I thought they stopped selling children at Walmart

Just found out Factorio is out on console, so I’ll be addicted to that for the foreseeable future.

I get it from my father. He was one of the smartest people I’ve ever known, but if you asked him anything, you better have a lot of free time cause it is going back to first principles.

I know his reasoning was that he wanted me to learn how to understand and find the answer, not just be given it, and now I’m guilty of the same thing.

I don’t do it at work, or at least I try not to, as they are paying me for the solution not a dissertation, but if friends or family ask for tech support, they are getting the whole explanation while I solve the problem.

I guess another part of it is that like me, he really didn’t have anyone to talk tech to other than his family, and really just enjoyed the time being able to share things he was knowledgeable about.

I hit a wall at trig. Far as I got in math, and I’ve been a programmer for over half my career.

Have always wanted to go back and learn trig and calc, but have never had the chance. Probably at this point would do better just to sit down w a text book and teach myself.

It’s real, and you owe it to yourself to watch it.

I only play on consoles, so its pretty limited. Fallout 4 and Skyrim are the two that came to mind.

I’ve put so many hours into both of these games I really don’t think I’d enjoy another play through on vanilla.

It has taken a long time, but I’ve finally found a set of mods for FO4 that give me the game I want, and far more difficult, don’t conflict and crash the game.

5x damage on all attacks for player and enemies to remove the bullet sponge combat, darker nights / flashlight to create a more horror environment, and Underground Railroad to provide a balance between survival mode and lack of fast travel are the key ones.

I have had a much better time w Skyrim mods than FO4 on the PS4 as far as stability goes.

I only have it on PS4, and yes there are lots of mods in the workshop. There are obviously limitations.

Every few months I try installing various mods to make what I want out of it, darker nights, flashlight mod, weapon and armour changes for a more hard core experience, etc, and end up with 15 or so mods installed.

Start a new hardcore mode, get just about past diamond city, and the game invariably starts crashing.

No idea which one or ones are causing the issue, and in the end I get annoyed and go play something else.

This is all fine and good till it’s a conflict between two specific mods. Damn you FO4 on PS4, why you gotta be like that?

There is a non-zero chance that once they have a chip in your brain, they will find a way to stream ads in to it.

For that reason, I’m out.

Must have a low IQ cause that’s one box I’m not even going to try and open.

Yeah, I went console when I realised I wanted to spend time actually playing the game.

Sure I’m missing out on the absolute highest settings, mods, etc.

However, I spend 55 minutes out of an hour actually playing the game.

Mine has a brief brake assist, about 1.5 seconds it won’t roll backwards on a hill start.

It’s so subtle and I’ve had the car so long, I completely forget about it.

Any time I drive a car without it freak out when I come off the brake and the car starts moving backwards.

I’ve changed jobs, and moved, to get my commute down to 10 min each way.

As much as I can I ride my motorcycle.

There is nothing I can do to actually be rid of a car, and people who think that can change in American society are just fooling themselves.

Sure it would be great to have high speed rail, and a variety of public transit options, none of that is going to change the suburban sprawl.

That was me w baconreader for sure.

Now I have one Lemmy app for when lemmy.world is working, and another for when it isn’t.

Haven’t open baconreader in a while, but haven’t uninstalled it either.

Technology has advanced more in my lifetime than in the prior thousand years, we are very much in the middle of the greatest revolution in tech ever.

The fact people are often so jaded about it amazes me.

The trick for me is having a dedicated home office. I wake up, shower, dress in work clothes, and “go to the office”.

Only things in there are my work desk, and some excercise equipment.

The company is currently hybrid, with a couple days required in office every week. From everything I’ve heard, productivity is up, and there is no talk from management that we’re changing things.

I have 20 years experience, just cracked a project I’ve been working on for almost three years, and I still hesitate to consider myself an expert.

Now, I’ll tell any lay person who will listen that I’m an expert, but man, some days I just feel clueless.

I find the biggest issue I run into is lack of a peer group. I work in a large IS department, but other than one guy at my last company who works with a different language, I have no one to talk shop with.