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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 14, 2023

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If You Like… Diablo

=> ↺ If You Like… Diablo

There shouldn’t be any arguments when I claim that the original Diablo was a masterpiece. Launched in the 90’s, it defined a new genre of dungeon crawling, successfully mixing traditional Rogue/Nethack elements with beautiful visuals, real-time combat, class selection, an innovative loot system, and haunting music. Let’s look at the series as a whole, and the genre it largely created.

FreeBSD 13.2 on ThinkPad T14 (GEN1)

=> ↺ FreeBSD 13.2 on ThinkPad T14 (GEN1)

I used to run FreeBSD on older laptops – some more then a decade old – like my favorite ThinkPad W520 daily driver or ThinkPad X220 mobile companion. Today I will share with you my experiences of running latest production ready FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE system on a quite modern ThinkPad T14 (GEN1) from 2021/2022 (depending on the source of the information) – which is quite new I would say.

… do not interpret this article wrong – The W520 and X220 (sometimes T420s) are still my daily/mobile/… drivers and my points explained in the Epitaph to Laptops article remain the same. I just had an opportunity to use ThinkPad T14 for several days so I thought it would be a good idea to check and document FreeBSD behavior on it.

Microsoft: New listing reveals Microsoft job cuts may cross 10,000 [Ed: Well, it crossed it a very, very long time ago. Shame on the media not fact-checking Microsoft months ago, then properly assess the real scope and scale of the layoffs there. It's like there's no real media left, just parrots.]

=> ↺ Microsoft: New listing reveals Microsoft job cuts may cross 10,000

Microsoft announced job cuts this year citing global macroeconomic uncertainties. Reportedly, this is also the reason behind no salary hike this year.

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