Why does the title focus on 3D pipes specifically?
The developer kicked off a screen saver contest among the Windows OpenGL team, with 3D Pipes being one of the entries alongside 3D Maze, 3D Text, and 3D Flying Objects. The team was supposed to vote for a single winner to be included with Windows NT 3.5, but when a person on Microsoft’s marketing team saw them, he said, “You can call off the vote. We’re adding all of them to the product!”
I feel like I hear about 3D Maze way more when people are reminiscing about old screensavers. Just sorta weird titling
The Maze was based on previous work by id Software and others. IIRC, it was kinda janky when held up against Doom or even Wolfenstien or Heritic/Hexen. Hell, Descent was out by then as well.
Pipes? Pipes was something else. None of those games I mentioned bothered to make something look round in any believable capacity. Pipes did that, seemingly with shading 🫨
Seems to me they're getting ready to phase out hotspot service and replace it with this home internet backup (which is just a very expensive hotspot service). Enshitification is intensifying pretty hard in 2024.
I love Bitwarden, but goddamn, they need to figure out form filling. They have my cards, passwords, TOTP, address, and name. And I always end up having to flip back and forth.
It also got a 100 million USD investment a couple of years ago and even if it hasn't changed there might be issues in the future and I really don't want to learn how self hosting working if bitwarden enshittifies.
How common are these outages? My ISP provides a SIM with unlimited data for extended outages (like more than a day). This price doesn't make sense for smaller outages.
Edit: so, this is a video from the show Parks and Rec, where some soulless capitalist is selling regular milk as the "hot new craze, beef milk", and only one person in the scene sees how ridiculous this is ("that's ffing milk", he says). The others lap it right up, pun intended ("no. milk cost $3 a gallon. Annabelle's authentic, hand-strained, teet-to-table beef milk: that costs $60 a gallon. yeah, and there's a waitlist"). I thought it was a good analogy to what is happening with this tmo situation.
So I have T-Mobile in a major city. Whenever my ISP goes down, my normally fast 5G slows to a crawl due to the increased load.
So it seems like when you need this the most is when youd get the worst performance.
I honestly can't stand comments like these. Why is every technology discussion on Lemmy dominated by people congratulating themselves for using something 'better'? Most of the time without even being asked.
I don't think it's downloading apps that is hard necessarily, but there are a few big barriers getting in the way for casual users to run a self-hosted FOSS solution:
seeing a problem with their current way of doing things
knowing other options exist
having the confidence to feel like setup won't be a headache, or that maintenance won't be a problem with their non-tech background
I think its pretty understandable that a normal person would preference "one simple app" than a DIY 2 app system when you consider the above.
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