X4 is a mile deep and an inch wide, Elite Dangerous is a mile wide and and an inch deep.

X4 lets you do much more; own, fly and command dozens or hundreds of ships but the play area is much smaller.

X4 has an empire management layer that you can choose to use, it also has lots of mods and you can save and load whenever you want.

Bug free is not possible, but there are certainly degrees of bugs. If I pay for software that is supposed to balance my checkbook and it has errors in the math, I would expect those errors to be fixed or my money returned. If one of the buttons is 2px out of alignment, it’s not a big deal. The software should at least functionally do what you paid for it to do, without any additional expense. IMHO.

I can see both sides of this. I don’t usually update an app unless I’m having problems that are fixed in a later update.

Ongoing development of an app can be for various things. For things like bugfixes to existing code, I don’t think we should necessarily pay for that. For brand new features that weren’t promised before and didn’t exist before there could be a case for paying for that.

I don’t need no fancy boxes for PoE.

That sounds right…

We did reindeer; Dasher, Dancer, Vixen, etc.

arcane: understood by few; mysterious or secret

archaic: very old or old-fashioned

I did mean arcane but archaic could fit too. I don’t really have a problem with old as long as it’s good, but not that many people out of general population understand what Linux commands there are and how to fully utilize them.

It’s like so many other things, it’s simple when you know it well but when you don’t have a lot of experience it’s very daunting. A lot depends on understanding the file system, like what is the difference between /run and /media and / and /root? So much is command line with some pretty arcane commands and parameters. And not knowing what tools there are to help, and not knowing how to fix things when they break.

I could never be a wizard. Mess up code, get some error messages. Mess up a spell, get turned into a pile of goo, slaughtered by a demon, or transported to a hell dimension.

Disney owns so many media companies, for any given movie pirate it’s likely it was Disney content.

In my Android experience if you have an unpopular/old phone, years later many of the new batteries you buy aren’t much good. That or the radio frequencies change and you need a new phone for that. But still 4-5 years on a phone should be doable.

I didn’t know the USB port had a cover. I bought mine used but excellent condition, apparently other than the port cover. My S5 had a brief dip in a river and never charged again. :(

Yeah games mostly just work, and just as well as in Windows. It’s not slow or clunky. Some games require fiddling or won’t work at all but the majority are good.

Lots of things are simpler in real life than programming. But that doesn’t address my aversion to manual labor.

I’m not a bot at least. Or am I? I can look down and see hands and arms, definitely not a bot.

Unless I am a bot that was programmed to think it’s human.

Hmm. I’ve got a lot of thinking to do.

How did that ever work, I’ve been there many times.

2005 looks best to me.

I actually ran a moderately active (like 20,000 hits a day) small business site from a laptop for a couple years. Of course one of the first thing I did was put a “SERVER DO NOT SHUT DOWN” sticker on it, and set the power settings so closing the lid did not shut down or sleep the computer. It was a Dell 7000 series with 16GB IIRC, it did great.