Quazatron @ Quazatron @lemmy.world

A peace loving silly coffee-fueled humanoid carbon-based lifeform that like

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Try the Brutal Doom mod if you haven't already for an added dose of violence and gore. Combine it with mods like Eviternity for huge new maps and enemies. Enjoy!

My first machine was a ZX Spectrum.

I love the 8 bit games I grew up with but I'm not stuck in that timeframe. I appreciate that I can still play all my old games and the new ones.

I just wish I had more time to enjoy them.

Excluding the 8 bit games, the games where I spent more time are: Doom, Half-life, Portal, Bioshock Infinite, Skyrim.

If I had to choose one, it would be Doom. Such a simple game, so much brainless fun, so many great mods.

Same here. I love a good western, so this caught me by surprise as I didn't check the name of the movie beforehand.

I immediately recognized the name from the "most fucked up movies" lists that litter the web.

My favorite way of reviving ancient 32 bit hardware is installing Haiku. It's such a cool little OS, even if it can't do all the tasks modern Linux can.

Xubuntu is still my distro of choice.

Removing snap and installing flatpak is two commands away.

And so, as humanity reaches new peaks of digital audio fidelity, people decide to dumb down vocal audio quality.

This is why we can't have nice things.

Don't forget there are services around that will copy your playlists from one service to another.

I've been using Tidal for a long time, and it has only gotten better.

They recently upgraded all tiers to high quality (better than CD) quality for free.

Meanwhile Spotify still doesn't have the high quality audio tier they promised a few years ago.

Is it even winnable? I always get killed before clearing all the islands. Still love it, though.

I hate strategy games but I love Into The Breach. It's a perfectly executed game packed into a single screen.

You seem to be missing 2 Unlimited and Ace of Base.

Once level up enough you'll be writing a GRUB replacement yourself. Now that would be a massive achievement.

I've just built it from source to check it out.

Looks great, all the included apps work fine. I seem to only be able to open one app at the time and can't find any way to close it or change to a different one, but that may be a problem on my setup.

I still haven't tried any 3rd party apps.

Achievement unlocked.

If you can fix it you unlock another one. If you manage to boot the system without using a rescue USB pen you unlock another one.

The damn thing Just Works™. That's why the developers aren't being pestered. It's a pretty great piece of software.

Every couple of years I install other desktops to check out what the cool guys use nowadays, then go right back to XFCE.

It's like having a hot cup of tea on a cold day while sitting in a comfy chair by the fire with your slippers on.

I remember a sepia monitor being used with an early IBM PC clone, it was not black and white or amber, and it was not an anti glare protection. I remember that detail because the phosphor tint was very different from the standard black and white TVs of the time.

I can confirm they existed but any other details have long left my memory.

There are resources out there to learn exactly what's going on, and the process is not too complex.

I've recovered a bunch of nuked MBR records and broken boot partitions myself, and maybe things UEFI added some complexity, but it's not hard if you have a live USB ready and know the appropriate conjurations.

Most of the fun comes from self centered arrogant companies that make monocultural software, blatantly ignoring that other OSs may already be installed.

+1 for Lenovo Thinkpad

How else would one motivate itself to learn about grub, boot partitions, UEFI, MBR and all the other wonderful crufty technologies involved in starting operating systems?

If it works it ain't stupid. 😄