Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

Googling "what is git lfs" gives a featured snippet that leads to a competing product's website. The article answers the question in a biased way that carefully points out all the downsides of using git before launching into a full-on ad for their product. Sleazy use of SEO in a way that manipulates search results

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (DOS VGA)

Obviously.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

YouTube mismatches thumbnails and titles on my computer sometimes and it occasionally churns out gems like this

Fascinating both for what it says about dev & what it says about statistics:

A gamedev realized Linux users were just 5.8% of their sales, but represented 38% of bug reports.

Then they looked at those numbers closer, and realized. Linux users were not experiencing more bugs. Almost none of the Linux-user bugs were Linux-related. Linux users were simply *more likely to file bugs*.

Their conclusion: A linux port pays for itself bc it nerdsnipes ppl into giving u free QA

https://techhub.social/@ozone89/111337250473454154

Since both my laptop and smartphone were stolen, I'm working from the fridge today.

did you know https://links.netizen.club has rss? http://links.netizen.club/rss

touchHLE v0.2.1 is out. Happy Halloween! 🎃

This is the first release with support for Wolfenstein RPG, Doom II RPG and I Love Katamari. There's also some important usability improvements on Android, among other things. Please check out the release notes! https://github.com/hikari-no-yume/touchHLE/releases/tag/v0.2.1

Hey! Did you know I once put #Doom and #gameboy (playable!) on credit card machines? Or ported Wordle to #PalmOS ? I've been plumbing all sorts of #tech into all sorts of other tech professionally for almost a decade now (unprofesionally for 16 years!) with an intimate knowledge of the inner workings of computers and low-level embedded code. I can also do killer hand-crafted #webdesign without relying on platforms or frameworks! And I can draw you in #pixelart for a modest price!

I'm currently 99% unemployable due to being legally in Brazil and physically in the UK. I've been without a stable income for 2 years now and I desperately need something my way. If you know of any commission or contract work that won't bug me with where I am geographically, please let me know!

#fedihire #fedihired #getfedihired #jobsearch #jobseeking #jobhunting

My classic ThinkPad T43 (from 2005) used IDE/PATA storage. That's slow and unreliable, especially after the PATA->SATA bridge IBM included.

Instead, let's use NVMe SSDs in the ExpressCard/34 slot!
I modified the BIOS to include a custom Option ROM, which can translate the BIOS disk accesses into NVMe.

Windows XP, Debian 12, MS-DOS 6 can boot fine from NVMe!

Option ROM Source:
https://github.com/Manawyrm/nvme-int13h-optionrom

YouTube-Video in Action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVKbFLtXLYM

Robbie and Bobby 🤖👦 Dishwasher

Sometimes it's best to just wait for the next elevator. #indiedev #gamedev

I boosted a thing about microsoft not letting you use third-party controllers on the xbox anymore, and I guess they're justifying that with "prevents cheating" or whatever and, like, cheating-wise

the machine lives IN PEOPLE'S HOUSES

I don't think you can ever overcome that. Play around with maths and touch computers all you want, if folk wanna cheat badly enough then The Machine Is In Their House, ain't nothing you can do about it. None of what the manufacturers try has ever worked for long, and nor will it, because The Machine Literally Lives In Your House FFS

All applications need Undo for UI changes. The amount of time I spend trying to unfuck applications that mangle their UI on a stray click or drag is just stupid. No warning, no confirmation, no explanation, no docs, somehow the toolbar or menu or window is just fucking gone. I'm looking at you VS Code but you inherited this deranged behavior from every other IDE in the past 2 decades. LOCK THE FUCKING UI AND DON'T CHANGE IT UNLESS IF FUCKING EXPLICITLY UNLOCK IT FIRST. I WILL BEAT YOUR UI DESIGNERS TO DEATH WITH A FUCKING CLAW HAMMER. KNOCK IT THE FUCK OFF. IT'S A TOOL, NOT A GODDAMN MYST PUZZLE.

New Secret Area post: It's Blood of the Werewolf.

There haven't been very many great werewolf video games out there. Does this game break that curse?

Shares and comments appreciated, as always: https://asecretarea.com/2023/10/28/blood-of-the-werewolf-pc/