This is my mantra. Maintainability is king. I can’t convince anyone designing our systems that this is more important than fancy 3rd party libraries that add some capability that only a couple of people will ever understand how to use, but will find it’s way throughout the codebase and be a thorn in the side of bug fixes and new features for years.

Seems like people don’t know their Sting like they used to.

I was going to just ask, “Why?!” but I think you summed it up pretty well.

Unless my math is wrong, early September is only roughly 8 months from New Year’s, not 9.

I was thinking more like an Ivy League graduate from a Lawyering the Dark Arts School of Deceptive Loopholes and Twisting, but I see your point.

Edit: added a word

Depends on the hardware, but generally, yeah.

(It’s a joke)

Thanks for the detailed explanation!

I’d be interested to see what people have to say regarding VR setup, but the Oculus gets little use anymore. I have a few games that were never ported to the newer, self-contained systems (I have a Quest 3), and we’ve downloaded a bunch of custom Beat Saber levels that I might feel bad about, but the sensors are a big enough pain to set up that I don’t know that I’d feel that bad.

Truth. Full system would be easier.

I’m pretty sure anything of value is already backed up to my NAS. I’m just paranoid that my kids might freak out that I destroyed their state fair winning Scratch project or something.

I have an old (2017) Windows 10 box that is ineligible for Windows 11. Originally purchased to run my Oculus Rift, it now just streams YouTube and Twitch and plays some old Steam games and occasionally school related stuff (Lexia, Scratch, stuff like that).

I started thinking that, rather than worrying about an unsupported Windows OS on my network, I might upgrade to Mint or Ubuntu.

So, my question(s) is/are, how much of a hassle will such an upgrade be? Will I need to wipe the drive, or can I keep my files without having to back them up first? Can I run Windows games on Steam with Wine? Are there good 3D card drivers nowadays?

I’m reasonably versed in using Linux as a user, less so as an admin, in case that affects the way you answer.

“I will accept no contrary advice from my councilors, nor advisors, nor my people!” said no non-megalomaniac ever.

Wow. It’s been a long time since I’ve heard that one.

But totally not stranded… -NASA, probably

With fees that high, what was your typical profit margin per sale? How were you able to source product at such a high discount?

I’m not entirely familiar with how contempt of court works. Wouldn’t this be grounds for the bench to issue contempt charges?

I love the skull subtly lurking in the sand.

It was Oliver.

I’m not familiar with this. Can you give a “for example?”

And this time IDF didn’t shoot them!