emr 1 day ago • 100%
Can't wait for the bots to tell us what they learned about b2b marketing!
emr 2 weeks ago • 100%
I don't think the vast majority of users use browser plugins at all. Vodoo or not, the barrier is high enough that it's not a common practice. Certainly not trivial. See the next section; I do think there's a genuine blind spot among tech literate people.
It's kinda like if cars shocked you every time you touched the steering wheel. Car enthusiasts of course know how to pop the hood and remove the shock module, but most drivers aren't car enthusiasts. So when people have a conversation about cars, it needs to start with 'yeah shock wheels kinda suck' because that's what cars are to drivers, even if you have a workaround. If leaving the shock module in as a reminder is what it takes, so be it.
emr 2 weeks ago • 100%
Are we not even going to talk about how many of their sites/wikis are filled with fake/misinformation and go to great lengths to document completely non-existent things in a way that isn’t always obvious to outsiders?
I don't know how specific that is to Fandom but I am aware of at least one Fandom Wiki for an obscure old console game that's like 50% inexplicable unmarked fanfiction.
emr 2 weeks ago • 100%
I agree strongly with your gut reaction. I personally use it as the archive of record whenever I digitize some media that would otherwise be lost. I use it when trying to establish how something looked in the past. I don't need IA to go out and pick losing fights with publishers at the expense of the excellent services they already provide.
It should be noted that if you want digital book loans Libby is fine.
emr 2 weeks ago • 100%
I guess what I'm trying to say is that his contrarian personal views and his contrarian technical views are both expressions of some underlying contrarian-ness. Not that we shouldn't be asking if he's a decent person, just that I'm not super surprised to find out he's gone mask off weirdo.
emr 3 weeks ago • 100%
I lost all respect for his technical taste when he confessed that his daily driver is FreeDOS. I know linux folks skew at least a little contrarian but at that point I don't think we're speaking the same language of computing and there's not much I can learn from ya. Not super surprised to hear he went way overboard contrarian in other ways I guess.
emr 1 month ago • 100%
N64 runs ok on pi? Since when? Which PI?
emr 4 months ago • 100%
When I search for stuff I don't seem to get anything.
emr 5 months ago • 100%
The nice thing about Samba is that you can find clients for everything.
emr 5 months ago • 100%
I'm trying to picture how the other room music is supposed to work. Are you cranking the volume on your TV speakers loud enough to hear in the other toom, or using the PC to control an extra set or far away speakers, or did people used to wire their houses with everywhere speakers controlled from a single receiver?
emr 5 months ago • 100%
Great video. Haven't finished it yet, but did he ever explain why you'd want your media center to be luggable? I feel like if they'd ditched the screen and keyboard they would have something better than a modern streaming box except in 2006, but maybe they sold something like that too.
emr 10 months ago • 100%
I really like nonfiction, so I'll recommend a few.
Wonderful Life (Stephen Jay Gould) was what really helped me understand biology. Really interesting read if you want to hear about evolution or paleontology. If you prefer land animals to Cambrian bugs, Rise and Fall of dinosaurs (Steve Brusatte) is also a great read, though it didn't blow my mind as much as Gould did.
House and Soul of a new Machine (both by Tracy Kidder) are op opposite ends of the technical spectrum but together form a rich portrait of people at work.
Exploding The Phone (Phil Lapsely) is the book you want if you're at all interested in retro technology. I suspect many people who care enough to use a ln offbeat social network like this one will enjoy it.
Annals of the former world (John McPhee) is a hefty tome that tells the natural history of United States geology, the history of geology (especially how plate tectonics were discovered) and how geology has interacted with the people living on it.
emr 10 months ago • 100%
So like systemd but ten times more dramatic.
emr 11 months ago • 100%
Only very occasionally. Masters of Doom and Ubik are examples. I like being able to hand copies of books to friends and family to borrow and I can't do that with an ebook.
