This week Noah and Steve outline where you should leverage automation and rely on it, and when it's good to have a backup plan.
-- During The Show --
02:00 Podcasting 2.0
Podcasting is changing
Thank you
05:00 Retro Tink
RetroTink designed for retro gaming
06:22 Luanti
Mine Test Blog (https://blog.minetest.net/2024/10/13/Introducing-Our-New-Name/)
$2.5B paid for Minecraft
celeron55 took on the challenge of making a similar game
MineTest took over in Noah's house
MineTest expanded way beyond just a Minecraft clone
Luanti (https://www.luanti.org/)
Voxel Libre (https://github.com/VoxeLibre/VoxeLibre)
16:00 When to Automate
A different way to tackle the problem
Automation vs by hand
Nix
Maintaining old versions
Learning something new vs using what you know
Shifting paradigms
38:30 Windows S Mode
People have tremendous patience for MS but not Open Source
Windows S mode only allows software from the MS Store
Requires purchasing a key
43:30 Microsoft 360 Outage
Service announcement delayed
No one at Microsoft to communicate with
45:00 Windows Server Update Mistake
Upgrade flagged as security update
No license check
48:00 Windows Thin Client
Box connects to cloud desktop
MS pushing people off Windows 10
Things are moving to cloud services
ArsTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/11/microsoft-builds-a-349-mini-desktop-but-only-for-accessing-windows-in-the-cloud/)
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