Afaik no, you’ll still get flagged from NPCs but I’m also not going to go test it :)

Yeah pvp has, effectively, been completely disabled. The ONLY way it flags is if you manually enable it - even the quests that would auto-flag you won’t.

Enjoying this quite a lot, even more than the “unofficial” way of doing it on Classic servers with an addon.

It feels like, for the first time in a VERY long time, an actual game with slightly more to it than getting a purp that’s +2 iLevel from your last purp, so you can grind another one that’s +2 iLevel from that one.

He looks like he’s either going to tell the cops they’re so fired, or he’s shit himself.

Alternate option: see if the performance of the various cloud gaming providers meets the mom approval factor. She’s not playing anything the extra latency is really an issue with, and you can then avoid the hot, noisy, expensive gaming laptop category entirely and just get almost ANY laptop your mom likes, instead.

The IBM name, build quality, warranty and whole nobody-got-fired-buying-IBM helped, but don’t undersell 80 column text mode: if you wanted to do Real Business Stuff, 40 column just didn’t cut it, which wrote off a LOT of the cheaper competition. CP/M machines could be 80 column, but they also weren’t required to as there was no default terminal expectation. You’d end up with close-but-not-quites pretty often, even on the upper-end of the price scale.

And yes, the Apple II had 80 column mode, but again, it wasn’t exactly the cheaper option.

IBM entered the market at exactly the right time, with the right machine, with the right features, at a price that wasn’t incredibly outside of reality and sold an awful lot of them.

Wait wait, Oracle took someone’s stuff and did a lazy half-assed job of slapping Larry’s name on it and then shipped it as a product they then sell seven-figure support contracts on?

Well, I do declare.

Read the bill and while not a lawyer, it’s pretty clearly targeted at big corporations; two specific bits which likely make it non-applicable:

• (a) applies in respect of a digital news intermediary if, having regard to specific factors, there is a significant bargaining power imbalance between its operator and news businesses

• (d) requires the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (the “Commission”) to maintain a list of digital news intermediaries in respect of which the enactment applies;

Lemmy instances don’t have a bargaining power imbalance (or, really, ANY power to bargain at all), and the CRTC would have to list you as a ‘news intermediary’ for it to apply.

This is a fight between IBM and Oracle. There’s been a lot of bad blood between them since Oracle did a s/Red Hat/Oracle/r for their own branded distribution.

IMO that’s the main driver behind this change: don’t feed your largest competitor free stuff and not something specific against Rocky/Alma/whoever else is using the code.

Nah. If you enjoy it, and your kids like spending time with you gaming, then who cares?

Life is too short and kids grow up too fast to care what some grumpy old people who wouldn’t know fun if it hit them in the head will say about what you enjoy.

Funny, when Google started building fiber, ISPs threw a fit and tried to make it illegal in a lot of places for big tech to build broadband networks.

So uh, which is it guys?

Blue lives matter, unless they’re inconvenient, making me follow the law, or I can score some cheap points ranting about how terrible they are.

Personally, the word I’d use for it is ‘boring’.

Loved ME and did a playthrough with the Legendary re-release, but when I hit Andromeda, I got to the planet and went ‘You know, I don’t care about ANY of these people, what we’re doing, and I’m not going to drive around for 30 more hours of this’ and just kinda… stopped playing.

It’s a valid point, and it’s really silly that something like a M2-based iPad can’t be used to write software it can run.

There’s no excuse given that it’s fast, you can add a keyboard and even a monitor to it, but you just… can’t use it that way because Apple said no.

I know it’s to make Apple sell more hardware, and maintain control of the ecosystem to extract their 30% rent, but I mean, you could still do that and have a full IDE on the platform.

A lot of the issue is there’s not really as much old hardware out there as you might think.

Nobody kept their old computers safe once they upgraded, they got sold cheap or trashed or whatever. There was never really a time when old computer hardware had a lot of retained value over maybe a year or two from its release because stuff moved so fast that things got obsoleted rapidly and the value hit essentially zero within a reasonably short time.

And a LOT of what’s out there doesn’t work because, well, working for 20 or 30 or 40 years was never part of any design decision for any computer - if you got 5 years out of it was a good run.

Worse, there are entire generations of hardware that flat-out fail - the capacitor plague, for example.

Basically, nobody 35 years ago thought there would be a time with an IBM 5150 would be valuable, so very few people bothered to keep them when they upgraded.

It’s absolutely overpriced on eBay.

I’ve had amazing luck with Facebook marketplace and Craigslist, though not just waiting for listings. I make posts saying I’m buying old computers, and kinda generally sketch out what I’m looking for - nothing specific but things like ‘Need PC from late 90s for project’ or something.

You will, eventually, get a couple of nibbles here and there and sometimes land a legitimate deal but it does require a lot of time and patience that it didn’t require a few years ago when you could just literally go get all the retro computer e-waste you could stuff in your car for $0.