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by amatecha 5d ago
I find myself thinking the phrase "what could possibly go wrong?" very often these days -- this topic being one that I think it about the most frequently :\
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by amatecha 6d ago
I was just talking about that one with someone a few days ago! Amazing hahah XD I still remember the song and was singing it while laughing profusely at how obnoxious that site was!
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by amatecha 6d ago
Yeah, I bought an NVIDIA Shield, took it back to the store after I got it home and found out you literally can't use it without signing into a Google account (and this wasn't mentioned on the outside of the package).
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by amatecha 8d ago
I'm not sure that site is the best one to link to give a balanced explanation of the situation. The Wikipedia page on the topic seems pretty thorough and reasonable as a starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by amatecha 8d ago
it's AI slop, same as everything posted by that user (look at their comments)... :\
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by amatecha 14d ago
"RISC is good" :)
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by amatecha 16d ago
Why using Discord for comms? Is there anyone who hasn't hit the max 100 "servers" years ago? I've been [lightly] using Discord since 2015 - I'm at the point where I just simply won't even consider trying to n
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by amatecha 16d ago
Interestingly they recently brought back the old version (I think from Season 3 or so?) as "League of Legends Classic"
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by amatecha 20d ago
Yeah, it does seem pretty excellent! Even if it's a relatively small room (105 square feet or something), if it's right in your back yard with all your own stuff (and no strangers immediately outside the room), that's pretty
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by amatecha 21d ago
Yeah! CoMaps was actually what I used for my very first contribution to OSM! Nice lil gateway to an awesome ecosystem. Mega kudos to the CoMaps devs for doing such a great job with it.
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by amatecha 22d ago
in the post: > I had tried coworking spaces but didn’t love the vibe or the idea of spending hours in a phone booth.
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by amatecha 24d ago
Bye Reddit, thanks for working so hard to entice and capture as many communities as you could possibly manage, and then closing the doors to everyone who doesn't sign up. The ultra-predictable social platform lifecycle. Rinse & r
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by amatecha 24d ago
That's pretty insidious. I was wondering why I'd get literally ~three search results on DuckDuckGo and then thousands+ of results on Google, and this clearly explains at least one of the causes of such blatant discrepancies!
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by amatecha 26d ago
That's interesting to know (thanks for calling it out!), and makes me feel extra glad I've worn a mask during the entire flight on every flight I've been on since 2020 (not that I've been on many)... turns out I was avoi
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by amatecha 26d ago
Yeah, maybe! I def don't frame it as "happiness", because I don't expect to be especially happy, but hopefully content or accepting of what my life "is". I actually have worked throughout my life to accept ba
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by amatecha 27d ago
Oh yeah, my initial objection is/was indeed to the seemingly-more-common definition of happiness that people often use, and then I did see that the author uses a broader scope which I agree with a lot more (insert thumbs-up emoji here)
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by amatecha 27d ago
When people talk about being happy (or not), I always wonder -- why does it matter? I don't expect to be happy, and I don't strive towards it. I DO strive towards making my life better in terms of engaging in enriching and rewar
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by amatecha 1mo ago
Mastodon isn't trying to compete anyway, it's not a Product(tm) driven by desire for profits, so the people who use it don't care if it "wins" or becomes more popular than whatever other platform. We're all ju
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by amatecha 1mo ago
The deal will be great for now, while they lure you in and get you to drop the competition -- then they will raise prices later.
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by amatecha 1mo ago
Yeah, there are times where DDG has like, literally three results. Yet, I know for an absolute fact, there are hundreds of pages on the web that contain the terms I specified. Web search is becoming utter garbage.
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by amatecha 1mo ago
I think this was the one we were playing: https://archive.org/details/qtest Good times :D
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by amatecha 1mo ago
K what I actually had no clue about the "single config line change to sync from my own server", that's awesome. I have a Clara BW and I really like it. Super affordable (got it on sale too) and "it just works".
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by amatecha 1mo ago
Yeah, I used also used a Voodoo2 in my Mac (PowerComputing PowerTower Pro), but it was from a PC. The driver for it was very crash-prone, BUT, Unreal Tournament and Quake looked freakin' amazing! Good times :D
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by amatecha 1mo ago
hell yeah, my first real LAN game experience on Windows was the Quake test/alpha that preceded the release of the game (IIRC?), when I was at a local tech school for a class. We weren't technically allowed to load the game on the
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by amatecha 2mo ago
Well, yeah as much as we missed out on so many games, the ones we did get were often better quality .. I still have this distinct memory of visiting my friend who ran DOS, and his version of Command & Conquer was hilariously pixelated.
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by amatecha 2mo ago
Just adding a post to correlate with what VonGuard wrote (but for some reason got downvoted into oblivion) , apparently there was a Mac port of Half-life nearly completed but canceled in late 1999: https://blog.greggant.com&#x2F
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by amatecha 2mo ago
Oh dang, I never played that game but that looks amazing. Especially for .. 1986?! Wow. I never had an Amiga growing up so I missed out on all those classics, and even trying to catch up later I keep discovering more awesome gems like th
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by amatecha 2mo ago
Oh yeah, I remember being blown away any time I found a Mac game in a store. Usually they just had some edutainment/shovelware stuff at best, though.
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by amatecha 2mo ago
Yeah, I pretty often think of how much we're using today that totally could have been done in the 90's (or earlier), just in a slightly more primitive form (which in many cases would have been a lot better, considering how bloated
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by amatecha 2mo ago
Ah yeah, the same kind of thing happened to me. I saved up enough money to buy WarCraft 1 from the store, only to find out it required a 640x480 monitor -- I had a Macintosh LC with the standard 12" 512x384 display. Luckily my parent

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