Icarus

@Icarus@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should you bother with... mini PCs?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Very nice! I don’t find this a one up but I love the ingenuity. I managed to salvage this NUC from work because we shut down a zoom room from a agency we acquired at work and then disposed all the unneeded /uniform hardware. Before that point, I was looking at doing something quite similar to you.

  I also had to use get an hdmi dummy plug. That was an annoying stumbling block. Just, why??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should you bother with... mini PCs?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an i7 NUC that I use as my jellyfin server cause it has hardware transcoding. It absolutely rips and takes up less electricity at full bore than my gaming desktop at idle. I agree that there’s a place for mini computers, but it’s probably not serious gaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: Final Fantasy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  FF VII and FF VIII where the first two games I played in the series, but i was very young and didn’t really know what I was doing. I think we had rented one game, and borrowed another. I really don’t remember much about either game, but FF IX came out on ps1, and to this day it’s my image of what FF means.

  The unique worlds, characters, incredible (at the time and not bad for today) cutscene cinematic. It was the first game I discovered you can outpace yourself and wind up in a battle with a level 60 dragon when you’re only level 13.

  My brother really got into FF X and i remember watching him play. To this day, I hate Blitzball lol. We both sucked at it.

  FF VII-2 for the psp was actually really cool. I don’t remember much anymore but the story, gameplay, and music were all great. I would like to try replaying it!

  I played a little of XIII and quite a few hours of XV. The games have really changed. Especially XV, some things have improved for the better but there’s a lot of tropes and unfortunate stereotypes that could have been…removed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which unplayed game in your library are you most looking forward to playing eventually?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel this. In some ways it was a relief discovering that I didn’t need to keep up with gaming anymore. I would just play what I want want to play, when. But unfortunately I’ve missed (or even forgotten) about a lot of games I really wanted to play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell XPS13 RAM Upgrade (7390) - Greg Davill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When we were purchasing new dell laptops for work a 2 years ago, the change to lpddr was an oversight and we bought models with 8gb of ram. Since these are effectively not upgradeable for us, they’re going to age out sooner than they should. We were not very happy…

  Luckily we caught this fairly quickly at least, and it only represents a few percent of our total inventory. I hate this anti consumer design.