BangersAndMash

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[–] BangersAndMash 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Plenty of java back end web development, so maybe not as embarrassing as you felt?

[–] BangersAndMash 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So if you buy it outright you get no discount? Is that his this works? And I'm guessing that the loan has some sort of fixed term or amount or something. I wonder if you end up saving any money if you can afford to buy it outright.

[–] BangersAndMash 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does that mean your Wounded Angel is biblically accurate? Like the Bible describes it as a series of interlocked rings circled by eyes? If so, the old testament (I assume) is wild.

[–] BangersAndMash 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It worked wonders for me at the start, but I seem to have pushed through and am now drinking almost as much again. I do feel more like I could quit now and it's more out of habit than urge.

[–] BangersAndMash 4 points 1 month ago

Do you remember the bad old days when you'd go to someone's house and their browser would be unusable because it had so many toolbars installed? That was often from legit sites bundling crap into installers for software they hosted.

[–] BangersAndMash 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The CEO of a medical insurance company got assassinated. The weirdest thing about it? I didn't see shit.

[–] BangersAndMash 10 points 1 month ago (8 children)

That's really cool. Are they held snug? Will they fall out?

[–] BangersAndMash 1 points 1 month ago

Is it possible the hard drive is failing in the old one? I don't know what the operating system would do if download speed surpassed write speed, but once it couldn't hold it in ram any longer waiting to write I guess it would have to throttle it.

[–] BangersAndMash 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The bandwidth of a network card would generally outclass your internet connection by an order of magnitude.

Gigabits per second network cards have been standard for at least a decade.

And then there's your wifi too, if applicable, but even that is much faster than your general internet connection, unless you're far from your router. A new laptop might help you get a better wifi signal, if it had a newer wifi protocol or stronger radio, but that's also going to depend on your router.

But in front of all of that is going to be your modem. Depending on the quality of your modem that might be a bottleneck.

[–] BangersAndMash 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

A new laptop, even the best in the world, won't make your downloads any faster.

I also back what everyone else is saying. Unless of course you can update your current laptop. What have you got? An extra stick of ram and an SSD can make an old laptop feel brand new, especially with an OS reinstall

[–] BangersAndMash 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Jesus Christ is not my Lord and saviour. I demand you delete this post immediately and apologise. This is as insulting to me as pineapple on a pizza

[–] BangersAndMash 2 points 2 months ago

Accent? Backtick!

 

Nethack is now 36 years old, still in development, runs on windows, Linux, Apple and a multitude of other systems. You can run it in a console, remotely, if you don't have the ability to install or download to your computer. It's complex, difficult, entertaining and will soak up any free time you have.

I've played it on and off for a decade now and never made it past half way and have always learnt something new.

Play in browser: https://alt.org/nethack/hterm/ Telnet: alt.org port 23 SSH: [email protected] Download: https://www.nethack.org/

Have you got the Amulet of Yendor? Any stupid deaths? Surprising finds?

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