This goes so far as to totally obscure the meaning of the original saying. It’s not just “The customer is always right.” It’s “The customer is always right in matters of taste.”

I’d say this mostly failed on the direction side. Less budget in VFX and more in action could have made a lot of difference.

I love to hate the video game depicted in the X-Files episode First Person Shooter. It is about some kind of VR game that is so realistic that people die in real life. The single enemy NPC Maitreya is just too good at killing.

When they entered the game it looked just like real life. Except the most enticing gameplay they could think of was standing in front of each other and shooting all guns they had.

It was released in early 2000 so there should have been tons of games with enticing gameplay to pull from. But no, standing somewhere for a long time and shooting big guns is exactly how trained FBI agents would act.

Hollywood can’t possibly live up to the power of your imagination.

I don’t want to be lured into a false sense of anonymity. It’s pretty easy to find a person if they post enough. Plus I’m using my own instance, which makes it trivial to find me.

On top of that it’s a remnant from my Usenet days. In Germany it was expected to use your real name. Actually strange, considering Germany’s hacker culture and strict sense of privacy.

Had a programmer like this when I was still an apprentice. He was so full of himself. Was originally a Java programmer but had to program in PHP because that was what ran on the server. I never found out why he couldn’t just put Java on the server. We had full control.

All his variables were first names. Like $klaus and $grobi. Because he was afraid of clashing with reserved keywords. The thing is, in PHP all variables begin with $ exactly to prevent this issue. So he brought that habit over from Java which was far superior and not such a “Mickey Mouse language”.

I mean, he wasn’t totally wrong, especially back then PHP was awful. But he surrounded every function with <?php and ?> (PHP was designed to be combined with HTML output outside of these tags) and had plenty of whitespace between them and couldn’t fathom why all his html files had huge swaths of whitespace at the start.

His way of preventing SQL injection was to look for SQL keywords in user input and then throwing an error in the log files.

Why 7 days? An answered question is valuable forever.

God, i remember those puzzle games from my Nokia N900. They played much better with a stylus.

I mean, the One will certainly engage with that.

Mine was. And ran better than ever because it didn’t have to handle so many updates anymore. I missed the memes though, because the images weren’t loading.

Ironic.

And it’s taken down most of Lemmy’s “selfhosted” images.

We have the semantic web now! Be better!

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Identifying wood.

I just put my configs and compose files on the same raided hdds as my data files. Add automatic snapshots and the problem is solved for me.

A co-worker’s last name was Goebbels. I offered him to correspond on first-name basis but he politely declined. I never worked closely enough to find out why he would not only keep that name but also prefer it to his first name.

Techdweeb recently recommended the G350 as an all round good starter handheld. He tests a lot of handhelds so I’m inclined to believe him.

In the end it depends on what you want. What’s your budget? What kind of performance do you want? Does it have to be pocketable?

Depending on your answer to these questions a controller for your smartphone or a full blown Steam Deck might be what’s best suited for you.

I’ve made an update script that tries to run the migrations and index updates in one go.

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/php8.3 /cloud/updater/updater.phar --no-interaction --no-backup
/usr/bin/php8.3 /cloud/occ maintenance:repair --include-expensive
/usr/bin/php8.3 /cloud/occ db:add-missing-indices

The updater itself is by far the slowest of the three commands. I think downloading the new version into a different folder and just moving apps and files over would be much quicker. But I haven’t had the time to look at potential errors with that method.

Some packages recommend other packages that are not really dependencies. Do you use apt? I think it has a --without-recommends flag or something similar.