haha.
now I'm sad.

Advanced Alzheimers and prolonged fasting.

So Gene Hackman died of Alzheimer’s disease—the already damaged heart failed because he forgot to eat, or how to eat.

This happened to my mother, she just couldn't remember how to swallow. After a week or so she was sent to the hospital where she was hydrated, but it was too late. She slipped into a coma a couple of days later and died a week later.

This runs in my family from my mother’s side—all but one of her siblings and her mother all died from AD complications. My sister has it, and I have…concerns. Wait. What was I talking about?

Oblivious? Oblivionous?

I successfully finished the game back in the day, and now recall that each section had its own CD that you had to load as you travelled around. Would be interesting to see an update having better graphics/experiences without the loading dance.

The architectural style is still fantastic. Would love to have a home designed by these developers.

Bodolza wrote on Feb 5, 2024, 15:22:
With a hardwired cable and a proprietary connector -- adding multiple unrepairable points of failure. Just another example of pointless Apple hardware lock-in.

the connection from the battery to the headset is detachable and replaceable, but it is proprietary on both ends. likely to prevent accidental un-plugs as they lock into place.

however the connection to the power outlet is standard USB-C.

yeah, either he got better than expected use (video playback isn't as taxing as general use?) or he exaggerated his time. was pretty enthusiastic about exceeding the expected use though. I'll push him for details—or make him do it again. for science.

RedEye9 wrote on Feb 5, 2024, 12:44:
AVP still has no Spotify, Youtube or Netflix app.

Those aren't available as native apps, no. I asked him: apps on your laptop’s browser can moved to AVP — just without the immersive environments. I read that there's a 3rd-party YouTube player as that's available for AVP.

I have a friend that has an AVP and he got about four hours of movie playback. The battery has a USB-C port so you can use and charge at the same time — so if you're not roaming about the room you can use it indefinitely.

I live on the east coast and work on the west. At home, I have AT&T fibre, with 1Gbit symmetric speeds, but on the west coast (in Silicon Valley, no less) I can only get Comcast—-which offers 1Gb down, but (and I can't stress this point enough) only 30mbit up.

30mbit. Up.

It's painful to use video conferencing software at my apartment there, and when I have to present my screen I'm plagued with stuttering and dropped connections. And file transfers to work servers are impossible, requiring me to drive in to work (defeating the WFH perk we have).

Gimme that damn Google fibre closer to Google's home town. What's the hold-up?

A mind forever voyaging?

Ozmodan wrote on Jul 19, 2022, 12:55:
My daughter has the game, very poorly written. I would not recommend it. Stutters even on her new iPhone.

It's only PC, PS4, and PS5 -- what's on the App Store appears to be a rip off of the story.

I was thinking of the pirate. It's all blending together at this point…

I'm guessing, though, that this reimagining will have little to do with the original. Original Adventure and 350 point Adventure didn't have dragons roaming around. :/ right? Giant mirrors with shadowy figures and the occasional thief, maybe…

Also: there was the opportunity to jump off cliffs and ledges -- and the game would ask if you're sure about this…if so, you'd get a reply like "never seen a red pancake before." Once, however, a multi-page description about the futility of asking such questions (and more) was the result and I only briefly saw the text as it scrolled by--the computer system we were playing on didn't have a page-up feature. Once off screen, forever gone.

My friend never forgave me for not having the print feature active. sigh.

Y2?

Photoshop has alpha per layer, per layered stack group, per folder of layers (containing all or none of the above), as well as per file. Each is a click away.

"Why no couch co-op"

Maybe there's a push from MS to use their online service as they're likely to get more money that way?

they'll just keep re-releasing GTA 5.

I've been playing Diablo for a short bit, completed the first act and got to level 15. I applied the patch on my PS5—aaaaand my character was reset to lvl 1, all of my progress was lost, and my stuff was gone. But, all of the Binding for my learned skills were still still present.

So, anyone want a lvl 1 Necromancer? Cheap!

Playing Tetris with loot was never my idea of a good time. Calling that "vision" giving it too much credit—it was *very* likely a memory management system to prevent hoarders from blowing system memory.

Can I buy those charts as NFT?