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emr, 29 days ago

The nice thing about Samba is that you can find clients for everything.

emr, 1 month ago

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, 29 days ago

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

So like systemd but ten times more dramatic.

emr, 5 months ago

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, 6 months ago

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, 7 months ago

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, 7 months ago

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:

youtube.com/watch?v=w2p0ugw3afs (and the one after on extrapolation.)

emr, 7 months ago

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, 8 months ago

Huh, TIL about the Pliche: lowendmac.com/musings/pliche.shtml

emr, 8 months ago

x86 apps? Awesome.

emr, 8 months ago

Termux used to rock but nowdays installing stuff is very hit or miss.

emr, 8 months ago

In Excession it felt more like

spoilerThe Culture is a race of intelligent starships that keeps humans as pets.

emr, 8 months ago

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, 8 months ago

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, 8 months ago

Does Valve ship a usable desktop distro?

emr, 8 months ago

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, 8 months ago

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, 9 months ago

Just pick an engine and stick to it.

emr, 9 months ago

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.

emr, 9 months ago

Thanks for the info!

emr, 9 months ago

Reason. It’s got a unique workflow that is hard to break from. I even tried Renoise, but it’s hard to switch.

emr, 9 months ago

Ambrosia Software published a bunch of Mac games back in the day, but the app store crunched them.

emr, 9 months ago

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.