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Richie’s Computer Stuff

@ richie_golds @lemmy.ca

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  • Dress smartly even when sleeping

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  • I always wondered. Ghosts who died in the 1980s dressed in neon windbreakers practicing the Thriller dance. Why don’t they talk about those ghosts in TV shows? They sound like they’d be a lot of fun to meet!

  • Because, f**k you! That's why.

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  • I switched to Linux six years ago because I was bored and wanted to try it as a main OS for the first time. “I can always go back”, I told myself when I still wasn’t sure of things.

    I never did, and never will. Now, I just watch Windows become worse and worse from the back while laughing in my Debian/Arch-based playgrounds.

  • for personal lore development

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  • It’s a rather complex and intricate biological process wherein mommy and daddy wish upon a star, and that star descends from they sky, becoming a new seed which gently plants itself in a cabbage patch. From there, after continuous watering and plenty of sunlight, the seed blossoms into a beautiful flower which when blooms, opens to reveal a diamond. That diamond later forms into an infant child, and can begin the long process of growing up and consuming resources.

  • for personal lore development

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  • Pregananant.

  • Thanks 🙏🏻

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  • I don’t even know that most of the time.

  • And that would early

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  • I get that too. I can have an energy drink and a coffee in the morning and still feel the need to sleep, but if I do much as have a small cup of tea late at night I don’t sleep.

  • Dramatic stare

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  • He’s so cute and so friendly too. Ordinarily cats take a long time to warm up to their new homes, but not this one - he made himself at home right away! He loves the attention he gets.

  • Someone sees the fingers.

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  • And a missing finger or two!

    He actually doesn’t bite hard. It’s very gentle, but he has a few teething toys that he will pick up and run off with.

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    Dramatic stare

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    Someone sees the fingers.

  • Cloud saving huh?

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  • You know something, I have a weird soft spot for thin clients. They’re so little and compact, but they do ordinary computer things?! Hmm… I think I need to be on the lookout for some to add to my collection so I can force get them to compile Gentoo for three days, or something equally silly. I’ve made a Compaq Deskpro EN run Arch Linux 32, so there’s that.

  • Are people still fooled by this dumb quiz's?

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  • The thing I’d like news sites or other sites that use paywalls to understand is that I am not likely to sign up for a $5/$10/$15/$20+ subscription just to skim through a single article or quiz that induces a near-panic attack and then probably never return. I will literally press that little back button and go somewhere else.

  • Valve amended the Steam survey for December 2025 - Linux actually hit another all-time high

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  • The other thing too are the shareholders. It’s not enough to just make a profit, there has to be quarterly growth or it’s seen like a failure. Because the PC market is saturated, they have to switch from expanding user base to extracting more value from each user. This is where you get things like upsells for subscription-based services which continuously generate revenue from each user instead of just once (no more one-time license purchase), data harvesting, and ads that are carefully tuned for each user to maximize engagement and conversion rate.

    I also suspect this is part of why Microsoft lets you use Windows without activating, even though they want you to (and will nag you to do so). Even if you never buy a license, there’s still ecosystem lock-in, data collection, ads, and future upsell potential. That’s just my thinking though. I haven’t personally used modern Windows (10/11) in over five years so I don’t know if it’s changed since.

    They go for quarterly growth regardless of the, uh… tradeoffs it actually creates. There is no way Microsoft isn’t aware of the growing irritation from users, the backlash, and resistance to frivolous and aggressively added AI features, which makes the fact that they keep doubling down all the more baffling to us. While I know this is a broad oversimplification and I’m not hitting every point involved, I’m fairly sure the user base is not who they’re serving, they’re more interested in meeting market and shareholder expectations.

    Keep in mind that I’m not an expert on the matter (not even close), I’ve just watched a few videos and articles to give me some sense of this sort of thing, so I am just speculating and thinking out loud. I am in no way defending what Microsoft is doing, and I’m glad I did that little lockdown-based experiment in 2020 to see if Linux really could replace Windows for me (it was a resounding success!!).

  • It’s 2005 Again.

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  • That’s right, I hadn’t thought about that. For me personally, latency isn’t usually an issue, but I’m used to more powerful hardware that reduces it a lot. I don’t play those emulated titles on the Switch (but I’m still glad that they’re still available at all), but emulation is definitely not perfect. It’s hard to do at all, let alone do well. But even still, a lot of my preference for old hardware has a lot to do with tactility. I love the feel of the controller, seeing the actual hardware, and interacting with it, the way I did when I was a kid. It’s largely nostalgic and not entirely rational, since emulation has ups and downs (I do like playing PS2 games at higher resolutions than original). I picked up my Game Boy Advance SP again last night, and it reminded me of when I was a kid and how cool I thought it was then.

  • There was a rubber hose that you drove your car over

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  • Actually, my local Value Village stores have those. At two of them, you’ll hear it going off quite frequently in the store. I wonder if it’s a just a thing they do.

