teawrecks

Convenience fee.

I haven't finished it yet, but AW2 is a dramatic step up in the entire experience. They still "pay homage" to the original combat, but there aren't nearly as many enemies. If you're familiar with the Control story and like that universe, I'd say it's a must play.

That's wild. The combat in the first one felt mind numbing to me. Just constant padding with the same flashlight/gun combo over and over and over.

I have to assume they did the math and concluded an epic exclusive was still the more lucrative option.

Does it need to be connected to the internet? At that age, I think you could get away with installing stuff locally that they could play with.

IMO you should create guard rails that you intend her to eventually understand and circumvent. Nothing is more empowering for a kid interested in tech than thinking they figured out how to get around the guard rails. Just make sure you can detect when it has happened.

Do something locally on the machine to block internet access. Maybe something as simple as turning off the network adapter. One day she'll either learn enough about the system to remove the guard rails, or she'll find other interests.

Microsoft "fingerprints" your machine when you activate windows on it. You can completely replace the hard drive and reinstall windows from scratch, and they'll figure out your activation on their end.

Interesting. Do you know where it gets "sway"? Or is it just assuming Wayland implies sway, because at the time it kinda did?

I actually did switch to fastfetch yesterday, but is it not just reading a string somewhere? Why would a new WM/DE break a glorified println?

Cool, will do. It's weird to me that open boards need to pull the swype binary. Is it really that hard to replicate?

And he was that close to mistyping "start sex" and getting "startx".

Unfortunately (and incredibly) Gboard is the only keyboard that fits all my needs. I'm on graphene so I feel ok about just blocking its network access. This means voice transcription doesn't work, but otherwise I get swipe, predictions, and other languages.

I wouldn't say that past generations wanted to be marketed to, it's just that before the internet, marketing was the closest a customer could get to being spoken to by a brand.

And at some point in the history of marketing, I think companies used to see it that way too, marketing was a means of communicating with potential customers what your product offered. But as capitalism progressed, and media outlets expanded (print, radio, film, TV, etc.), honesty was optimized out in favor of "bamboozleism".

It's now easier than ever for a brand to have a direct, two-way conversation with their customers at any time, but marketers are still stuck in that 20th century mindset of "we just say whatever we want, and you just accept it". The internet is in the process of popping that bubble.