I like the DND feature that mutes everything but rings for repeated calls within a certain time frame - that way if it’s something important enough, I can get notified the second time around, otherwise I can toss my phone somewhere and not be bothered until I decide to look at it again.

If you had to yell for everyone else to hear you, you were pretty well off.

Good point. Same thing with music for example.

I’m happy that I have only contributed very, very little to that - years ago (maybe 10+) I bought a year’s subscription for their cloud drive - which at the time was I think very good value, because it allowed unlimited photos (including raw files). Needless to say they axed that plan shortly after. Other than that I don’t think I’ve ever bought a physical item from there and I hope this stays that way.

What if you want to have a non-cheeky wank?

The legacy lives on - nowadays I have to rewind my FLAC tracks.

You should be able to replicate at least some of that locally. If you can’t work with GitHub down for a couple of hours, then it’s a poorly set up project.

This kid is going places.

Sounds terrible, but at least you’re speaking in past tense now…

Good luck with either of those…

Speaking of working retail gets me thinking that some folks should get paid damages for having to listen through stuff they might not like.

How is “cubicle boombox” even a thing?

I’m not wasting energy hating something that doesn’t deserve my attention.

Moved over to foobar2000 some years ago. Can’t beat Facets in terms of how you can bend the views of your library.

^ this fella’s murder game

No, I meant games where you can drive, but can use the mouse at the same time for other things like shooting - as opposed to games where you just drive and can have both hands on the keyboard (and in that case I’d personally prefer the arrows over WASD).

Steering with a mouse is obviously terrible and I’d prefer any other method over that. Aiming and shooting with a controller is not ideal and I’d prefer mouse for that - but I’m still interested in trying a controller for third person action games where there might be some shooting, but not as a major part of the game.

I’m the type of guy who expects driving to be done with the arrow keys (at least for a game that’s not a full blown driving simulator or driving centric), but that would imply the game not requiring you to use the mouse at the same time. But then, depending on the game, replacing a mouse with a controller could be a downgrade in a certain regard.

In the end I’m just curious. I’ll try, if it doesn’t work for me, I’ll sell it, and that’s it.

Edit: I didn’t imply steering with the mouse - that’s terrible. See my other comment further down.

Haven’t used a controller on a PC, but would be interested in trying this one if it’s not ridiculously expensive. I’m predicting a hundred-ish EUR, and if it’s around that, I’d give it a go.

Imagine someone going like “Yeah, cool”, then scrolling past you - but IRL.

It’s quite a feat of engineering to have something run this long - and without having physical access to it.