  • Figured you guys might enjoy this. A screenshot of my gaming desktop and wine experiments from 2013.

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  • I remember wanting to use Linux at that time. I thought it was so interesting, but my technical expertise just wasn’t there. None of the games I liked playing would run on Linux, and I wasn’t ready to let go of the pans of glass inside a frame that my PC was still running at the time. I’d play around with it in virtual machines and on live USB devices, but that was it. I was always thrilled when I could get an old computer for free that was powerful enough to run a modern Linux distribution.

    Well, fast forward to 2020, and I discovered that Linux gaming had quietly made leaps and bounds, and so I thought I’d just install it on my PC exclusively and see how it worked out. Well, it stuck, and I’m never going back.

  • It’s 2005 Again.

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  • I can remember the days when emulators on iPhones were out of reach for all but those who liked voiding their warranties to jailbreak the devices. It’s nice to see the iPhone open up a little bit more (though calling the iPhone “open” is taking mad liberties) even if it remains a curated walled garden. I could probably use my GameSir (love that name) controller case, or my 8BitDo SNES-like controller (that thing is so wonderful, but I need to prop my phone up with it), but I probably won’t emulate much on my phone. I don’t consider myself a hardware purist, but I do have a thing for using the original device over emulation when I’m feeling particularly nostalgic.

  • It’s 2005 Again.

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  • Knew I should’ve left that Coke can out, but that Logitech controller there is positively ancient. I’ve had it for probably 18 years now! Oh my… has that much time passed already?

    (Also, there’s a little Minecraft icon in the iMac’s dock that I only noticed was there about an hour after I posted the picture)

  • Do any of you actually call your cats by their names?

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  • My cat’s name is Spooky, but he gets called Spucky, Sporky, and Scoopy, all originally mispronunciations of his name that we found amusing. We also call him Cat, Mr. Cat, Kitty, Mr. Kitty, and occasionally Feline.

  • Hey. Aren’t you supposed to be paying attention to ME?

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  • Huh. That's a good idea. You could use it for that. It leaves the rear cameras open too, if you wanted to prop it up that way. It was mostly just so that I could keep my phone propped up for easy access when I was playing music off of it. It's literally just a stand that you put your MagSafe charger into. Not expensive.

  • It’s 2005 Again.

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  • I don't know what it is about most printers now, but I swear they're sentient and out to get us. ESPECIALLY HP printers. They have fewer issues with my Linux systems than my mom's Windows laptop, since on the odd occasion the printer is advertising itself on the network, my Linux and modern Mac systems with CUPS (or whatever Apple uses now) are like "Oh, a printer! Wanna use that one?!"... but that's not saying much. It isn't particularly keen on broadcasting its presence on my network, and it can take a lot of coercing and cajoling with the printer itself before it begrudgingly says "FINE. I'll do a print job for ya. Happy?!" (I swear that's its attitude).

    And that Discman is indeed an MP3 model! Specifically a Sony Atrac3Plus I found at the thrift store (common theme with many of these things). I had several various portable CD players when I was a kid, and I can't remember them all but I can remember a translucent one with blue accents, and a bright candy-orange one (Wish I had that one, it was SUPER 2000s). Honestly, I've never tried this player before, but I'm going to do that now (it works!). I have a couple of album CDs from the time that should work well with it, saving me from burning another CD (and I am running dangerously low on those - I habitually burn Linux distributions to them and create restore CDs for old computers).

    And the GameBoy Advance SP is one of my favourites for sure! Such a nostalgic form factor. It seem so gadget-like when I was a kid (another reason I think I was always a tech nerd). I remember my sister would come over and bring hers, and let me play with it. I got pretty far through Golden Sun, and I recall scenes from a few other games, just not their names. I've got an AGS-001 and a 101, but my 101 was shell-swapped because the original was in bad shape, and I didn't bring it out because I'm not certain it fully fit the aesthetic I was going for. I never had one as a kid, but got to play with my sister's GBA so it's still nostalgic for me.

    I know what you mean about the big phone storage. I ended up getting a 512GB iPhone too - more storage than I wanted, but that's all that was available. Sure, it could emulate these games pretty easily (kinda yucky that most emulators on the App Store have in-app purchases, I won't touch those), but there's a certain charm with using the original hardware the way it was back in the day. I mean... I have been emulating PS2 games for a while because that's convenient, but when I finally brought my Phillips CRT out, and attached my PS2 to it? Oh my!

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    Hey. Aren’t you supposed to be paying attention to ME?

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    It’s 2005 Again.

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    Floofy Void Gumdrop

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    The most 2000s picture I could make

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    The Coziest Cat

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    This Is Not My Bed

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    Completed my late-90s/early-2000s beige setup!

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    Baffled

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    Night Time Void Cat

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    Mind control