Cool stats.

@Demolishun In one of my past projects on Android, when you were in the Main Menu && pressed the Back key, the game would ask whether or not you'd like to close it.

Choosing [Yes] would 'close' it...

...in reality, the game would simply minimize.

A blatant lie, to be sure.

IIRC the idea was to have 'quicker' startup of the game.

'General system stability improvements to enhance the user's experience.'

Some people have a problem w/ listening to reason.

...also seem to be lacking some common sense.

As a general rule, whenever I am interested in something && the other person is much better at it, than I am.

One such person is my oldest friend, whom I met at my fist job.

We've been friends for roughly 16 years && I've learned a lot from him.

@retoor Now that you mention it, quite possibly what happened there.

Either way, that timestamp made me laugh.

'Here's a message from the past for you'.

@Demolishun I'm definitely planning on getting it fixed.

Before I got a chance to unlock my old HDD in preparation for upgrading it, the console developed yet another ailment, though.

I may need to find a service that can fix it, but the console is worth it.

@Demolishun Lucky you.

Mine has died recently.

When I plugged it in to the wall socket, a bit of smoke came out.

Once I opened it up I noticed the tops of two capacitors had a convex shape.

On topic, though: yes - I love the current generation.

/s

Assassin's Creed Valhalla had a day 1 patch of roughly 100 GB, IIRC.

There are many more games like this, sadly.

@Demolishun Ah, yes - the good ol' 'Why am I in Hell? I'm a devoted Christian / Jew etc.'.

@Demolishun That's fine. South Park is definitely not for everyone.

Same for Family Guy && basically everything else.

To each their own, I say.

I do love both of them, though.

Not a terrible story, as long as you don't take it too seriously.

In the end, a brave little boy named Kyle travels to the location of the Internet && unplugs it, but forgets to plug it back in, thus saving the humanity.

Inspired by:

https://youtube.com/watch/... .

// yes... kinda joking.

Code In A Box - Pretty much the same as the Ads - intentionally produced garbage that can be sold.

@lorentz There are many approaches to this.

Yours sounds good, too.

You could even get away w/ a simple solution of committing to file when exiting the Settings Menu regardless of whether or not an actual change has been made.

But not this... not saving to file w/ each update of some value.

@Root Good choices all-around.

Especially the Gummies...

...I may have used them as cake toppings, once...

...w/ good results.

@jestdotty Losing your storage certainly sucks.

With SSDs, you should be able to check their health using programs such as CrystalDiskInfo or something similar.

SD Cards && flash drives, on the other hand, just die w/o warning.

AFAIR they switch to read-only state just before dying, so you can still recover the data, but still.

@retoor Depends on how you look at it.

Thing is, certification-wise, there are rules against such practices because this unnecessarily ages the hardware.

Breaded chicken cutlets,

Fish fingers soaked in lemon juice,

Cheesecake.

...probably there's more, but these are of the top of my head.

This sounds like Frasier's Red Balloon joke.

https://youtube.com/watch/... .

@Root As far as 0xC0FFEE goes, I love it, too.

One of my worst fears is trying to access it, but receiving Null Ref exception.

...fixable by visiting local store.

/jk

@Root Haven't known about the 0xD06F00D.

You learn something new every day.

Also, while I generally hate Apple-related things, their 0x8BADF00D is not bad, either.

Personally, I am partial to 0xDEADBEEF.

@Demolishun It is kind of cool.

I've connected a 256 GB SSD to it via an SSD <-> USB adapter && am dual booting.

Windows 10 is on the device by default, but Linux Manjaro is on the SSD.

@Lensflare Precisely.

Too bad _that thing_ is what they're wasting their time on, instead of making a proper game in the series.

@Lensflare Kain Lives! You can't kill the messiah!

Yes, good stuff. Kind of terrible what they've done w/ the series by the end, though.

I've recently stumbled upon this:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...

...but I'm not convinced.

@Lensflare Indeed, I am.

Red on black has been my theme of choice for some 20+ years.

*think -> thing

...damn typo...

@Demolishun Yes, I get that.

It wasn't my intention to suggest otherwise.

I just mentioned WinDirStat because one of the PCs I have is a small think akin to this:

https://amazon.co.uk/Computer-Windo... .

Fun little thing, although it really depends on one's needs.

I needed a portable MS Office, so this works well for me.

Thing is, the storage in mine is only 64 GB && AppData\Local\Temp is not the only sinkhole for storage.

Anyway, performance-wise, clearing the AppData\Local\Temp is a good tip / reminder.

I do actually need to clear that one, too, as the device has been a bit slower, recently.

WinDirStat has helped me quite a few times to track down some space hogging directories.

The number 2 has been a pain for me for years on my Windows machines...

Some software just doesn't play well w/ black background color.

I'll go ahead && say - some people probably just like timers.

Kind of like Sonic The Hedgehog, that IIRC was created because some people really liked to do speedruns in Super Mario Bros.

...or something like that.

But yeah - I do hate the timers, too.