I'm replaying through all of them up to A Crack In Time a second time. It's nice to be able to see these games through a critical lens. As a kid I guess I just implicitly thought Up Your Arsenal would be the best cause it was the 'newest', but I'm noticing it's actually a pretty weak entry. The online mode was fun, and I guess as I kid I just didn't notice how much the single-player took a hit. Still a fun game, though.

I'd say right now, probably the first one is my favorite. For some reason, it just feels like they put more effort into it than the others. The tone of the game seems quieter and more natural than the other ones. While I love the environments in each entry, it's the first one that felt like the environments and navigating them took a bigger part compared to blowing up robots. I also like Ratchet's personality in the first one, even though he was criticized for being kinda mean. The transition to a 'nicer' Ratchet in subsequent games feels a little muffled, like they're making him something he wasn't supposed to be.

I haven't played A Crack in Time or past it because it doesn't work on RPCS3.

I don't want to be notified everytime I get a reply to one of my posts. Is there a way to turn this off?

I want to install Debian directly onto my USB drive. Is there an easy way to do this directly without having to reboot to run the installer?

Broken hinges legitimately should not be a thing, but here we are (thanks capitalism.)

Which gaming laptops can people buy and be sure that their hinges will not break even after many years of normal use? I'm fine with paying more if it avoids repairing or replacing it before it's past its usefulness.

I have one of those basic motor kits you can buy off of Amazon. I was wondering what steps I should take to make it so that I can turn the motor on/off with the press of a button, wirelessly.

I'm still very new, so any information you can offer no matter how basic will probably be useful to me.

The controller I'm using shuts off after about 5 minutes of idle time. I tried adjusting the value in Steam, but it doesn't have any effect.

Does anyone know where this value may be stored or how I can change it to be much longer?

I use it all the time and have for years. Just seems like a weird feature to lock behind about.config and say it's not supported while they still support things like Pocket.

Whenever I left click over something that I can potentially interact with, I have to try several times before the prompt appears.

Does anyone else have this problem? Does anyone know of a solution?

So, apparently the chrome/geckodriver processes will terminate on their own if the user sends ctrl+c to the console. It will not terminate on its own if the program finishes running naturally.

If you're interested in terminating it on your own, like I also was, here is how I went about it.

``` use std::process::{Child, Command};

fn main() { let mut s = Server::default(); s.start(); s.shutdown(); }

struct Server { child: Option<Child> }

impl Default for Server { fn default() -> Self { Self { child: None } } }

impl Server { fn start(&mut self) { self.child = Some(Command::new("./chromedriver") .spawn() .expect("ls command failed to start")); }

fn shutdown(&mut self) { input(None); // wait for input so you can observe the process self.child.as_mut().unwrap().kill(); self.child.as_mut().unwrap().wait(); println!("shutdown"); } }

pub fn input(prompt: Option<String>) { let mut input = String::new(); match prompt { Some(prompt) => println!("{}", prompt), None => () } io::stdin().read_line(&mut input).expect("Failed to read input"); } ```