation is for a ender 3 s1 or the elegoo Neptune as they meet my spec and look fine. Though triple check with reviews

When it comes to playing DS/3DS games the best hardware I found that can do it well is an iPad… or a 3DS.

No one is really focusing on making a good stylus for tablets and the iPad works well for DS games. And it has enough power to play and do everything else… except 3DS since Apple didn’t permit JIT.

3DS on the other hand is easy to mod, easy to run archived games and does everything nicely. Sure it takes time to setup, but it’s worth it.

Yes modern Windows is based on the NT Kernal. However to keep with compatibility with older programs, NT needs to be compatible with DOS. For most people they never saw the transition from DOS to NT, since it was quietly done with Win XP.

When I was taking cyber security, Sandboxing and Linux was one of the topics which was brought up.

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/selinux_users_and_administrators_guide/chap-security-enhanced_linux-securing_programs_using_sandbox

Not sure when I associated it with the entire OS. It appears that the Host OS can be sandboxed for added security, and some containerized applications like Flatpaks are sandboxed. But not all applications are. Like the OS provided packages in most package managers.

From a windows perspective Linux does 2 things differently which makes it more secure to Windows.

1. Like MacOS it doesn’t need antivirus software like Norton. Windows needs antivirus because DOS the OS windows is based on, had it where any program had access to anything. This is still sadly true even on Windows 11. Linux is Sandboxed, where instead of giving the program full access to everything, you just give it a sandbox with what it needs.

Unless you deliberately run a program as the admin of Linux (su or sudo), malicious code can just delete system32.

2. Linux’s is open source and while the desktop market share is tiny, there are a massive market in servers. As a result since there are a lot of eyes on the project if/when problems are found they are fixed quickly. I remember a time when a malicious actor was trying to add a backdoor into a library as a blob and it was caught.

Windows on the other hand is closed source, meaning if MS can’t find the issue, the only time it is found is when it’s in the field. To avoid downtime MS offers bug bounty programs for those who can find issues, rather than to let them exploit it.

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I just want to say that the V in this specific MVP wasn’t Viable

I going to point out the V wasn’t for Viable