Trainguyrom

My local arcade has a pair of Crazy Taxi machines and that's always where I put my quarters

Just throwing out a fun game from my childhood, Lego Racers 2. I'll have to read through later for ideas because I'm in a similar boat in having never really been in console circles and never owned a PS2

Both of my cats came from my in-laws farm and it's been funny with the older of the two as she needed to learn from another cat how being friendly gets you pets and scritches, meanwhile the younger one who basically came inside as soon as she was on hard food hasn't had that difficulty

Have you heard the theory that he kinda lost it being alone during the pandemic and fell down the Nazi pipeline on social media?

Also EV options around then were much less. If you just wanted an EV sadan with 250+ miles of range you largely were stuck with a Tesla. And at times they were the cheapest option too.

I feel like the biggest mistake was moving most of the stores from smaller more manageable spaces in malls to their gigantic department store sized spaces. For brick and mortar smaller retail spaces seems to be the winning strategy these days, especially since it can be supplemented with an online ordering & send to store system for items not kept in stock at the store.

The sad part is Indiana is such a nice state. That was one state I've visited that I did not expect to like so much

That's just the spam that gets through! On my ancient ISP-provided email it's primarily distributed via compromised accounts from the same provider. And what I see targeting the corporate world tends to come from newly setup email servers or newly setup accounts on paid email providers

Well that sounds like a right pickle. Generally whatever entity is in charge of providing parking would be the one to bother to find a solution. If that's the business, reach out to a manager or other decision maker, if that's the municipality they of course can be reached and usually love a low cost high impact change they can make at the request of a citizen. If that's a shopping center thats probably still a manageable process to notify them of the demand. All of the above are financially incentivized to provide adequate customer parking, and customers leaving bikes in the walkway would indicate a strong customer demand for more bike parking

Can't wait to see in 5 years while all of the LLM nonsense quietly gets shuffled further and further to the back until it's gone like Cortana or Paint3D

Meanwhile has anyone noticed Microsoft has unhidden some genuinely useful older menus like Control Panel? Earlier in the windows 10 lifespan you couldn't search for control panel and had to instead use constantly changing shortcuts and tooltips to gain access to it, but now you can just search for Control Panel and pull it right up. I'm not thrilled that I have to dig for the network adapter properties still but I'll take the improvements I get

I think macs are more comparable when you compare OEM PC to OEM PC. I've specced out a few optiplexes for clients and all have been over a grand each. I wouldnt spend that much on my own computer but I know how to pick a good used computer or build my own if I so desire. The clients just want a computer they can forget about for a decade and yell at Dell when it breaks so Optiplex it is.

How much does a Mac Mini cost? $800 for a variant with 512GB of storage. Literally cheaper than a similar Dell Opitplex

I've noticed it definitely varies depending on how you access it. The web version is flawless as long as the software has the resources it needs to run (my server is slightly very over-provisioned and gets crazy IO delay pretty frequently from running too much on too little).

The official Android and IOS apps are pretty good but do glitch and hitch from time to time, but apps on other platforms are less perfect. Also the third party Streamyfin and Swiftfin apps both seem to work a bit better than the official one but have their own quirks to be aware of.

The Roku app only just got consistently usable around 3-6 months ago, and still prefers to crash without displaying an error when fed media it can't direct play, and for some reason some user profiles just don't work on it. I don't have anything else to try other apps on but that's my experience so far

I haven't really used Plex so I don't know how clean of an experience it provides, but Jellyfin is very usable and honestly at this point most of the problems I have are specific to my media or my setup and not so much problems with the software itself