DireTech

u/DireTech@sh.itjust.works
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on The steep descent · c/gaming · 1 pts · 15d

WoW was a more polished MMO on release. We’d had plenty before it, but it was the first to have so many quests integrated and dungeons that had some scripts to make things more interesting.

Plus it had Blizzards reputation behind it which was at its peak back then along with the already developed Warcraft world. No surprise it took off with all that.

Zojirushi is legitimately great. Heritage steel also makes good quality pans at reasonable prices.

The list is too big to know everything, but I did find Thursday boots an odd inclusion because there was talk of them cutting corners on their materials.

I can easily believe the website was generated based off high ranking buyitforlife posts because it’s just too big and too unknown to be maintained legitimately.

As far as laptops go, exactly which company is producing a competitive product to Macs? Like at this point it’s a no brainer, get a cheap Mac for an average user and they get better hardware and don’t have to deal with how bad Windows has become. I’ve even switched grandma over to one after her PC died.

I run Linux for my own stuff but given a choice between a mac or windows for work I’ll take the Mac every time. Even the cheapest Mac beats the typical business laptops. Good screen. Touchpad that doesn’t utterly suck. Better performance.

USB cables are actually a great example of where finding a brand with a good name does matter. Lots of cheap cables don’t properly follow the spec and then people end up frying their steam deck or other hardware.

It’s not so bad for data transfer but a real issue when you’re using them for supplying more power for computers or other expensive devices.

Travelpro is definitely more poorly built. Briggs is for folks who travel all the time and will take advantage of the many free repairs.

Unless you travel half the year, Briggs probably isn’t worth the extra cost.

on Planned OB-solescence · c/funny · 1 pts · 53d

A lot of us still have old plans with free upgrades. Some great grandfathered T-Mobile and sprint plans out there.

Can even maximize gains by buying a used low end phone for the trade in and sell the old iPhone on eBay.

on Interesting thought · c/Memes · 2 pts · 53d

Damn and here I was trying to think of what counted as 80s talk and that made perfect sense to me.

Yeah fixing that one problem isn’t an issue. It’s that the fix probably affects some other service. When you’re dealing with a bunch of integrated systems, some of which are over a decade old, bugs aren’t just fixing a few lines of code in your part and calling it good.

I’m sure it can be useful for smaller self contained projects. A lot cheaper and easier to review the AIs changes on those too.

For my projects, finding the cause of a bug is rarely a problem once it’s reported. It’s fixing it in a way that doesn’t negatively impact things upstream or downstream that’s a pain.

How’s AI supposed to help when we’ve got to negotiate with several other stakeholders on what changes we’re going to make?

Yeah aside from the mounts this looked like some generic unreal engine demo using generic assets.They’d be better off just showing the logo until they have some actual content to show.

Kinda par for the course for guild wars PR though. GW2 had some weirdly bad promo videos.