Rookeh

joined 2 years ago
[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 2 points 5 days ago

More like this ~~decade~~ century so far.

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 11 points 1 week ago

He is the manifestation of the 'I made this' meme. Among other things.

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago

Moved everything to Linux last year, so far I have no reason to consider going back. Unfortunately I'll still likely end up using this slop at work.

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They have. The Doorbell Lite is $99.

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

You are assuming that they have a personality to begin with.

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

Similar to others, maybe 2 or 3 years old. I was "helping" (probably hindering) my mum paint my bedroom. I distinctly remember waving the paint roller around.

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I have witnessed companies make this exact mistake before - they have a legacy system written in $LanguageA that they either cannot find developers to maintain, believe is badly written, or does not support some new feature they want to implement (or some combination of the three) - and decide to solve this by taking the existing codebase and porting/transpiling it to $LanguageB (which is more modern, performant, is easy to hire developers for, etc) - without actually rewriting or rearchitecting anything.

What they are actually doing is substituting one kind of tech debt for another. The existing code that was poorly written and/or not well understood is now just bad code written in a different language. Fixing bugs or implementing new features now takes just as long, if not longer to account for the idiosyncrasies of how the code was ported.

And now this is being done by AI with even less oversight than usual? Recipe for a maintenance disaster.

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Personally any game that requires a rootkit in order to play is not a game I'm interested in, from either a gameplay or a security point of view.

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 13 points 5 months ago

As others have said, 100% a leak.

I would advise to stand on a chair or stepladder underneath the ceiling and check to see if it is still level. If you see an obvious deformation around the stain, this will be being caused by water pooling on top of the ceiling plasterboard. In which case, once the leak is sorted, you will likely need to drain the pooled water, cut out the damaged section, replace it, then replaster and repaint.

We had exactly the same issue in our last house. It was in a difficult to see spot hidden behind our kitchen cabinets. We only realised the severity of the issue when the ceiling boards gave way and fell on my head.

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 8 points 6 months ago

There are only two industries that call their customers 'users'...

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I dunno, I reckon 'DRAL YAES' goes harder

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