Endymion_Mallorn

Well, yeah. The worst of the 2600 is more playable than the new crud.

This year, I don’t have a clear list. It’ll probably involve some random music. Maybe I’ll finally get Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2.

Well, education would give us a better sense of what “common sense” needs to mean.

Cowboys get results. Not always good or correct results, but by gosh they get a result.

To the vast majority of the population, those two things are the same. Science is what’s published and what the lawmakers and journalists see. If most of that is flawed, Science is flawed. if Science is flawed, then the next best thing is “common sense”.

so that’s a small lunch for me.

This week, other than the standby of OpenTTD, I’m doing some RetroAchievements on Game Boy and GBC.

If it can, then it should. This should all be public information, and every unredacted detail should be made clear to the public so that no one can overlook it.

KDE Connect is probably one of my favorite pieces of software, ever.

Someone needs to bring a trust-busting suit against Valve.

No, banned is the right word colloquially. The media is not eligible to be distributed in the monopolistic or anti-competitive web service run by Valve. It wasn’t banned by a government, but it was indeed banned.

PipePipe - the URL calls out the real name and function, NewPipe Enhanced. Covering more services with more reliability (including PeerTube).

I want to use ed as a proper text editor, but xed has so many features I can’t turn it down anymore.

Mint includes both ed and sed.

No, for an SSD, you have to remove it from power and either apply load to specific capacitors, or use concentrated bursts of radiation.

So what? The best outcome is that someone issues a pull request that teaches you how to do what you did in a “better” way. The worst outcome is that someone starts using your code in an LLM and vibecoders learn your style.

“[INSERT COMPANY] is an evil corporation” is a needless truism. All corporations are evil by definition.

And the main answer is “Pray we do not change it any further.”

I mean, BMP does still work as an uncompressed, artifact-free format.

Because I’m tired of all this nonsense where just because a thing is a mature technology, it’s considered obsolete. Stop constantly pushing for the next thing. Keep the things that work.