Hey this is magic information - thank you for your reply.

Genuine question for those with experience of VMs and virtualisation...

Is this not really inefficient? Like, running a VM on a platform like Windows or Linux introduces some mega overheads... surely having another level of abstraction would make things real slow, even on decent hardware?

I'm just someone with a surface level knowledge so happy to be educated.

Weird Dreams was as mental as it was hard. Cracking animation, horrendous controls, but leaves a definite memory on anyone who has played it.

Does the day end in a "y"? It does, so it is!

Enjoy your day.

It is now. Happy selfie day.

Good on you sista. Here's to a lifetime of happy selfies.

If you ever get chance to visit Aberdeen - the Aberdeen University Zoological dept building (painted as the Elorg building in the film) is fucking awesome and the two-floor exhibits they have of natural history is genuinely brilliant.

I used to do some operator work for a major UK telecoms firm.

Because it was free, you had all sorts of people phoning it. A good chunk of them were just old folk who were lonely and just wanted someone to speak to.

It was nice. Some of us had additional roles too and we were generally left alone if there was nothing else to do, so it was nice talking about people's families and interests, and hearing their voices brighten over the course of five or ten minutes.

Growing old alone must suck.

You've hit the nail on the head there.

I had a Flip3 as a way of trying to kick my QWERTY habit, and it was cool as fuck. It's a great conversation starter (if you like starting conversations!), it's a lovely form factor to carry in it's folded state, and no matter what anyone says, it's satisfying as fuck to end a particularly heated call by slamming the phone shut.

Other than that though... it's just a decent phone. No better or worse than anything else aside from the irritating bloatware.

The hinge was weak as fuck and two of my devices suffered screen bleed from the hinge, but then that was nearly five generations of Flip ago.

Yeah fair play. Mad respect to the domestic and waste workers making the place looks half decent for everyone... but I can't really hate on a guy for tidying shit into bags and selling them to people with more money than sense.

If it makes that corner of the world look a bit nicer for humans and animals alike... I can't hate on it.

That trumpet fanfare on the TNG theme was a banger, no doubt about it.

In fairness - and I'm a massive id fanboy - the company that gave us quality games and trailblazing tech disappeared when they went to Zenimax.

The publishers admittedly treated them well at the start (Mick Gordon... less so), but this soulless bottom-line thinking was always going to hit them eventually.

Shame.