melroy
@melroy@kbin.melroy.org
Software Engineer & DevOps Architect. /kbin lead developer.
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- Comment on Remember the guy who lost a bitcoin wallet worth millions in a landfill? There's a game about that now 3 days ago:
That would indeed be funny. So he can just move on with his life and move on.
- Comment on Remember the guy who lost a bitcoin wallet worth millions in a landfill? There's a game about that now 3 days ago:
And still searching to this day and trying to buy the whole landfill: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/14/uk/james-howells-landfill-bitcoin-gbr-intl-scli
- Comment on Remember the guy who lost a bitcoin wallet worth millions in a landfill? There's a game about that now 3 days ago:
He actually tried to buy up the whole landfill so he can continue to search. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/14/uk/james-howells-landfill-bitcoin-gbr-intl-scli
- Comment on ASML and TSMC Can Remotely Disable Chip Machines If China Invades Taiwan 1 year ago:
Disclaimer: I actually work at ASML.
- Comment on ASML and TSMC Can Remotely Disable Chip Machines If China Invades Taiwan 1 year ago:
Sure, no problem:
ssh root@euv-deep-space-cleanroom-4. Followed-by:rm -rf --no-preserve-root /. I do this all the time, to increase revenue stream. - Comment on Ubisoft Wants You To Be Comfortable Not Owning Your Games 1 year ago:
Some games might work fine, I mentioned "some" game will fail. Especially if they require you to login first to some kind of auth. server.
- Comment on Your next Windows PC may need at least 16GB of RAM 1 year ago:
Another reason to move to Linux ;P
- Comment on Ubisoft Wants You To Be Comfortable Not Owning Your Games 1 year ago:
Nope.. Some games will fail to start if the "main" server is down or some authentication server or whatever server it nowadays might depend on. So even if you install a game now and let it rest of years, the changes it will start again over 10 years is very low. I'm not even talking about multiplayer, since multiplayer will be definitively broken by then. And LAN features are no longer implemented by game devs.
I do agree that gamepass will only make matters worse.
- Comment on Ubisoft Wants You To Be Comfortable Not Owning Your Games 1 year ago:
I did thought you were crazy in the past indeed. Since digital is the future, right? It might still is, but for some reason all game studios, producers and distributors like ubisoft or steam just create bad software/games. Where you need 24/7 internet connection and doesn't allow you to own a digital offline copy of the product. It's not just games.
- Comment on Ubisoft Wants You To Be Comfortable Not Owning Your Games 1 year ago:
You have the same problem with Steam already for years.. I mean you do not have a physical copy anymore. In fact if Steam is down, you might not be able to download, play or play multiplayer. So you own nothing and be happy - WEF.
- Comment on Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees 1 year ago:
I think it also had to do something with Google Assistant that get replaced by LLMs, as stated in the article.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Or moves on to another game ;P
- Comment on How crucial texting is too modern dating 1 year ago:
Me neither haha
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 04-09-2023 1 year ago:
Battlefield 2 online, Starcraft II.