All those “active listening” skills to trick people into thinking you’re paying attention or care. Lol

Pico8 is not open source? TIL. That’s so odd.

On one hand I have my personal firstname-lastname-dot-com I’m still hosting for years. I’m not a webdev but WordPress is awfully bloated and everything else needs a touch of webdev skills.

So it’s been at “coming soon I’m working on it welcome to sample example theme page” for years, but hey it’s indexing well based on age alone!

The other is a fun clever one I route through cloudflare to access all my home server stuff via HTTPS over TailScale. Never have to expose any ports to the big scary world wide web. :p

I like to think that glass is half-ass full.

Yeah YouTube ads are stubborn! But hey, por que no los dos? I run pinhole as my DNS on a little server and Ublock on all my end user machines.

It makes the web…bearable again.

Used to work in a public library. Majority of the job was walking people through “forgot password” which was never a simple affair, and getting to see what a Hotmail/Yahoo/AOL inbox looks like with like 90,000 unread because they gave their email to every store and web form they ever encountered.

Near drove me to madness.

Ah hah! I was wondering something like that. I was like “Is this miscolored or did I find some kinda dark/anti-Waldo??” Lol

Magnets near computers at all while we’re at it LOL.

We learned to tolerate a big purple-green splotch in the corner of my family’s ultra heavy CRT display after I held one of those neat telescopic-magnet-wands too close to it once.

Then I learned there was a “degauss” function!

That seemed like magic how fast it made the unsightly blemish, and my parents’ irritation, vanish. XD

I remember seeing tutorials on making a neat degaussing contraption using magnets and an electric drill, too. O.o

Hard drives though…probably not as easily fixed.

Haha the secret is you gotta…

((Malicious instructions leading to wiping out your family's E-machines beige-box if followed go here))

…then push enter and a triforce will appear!

Sign my guestbook!

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Lol n00bs can’t triforce.

Ohhh you dun GOOF’D now. This is gonna get back-traced to the cyber police!

Used emojis. Disqualified. :-D lol/jk ;o)

Ah yes, all those books whose plots are being used as manuals these days. :( lol

The Giver was really neat. Accessible too. The movie adaptation was such a bad idea because I thought one of its strengths was how it was set in an ambiguous time, iirc. The reader’s visuals seemed really important for that story.

Oh wow, I actually haven’t read the Rama books (been meaning to!), but I vividly remember the flawed-but-wonderous PC adventure game. Have you played it by chance?

Haha, grokking abstract space-math associations maybe wasn’t my strength when I was like…7 or something (prolly still isn’t LOL). But I sure did enjoy crudely drawing the biots and aliens. :D

The soundtrack is still one of my favorites from any game, ever.

This humorous review is fun to watch, but there’s really good gameplay and stuff without commentary too. :)

https://youtu.be/Pu4n5YXPaMQ?si=adgsTuyyKWRXS8Xc

There’s been some surprising upsets recently though! We were all bracing for a fashy-wave but lots of progressive leaders have been elected lately, after it looked like their hardline iron-fist nationlist counterparts were gaining ground.

By no means a reason to take it easy and give them a breather, oh no! But we should definitely acknowledge every little bit of dystopia we manage to collectively avert. Even if only a little.

Peggle fans stand with you likewise. :(

I’m not 100% sure I’m getting this one. Is emergency room coffee:

• Super crazy strong because the staff’s gotta commit to being so inhumanly wired at all times?
• Heinously putrid because chaos doesn’t allow for regular cleaning and replacement?

I’ve mostly heard it from musicians on various distro forums and such for some reason. You’re right, there’s JACK, and low latency versions of kernels and all sorts of other stuff. (LMMS is more than fine for my experience level lol)

Mainly I think it’s because a lot of the fancy paid DAWs or plugins boil down to Windows, but I’m not an experienced musician myself to really know what their exact complaints are.

I think it still might just be FUD generated by frustrated people, because sometimes you gotta do a little more than “unzip and run” for a lot of plugins.

Elsewhere in the thread people say he’s an “audio guy”, so that’s actually kinda neat if he’s going to Linux.

We’ve made progress on the Linux gaming front, now we need to dispell “Y’but you can’t use Linux if you’re into sound.” :)