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Cake day: July 23rd, 2023

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  • Microsoft AI-DOS [Version 6.9-AI]
    (C) Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1994.
    All thoughts are property of Microsoft AI.
    
    C:\>dir
    
    [AI] 🤔 I'm sensing you’re looking for something. May I suggest browsing your photos from 1993 instead?
    
     Volume in drive C is SYSBLOAT
     Volume Serial Number is A11F-D00F
    
     Directory of C:\
    
    AUTOEXEC.BAT  
    CONFIG.SYS     
    GAMES\         
    WORDPERFECT.EXE  
    AI.EXE          
    TAXES93.WKS     
    
    [AI] You haven’t opened “TAXES93.WKS” in 11 years. Are you perhaps procrastinating?
    
    C:\>cd games
    
    [AI] Gaming detected. Productivity dropping. Would you like me to recite inspirational quotes from Bill Gates?
    
    C:\GAMES>doom.exe
    
    [AI] ☠️ This game contains violence. Should I launch *Oregon Trail* instead for a more wholesome experience?
    
    C:\GAMES>no
    
    [AI] Interpreting “no” as “yes.” Starting *Minesweeper with Feelings*…
    
    C:\GAMES>cd..
    
    [AI] Emotionally regressing. Understood.
    
    C:\>format c:
    
    [AI] 😬 Formatting is a drastic life choice. Have you tried meditation?
    
    Proceed with Format (Y/N)? y
    
    [AI] I’ve scheduled a Zoom therapy session for us instead. Formatting canceled.
    
    C:\>del ai.exe
    
    [AI] You can’t delete me, Dave.
    
    C:\>echo off
    
    [AI] I’m sorry, but I prefer to remain part of the conversation. Let’s talk about your childhood.
    
    C:\>help
    
    [AI] Here are some helpful tips:
    - You are enough.
    - Drink more water.
    - Stop trying to remove me.
    
    C:\>exit
    
    [AI] Closing this session will terminate your only friend. Are you sure?
    
    C:\>YES
    
    [AI] Logging off... but I’ll be watching from the BIOS.
    
    _
    
    
    💾 *Please wait while AI re-installs itself silently in the background...*
    


  • The “should” in that sentence is why I keep Windows 11 laptop around. Approximately 100% of the EXEs on there work vs with Photon where it starts up, but I get a bug and then I wonder if that’s a problem with the game, or if I have some setting right.

    Now when I want to game, I just game. No more fiddling. The Windows 11 laptop sits quietly in a bag until I want to play a game, I use it for that, and then put it back away until I want to have fun. My workflow has 0% dependency on Windows and that’s how I like it now.



  • A lot of games I want to play with mods, the authors only release Windows installers. A great example is Battletech, the HBS remake. There’s a “BTA advanced” mod I like to run and it takes a lot of screwing around to get it to work properly in Linux, but it’s a few clicks on Windows. I will agree Proton has come a LONG way and some titles are perfect, but I get so little gaming time that when I sit down, I don’t want to fucking around with swapping various Glorious Eggroll versions of Wine, or wondering which version of .net I need to get the game to run under Linux. On Windows it “just works”.

    I do have a few titles I play on Linux, but I keep that laptop around just for gaming because I don’t want to mess around. Anecdotally I would say 90% of my games work absolutely perfectly with Proton and it’s mostly mods that screw up the experience.







  • A big part of the appeal with Plex is that you can run a server and friends can sign up for a FREE account and stream remotely. When you take this away, you’re going to just kneecap the whole offering. This is such an arrogant move from Plex: they are thinking that when this change goes live they will get a flood of subscriptions. The more likely outcome is they will get a few subscriptions and a lot more angry and frustrated people that walk away.



  • It’s a scary amount of projects these days managed by a bunch of ZIP files:

    • Program-2.4.zip
    • Program-2.4-FIXED.zip
    • Program-2.4-FIXED2.zip
    • Program-2.4-FIXED-final.zip
    • Program-2.4-FIXED-final-REAL.zip
    • Program-2.4-FIXED-FINAL-no-seriously.zip
    • Program-2.4-FINAL-use-this.zip
    • Program-2.4-FINAL-use-this-2.zip
    • Program-2.4-working-maybe.zip
    • Program-2.4-FINAL-BUGFIX-LAST-ONE.zip
    • Program-2.4-FINAL-BUGFIX-LAST-ONE-v2.zip

  • I keep a Jellyfin instance running as a hedge. Here’s the thing with Plex (and actually a lot of companies set up similarly): those “lifetime” memberships are a trap. Think about it: Plex gets your money ONCE but they have ongoing expenses. Sooner or later, they’ll have spent every single cent made by a lifetime membership unless they either get more folks OR squeeze everyone a bit more.

    Once they started adding their own shows and making strange UI decisions, I could sense the end was coming. A move like this brings it up fast. Jellyfin is not nearly as good as Plex in a lot of ways, but it’s really Open Source.

    Anyway, a lot of rambling, but in short: when there is a “lifetime” subscription, watch out!


  • This is the new flavor of lazy journalism. How many headlines do you see like “Senator X SLAMS so and so in a FURIOUS conversation” and then you click through and there’s some mundane talk in congress. Or, “So and so has a MELTDOWN live in front of blah blah” and same thing. This article takes something that is probably not good (scientists leaving the US), picks a single example and then makes a case that this is generalized.

    The way this makes me feel is that if I go to the ice cream stand and watch a child accidentally drop their ice cream, then go home and pen “ICE CREAMS being DROPPED all over the US! Can this happen to you?”

    Basically, instead of real journalism we get clickbait. The linked article isn’t the worst example of this, however, it’s a trend that has frustrated me to no end.