When they killed Apollo. Fuck using that shitty official app.

I would have tolerated ads if it meant Apollo still existing. I know Christian wouldn’t have made them as interrupting as Reddit does and the overall experience was wonderful.

Even at this time, this was an old computer. I remember the sticker on the front said it was built for Windows ME or one of the OSes from that era before Windows XP.

User complained that the computer was running very slow, slower than it realistically should.

I opened it up to clean it since I figured that was a good place to start.

The bottom of the chassis was disgusting. The dust had accumulated so much that it became a mound of dirt. And seated on top of the mound of dirt dust was a dead roach on its back.

Found literal bugs in the computer.

Instead of providing actual features the competitors have had for ages like the ability to talk using the console while playing a game, they add old ass games as a “bonus” since they make it impossible to play these any other way.

Typical Nintendo not even doing the bare minimum.

3D like the Fallout 3 we got as a FPS-like game or 3D like still top down but could rotate the camera, sort of like The Sims or Wasteland 2 or something else entirely?

The problem is when it is weaponized by corporations to bypass competition or by activists who are upset for one reason and get everyone to rally for an untrue reason.

Example: McDonalds has an employee write about their horrible experience working for Burger King which is a complete fabrication to get people to hate their competitor.

Example 2: supporters for Presidential candidate John Smith don’t like that Target has been donating to Smith‘s rival political party. Smith supporters fabricate untrue stories about Target’s working conditions to get people to boycott the store and hurt profits. This would lead to less money being available for donations from the store.

In all honesty, I do think Name and Shame is perfectly reasonable and should be done. But I still want to highlight some ways that it can be abused. I don’t think Reddit should use this as an excuse to forbid the practice but Reddit should do due diligence in proving the story is right like verifying an employee’s employment at the company they are shaming, for example.

You should still be able to bypass the email requirement when creating a Reddit account, right? The only useful purpose I see behind it for the user is if you forget your password.

Xbox 360. Best controller only slightly beat by the Xbox One/Xbox Series X because of USB type C but I miss that ergonomic feel of the 360 design and the Xbox metallic button with that light that told you which player you were.

Most of my favorite games are on that system or their first entries started there (Gears of War, Crackdown, etc.) and I had some good memories from that time in 2006-2009.

Also miss that classic Blades dashboard. Wish I could go back to some late night gaming with that UI and Halo 3/Call of Duty 4/Rainbow Six multiplayer or single player on Fable II and F.E.A.R.

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And the theme song wouldn’t change.

it’s for the children!

They said as they erode more freedom/privacy for the general population.

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500

Promise you won’t rob me? Pinky swear?

You could do Plex or Jellyfin like others suggest here. I’ve been using Plex for many years now and experimenting with Jellyfin.

But this can be something some people may not like because it can require time to create and manage and money to spend on new equipment. It can be a rabbit-hole after some time and some people may not want to spend so much time or energy or money doing this. It’s not a ton, but it can be a bit much after some time if you get too invested.

They really are best if you want the streaming-like experience, though.

If you’re okay with just streaming files, you can use one of these methods:

• connect a HDMI cable from your computer to the TV and get a wireless keyboard/mouse. This will effectively set your TV as a monitor for your computer but everything is accessible quickly and easily right off the bat with nothing in between. I’d recommend installing VLC player for this as it is widely compatible with many file formats.

• on your Roku/other smart TV device, you can download an SMB app that will search for files on your home network and then make them available to you through this app. It’s not very clean, not like how streaming services or Plex/Jellyfin do it, but it’s easy and gets the basic job done. On my Apple TV, I have a VLC app that does this and I can view raw files and select them to stream directly from my computer to my Apple TV with no extra setup. Other downside is that most of these apps don’t remember your playback or last video you played, which can suck if watching something like a Lord of the Rings marathon or binging a show and leaving and coming back. But it works! You may need to share the files/folder, which is as simple as right-clicking the folder where your videos are and then selecting Share and then sharing with your local network in most cases.

Consider counting that on your tax deductions for the year since it’s a donation. This is all really nice of you and hopefully helps make their lives a little better.

It’s a nice gesture, but this is exactly why a lot of people don’t like giving away free stuff. It’s why IT departments are hesitant to give away equipment they are throwing out because some users will come back and expect free tech support. Not saying you’re against doing anything like that, but just that asshole companies like Microsoft make this so damn difficult nowadays that doing as others suggested here to create a new Microsoft account for this is going to get you calls inevitably in the future when they forget the password or run into other issues. And if not, it’ll likely end with them not using it because of the hassle or throwing it out.

I hate to sound negative because it’s an awesome gesture on your part to do and I’m sure in a perfect world, it would be wonderful for some of the residents to get to use something like that.

But since it’s not like the old days of having a CD you pop in but a digital app connected to an online account, you’ll need to do somethings that may cause confusion. It sounds like you’d have to do as others suggest and create a new Microsoft account and have a license for that game on there. Or get a GamePass subscription on that account that would allow access to Flight Simulator and more, but that would mean a perpetual donation for them to use it too.

Someone may come along and suggest a pirated copy of Flight Simulator, but I would strongly advise against that because it can put the home at legal risk if discovered and can cause other issues like if it gets patched in the future.

It’s a play on the rap group “Run DMC” and instead “Run CMD” which is running Command Prompt on Windows which shows the C:\ while it waits for you to enter your command.

I got one I really liked a few months ago from Microcenter that says

Run CMD

C:\

If you got rid of timezones, you’d still end up creating it in all but name since the vast majority of business will be occurring during daytime hours around the world. For example, an office in Tokyo sending emails to their NYC office at 0800 UTC (currently 0400 EDT in NYC) wouldn’t end up getting answered for at least 3-4 hours when those employees started logging in. In other words, people would still be doing calculations in their heads to know when business hours are in that region, essentially recreating timezones.

Not necessarily. In Teams, it shows the user’s specific hours they work as well as the time difference (this person is 2 hours behind you). All it would need is to remove the time difference and just display the time they work.

A person in Japan would just put in their signature or it would be in the application that they work from 0400 to 1200 while you still work 0800 to 1600 and you’d have your answer.

This is Grubhub and all those other apps when I get a craving at home and don’t want to drive or can’t drive because I’m not sober. I browse through and see some stuff that looks decent and get all the way to the end to find out that my $10 worth of food is now going to be $25 plus tip to be delivered to me. So I just close the app and then get one of those stupid notifications “hey you still have stuff in your cart! Come back and finish your order”.

No, fuck you.

I imagine they’d have some customers who would flip over that even that it’s the same size portion they wanted to order.

“You ordered the small, but we don’t have small containers.”

“Yeah but it’s not full!!”

Damn, I was feeling a little pre-nostalgic for that era.