Rose

These days I’m usually just confused about autosaves. Especially in games that don’t have clear checkpoints. I don’t mind taking explicit saving away but don’t oversimplify it by trying to pretend saving isn’t even a thing that happens. Nothing more fun than pointlessly replaying 30 minutes.

(Technology that is needlessly oversimplified just sucks. I hate that if YouTube jams on my smart TV, there’s no option to, you know, shut it down or restart it. You have to literally go and pull the plug. Samsung thinks we’re bunch of idiots but they’re a bunch of idiots I tell you)

Also, explicit saving is still better. To quote one local game journalist, when the PC-focused game magazine expanded to cover consoles: “I want to save the game right away, not after I’ve been run over by a zombie in the subway five times.” /old person whinge of the week

I started out with Slackware 3.0. It broke all the time. Tried Debian. Was happy ever since. Tried Ubuntu on laptops but later decided it’s just Debian with extra steps so I went with Debian after all.

I’m always like “du shows disk usage of files, and df shows how much of disk is free”.

“Redux” is the extended cut, which has ~45 extra minutes of stuff that was cut from the original theatrical release. Some of the scenes are great, but some could have been left on the cutting room floor. “The Final Cut” is basically the definitive extended version.

The most cyberpunk thing I’ve seen, oh, this week, I guess

“YESS! YESSSSS! GIVE IN TO YOUR EMACS SIDE!!!”

Google Search really sucks these days. I can’t find any images of Richard M. Stallman as a Sith lord, even though I’m sure vi fans have made several edits by now. …It’s been a while.

Yeah, well, Law and Ethics are two separate things which - very rarely these days - seem to cross each other. This is known.

The only “real” computer (that is, a non-SBC one) I’ve installed Linux lately on was a work laptop. Touchpad, GPU and Wi-Fi worked straight off in Debian. Though I think it only installed Nouveau, never bothered with the real Nvidia driver. And it had some weird thermal regulation issues. Once it somehow left the filesystem in “plz boot in single user and fsck with a toothpick” state. The day before my internship ended, the thing crashed hard for some reason and took the filesystem with it. (Never use btrfs I guess?)

Courts will say “no, that’s not what we meant by that” and will slap you silly.

AI companies aren’t on the side of copyright reform or abolition, they just want an exception for themselves so they can keep doing whatever they’re doing now. (And they also want more IP laws to cover the current grey areas, so they can stop pretending to give a damn about open models)

Sure, there aren’t wild turtles in the Netherlands. But this call was aimed at the turtles in general, worldwide! Turtles will be able to get to the Netherlands from the nearest location. Eventually. We believe in them!

Aww, no turtles? Come on, turtles, you’re so much faster than slugs and snails, go have a walk and demolish those distance figures! 🐢

Oh wow, Elon figured out how we’ll finally get AGI. The key thing is to publish an automatic mobile client update every single hour of the day! That was the secret productivity metric that every single other company was missing. Thanks, big brain business boy!

Linus was a bit of a trendsetter what comes to standing desks. In an interview he also commented on the walls, saying the paint colour is also used in mental institutions because it has a very calming effect on the human mind. (Goodness knows Linus needs all the chill he can muster.)