So I was thinking about having anchovies on my pizza today. Never had them, but I eat and love sardines. There is a great traditional pizzeria by my work that offers them. Has anyone had them on their pizza before? If so what was your experience.

@scottalanmiller a casual gamer is someone like my mother who plays games on her iPhone. If I sat her down in front of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild she would be way in over her head. It would not be a casual experience for her or any true casual gamer. It is the game itself that will determine if it is a casual game, not the console. To say that all Nintendo consoles are for casual gamers would be an over generalization. There are casual games for each console. The fact that Nintendo does causal games on a console the best shouldn't detract from the other great non-causal games it has. In Engadget's list of best games of 2017, two Nintendo games made the list of ten, with many mentioned as runner-ups. https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/28/the-best-games-of-2017/

@scottalanmiller said in I grabbed an Android TV box...:

@irj said in I grabbed an Android TV box...:

@scottalanmiller said in I grabbed an Android TV box...:

@irj said in I grabbed an Android TV box...:

@penguinwrangler said in I grabbed an Android TV box...:

@irj said in I grabbed an Android TV box...:

@scottalanmiller said in I grabbed an Android TV box...:

@fredtx said in I grabbed an Android TV box...:

@scottalanmiller Just like the Nintendo Switch. It didn’t even come with a game. Also, for an extra controller it’s like $80 after tax. My daughter’s uncle got it for her for Christmas. I’m betting she’ll play with the Android box more as soon as it comes in.

Oh yeah. Everything since the N64 has been garbage based completely around gimmicks. Wii and WiiU were so awful. The Switch is just the guts of an Nvidia Shield in a lower quality container at double the price.

And the Shield is already quite old.

Nintendo is lucky their name still carries so much weight. If any of those systems were designed by any company other than Nintendo, they'd be another Sega Saturn or jaguar 64.

Nintendo just has so many fanboys and they are quite good with making fun games. Their niche is really software not hardware anymore.

It is always about the software, even for the iPhone, Pixel phones, xbox, Playstation, etc. It is the software that really drives it. You can have the best hardware but if you have crappy software to put on it, the hardware is then perceived to be crappy as well.

Yeah that is true. I meant to say games. Of course nostalgia has a lot to do with their success. I wonder how much the same games would make without Mario branding.

My guess is that they'd make nothing at all. If it wasn't for the branding, Nintendo makes poorly rates $.49 Steam sale games.

I think they make some fun newer games, but a lot of them aren't original or have good graphics. The gameplay is fun and can be addictive in some games. There are others like Mario sunshine or Luigi's mansion and just say wtf. Those games are really popular for whatever reason though.

Same reason that all those cheezy apps advertise on television. The casual gamer market has exploded. Nintendo is THE system for people who don't like games. They make the kind of stuff that celebrities advertise on annoying push ads. Candy Crush and stuff like that.

To say that Nintendo Console owners, I have owned almost every Nintendo console just to be transparent, are not "TRUE" gamers is a really snobbish thing to say. Each Nintendo console has given me hours of gaming fun. Just because they are not the "true games" you like doesn't mean anything. To say that Nintendo caters to a different type of gamer, would be an accurate statement.

@wirestyle22 said in New Years Resolutions v2.0:

@s-hackleman said in New Years Resolutions v2.0:

@wirestyle22 said in New Years Resolutions v2.0:

Losing weight. I'm starting to go back to the gym starting January 1st. Gradually moving up to 3 days a week and then, when I'm comfortable, I will try to complete P90X.

Never get comfortable, just dive in and go, you can do it.

I'm so out of shape I can barely do a pushup anymore lol. I guess I can just try to do P90X as much as possible until I can get through an entire workout.

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My son wanted a switch so that is what I got him. I am divorced from his mother and the switch allows him to transport his gaming system easier than other systems. Also one of the first games he wanted was Mario Odyessy, so he wasn't going after nostalgia when he bought that game. Also, the Mario Kart games are good fun games to play with the family. The new Zelda game is fun as well.

@irj said in I grabbed an Android TV box...:

@scottalanmiller said in I grabbed an Android TV box...:

@fredtx said in I grabbed an Android TV box...:

@scottalanmiller Just like the Nintendo Switch. It didn’t even come with a game. Also, for an extra controller it’s like $80 after tax. My daughter’s uncle got it for her for Christmas. I’m betting she’ll play with the Android box more as soon as it comes in.

Oh yeah. Everything since the N64 has been garbage based completely around gimmicks. Wii and WiiU were so awful. The Switch is just the guts of an Nvidia Shield in a lower quality container at double the price.

And the Shield is already quite old.

Nintendo is lucky their name still carries so much weight. If any of those systems were designed by any company other than Nintendo, they'd be another Sega Saturn or jaguar 64.

Nintendo just has so many fanboys and they are quite good with making fun games. Their niche is really software not hardware anymore.

It is always about the software, even for the iPhone, Pixel phones, xbox, Playstation, etc. It is the software that really drives it. You can have the best hardware but if you have crappy software to put on it, the hardware is then perceived to be crappy as well.

