averagedrunk

I don't play mine every day or even every week. The last time I turned it on was last Monday. I just checked and it's exactly where I left off and at 6%. I have no idea how much battery I had when I put it into sleep mode, but it was likely full or pretty close.

That's a classic. We did it for a while. We moved on to all out warfare.

We had a script that backed up the current desktop exactly the way it was then changed everything about it. It would change all system sounds to the original My Little Pony theme, change the background to a Friendship is Magic wallpaper, change the mouse pointer to a tiny pony with trailing sparkles, and remove edit rights to those files from the account using it. To get things back to normal you had to take ownership of the affected files.

One guy couldn't figure it out and disconnected his internal speaker because someone had set up some policy deep in the system where he lost sound settings. I don't know how that worked. Apparently neither did he.

Another guy worked remotely the next day so his computer just kept playing the song while he was gone.

The guy who created it didn't get a normal birthday cake. The boss got him a My Little Pony birthday cake that year.

What a lot of folks didn't realize and never asked about was that there was a reversal script in the user folder.

That 100% sounds like ChatGPT to me.

Everything in the 90s was Xtreme. He's 52 which means he was in his 20s that decade. He got way into the X-Games, ate nothing but warheads extreme candies and Taco Bell extreme nachos, drank the 7-11 Xtreme Gulp, and watched the Extreme Ghostbusters.

I have a Deck and I've really enjoyed it.

That being said, I've heard good things about the ROG Ally. I don't really know if it's better or worse because the Deck does what I want, but the folks who have it seem to like it better than the other handhelds out there that are full of problems.

I had a OneXPlayer 1S. It worked pretty ok. Windows on handheld sucks. Support sucks. Form factor wasn't the worst but was definitely nothing to write home about.

I know about the others. Looked into them before the Deck was a thing and none of them were for me.

Just tell them it's time to go, do the Mario. Then they'll definitely care.

Exactly my feelings. I understand, at a basic level, how both cars and computers work. I fix motorcycles as a hobby. I work in system reliability as a profession. I don't have the inclination to tinker on cars or computers in my spare time. I want to turn it on, press the pedal, and vroom vroom off into the night.

I think it'll be a long time before that's true for the layperson. I also think that it'll be an even longer time before that's true for the hobbiest. But I do agree it's coming and that it's crap. I think it'll be like game consoles (or like Mac is now) where you pick your flavor, buy your system, and it'll take a team of dedicated crackers to get us access to our own stuff.

People do not give a swimming fuck about which OS they're using

Yep. I was an outlier and used to care. Now as long as it does what I want I really can't give a shit. Due to the fact that it doesn't come standard on many machines it's an extra annoyance to set up. And you'd better do your homework to make sure what you bought is supported.

I have a whole life and a bunch of hobbies that are more interesting to me than religiously following which hardware might work, constantly tweaking flags, and running things in wine. It's a fine hobby for those that love it but I don't anymore. And most people never do.

Everyone should just do the best they can.

That's the key to most of everyday life. Just do your best.

Depends on what you mean by best. The Butcher Shop in , Texas had the absolute best bacon cheeseburger I've ever had. I make a beer can burger that's full of taco fixins and queso that I personally think is amazing. The burgers at Whataburger before they changed ownership were so good that I put my health on the line to eat far too many. Dyer's had the absolute perfect burger of the moment for me but the next several times I went it just didn't hit the same.

Best can change from day to day. I hope the next burger you eat is the best you ever have. And then I hope the rest of them you have for the rest of your life are even better than that.