Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

maybe i know more linux people here that'd know how to help:

I've noticed that emoji are completely invisible, anywhere (except Discord, which I assume does its own thing entirely). No matter whether I try to paste one myself (from e.g. Emojipedia) or read messages containing them, they just cannot be seen, not even with the "tofu" block. I'm running Linux Mint 22.3 with Cinnamon.

fonts-noto-color-emoji and fonts-emojione are both installed through apt.

Items potentially on the wishlist for PonderSlab? Well, the Ultrabay is currently empty. Logic dictates that I put a DVD drive in it, but I wonder if there is anything weirder or more interesting that can go in the bay. I spotted someone on eBay selling an Ultrabay ZIP-100 drive, but the pictures were so bad I couldn't be sure if it was even a ZIP drive, let alone for an Ultrabay.

As much of an ordeal as it was to get it to this point - FreeBSD installs almost nothing by default except network drivers - I'm extremely thankful that their website includes full, comprehensive documentation that even an inexperienced hobbyist like myself could follow.

Still some minor blips to contend with; my user has permission to `su -` but not to `sudo`. But the thing functions! No idea where I'll take it from here, as ever, but I always wanted a ThinkPad in any case.

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

Once I _do_ get that caddy, I've got a drive already picked out for it that already contains a Windows XP install, but I'm pondering what I should try putting on it instead. I've never messed with a BSD before and maybe this should be the time that I give that a try.

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.