Part of my focus to begin this year has been identifying cross platform replacements for any Apple native apps I still use, with a preference for open source and self hosted (where possible). The one I can't seem to fully kick is Apple Reminders, but I've been able to replace pretty much everything else.
The romhacks are definitely the way to go. I don't need much in terms of gameplay mechanics besides Gen 3 or Gen 4, what I do need is interesting and challenging dungeons/gauntlets
What a great trip to the past this was. I'm sure this is the rose colored glasses talking, but I do miss how video games weren't quite so mainstream in the 90s and early 2000's. Launches were smaller but felt like much bigger deals. There wasn't wall to wall coverage of every game all the time, so you could still easily be surprised by one that you had bought.
Pretty obvious that Spencer was forced out and Bond (who was being groomed to take over from Spencer) was passed over, hence the resignation. At least the new XBox boss brings a lot of gaming experience from her previous role at....Instacart.
She's one of the primary culprits in Microsoft behind Copilot being abso-fucking-lutely everywhere and meaning nothing, bringing no value to any of the places they try to put it. She is a primo example of the MBA class middle management enshittifying the world.
Good for her that she's making great paychecks, though.
I like AWS, but Organizations was something that was retrofit onto the account model versus being part of the original design. GCP had second mover advantage in this area.
The way to automate provisioning of new AWS accounts requires you to engage with Control Tower in some way, like the author did with Account Factory for Terraform.
AWS makes the account model feel retrofit versus being part of the original design and 5 years later someone retrofit the organisations onto that before they they added 90% of the products into any square round hole they could find.
The part about account teams for AWS and GCP is very true in my experience. I could tell my AWS account team that I was hungry and they would offer to bring me a bagel in an hour. My GCP account team no-shows our cadence calls and somehow forgets the one question I ask them in the intervening time between our calls, which means each month I get to re-explain the issue as they pretend to escalate it again.
Ironically I like Blades a lot more on OG XBOX (the JX720 theme for XBMC). Its 360 iteration got really crowded when MS added the Live blade and all the ad units. The NXE (what this site emulates) was Peak 360 IMO :)
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