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Yeah, but those aren't required dress code or anything. Most of us just make some shit up out of our heads that sounds cool and go with it. Then we'll fill all our online gaming and social media account profiles with it.

Well, my Dad used to kick MY ass on the Atari, it's only right to pass down the tradition and kick my son's ass on PC.

Also, this'll blow your mind too, Doom wasn't actually 3D. It was a clever trick involving the lack of the ability to look up and down. They used some sort of algorithm (I forget how it works exactly) to turn the 2D walls, doors, and platforms that appear from the top-down view in the map into vertical stacks of lines that "look" like 3D objects in front of you. The sprites are also all just 2D projections overlayed onto the game.

This system introduced all kinds of wierd quirks in the game, like the trippy effect you get when you activate no-clipping and clip through the edge of the map.

More like https://i.imgur.com/UhC0g18.jpeg

Brb, gotta tell my wife I'm lesbian now.

Linux From Scratch. They started it, but never figured out how to finish it and get it fully working.

At that point, what are you using Mint for? The Cinammon DE?

IMHO, KDE feels much more modern, while Cinammon kind of feels like it's stuck in 2003. It reminds me of the stock gray boxy Windows 9x/NT/2000 interface.

A good writer will be figuring out how to leverage this tech for themselves and make their own work more efficient and productive. Just like all the programmers are doing right now. AI is not going away. That is not an option. That's like hoping the Internet "fad" goes away. Either prepare for it, or not and suffer for it, that's the choice everybody is facing right now. Your colleagues are not going to not use a competitive advantage just because you won't.

Nick, nick, nick, nick, n-nick NICK nick, Nick-el-odeon!

I was playing Quake 3 and Unreal Torunament 2003 in the early 2000s, they had native versions. One of the first mainstream Linux gaming pioneers.

I used to use Second Life on Linux too with a third party client.

If you don't have a specific need that only Linux can fulfill, or are not an advocate of open source software or don't really care, then why make yourself go through this and not just stick with Windows if it works so much better for you?

I can use it fine, because A., I don't have to work with anybody else, and B. I use it mostly for programming and electronics engineering, which it excels at. You have other use cases, so it's probably not a good fit. I'm not the kind of person that will blindly push Linux on everybody and their grandmother while lying through their teeth about the "easy" user experience. I ain't gonna sugarcoat it, it's an OS developed by tinkerers for tinkerers, and if you're not a tinkerer, you're going to get frustrated.

Or do while making sure you 100% know WTF you are doing. Some modern tech, like onion routing and encryption, are still very useful.

But if you're not the kind of person who can convert a 32 bit hex number to decimal in your head or recognize a JTAG port on a device when you see it, then yeah stay away.

Sometime in the 90s:

"What are we gonna call it?"

"GNU Image Manipulation Program/GIMP. Huehuehuehue. trollface

"Yeah sure, whatever, it's not like millions are going to end up using this thing."

NDISWrapper: we're just gonna trick the Windows driver into thinking it's running on Windows and intercept the system calls.

That was certainly an era.

Dundalk and Sparrow's Point is basically all distribution centers now.

"Thicc boats can't break steel beams."

What would you rate this on the scale?