spacedogroy

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[–] spacedogroy 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bins? You guys don't know how lucky you have it!

  • One blue bag (plastics).
  • One white bag (paper).
  • One orange bag (cardboard)
  • Blue bags x2 (general waste)
  • One brown bin (food waste)

And as a bonus we get to see everyone's manky rubbish scattered across the street on a windy, rainy day - what joy!

Welcome to Bridgend, Wales. ;-)

[–] spacedogroy 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would be extremely surprised if at least one upgraded model of the Xbox doesn't ship with a disc drive. It would completely alienate a section of their user-base that want a more powerful box and care about owning physical media. They also made this mistake before with the Xbox One - which Spencer himself has mentioned as a key reason why there's such a gap in sales volume between XBS/X and PS5 - so to make the same mistake again would be doubly confusing.

Edit: just seen this story corroborated by multiple outlets, so this may well be the real deal. And if so, super disappointing and fucking duuuumb. As the Xbox Series X OG console becomes more and more the outlier, what are the chances that publishers will just stop producing discs for retail completely? So basically, really piss off your early adopters. I own a Series S at the moment, but I'm more likely to just switch to PS5 Pro model when it comes round instead of stick with the Xbox Series consoles.

[–] spacedogroy 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This is the most senseless thing about the RTO movement to me. We have a tiny country and, in software at least, jobs are centralised in a few major cities. There was an opportunity for people from all over to live wherever they choose and spend in their local areas, spread the wealth throughout the country.

But nah, let's go back to the office, the congested and overburdened roads, the noise and air pollution, the hours lost travelling. It's hugely disappointing.

[–] spacedogroy 24 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Curious to know what they intend to do with the Bully XLs currently owned legally.

[–] spacedogroy 5 points 1 year ago

Seems like there is broad support for this, though I find it personally annoying as my car really wants to be above 20 in 3rd gear.

[–] spacedogroy 29 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This is a brain dead decision and nothing short of a complete 180 will perhaps save them, but even then the reputational damage is severe.

[–] spacedogroy 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would have loved to see this for my 4A but glad they're looking to extend the support window moving forward. Many phones now are powerful enough to go years past their obsolescence date and chucking them away is just e-waste.

[–] spacedogroy 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

If you wanted to do both front and backend development TypeScript + JS/Node would make the most sense, no? I say this as someone who works with and enjoys working with Go almost every day, but there's only so much time to learn new stuff.

[–] spacedogroy 2 points 1 year ago

Not surprised. The NHS is abysmal in Wales, to the point where you really need private care if you want to be seen within a decent amount of time. Such a shame.

[–] spacedogroy 5 points 1 year ago

It is silly. The CMA has tunnel vision around this, and because the streaming issue was essentially the main point of contention this change in the deal puts them in a position where they'd look like hypocrites not to let it through. Microsoft just capitalizing on their ignorance (rightly so).

[–] spacedogroy 1 points 1 year ago

I do hate the way enums are in Go. It's just barely better than using a string or int in most cases.

[–] spacedogroy 27 points 1 year ago

It's a great base for general desktop use as well as server. Been using it on my PC for years now, and aside from a few 3rd party repositories it has everything I need. It just works and continues to work.

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