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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • The pace of change is about every five years, and some elements are always in transition.

    All in one turn key solutions are always one to two cycles behind, so may work great with the stuff I’m already replacing.

    I think these are honest attempts to simplify, but by the time they have it sorted its obsolete. If I have to build modules anyway to work with new equipemnt, might as well just write all the code in my native language.

    These also tend to be attempts at all in one devices, requiring you to use devices only compatible with those subsystems. I want to be able to use best tech from what ever manufacturer. New and fancy almost always means a command line interface, which again means coding.





  • Over all I agree, with the one major exception being playing a new Fromsoft game. It’s only so often I get to explore a new souls game blind, and that is something I take the time to savor, so long as I can avoid spoilers.

    Elden ring was the first one that my girlfriend and I got to play new / blind together, and it was one of the best times I’ve ever had gaming.

    We are doing that again with the DLC now and having a great time.


  • The office is 3 day a week onsite, w Mon and Fri remote.

    I have to be on site Tue - Thur to support the users.

    I go in most Mon and Fri because it’s the only time I know I have physical access to the systems.

    My support work is largely “remote”, in that I can manage my systems 99% of the time better from my office than in the room, and I really like my setup.

    Aside from physically rebooting hardware that’s too frozen to reboot remotely, or replacing defective hardware, I can work 100% from anywhere I have internet.

    Thing is, I love the company I work for, the end users and various IT and facilities staff that support my work are all great people.

    The only close friends I have all moved far away decades ago, so the “water cooler” is the only real social interaction I get.

    I do spend a ridiculous amount to live 15 minutes from the office so the commute isn’t a concern.



  • I’ve never played it on anything else so it’s hard to judge.

    Only got it a month ago, and have only beaten the basic game once so far, though I’ve made what feel to me giant bases.

    Haven’t noticed any slow down aside from when autosave is happening. Haven’t made the kind of monstrosities I’ve seen on youtube so I don’t know where the limits are.

    As someone who has wanted to play it for ages I’m having a great time with it.

    Reminds me of Kerbal Space Program on PS4, the controls are very complex for a controller, but they did a great job using multiple button shift functions to map a hell of a lot to the inputs available.



  • I used to call it the Zelda machine, but now that factorio is on Switch, I guess that isnt quite true any more.

    I go between PS4 and a switch pro control often, and it’s not that they all use the letters / symbols for different buttons, it’s that Xbox and Sony agree what button position is used for what as default, enter, back, etc.

    Nintendo breaks that symmetry, and put the enter button on A, so when I go to watch a movie on playstation I’m constantly exiting the menu because that position is O, the back button for Playstation.





  • I just found out last week factorio is on a system that I own. Turns out there was a major addiction missing in my life.

    As a programmer, I knew I would enjoy it. What I didn’t realise was that in just a week it would literally make me better at my job.

    I’m playing the game, and solving problems for work, I’m working, and solving problems in the game, in a huge feedback loop.

    Can a video game make you better person? I’m not sure, but if they can, this and Kerbal Space Program are the ones to do it.




  • There are a lot of both dark themes and on screen deaths and violence, many of which are pretty graphic.

    Fallout as a franchise is well known for some pretty horrific elements, often painted over with bright colors and upbeat music, but horrific all the same.

    If Game of Thrones or The Boys were too much for you, then Fallout certianly is.

    That said, it is an absolutely brilliant and faithful adaptation of the source material, and as a long time fan of the games, I loved every minute of it.