I tell myself I will reread some books, but I can't imagine ever really doing that. Maybe when my brain is less plastic some day.
emr 12 months ago • 100%
Similar situation here. I held on to mine until it couldn't run Godot 4 then finally moved up to a newer Thinkpad. I still miss that keyboard...
emr 12 months ago • 100%
Now you see why Romulans ended up a recurring villain... very strong start. Compare that to how long they took to bring back the Gorn!
emr 12 months ago • 100%
It's not specific to Godot 4, but I found this couple of videos really useful for understanding how to build interpolated multiplayer in Godot:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=w2p0ugw3afs (and the one after on extrapolation.)
emr 1 year ago • 100%
Warzone 2100 was my jam! They hadn't actually got cutscenes working in the Linux port I was using so I was.very confused about the story.
emr 1 year ago • 100%
Huh, TIL about the Pliche: https://lowendmac.com/musings/pliche.shtml
emr 1 year ago • 100%
Termux used to rock but nowdays installing stuff is very hit or miss.
emr 1 year ago • 91%
x86 apps? Awesome.
emr 1 year ago • 100%
In Excession it felt more like ::: spoiler spoiler The Culture is a race of intelligent starships that keeps humans as pets. :::
emr 1 year ago • 100%
Whoa
emr 1 year ago • 100%
Does Valve ship a usable desktop distro?
emr 1 year ago • 100%
What's crazy to me is that Linux was out way in front of this. Put me in front of windows back in the aughts and say 'go install a program' and you had to google it, hope you clicked the right download link, install it, hope you didn't get a virus. Ubuntu you just opened up synaptic and bam, there was a wealth of programs you could just install with a single click. It was mind-blowing, and way easier than what everyone else offered.
emr 1 year ago • 100%
Baby Duck syndrome is real, and probably the reason I'm using Lubuntu; it superficially resembles the OSs I grew up using (Win9x/OS9/WinXP.) Windows, MacOS, Gnome, and Mate on the other hand relentlessly change their interfaces.
emr 1 year ago • 100%
I'm sure they have sentimental/kitch value. At the very least, I'm sure a junk shop would take it off your hands.
emr 1 year ago • 100%
I still don't understand why IA picked a fight with publishers with the emergency library.
IA provides a really valuable service and they're an incredibly juicy target. Going on anti-copyright crusades isn't their mission.
emr 1 year ago • 100%
MacOS was just about as jank as Windows 9x by my recollection.
The screen was nice, the USB support was nice. I didn't hate the keyboard, though I was used to an IBM Model M so I hammered those keys...
emr 1 year ago • 100%
Is there somewhere I can read more of this?
emr 1 year ago • 100%
Just pick an engine and stick to it.
emr 1 year ago • 100%
Thanks for the info!
emr 1 year ago • 100%
It's what I use for my home server and it's great. You can even use VLC to stream music and stuff via samba.
I figured some teleco geniuses out here, so I figured I might give it a shot. The house I grew up in is looking to get rid of it's landline, and thus it's phone number. This phone number is one of the small number I actually have memorized-making it super useful, because I am unlikely to memorize any additional numbers in my lifetime, and certainly no numbers will ever have the same nostalgic ring to them. They're a different phone carrier, and a different state. The current owner would be happy to hand the number over. Is this type of transfer in the realm of possibility?
emr 1 year ago • 100%
Ambrosia Software published a bunch of Mac games back in the day, but the app store crunched them.
emr 1 year ago • 100%
Marathon was a mac exclusive. Will the new Marathon ship on mac at all?
emr 1 year ago • 100%
I'm still on there because at the very least it's a decent way to track the books I've read. I keep getting tempted to put my reviews on my blog instead ot Goodreads though.
emr 1 year ago • 100%
For the tower defense enthusiast.
Would the perfect title for the blog post I hope exists somewhere. I, like a few other posters, just grabbed one of these things. I also took the step of reading through a good chunk of *Ham Radio For Dummies* just to get a handle on the basics. * What can I (legally) do with this thing without a license? * Any pointers for learning the basics on this particular machine? * I should read the manual cover to cover, right? * Looks like it's easier to program from a computer, any tips on that?