This is a fair point. Forgeable AI is pretty sweet but it's not a replacement for proper campaign expansions unfortunately

In my opinion it is very good these days. Almost all of the major problems at launch have been resolved. There's a ton of game modes and maps. They added firefight, forge, custom games, infection, and there are like 15 different playlist to choose from.

They're actively working on networking improvements (three playlists use the new netcode currently, and they're using that to test how well it works before making the whole game use it).

Cosmetics are in a much better place than at launch. There are a ton of options and a lot of things work on every armor set.

The biggest issue imo is still the battle pass system. Limited time events (like the Christmas event) replace the season pass if you don't buy the paid version, so there isn't much to unlock at a given time unless you pay. But, paid passes never expire, and you can go back and buy old passes, and most passes contain enough credits to buy another pass, so it's basically a one-ti.e fee.

If you don't like Halo, nothing has changed that will make you like it. The game plays like it did at launch in terms of gunplay and movement. But the overall experience is in a much better state than at launch

It was about a year ago. A lot of upper management departed. They brought in the guy who used to be in charge of MCC to be the new studio head.

It took a few months to start seeing an impact, but it's been pretty much constant wins since about Season 4 launched. Only L's have been monetization stuff, like the shop prices increasing and battle passes still being pretty weak.

343 has been full of W's ever since the new management took over. We love to see it.

A year or so I turned off targeted ads from Google. I very quickly noticed an increase in ads with anime tiddies.

I guess Google sees a correlation between people who worry about privacy, and people who are likely to click on anime tiddies...

Most of the games I play don't run on Linux sadly. Even Lethal Company, which is perfectly fine on Linux, couldn't be captured by OBS, so I had to switch to Windows before I could stream.

Game compatibility is getting better but still not good

I'm nervous about how long it'll be until those stop working

For me the real value is that a good password manager makes it easier to not use "login with Google" for everything

1. Ditch Chromium.
2. Use a Password Manager instead of "log in with Google/Facebook/whatever"
3. Keep tabs on Mobile App permissions and revoke as many as you possibly can. I revoke location permissions from every single app except Navigation apps, which have to ask for location permissions. If possible, remove apps in favor of Native Alpha / Hermit web apps

I just bought in to mulvad today via Tailscale, so far so good, I like it!

Halo 3 Game Fuel needs to be S tier but other than that idc

I daily Pop OS, it's overall pretty good. Drivers are super easy to deal with, and the Pop Shop has a lot of game-related apps ready to install. Biggest headache is that sometimes my Mic just won't work and I have to reboot. That, and steam does Vulkan Shader Compilation on every game launch it seems, which can be a pain

Use a Zigbee controller or Zigbee USB stick on a controller, and Zigbee lights. I'm planning to switch to that myself

I can't run Easy Anti Chat

Any recommendations for a Zigbee hub to use with HomeAssistant? I'm planning to make the switch now that Hue is doing this

Sacrifice a few extra bits and you can do floating point arithmetic on your fingers too

A lot of jewelry boutiques sell both these days. When I bought an engagement ring, most places I looked have both lab grown and mined diamonds as options when you pick a diamond for the ring.

Most reputable dealers claim to have cruelty-free sources, but synthetic diamonds were about half the price, so I still think buying mined diamonds is a bit silly.

This was definitely going to be my answer too

Probably misspoke saying the browser is what detected it, but the first time I went to print anything was from Firefox and the printer was already there.

I just bought one last week and holy shit you aren't joking. Our Canon was malfunctioning for the last 2 years, so I finally bought a refurbed B&W Brother Laser. I've never had a printer just work like this. I didn't even have to connect to it. My browser just automatically detected it, even on Linux.