As someone who didn’t see their parents throughout the school year: Kinda sucked.

I know a hardware guy that lives on a farm and uses raspberry pi for his garden hoses.

Why not? I feel like lemmy is overall a less restrictive environment.

I know someone who routinely preorders games and constantly gets disappointed and never fails to preorder again.

Triple A games most of the time. You can probably guess which franchises.

Can you expand on why? I’m not very well versed on Android OS or their firmware.

This is the classic mass effect dialogue option meme where you pick a mellow option and then the MC lashes out.

A: “No.” B: “that’s a great idea”

You pick a. Then: “Why would you ever suggest that idea, that’s horrible, I want you out of my group!”

I don’t know a single ui person or artist that gives a single f about open source.

I think as a dev you naturally grow to respect the open source space because of how much you take from it.

I would love to be proven wrong though

Won’t ever be because we’re in the stage where everything is marketed as much as possible.it would take a massive cultural and political shift to change that.

I think you’re confusing virus and malware. Windows is malware by definition. I think according to gnu philosophy any proprietary software is malware because features are designed to make profits and not to service the end user.

Not everyone is a gamer.

This is the way to go. What’s crazy is your productivity and efficiency is probably the same or better since you can have a softer reset with the weekend.

I dread the day my manager calls me in to talk about the flex time Friday

That is one thing they got right I guess.

I think some custom game engines have creative solutions for handling instant saving and loading. For example System Shock has save and load without any delay. But it is a fairily simplistic game at the same time.

The only reason is hardware limitation. I imagine it’s more difficult to load at any point in the game in a massive game due to how much is stored in your memory.

Let’s say you’re playing a game and there’s 6 NPCs outside and they’re doing their own thing.

If the game has a traditional save system, when you exit the save location it’s normal for these entities to rest let their position. Maybe at best their properties (maybe they were wet because of rain) are saved.

But it’s much easier to just not save any of this info and reload everything from scratch and only save your progress and location.