I’ll look through the door.

Or, set up a webcam to see when the light is on.

If this isn’t allowed somehow, I’ll tell the building management to consider rewiring this absolutely cursed light switch situation ASAP because it’s gotten so bad that it’s being used as a brainteaser by the recruiting department

For years, the conservatives only had one joke (attack helicopter). Looks like they found another now (we’re deporting anyone we want [laugh track])

Long while ago some antique show had someone bring in a Commodore 64 in full working order. The antique guy was like I was like “well some old nerd will pay a lot of money for this”. I was like hell yeah, thank you so much for not chucking it in ewaste, and oh yeah, argh, I’m getting older.

a leftist equivalent to turning point usa

If there is, I hope they call it “Just Keep Going Global”

Well, there aren’t any real scientific definitions but there sure are legal and regulatory definitions.

(I haven’t checked the local requirements but there’s micro voltage, low voltage and high voltage. Micro voltage is basically anything below 12v - for anything above that you need to be a certified electrician. Doubly so if you go above household voltages)

Interesting to see how this pans out.

Minecraft really isn’t a game where microtransactions work, at least on the ethical stuff. It’s a game about creativity and sharing, which means a lot of people won’t be bothered with mtx.

The elephant in the room is that there’s a giant ecosystem of paid server nonsense, most of which is basically pay-to-win and gambling for school kids, which Microsoft and Mojang somehow approve. They just think it’s unfair they don’t get a cut, hence the push for Bedrock marketplace and servers. Thing is, if Microsoft really starts seriously sticking their fingers into that pie, I really hope the regulators start waking up.

Why do anything? Isn’t existence pointless?

Nintendo is making downloading ROMs mildly annoying.

Meanwhile, ripping discs yourself, ensuring checksums match with Redump, compressing them to RVZ and keeping the collection straight in Dolphin is kinda fun. And best of all, Nintendo can’t do shit about it.

Edit: Also happy I could preserve my old GameCube memory cards (using GCMM) and my Wii’s flash memory. While dumping the Virtual Console titles, I found some wild shit.

I would suggest getting a Wii, but not for playing the games. Softmod it (pretty trivial) and install CleanRip.

Then just start collecting Wii and GameCube games, rip them to USB/SD card, and play them on PC with Dolphin. Use just about any PC compatible controller for GameCube games, and you can pair the Wii controller over Bluetooth for Wii games.

Last I checked Wiis are pretty cheap, and the GC and Wii library has a lot of real gems.

Gustav Adolf: “All right, who’s responsible? I’ll have them beheaded for this!”
[Sees his own signature on the blueprints]
“Uh, um, I guess this was actually no one’s fault, when you really think about it”

Yeah, that sounds like something Trump would do.

Only thing is, nobody would want to raise this wreck. It’d immediately get raided by a crack team of North Korean gold thief divers.

People don’t think enough of contrast and colour choices.

For example, icons.

I kept launching the wrong popular streaming video app. One was red and white, the other was white and red.

I have pinned some app icons but I really need to squint sometimes. So many blue icons.

Modern UI trend in graphics apps is to use monochrome hieroglyphs for tool icons. Fuck that, give me colour icons. Can’t tell the tools apart. It’s not even visually appealing. What.

Games use really creative colour schemes. Then in the first dialog they show in the game, they have two choices, and I guess I just have to guess which button is which because it’s impossible to tell which is the “active” colour.

Ooh, fancy scroll bar you have there. Really blends to the background. Can barely see it.

A lot of lectures and presentations are silly when people show a web page and I can barely make out the domain because the rest of the URL is grey mush. And I’m sitting in the front. (I can barely make sense of it the address bars on my monitor. Firefox at least lets you disable this nonsense)

Another big beef I have with modern UIs, especially mobile ones: If you put something on the screen, would it be possible to not randomly move the stuff around? (For example: I tried to click the latest conversation in Signal desktop. In the time between my decision and the mouse click, Signal noticed that it has been several femtoseconds since the last software update, and popped an update notice right where the top of the conversation list is. Guess what I clicked.)

Another thing: Overreliance on scroll wheel. In case you haven’t noticed, scroll wheels aren’t very reliable. They get gunky and are hard to clean. Give me the bloody scrollbar. In games, let me rebind zoom.

Especially in case of physical media. “Hey, here’s a cool game/movie/recording. Now slap it in a box and never use it again.”

(well, ROM/optical and other media that doesn’t wear away, anyway - if it’s a floppy, that’s going to probably degrade anyway, might as well slap it in a box)

What do publishers do? Editing, layout, other parts of design (e.g. covers), most importantly printing, marketing and distribution.

Oh you mean what do scientific publishers do? Um… that’s a good one, huh… they just kinda take the money and leave everyone else to do the actual work?

Forever ago, Steam added like 1 minute of playtime on games I literally installed once and never played, so I was a little bit apprehensive. Anyway, I figured that was in the past now. I was also encouraged to do this after noticing that Steam’s cloud save was more than happy to just fetch save data from games I’ve literally not touched for 10 years.

Reminds me of an old joke about how everything in KDE has a k and it’s very annoyink and irrtitatink bekause they have less laks user interface kuidelines than GNOME. (I haven’t checked, they’ve probably vastly improved since then)

Nah. Tried to imply that everyone has sex. Even if you’re not thinking about it. (Especially if you’re not thinking about it.)

Ah, I thought Windows always used its own paging file thing located on the Windows NTFS drive, and couldn’t be made to use Linux swap.

If so, enabling that thing probably isn’t a good idea if you are dual booting, yes. Can see all sorts of problems coming from that.

It’s a Unix derivative. To get the fundamental software thing working, someone has likely had hot gay sex. To get the modern software going, someone has had hot transgender sex, hawt furry yiff, and autistic sexual intercourses. …What I’m getting at, sex won’t make Arch unbootable. Guess you just personally fucked up somewhere.

What

Linux swap partitions have no bearing on Windows boot times. Or Windows in general. Windows doesn’t care about partitions it doesn’t recognise. (It might, on occasion, fuck with the bootloader though, but I hear it’s a little bit less of a headache in UEFI days)

Obligatory Jacob Geller video

These days Windows boots really fast to the login screen (which has a reboot option).

If you log in, it’ll start loading all the usual shit, and that will take a few moments on SSD. (And a few geological megacycles on a HDD.)