@NanoRaptor making a religious pilgrimage to here
@angela autism
@NanoRaptor as ESL i picked up mostly generic-USA accent thru voice calls online for a decade, which makes living in southwest UK turn funny faces at me because people can tell i'm not from around here. but once someone unprompted asked if i was Danish, of all nationalities, because of my cobbled together accent
paying 40 quid for something that would probably cost me 5 if i could walk up to the market stalls in shenzhen
@mhd i've done some VB6 with crude graphics back in 2005 or so, i think it's the easiest option to get around to it then :) didn't think to use lua! i'll have to look about how to integrate that into a program, could open up some fun possibilities...
broadly, the idea is a MMO-ish thing with a closed server that runs on much more modern hardware - so there i can just use python.. but i want something that can be played on any number of retro PCs :)
@mhd VB6 might do, i wonder if it'll be too limited/crude but at least it would be easy on me... i speak fairly ok C so i figured it would be more robust that way but if VB will be just as good i might as well. hoping to make something using sockets that'll work on 98 thru 10. i've done a bit win32api that works across that gap but it's a pain to do it all by hand that way 😅
toying with the idea of win98 development. what framework/workflow should i follow? i want windows with some bitmap drawing. something similar to what furcadia or the palace have done back in the day. i'm wondering if mattkc's .net 3.5 backport is good enough for it #windows #development #coding #retro
I am begging software projects to release programs as tarballs or plain old static binaries. I don't know what a Helm chart is. I am not installing an entire Kubernetes cluster. Docker breaks LXC and firewalls and is constantly breaking for mysterious reasons. I would rather submit myself to hours of `./configure && make && make install` frustration than try to hack through the endless hellscape of containerized deployment systems.
I love it so much!
Firefox has made it SO EASY to switch to Firefox from Chrome, that you dont even lose your OPEN TABS.
Have you got 34 open tabs lol? And you lost uBlock ad-blocker today? (You did, you lost your ad blocker, because Google)
You dont even lose open Tabs! (And you get to install uBlock)
Fancy that.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switching-chrome-firefox
anyway fuck you all queens with a neovagina 💜 i hope you disappear from my line of sight
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