Yep. And since I carry 3 laptops in my backpack (2 for work and one personal), it’s a problem.

Though I will say the fact that all 3 can be powered by Type-C cables has been since huge life improvement since i don’t need to carry around 3 different charging bricks.

Getting it to display on a screen is gonna cost enough to kill any value proposition.

How many people in 2025 are still going to be using a display with vintage inputs?

Can they fix the “randomly turn itself back on and drain the battery while in its bag so that it’s always dead when you actually need to use it on the go” problem?

Because that’s been a problem for like 20 years at this point and means I have to treat my laptops as if they don’t actually have batteries because it’s schrodinger’s power any time I pull one out to work.

I was at a conference this week, and half the attendees were huddled in the cafeteria the whole time because there were some tables on one wall with outlets.

Lazlow, Dan Houser, and the rest of the old creative team at Rockstar are no longer with the company.

GTA6 is gonna sell like mad regardless, but unlike the last several Rockstar blockbusters I’m waiting to see if it’s good before giving them any money.

The government that needs its shit sorted most isn’t US allies

The city is buying me like 15 grand in new software licenses this year, but I can’t convince them to spend another 2 grand on a new fucking computer because mine is “supposed” to be good for 2 more years.

My work laptop was upgraded to Windows 11 and performance has severely suffered.

As someone who usually uses 3 monitors (sometimes 4) and does GIS, it’s an issue.

Seems like as good a place as any to say I did a photoshoot of an underwater poker game a few years back for the Underwater Photography class I teach at a local university.

All the really good shots had students in them, so I can’t share. I’ll check the PC later to see if I have any decent shots without people.

I actually also have a Razr+. My employer pays me a stipend to have a second phone so thay when I eventually leave I don’t have a bunch of contractors calling my personal number.

I just realized my Z-fold with controller case could make a truly excellent DS emulator.

Anyone know if there’s an emulator out there that supports folding phones in landscape mode as a DS, similar to the way YouTube will split the video and the controls when partway folded in landscape more?

And that last bit is wild because the one that doesn’t require Windows for PC gamers is the one owned by Microsoft.

We’re never happy.

Gaming on Linux is like gaming on Windows 20 years ago when you spent more time just trying to get the fucking game to run than actually playing the game.

I got an error trying to launch a BF2 expansion that told me to contact the nearest rendering developer.

It’ll be handy to have a tool that makes things up that they can use an an excuse to arrest you.

Not software development. Municipal development.

I work in the planning/building department. We review and permit developments.

The developers aren’t my staff, they’re applicants who want to build something and we have to review it for drainage, engineering, building code, lighting, environmental impact, septic/sewer, etc.

Not software development. Municipal development.

I work in the planning/ building department. We review and permit developments.

The developers aren’t my staff, they’re applicants who want to build something and we have to review it for drainage, engineering, building code, lighting, environmental impact, septic/sewer, etc.

Covid convinced me we’re done.

We couldn’t even get people to wear a fucking mask to protect themselves from a disease they saw killing their neighbors. Shit - we can’t get them to allow other people to wear a mask.

In my case, I work for a municipality and I legitimately do need to be in the office to meet with citizens, attend public hearings, etc. abut I think they could come up with a schedule where I work remote on Mondays and Fridays or something. It would also make those days “no meeting days” so I could catch up on my actual job.

We get raked over the coals for how long development review takes, but then every developer wants to meet with us for an hour every week, so instead of reviewing plans we’re attending meetings 25 hours a week where they’re bitching at us for how long it takes us to review their plans.

God I’d love it if my commute were only an hour.

It’s 90-minutes each way if traffic cooperates. I put about 30k miles on my car in a given year.

My back was injured so they let me work from home yesterday, and other than the pain it was magical. I also got SOOO much done.

We don’t have any F-350s in my household…

We have 2 F-150s, a Nissan NV200 Cargo van, an RV built off an E-450, and a Ford C-Max plug in hybrid.