I think I played that when it came out. If I were to play anything, I'd like to go through HalfLife and RTCW again. I also wouldn't mind doing Max Payne again. I can do the previous two easily on linux. Not sure about Payne. I'd have to spend the time figuring it out, and I just don't want to put time into games at this point.Try Riddick Butcher Bay.
My solo gaming ebbs and flows, right now the living room is mostly used for couch co-op gaming. I don't fret about idle screen time because my doctor recently described me as "very active" and I spend quite a lot of time on my musical pursuits (which computers can be very useful for, but I've deliberately aimed for a setup that doesn't rely on them).I haven't really found a good setup for recliner gaming that I like, and it would mean moving a bunch of stuff around. I honestly kind of feel like I'm wasting my time if I'm in front of a screen unless I'm watching something semi-educational. I haven't gamed for more than a few minutes since October - it just lost its appeal for a while.
A half-life remaster with updated graphics would be dreamyI think I played that when it came out. If I were to play anything, I'd like to go through HalfLife and RTCW again. I also wouldn't mind doing Max Payne again. I can do the previous two easily on linux. Not sure about Payne. I'd have to spend the time figuring it out, and I just don't want to put time into games at this point.
Something like this?A half-life remaster with updated graphics would be dreamy
Well holy shit dreams do come true!
Suppose it depends what you do, I've spent a lot of my time working on helpdesk software, so helping ensure people that call in because their shit is busted can hopefully get back up and running faster. Some years ago I wrote software that was used in some pharmacies for their stat board, it was a bit of a trip putting it together when one of the reasons for users to select for a stat prescription was "patient actively dying".I'm 13 years into my career -- I hate IT. I've had a number of technical and product manager roles, and they all feel so...hollow. I get more satisfaction out of cooking a meal for people or doing lawn work. It all just feels so pointless and devoid of real-world impact.
Web based?Some years ago I wrote software that was used in some pharmacies for their stat board, it was a bit of a trip putting it together when one of the reasons for users to select for a stat prescription was "patient actively dying".
My 1st PC was a system assembled by an EE. I saw an ad in the San Francisco Chronicle for a used desktop (yeah, not a tower) in 1993 or so and took transit (BART train) maybe 20 miles and he showed it to me. I'd been taking classes at the local community college starting with DOS, then word processing (Wordperfect 5.0 and 5.1 for DOS), Lotus 1-2-3, then PageMaker 5.0 and finally FoxPro for DOS).Anyone else burnt out of IT?
There was a time, long long ago, when I could assemble some parts I bought online, build a system, and it was like magic. That was a very long time ago. I kept active in the field, but it's not the same.
More recently, experiencing burn out. I don't give a crap about newest windows, newest hardware, newest wifi, etc.
The magic is gone. I don't want to upgrade anything I have, which is very old tech already, nor do I have any interest in windows 12.
Why would I? I see people posting some SSD score or browser performance score and I'm like meh, if I blinked then I'd miss the few milliseconds difference.
Granted, I don't much get into modern 3D gaming these days. Too little time and can't justify the absurd prices for video cards that can do it well at 4K. Upgrading to a 4K monitor was the best computing move for me since Win95, so I've done that with several systems and still, burnt out. Even so, I have too many sub-4K monitors to count so it's not really about gaming.
AI is a little bit interesting, but still falls short.
What keeps you going, to keep excited to see the same old shit but just with higher benchmark numbers? Or just being some sort of maintenance guy that keeps things running despite the insistence of the new kids to try to change things for no good reason?
I'm very much starting to see a PC as an appliance that just needs to keep running to do it's job.
I suppose I went off on a tangent because I make my living as an IT contractor in other fields, but the whole magic-is-gone, thing, makes it feel more like a burden rather than a passion.
Vesa Local Bus. That desktop must've been pretty expensive. I think it may have been using MCA bus. I'm so glad that PCIe came along and simplified everything for the most part. I remember the horror of AGP slots with different voltages. Then ISA slot resource allocation issues (IRQs and what not).The desktop he'd sold me preceded Visa Local Bus. It was a proprietary local bus system. Fast for its time.
Brands you don't think about twice? Brands you avoid? Any interesting anecdotes like, PC from hell where you were confident you could solve the issue but ended up wasting too much time on troubleshooting it or a PC you liked so much that you regretted giving it away?That rant aside, I must have built at least 225 PCs by now.
I really don't get the cloud thing, i feel like in 5-10 years from now we'll just go full circle and back to on prem. Ever since my company moved to cloud everything is so glitchy, and surely they must be paying more now too.
Web development? You know ChatGPT and Gemini and GrokAI can make your job easier.i have been burnt out of software development for well over 15 years
Or harderWeb development? You know ChatGPT and Gemini and GrokAI can make your job easier.
The only solution to that I guess is convert the bare metal image to VM and run it like that, only for that particular software(s).And then find out some of my software is no longer supported on the new OS.
Yes-ish, it was built in ASP.Net.Web based?