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  • Sounds like it's localStorage. But I'd expect that to be covered by "site data" in that option.

    It's a bit like cookies, but just for one site. Some think they can avoid cookie consent banners with localStorage.

    Firefox has a page on the topic.

  • This week it's been Megaman II (1988).

    I feel like games before that era had a lot of coin-op focus. Not much content, but hard enough that you'll be pouring more credits into the machine. That said, I've been itching to play Alley Cat (1983), but I don't have a good setup for MS-DOS games at the moment. I'll have to see if my Miyoo mini is up for the task.

  • I haven't heard of it before, but if Google bans it they must be doing something right.

    I'll check it out.

  • My ISP enabled native IPv6 for me a few months back. It's pretty great. I don't have any windows machines, but I doubt my wife has disabled it on hers.

    Anyway, our router is set up to drop incoming IPv6 traffic by default, sanely enough.

  • MF8 sounds familiar, but I might have had some other puzzles of that brand.

  • What brand of gigaminx did you have?

    I can't recall. It's been well over ten years. I think I solved it two or three times. It was just tedious. Whatever cheap brand they had on dealextreme at the time.

  • Thanks, but it's no longer an issue. I had a work-issued Mac, but now I'm all Linux.

  • Just Worms that got all the ports.

    I haven't tried the 2007 version that you speak of, but it might be good. I've played a couple of rounds of WMD on my switch, and as I recall the gameplay was similar.

    Of course, you need one or three friends in your couch to pass the controller around to to get the full experience.

  • Even-dimensioned cubes (4x4x4, 6x6x6, ...) are harder because they introduce some parity errors. Odd-dimensioned keep their fever center piece in the right spot.

    Otherwise the size just makes it more tedious. I keep up with a 4x4x4. I had a gigaminx dodecahedron that I solved a few times, but it just made my hands tired from the weight and kept popping out pieces because of their tinyness.

  • Even without the privacy concerns, I think it removes the sovereignty of your own computer.

    I decide what code I run on my computer.

    A few years ago I had some peripheral that started iTunes Music.app every time I plugged it in. (Bluetooth headphones, I think). As I don't use it, and there was no way to disable it I figured i could just delete it.

    Nope! Music.app is a system application on a read-only partition shadowed on your root filesystem. Apparently it is possible by booting with the partition in read-write developer mode, but you'll get to do it all over again with every update.

  • That's a misleading title. I thought this was a response from Thor.

    Instead I got a video of Louis Rossman :'(

  • Back when we met she looked me up on Facebook, where I had listed my faith. She thought it would be a deal-breaker for a minute or two until she read up on pastafarianism.

    She has come to accept my faith and has even read the good book cover to cover.

  • So they finally made a sequel?

    I'm thinking about the 1989 version. There's many ports, but DOS/Amiga/Macintosh are all good. Even the C64 port is great.

  • I must admit I've never seen or played these. They might be a bit too new for me. I listened to an interview with the game designer on the retro hour a while back. It sounded intriguing.

    Would you care to give an elevator pitch on why these are must-play?

  • The sheer amount of games available today probably makes it hard to get into many of the older gems. Hell, even I have a 30 year backlog.

    I think everyone should explore:

    • The Secret of Monkey Island (1, 2 and return)
    • Loom
    • Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
    • Street Rod
    • Prince of Persia
    • The Incredible Machine
    • Pokémon yellow/red/blue
    • Chrono Trigger
    • Worms
    • Mega Man II
    • TMNT: Turtles in Time
    • Diablo II
    • Burnout 3/legends/takedown
    • Skyrim
  • My wife is atheist, but I'm pastafari.