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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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