Freezing my ass off, that is what I am doing right now. It was 8 degrees this morning, not factoring in Wind. I know I am not the coldest place by far right now, so for all you people that are colder than me, God Bless you, and don't freeze off any body parts. The older I get the less I like the cold, my arthritis is absolutely killing me. Wouldn't be so bad if the heat was working in my office. My teeth were cold when I got in from walking to the office.

@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just paid the yearly ridiculously high CA DMV registration fee for one of our cars:

It is $105 in Illinois

Given that ChromeOS runs on Linux I would say that it ushered in the "Year of the Linux Desktop". However, as most have said the trend that is developing is desktop agnostic. Doesn't matter what you run on the desktop as more and more things are becoming cloud based.

@coliver said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Not a single ticket. Monthly maintenance has been completed. Today is going to drag so badly

They turned the heat down in our building...

They did that here in my building as well. I am sitting with a jacket on. I never do that. I am always hot. I mean it has to get below 20 before I think about anything more than a light jacket. Even then I just find a slightly heavier jacket.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

I am assuming you guys are talking about hiding the fact that a company billed somebody for coming to an interview?

No, they didn't. They billed someone for lying about their experience and attending a meeting in bad faith.

I really need to go back to grade school and learn reading comprehension again. I dunno how I missed that, lol.

It's implied. They state that he didn't have the experience that he had claimed. They billed him for wasting their time by not being the candidate that he claimed to be. They don't state bad faith, they explain it. The legal term there is bad faith and overrides all other contractual stipluations. It implies you entered into a deal with the intent to cheat.

Bad faith applies anywhere. Any kind of contract. It's the overriding legal construct that makes contracts work.

St. Louis is suing the NFL over bad faith in the negotiations to keep the Rams in St. Louis. St. Louis spent a lot of money trying to keep the Rams when there is evidence that the decision was made to move them to LA before the negotiations started.

@dbeato said in Veeam One:

@eddiejennings said in Veeam One:

For those who use Veeam Backup and Replication, do you also use Veeam One, or just use the standalone Backup and Replication product?

I would be content with job notifications, which I believe can be configured with just Backup and Replication. If you use Veeam One, do you find the reporting provides a good bit of value?

If you have Hyperv and Vmware it is helpful otherwise XenServer or KVM is not helpful to you. I use the Veeam Backup and Replication standalone and leave the monitoring to Zabbix so far.

Same here.

@black3dynamite said in Has anyone tried DualMon Remote Desktop:

@rojoloco said in Has anyone tried DualMon Remote Desktop:

I've been trying this out on a couple of machines at work, plus a couple of machines at home. Works pretty well, simple but effective. Then today I saw this:

...eat a dick, dualmon. I shan't turn off my ad blocker for you or anyone... and besides, your entire site still functions 100% with the adblocker turned on, so suck on that. Ads blocked, new computers added, I win.

Is that happening with adblock, pi-hole or both?

Usually those types of things don't happen with pi-hole, another blessing of using pi-hole over browser based ad blockers.

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

The GUI on Apple devices is just horrid. I had to do some things to one a few days ago or so and I just couldn't. I ended up going to CLI and thankfully a lot of Linux commands work on it.

OMG yeah, their Mac OSX interface is so painful if you haven't memorized how everything works and where it is. It's the ultimate "experts interface".

Yeah exactly. It took me way too long to even find the terminal. None of it makes any logical sense.

I have thought that for years.

@aidan_walsh said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@brianlittlejohn said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Apple Admits to slowing down older iPhones.

http://fox6now.com/2017/12/21/apple-admits-it-slows-down-older-iphones-to-prevent-battery-issues/

Not the worst reasoning for doing it, but my word they screwed the pooch in communicating this one. They spent years denying that they did it at all.

It is never the actual incident that is the worst, it is always the cover up.

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Steam sale is still two days away, but the GOG.com Winter Sale is on and you get free games just for checking it out!

Okay now I really hate you. They have a new Star Control Game coming out. Star Control II is my all time favorite game.

@jaredbusch said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@hobbit666 said in question about Hyper-V resource management?:

@jimmy9008 tbh I've not tested it for 3-4 yrs, but just found it bloated and always had issues remote managing it from laptop/desktop.

Should really give it another go with 2016.

3-4 years ago you had 5Nine available for free. So it was easier.

5Nine still has a free version. I have used it recently. I had no AD, so I used it to get my first AD machine up and running

@scottalanmiller The problem is I don't trust the government to be an impartial watchdog.

@dustinb3403 said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:

@penguinwrangler

http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/06/technology/verizon_blocks_google_wallet/index.htm

There is one such example. Even if you were a good customer of Verizon's you literally couldn't use a service that was built into the devices you wanted. I'll get a more comprehensive list.

To me that would be an issue for the FTC to take up not the FCC. The FTC mission statement is "Working to protect consumers by preventing anticompetitive, deceptive, and unfair business practices, enhancing informed consumer choice and public understanding of the competitive process, and accomplishing this without unduly burdening legitimate business activity." To me what Verizon was doing was very anticompetitive. I always ask myself whenever I see someone saying we need this new law, hold on do we have something that already covers this, or just needs to be tweaked to cover the issue.

I am not trying to be mean. I have been sick for a week now and I am just really grumpy. I apologize if anything I type today seems nasty. I am not trying to be.