Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

I figure I owe this site the update as well since I posted about it here before. The Thinkpad, now dubbed "PonderSlab", is now running FreeBSD 15.1, has functioning wi-fi, graphics and audio drivers, runs Lxqt as its window manager...

And pulls 33.5 FPS from Quakespasm at 1280x800. 😙​

I honestly thought there were only three golf sims associated with General Motors brands, two years ago. That number has not risen, but I've discovered a missing link: a standalone, shareware golf game from the same company, developed separately from the Buick and Cadillac brands.

https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/buick.html

I was able to boot up one of my recent acquisitions for the first time last night, since I've now got its power cable: a Lenovo Thinkpad T61, from 2006. 2 GHz Core 2 Duo, integrated graphics, and 4 GB of RAM. Can't put storage into it without a disk caddy, but I can at least boot some things from USB to ensure the thing still functions; namely, Haiku (a build from 2024) and Linux Mint 22.3 (it's what I had on hand). Alas, it froze during the Quake test, so I'll hold off on any further.

I've owned this old, beat-up Callaway Big Bertha golf club for months. Only today did I get around to doing what I actually meant to do with it when I bought it.

https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/updates/2026-07-29.html

In this month's Golfshrine update: a shareware distribution of a retail game, a Sega Genesis cartridge rescued from the discount rack, and the Canadian that I sometimes wish that I were.

I've had this post on the backburner for six years, through an entire format-change (it was almost a YouTube video!), before I decided it needed to be a blog post instead. Prime Target, a Macintosh FPS game that's weird precisely because it isn't weird.

https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/blaugh/posts/2026-07-05-Prime-Target---Senseless-Patriotism.html

be honest, your desk has probably looked like this at some point and there's a 50/50 chance it still does

Golfshrine acquisitions update, somewhat light on new items this time, but plenty of news to be had besides!

https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/updates/2026-06-15.html

Hoi seems like a chill little dude, so I gave him a little cup of boba tea to enjoy. #moonchild

does bluesky work on a 386? nope!

should i keep this bit going? probably also nope!

when you want to build that Terran Battlecruiser but you're out of vespene gas

that feeling when you wish to open the tomes that the archmage wishes no one to touch, to profane the fabric of the earth, to perform those magicks most unspeakable

that other website's having another fun downtime so we get another batch of fun screenshots like this one

this specific dandelion. i take the weed trimmer to it every week when it's time to mow. this week it seems to have learned that it can simply hide inside this metal patio table.

clever dandelion.

not that there was much doubt about it, but (most of) my website loads and displays (in a usable fashion) in Microweb on a 386SX

Success at last!

🤞🤞🤞🤞

love when i can tell a hand-off has just been made; the ethernet interface's job is done, now is time for the CPU to do its duty

so now i'm sitting in my Comfy Chair in a completely different room, watching this update go, and also monitoring its vitals with btop in another pane because i fucking can. GOD I love it when I feel like I know what I'm doing

one reboot later and we're still on 42