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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • 30 games for 822 hours. Not sure how I managed that as a working adult with a family who also spent more than a month abroad without my Switch. And apparently didn’t play on Switch in January or February. (Probably something on Steam Deck got my attention but I don’t remember.)

    Top game is Xenoblade X at 143 hours. My favourite Wii U game so not surprising. It would be a lot more hours too if I hadn’t played it before on Wii U. In the full 9 year range it’s only rank 8.

    FWIW I’m not in the NA region and the link worked for me too.




  • You could also just only use Macs. In theory ARM Macs let you build and test for macOS (host or vm), Linux (containers or vm), Windows (vm), iOS (simulator or connected device), and Android (multiple options), both ARM and x86-64.

    At least in theory. I think in practice I’d go mad. Not from the Linux part though. That part just works because podman on ARM Macs will transparently use emulation for x86 containers by default. (You can get the same thing on Linux too with qemu-user-static btw., for a lot more architectures too.)


  • Damn you’re running a whole production pipeline and it only takes two minutes? That’s pretty good. I’ve worked with projects that take tens of minutes, if not hours, just to compile.

    At work we have CI runs that take almost a week. On fairly powerful systems too. Multiple decades of a “no change without a test case” policy in a large project combined with instrumented debug builds…

    Tbf we don’t run those on every single change though. The per change ones take a couple hours only.










  • Just wondering why you’re singling them out like that. Especially if you want to avoid anyone that has anything to do with them. If we’re talking acquisitions from IBM, the largest owner of patents originally owned by IBM is Google (they bought around 2.5k). Companies that had significant dealings with IBM include Microsoft, which would probably not exist in its current form without the original contract from IBM to develop DOS. (Linux would also be quite different if the influence from RedHat, owned by IBM, was removed.) And pretty much every PC manufacturer who’s been in the business for long enough would have licensed IBM technologies at some point or at least copied them. Even though they failed to make money from licensing the original PC design or later inventions like USB memory sticks, IBM created a lot of computing basics such as DRAM.

    Avoiding Lenovo kind of sounds like a random easy way out. They have much less influence. I’m not consciously avoiding them and still have nothing from them. They’re not difficult to avoid at all.