Quite a bit in my opinion. They fixed a lot of the pain points that OT1 had. The story is much better, characters actually talk to one another, and the battle system got much better as well.

Chained Echos was fun at first. I didn’t like how grindy it got after a while.

I recommend Rise of the 3rd Power . Its very final fantasy like with jrpg elements. Tiny indie with a lot of heart. The game has some great music, pixel animations, and I enjoyed the story. https://store.steampowered.com/app/698700/Rise_of_the_Third_Power/

One of the same studios older titles is Ara Fell : Enhanced Edition https://store.steampowered.com/app/440540/Ara_Fell_Enhanced_Edition/ its pretty good as well.

Both are on sale at the moment.

If your looking for more of a jrpg with even more style Small Saga is fantastic! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1320140/Small_Saga/

If your looking for silly Epic Battle Fantasy 5 : https://store.steampowered.com/app/432350/Epic_Battle_Fantasy_5/
…I like everything Matt Roszak makes to be honest. My wife has like 50+ hours in the newest find matts cats game.

Hope that helps!

OT2 was sooo much fun! I enjoyed it quite a bit.

I dont agree with all the points but Collapse OS has a fascinating read: https://collapseos.org/civ.html

In this case its driven by greed…but if you cant get a hold of chips because of ANY factor, its going to look more and more like collapse os is more right than wrong.

Yeah each platform has their own way to “deal” with the issue. You get a choice. Which is nice :)

True you have to be smart.

Its generally ok and accepted. Where it gets tricky is when you pull ALL the source code of company XYZ product and then use it at a new job to undercut your old one. Or try to sell a copy with the same code. Essentially when money and licensing comes into play.

Also depending on where you coded said solution, if it holds up to court, etc…etc… But generally, if LLMs can siphon up the entire internet for code, you can keep your own.

But one off scripts? Oh yeah those are safe. People have been sharing their dot files for ages.

I personally have spun off a couple of libraries making it easier for people to use said commercial product. Its been wildly successful for my career over the long run.

Theres a lot of good models free online that are open source/Chinese and the only cost is a bit of slowness on my rig. No token limit or whatever. Totally agree.

Its about as good as commercial products now…

Also keep your scripts somewhere. Git/github/codeberg/etc… or hell a flash drive. It help later on when job jumping. Think of it as wisard spells and a spell book.

For sure, there are a LOT of conventional services that only exist because of cheap storage.

Looks like it uses wifi and bluetooth. So anything just “ON”.

You know its not all that hard to reproduce if someone wants to. Except when we do it, its against the law.

I wonder why they are pushing so hard on new outlook. Its one of their most used products…and people REALLY dont like changes to it.

https://www.techradar.com/computing/software/i-have-two-microsoft-outlooks-and-neither-one-is-working-artemis-ii-astronauts-have-the-most-relatable-complaint

“I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one is working”

I use Thunderbird for my stuff. I like it for personal email. Its good enough.

Took 330 ms to load for me. Maybe your internet connection is a bit slow? Its also getting hit by multiple big sites at the same time.

Our office is slowly making the transition. Its been fantastic slowly getting rid of IIS, windows boxes, etc…

The examples are pretty funny. Is VERY slow. Like I thought old outlook was a bit on the slow side for syncing. The videos they provide are remarkably slow in every day interactions.

Kinda reminds me of creaper world.

Same, i enjoy it here!

This style of posting lends itself to having “hot takes” get upvoted and actual discussions have middling success.

At least with us, you can chose the tech and put it up yourself. Like right now you are using slrpnk.net and im using piefed.social on a lemmy.world server. Without any issues. We (the collective WE) made this happen without huge billionaires having a strangle hold on the way we interact. Its not perfect, but its better than a LOT of the alternatives.

Fantastic series, thanks for introducing me!