Made sense to me but it definitely could use another draft. Just adding some punctuation would help because it’s a long phrase and the punchline blends into one of the sentences, but here’s the same message with minor tweaks and punctuation:

Reading this while working for a division that pivoted twice — first to providing interfaces for agentic workflows (only to discover that only ten users had ever touched the products we made for agents), only to pivot again to support for agentic workflows (which has a lot of competition because every company has to do something agentic now and there’s only like four things you can do in that space) — is bracing.

XBOX shuttered Arkane and other studios already. they’re in cost cutting mode.

um Microsoft owns XBOX which owns Bethesda?

that’s the thing, I tried to avoid using “good” and instead went for “successful”. Skyrim is a lesser game than its predecessors but it still made them a lot of money.

it takes 30d in game for cells to reset fyi

I don’t disagree, I actually mod Skyrim in my free time, but that doesn’t make the games successful. Starfield basically flopped, and made many fans lose excitement for a new Bethesda game.

they are owned by XBOX tho, sure internally it’s the same but externally it needs to make them money, and even Arkane wasn’t safe from getting axed in spite of the good games.

financially not a loss but how many years can a studio coast on that money and glory before someone asks them to do their job and make more money?

the writing was poor, and for a space sandbox it was really missing a lot of the space navigation and sandbox. they recently increased the number of POIs (points of interest) on maps, but I’m not sure that’s enough to salvage it.

it’s giving Veilguard yes

I upvoted because yes you are right to a degree, but communication is really important and shapes the relation the average consumer has with the product.

Your tap water comes through pipes, laid in the ground, some rusty some not, some you get warnings that they’re not safe to drink from. The systems around it are made to highlight its health risks if any.

Clouds though are clean, white, up in the sky, they’re a force of nature. using it as a metaphor almost makes it sound like we’ve harnessed something that was already there, it doesn’t instill the same image as stacks and stacks of computers in a heavily ventilated building that could be around the corner.

You could reasonably group this together with the abstraction of files and folders to apps for gen alpha and newer, now settings for your application aren’t in a readily accessible file, a program isn’t just an executable, it’s an ✨app✨ that has its own settings and folder structure hidden away from you. All the transparency of how things work is polished out of the experience, all in order to instill trust and increase profits. A layman won’t realise that the viruses his pc can get are also something that can happen to “the cloud”, similarly what files are there to worry about being stolen from a phone when they can’t even see them because the app has them in its own folders?

but they already work, I don’t see the point.

what are you even asking? what would such “reverse engineered EA games” look like?

you still have tactical mode tho and it works the same as in origins, I think the AI ruleset stuff you could set before is missing in 2 iirc, but when I played them back to back it didn’t feel like I needed to relearn how stuff works.

I do think it helps playing da2 with all the included dlcs, it helps add variety to areas you visit.

upvoted only to retract it for the da2 comment lol. Dragon Age 2 is a great game swamped by tight deadlines, but what’s there is fun and it still has the feel of origin where the world feels dangerous. it is so much better than its successors, and honestly if it had the right budget I’d even say it could’ve been as good as origins.

https://wiki.omv-extras.org/doku.php?id=omv7%3Aomv7_plugins%3Asnapraid + https://wiki.omv-extras.org/doku.php?id=omv7%3Aomv7_plugins%3Amergerfs (only put the data snapraid drives in a merge, not the parity drive(s) too)

nah for software raid you’re better off looking into snapraid and mergerfs I think, OMV has unofficial plugins for both via OMV Extras, and you can have the drives in btrfs with those on top

I did mean to ask, why restic into Borg instead of just Borg?

on the logs thing that’s fair enough, most of the stuff I use has a clear “logs” folder I can exclude, and I checked what the backup contains Vs what the container data folder has before calling it a day

7 backups, though the frequency they’re taken (daily Vs weekly Vs monthly) depends on the service.

Why don’t you exclude logs from your backups? databases sure yes that’s where the real info is (not sure why you don’t consider it real data) but logs are useless outside of the current running instance.

they did announce they’re working on a Linux client a few months ago btw