The unique selling point of Recade is that it will allow you to legally play '70s, '80s and '90s coin-op titles either locally or online, benefitting from features such as screen filters, voice chat, cloud saves and more.

Free software already provides all of that, provided the ROMS are obtained legally. Many ROMS can be purchased legally directly from Indie game developers. Many others are abandonware. Almost all of the rest are still (for now) available on various game platform app stores.

The idea is to sell the base unit cheaply and then support the platform’s growth with a traditional subscription-based business model.

Sounds awful.

I wondered, since you sounded like you already had researched the situation. That sucks.

Oof. I guess Windows 10 will have to do then.

Since I would want someone to mention to me, if I was being jerked around by Microsoft while just wanting to enjoy my Steam library:

You’ll be surprised how much of your Steam library runs (with minimal effort) on Bazzite Linux and it’s probably less hassle to install than doing a Windows downgrade.

Docker Compose brought “works on my machine” to the cloud.

How does one realistically move away from Google maps?

It’s still possible to buy an all-in-one navigation device to keep in a vehicle. They’re often much nicer than phone apps, now.

That’s a great way to handle it.

I like to pass them the ticket and schedule the next open hour on their calendar for them to teach me how to do it, if they’re a developer. Sometimes they do, because I was genuinely missing something easy. Usually they get to awkwardly discuss why they don’t have it done yet, either.

When the person isn’t even a developer, I’ll explain the usual process between developers, and give them a chance to beg their way out of it.

If they don’t beg off, I schedule them anyway and see if they can actually at least “rubber duck” me through the problem. (Sometimes it even works.)

I’ve had a couple peers discover (or rekindle) their love for development this way. Most just make up a reason not to make the meeting, though.

They worked well for us

Yeah. I used story points successfully for years.

After learning about the above data, I asked my team to trial just counting tickets for velocity, and it also works fine.

The outcomes weren’t noticably different, so now we just don’t spend the couple hours each sprint that estimating story sizes was costing us.

My team was hesitant to give up story point estimation, because they didn’t want to give up the communication with leadership about which stories were XXL.

So we kept using the XXL issue tag, but dropped the rest of the estimation process.

Maybe Ubuntu again or Mint, or Zorin or Fedora. Damn i must do a research.

It’s really hard to go wrong with Mint. Distro hopping can be fun, but Mint is a fantastic all-around operating system.

I tried it before without success.

Ditto. Took me three tries to give it up. But it finally stuck.

Now I’m annoyed when I do have to use Windows, because Windows is not as nice, or as configureable, or as fast, or as ad-free, or as straightforward to use as Linux.

The idea with story points is you assign them consistently, so the team’s velocity is meaningful.

Yep. But then we got some data and it turned out that story point estimates reliably create a lower quality velocity then simply counting tickets, ignoring their obvious massive size differences.

Any time spent estimating story points, creates negative value.

Sources:

• Story Points Don’t Work
• No Estimates - An Introduction

It’s actually not a crime to mercy kill and dispose of the body of anyone who says “Well, it’s a simple task. Are you having difficulty?”.

It’s an obscure and weirdly specific law.

(This is a joke, of course.)

Yes. The laws can be fixed.

Workers should be at the front of the line legally dividing up company assets.

The job may be gone, but folks could at least drive home with a work truck or a set of office chairs.