A while ago I wrote an extensible dummy data generator for Java.
I needed to fake some scientific data for a project at work and wasn't satisfied with how closed for modification existing data generation solutions were, so I decided to tackle writing a library on my own.
It was my first major contribution to open source and had some architectural challenges which were fun to solve, not to mention the learning experience :)
You're not "supposed to" upgrade every year, that's the point. You should be able to use a 5 year old phone if you want to.
So online meetings are less taxing on the brain than in-person. How is that a bad thing?
So something like a Synology NAS, I guess.
You want a better Twitter? It's already here and it's called Mastodon.
What a braindead take.
I'm still waiting for a GOG release.
Solid engine costs extra. That's the entire point.
... And then spend twice or thrice the buying price fixing random things that break in a car that spends most of its time parked at the mechanic.
It's nice to see other people worried about this, as well. I really don't like the big cliff unto which game preservation seems to be heading.
I feel like there's some sort of a PR issue with the DRM-Free crowd where we're seen as 'weird' by others, who seem to be missing the forest for the trees thinking that we just "don't like DRM" as a personal preference, and not (among other things) a giant roadblock to being able to play games we legally bought in the future.
I wish I knew how to get other gamers interested in true, not-time-limited ownership of their software.
You must first have the patent.