That’s how my “I’m stuck in my own bed and can’t move or talk” nightmare usually begins.

One day, he’s going to try to log out, and the logout button will be missing.

Then the only way he’ll be able to wake up is by beating all 100 floors of his dream. But if he dies in the dream, he dies in real life.

Game still requires either full or limited data collection in order to play. It apparently asks you for permission after the intro cutscene.

Sadly, based on reviews for the game on GOG, while the game is technically DRM-free (in that it doesn’t Emily any of the traditional DRM like Denuvo), it still requests either full or limited data collection.

Now where’s that comic…

Ah, found it!

FYI, there was no “conversation so far”. That was the first thing I’ve ever asked “Rufus”.

Why is it all I see is ****?

slide deck

… a what?

This. I literally just joined. I have no idea what the server layout is or where all the important links are.

No, 2 is more “why are they buying this many”, and 3 is more “why would this person want to figure out some random thing that popped into their head about this”.

I said a thriving community. There hasn’t been a post there in three months.

There are three problems I had with word problems in school. Not every problem applied to every word problem.

1. “This is way too vague.”

2. “Why would someone buy 35 apples and 23 oranges?”

3. “Why would the person in the problem want to try to figure this problem out? It’s completely unrelated to what they were doing.”

I get the point was for us to be able to convert information given in a text format into something we can actually solve, but the word problems were usually situations you’d never realistically find yourself in in real life.

Now, I’m wondering if we have a thriving Desire Paths (that’s what these paths are called) community somewhere on here.

If you have an Android-based smart TV (or a device that runs Android connected to your TV), you can use SmartTube. It blocks ads, supports SponsorBlock, and casting from your phone, among other things.

Honestly, by the time I figure out what year the current generation began, we’ve already moved onto the next one. So I can’t really blame them for forgetting Gen X.

it’s why you can’t name files certain names such as CON

To expand on this: The reason you can’t name files CON, etc., is because of a program from the 1960s called Peripheral Interchange Program (PIP), a program used in Digital Equipment Corporation’s computers. The overall OS that PIP was part of was called CP/M.

DOS, which came out in the 80s and was made for IBM computers, was modeled after CP/M, and it kept and expanded the capabilities of PIP.

Then Microsoft came along and created a modified version of DOS called MS-DOS which IBM started using.

Eventually, Microsoft created Windows 95, merging two initially separate products: MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Microsoft left in the code for handling CON, etc., but they hadn’t put in any limitations for filenames, which caused some bugs. So, from the next version of Windows onward, they disallowed the ability for anything to name a folder or file “CON”, among other related things.

So the reason you can’t name a file or folder “CON” is because of a 60-year-old file-copying program nobody uses anymore.

Yes, actually.

Well, it’s more like they update the old stuff and still add new stuff on top of it. That way, generally speaking, Windows can remain compatible with older programs.

And I just really have no idea how they have made stuff like resetting networking/connection issues worse over time.

While I generally agree with your comment, they did add an option (don’t know how long it’s been there) where you can right-click on the Internet icon, click the troubleshooter, and there’s a button immediately right there in the troubleshooter to reset the adapter.

Remember when they planned to move over all the Control Panel settings to the Settings app?

In Windows 10?

Originally, before I posted it, my comment had something like “inb4 someone says you’re making it sound like a great idea”.

I really should’ve kept that in there.