I personally like to keep it on. Most of my messaging is with family and friends and it’s good to know if someone read or hasn’t read my message.

Especially if things are time critical. Picking someone up? Asking if they need anything from the supermarket? If I see that they read the message I know that they are going to reply in a moment. If they didn’t even read the message I won’t have to wait around / can guess that they are currently in the car or wherever.

Sometimes you also have a spotty connection, so the received + read receipt can tell you if they actually got your message.

In general if someone sends me a message and I read it… I’m going to fucking reply to it (if I’m not super busy, and even then I might send a quick message back). I seriously don’t get people who just leave things on read and then forget about it.

But the NAS is in your house… which basically means if it gets flooded/burns down all your data is gone too.

I already have my data on my PC, a second backup inside the same house isn’t worth that much. But instead of relying on a cloud service I just rent a virtual server (for various things) and use Seafile to keep my data in sync.

PC breaks? House burns down? My data is on my own server in a datacenter. My server gets cancelled? My data is on my PCs.

So even with your NAS you are 100% reliant on a cloud backup still, so why did you get the NAS when you already have a copy of your data on your devices?

On the other hand you can lose your email address at any time if you don’t own the domain. So if Google decides they don’t like something you wrote your @gmail.com address could be gone tomorrow. And with it all your accounts you set up (as you need email usually to login or do changes).

The whole e-mail ecosystem sucks :-/

My self-hosted mail server works fine for now, but that could change at any moment.

The two games aren’t even in the same genre.

There’s plenty to criticize about Diablo 4, but this post is just a dumb take.

When they initially announced the game as open world I was hyped. Let me describe what I thought it would be:

You leave the city and get put into an open instance (same like now), but the environment is randomly generated every time. Which means you actually run out and explore, find cellars, random dungeons, random bosses, …

And with level scaling everything you find is the right amount of challenge, so you don’t run out of content.

If we go with that, maybe they could add a feature like maps where you explore the uncharted wilds out of a border town.

Yesterday I played my first nightmare dungeon with the “Resource Burn” affix and thought the whole time: Are they serious?

The affix said only distant enemies burn resource, but in reality every hit even in melee removed all my spirit as druid. I only managed to finish that dungeon due to using a cooldown heavy build.

Good thing they are going to remove this crap. It looks like a great patch overall.

One thing missing: They should really reduce the mouse distance to the horse for max speed. Riding downwards sucks.

And talks about a time before the internet while he looks what? 30-40 in that image?

Yes, things are bloated and slow, it’s annoying. But the article didn’t add much or go into the reasons why.

It’s a language model, it can’t even do math reliably. Yes, it produces code that works sometimes, but it also hallucinates functions that don’t exist or can introduce bugs you won’t notice at first glance.

And writing a script is different than extending an existing code base. How often do you really start a greenfield project?

I wouldn’t even know how to input a code base into ChatGPT to extend, do you just throw in hundreds of files with a 100k+ lines of code?

Knowing the companies involved this is a positive change.

Activision Blizzard is a toxic dump. My hope is Microsoft throws out Activision management and cleans things up.

It literally can’t get worse than it is right now.