Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es
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He/him. Puzzle-Adventure Hybrid with RPG Elements. Supports 3D Acceleration. He Is Essentially What He Believes. Just in case, 🔞, LGBTQ+ 👍, DOS 👌, 🐂💩👎.
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Good morning, folks. Have a sysadmin tip:
When you ssh to a remote system, make it a habit to run either `screen` or `tmux` first. Always. Even for just a quick little command.
That way, when your crap ISP monopoly drops your connection for no reason whatsoever, your remote command won't be SIGHUP'd, & you can resume with `screen -r` or `tmux attach` when they decide your connection can be restored.
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This is, hands down, one of the worst ways to run Photoshop: in a Mac emulator on an old Sun machine.
#RetroComputing
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Went to a radar museum today and frankly, more systems should have dedicated buttons called "pigeons"
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You can now download 6000+ Lego instruction manuals from the Internet Archive, from the old sets you remember as a kid to the newer massive Star Wars models and sets for adults. https://kottke.org/23/07/instruction-manuals-for-6000-lego-sets-courtesy-of-the-internet-archive
@GFD holy geez, i can imagine how a power-user would get a lot out of that but it looks like you're strapping a stealth bomber to your hand 😨
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"Very broadly speaking, the video game industry has supported the idea of game preservation. But when it comes to copyright reform, consistently we’ve received pushback from the video game industry and its lobbying groups for even modest changes to copyright law to make it easier for libraries to do their jobs."
Me, on Marketplace today!
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/older-video-games-are-in-danger-of-going-extinct/
@GFD I wonder how many of those people play first-person shooters.
Y'know. There's a big, loud audience for people who customize keyboards. Tons of different switch types, hundreds of keycap color schemes and key profile shapes.
Why doesn't such a big, loud audience exist for mice? I'm so damn sick of buying a mouse every 2 years and having the buttons quit working or not feel right or whatever. Where are all the people who geek out about what kind of clicky switches they have and how their mouse wheel is an optical spinner from a Major Havoc arcade machine?
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@glassbottommeg And at the game's climax you enlist the help of a wayward cougar to get a vintage 120mm gun working. The Meowitzer. 😸
@dec_hl This is really cool! I'd have to figure out how to set up a packet driver within Win98SE though, since I've been using a PCMCIA wireless card to connect to the internet, and it doesn't have DOS drivers. 😓
@glassbottommeg A strategic co-op (or realtime-with-pause game?) where you (the possum) and your ragtag band of escaped zoo animals must work together to manipulate and fire a series of increasingly complicated gun emplacements from over a hundred years ago, to defend your zoo from aliens or robots or something.
Possum gives the orders, Macaque turns the crank, mountain goat controls the aim, and a wallaby named Bruce feeds in the ammo.
Maybe figure out how to work in some bats. (Batling gun?)
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Friends, I've just had the most marvelous game idea.
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DREAMM 2.1b7 is now up
https://aarongiles.com/dreamm/beta/
It's been a couple of weeks and I've been on vacation (and recovering from COVID), but I'm back and have some fixes for you.
- Fixed Linux case-sensitivity issue with Escape from Monkey Island saves
- Fixed crash when fielding an unexpected exception
- Fixed crash on failure to lock game texture
- Added stubs for the full set of Win98 kernel32/user32/gdi32 APIs
- Fixed occasional lost key up messages in Windows, which resulted in "sticky" keys
- Fixed handling of assert in Infernal Machine so it shows up and exits gracefully
- Added option to load game directly at startup in Infernal Machine
- Fixed difficulty configuring in Loom FM Towns version
- Added new 3D rasterizers reported via telemetry
- Improved error reporting for crashes and added reporting for unexpected exceptions
- Minor UI refinements
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interviewer: give me an example of a time when you took control of a situation
me: no, YOU give ME an example
interviewer: lol okay, that was pretty impressive
me: I’m afraid we’re going to have to let you go
interviewer: *being led away by security* what is happening right now
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Have you ever wanted to make a "you wouldn't steal a car" meme, but been disappointed with how lame the existing meme editors are?
I made a better one: https://youwouldntsteala.website/editor.html
I made a better one: https://youwouldntsteala.website/editor.html
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- the stuff i do
- https://netizen.club/~wildweasel
He/him. Puzzle-Adventure Hybrid with RPG Elements. Supports 3D Acceleration. He Is Essentially What He Believes. Just in case, 🔞, LGBTQ+ 👍, DOS 👌, 🐂💩👎.
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