I tried custom laser engraving caps, some of my favourites:
'Attack 0' and 'Attack 1', actual key legends on some '80s Casio home computer
'Run Stop' from Commodre machines
The "diagonal half full box" inverse video key from Atari XL/XE keyboards.
I suspect the various Jolly Roger designs from either fictional or real pirates would work well. Or various "spell type" or "faction" logos from games.
I think the last game I bought for my 386 was Nomad. ISTR having to make space since it required like 9Mb of the 40Mb drive.
30-polygon-per-ship level 3-D space RPG with limited combat sequences. I think I played it wrong because I seemed to walk largely linearly through the story and defeat the Big Bad without seeing more than 1/10 of the galaxy
I read about this. They make the printer WITH a perfectly good USB port and then stick a "no USB" label over it and attempt to force you to use their wireless setup.
I've been working on "retrofication" of a "somewhat" modern case and have some notes for that process more than a specific recomendation:
If you want a 3.5" floppy that works, you can either get a little USB adapter board, or a LS-120 on a PATA-SATA adapter. A Caleb UHD-144 might work, but many BIOSes and Windows still special-case LS-120s as "it can be drive A." The USB adapters sort of suck, because the USB floppy spec sucks. 5.25, the best you can really do would be to rig up a Greaseweazle (specialised USB controller) which won't really work like a regular floppy drive
Instead of a MHz display, you can get a small programmable OLED. Digole offers some that can be hooked to a $1 USB-UART adapter and programmed very easily-- I've got some crude code hacked up (C++ for Linux) on my Gitlab (https://gitlab.com/hakfoo1/graphic-oled-control-for-linux) that gives you MHz and a bunch of other stats, but you could probably also rig up something on Windows
Rustoleum Heirloom White is a very good "panel beige" for the metal side panels. You might also look at their "Satin Ivory" which gives a slightly yellowed tint good for the front panel.
Intentional colour mismatches can work very well, like if you use an optical drive, paint it a different beige than the rest of the case, to indicate either being different plastic than the main case, or an aftermarket add-on. Tell a story.
Some features feel like they "post-date" a case. Top-mounted ports seem pretty uncommon on vintage cases the first one I can recall having was well into the Windows Vista era)
Get a momentary paddle switch, preferrably red, and mount that and it buys you a mountain of street cred.
Grilles can be cut away and replaced with 3-D printed alternatives.
A forced sale guarantees ByteDance gets a fire sale price. If there's any way forward that allows them to sell not-under-duress, there's a chance for far more upside.
That works even for pure economics game theory, aside from wanting to continue in what they built on principle/commitment/interest in the project.
Would Zuck give up Facebook for the right price? Would he give it up for a highly discounted price of a rush sale?
I'm hoping for MacroSD. About the size of a 3.5" floppy so you won't lose it easily.
Seriously, it's interesting that now that we have the tech to make a useful-capacity storage device the size of a credit card, we don't. Not like those crappy giveaway flash drives printed with a card design, where they had a captive USB head and were 4x as thick as a card, but something with just contacts like a chip card, so you might need to use an external reader but it really preserves the wallet-size concept.
I'd love to have a cheap 16GB card in my wallet with all my health records and a cryptographically signed copy of my will as a one-stop, no cloud required, emergency kit.
Steam runs fine. I think I had to install some Vulkan packages manually because I was getting some hallucinogenic colours in Genshin Impact (installs fine via Lutris). I have a few minor issues with games not loving losing the mouse cursor if you move it onto another display, but I think you can tame most of them by running in Gamescope so it doesn't realize there's a second monitor the mouse can leave to.
Runit works well enough for me; I've only added one nonstandard service (launch a custom tool to drive an external stats display) and it works fine. My ,xsession has to load some polkit and pulseaudio stuff but that could be because I'm not using a full desktop like KDE/GNOME/XFCE that do those things for you.''
I don't really try to do custom package recipes because I tend to ./configure;make;make install stuff I want at random.
EFI boot is no problem. I think my root is btrfs, but the /boot/efi is vfat. Refind is pretty first-class, but sometimes it has stupid conditions where it tries to default to the wrong kernel version if you have multiples installed (I think it sorts by timestamps or filenames in a way that sometimes work counterintuitively; discarding old kernels largely fixes it)
Haven't really had too many showstopper problems with xbps. I probably sledgehammer it a bit-- occasionally when it says a repo certificate is out of date, I usually end up doing a full update rather than selectively upgrading packages.
I wonder if that's a limit of storytelling. Grand social change is hard to film. Even team effort cohesion requires a lot of actors and writing to pull off.
No matter how sound the morals and story, if it's not entertaining, it might fail as mass media.
Although the absurd number of hours I've played a certain popular gacha under Lutris might not trigger the Steam metrics, I demand credit for dumping 45 hours into a poorly translated RPG Maker looking project!
Vampire's Dawn 3. I suspect I'm exhausting my opportunities to powerlevel through the content, being that my party reached level 86 and never having seen any zone tagged at a level over 85. I might have to use gasp strategy to finish it.
It's San Marino. The entire country is mounted on a flip-top like a bathroom trash-can lid, covering an enormous number of missile silos. Why do you think they've been left alone for a thousand years.
Are you using a shell replacement for the XP style titlebars and taskbar?
Calmira was pretty impressive for a taskbar-based shell, but I don't recall doing a titlebar swap.