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This is a cool video about what made the famous video game "Another World" so incredible when it came out in 1991.
I didn't know how limited the Amiga's graphics capabilities were (it was so colourful compared to my dad's monochrome 286 PC after all!) and the tricks that were used to pull of the vector graphics.
(btw: Mastodon now seems to do previews for youtu.be URLs, not just youtube.com. Neat!)

Tonight's stream is all about #SWTOR! I'm firing up the game on my #Linux PC. Come hang out in a galaxy far, far away! #StarWarsTheOldRepublic

Took longer than it prob should have, but I now have a 4tb (3.6, really, but who's counting) "Fikwot" (aka Kikwot, according to my OS) NVME SSD installed in my PC. Also PC got some bonus cleaning with the 20gal air compressor.
This Meshify case from Fractal doing a great job. It's been a year since the build, but there was just some caked on surface dust. Little bit of brushing and blasts of air and the PC looks almost new again.
Reason it took longer than expe…

EDIT: Was recommeded one, will report back if it works well for me, too!
Any recommendations for x86 mini-pc's with 2 (or more) Ethernet ports (ideally 2.5G)?
Bonus points for availability in EU.
My "usual" product only has gigabit ports.

Upcoming beatemup 'John Fox' where you play as an anthropomorphic fox either solo or co-op is coming to PC and consoles next year in February. Pretty psyched to try this one. Very much my kind of thing.
Gameplay video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXt3QeftCmU

Have a mini-PC sitting on my desk, and the ick factor is off the charts. I want to toss this Windows abomination into the river. 😅

My (inactive) blog reminded me that it’s been 15 years this month that I switched to using #Linux / @… (via #Kubuntu) as my main OS for my PC/laptop.
I also now use

I had completely forgotten the state The Last of Us Part 1 for PC was in at launch. Which explains my surprise when I finally got to it and tried to run my Epic copy on Linux. At least for me and at the moment, the game works only with Proton 9.0-4 (Steam's mark of excellence) and, weirdly, with Wine-10.10. FSR 4 with an RDNA 3 card (again, for me) is impossible - the game crashes hard in every FSR 4 scenario. It's saving grace is it runs great on a native 1440p resolution 🤷‍♂️

My laptop a few years ago: being the most powerful of my build machines.
My laptop these days: unable to preprocess C sources fast enough to keep distccd occupied on my PC.
#Gentoo

Tonight's mission: boldly stream #STO from my #Linux powered PC! Prepare for warp speed, questionable tactical decisions, and probably me getting blown up by a Borg cube. Beam aboard the live stream! #StarTrekOnline

Itching to get a little NUC or something that can handle jellyfin 4K files. Right now, I have a lab PC that's on its last leg. I don't do any transcoding, just direct play on my other beefier PC. 4K files have been fine but the poor lab PC crashes every 4 hours.
Anyone have any ideas?

Amazon: “Spawn a process and handle a request in 0.1s.”
Google: “Spin up a 7-node cluster capable of handling workloads in 1 minute.”
A tiny PC on my desk: “100,000 hits per day? Sure, whatever m8. No probs.”
Microsoft: “You want a Kubernetes cluster? Hmmm… is Tuesday OK?”
My 1-node cluster has been “creating” for the last 3 hours with no updates.
I think it’s time for the weekend.

#ps3
I got to the syscon using my brothers win-pc ( coudnt auth or get the right com port addres on my linux system).
The system has errors related to RSX and i hope not also CELL, since error 3034 is mostly RSX related, but error 4422 on forums can be either CELL or RSX.
Either way if anyone will find useful my syscon log ill post it here:
Communication OK!
>$: au…

Anyone run Android apps on a PC - either under qemu or directly? I need access to wifi though in the guest and maybe camera.
(I want to try Samsung's smartthings app for configuring my washer but my phone is too ancient)

After weeks of use, I have now discovered that the exotic WiFi module installed in my mini PC is not recognized by Debian and cannot be used, as I was connected to the Internet via cable the whole time.
I only noticed this yesterday when I wanted to send a file to my computer via Localsend, which requires a connection via the same WLAN network. My ThinkPad T490s is also running Debian, and the WLAN module doesn't cause any problems there, and since I've only ever sent files ba…

Fuck, my PC really really doesn't post any more.
I have no replacement motherboard or CPU to test :(

I'd stepped away for just a minute and my daughter happened upon my unlocked PC. She did what she does... intentionally leave searches for corgi butts on my screen. 🤪

One of the first things I wanna do when I go back to Linux on my main PC (preferably with Vanilla OS 2) is to try and get NightRiderz working https://nightriderz.world/

NIGHTRIDERZ
The Horizon of Need for Speed: World is waiting for you.

Currently running the ultimate queer-autistic mental math: do I get up now for a Coke, or do I turn on my PC first and then embark on the sacred quest for caffeine?
Welcome to my rainbow-brained world, where every decision involves calculating the exact number of steps, seconds, and spoons required. 🏳️‍🌈🤓✨
#ActuallyAutistic

One my favorite Windows 10/11 keyboard shortcuts remains Win-H for "voice typing" or voice-to-text. Easy to access, accurate & built-in the OS.
Here's the list of special phrases to say for punctuation & voice commands:
https://

Between the "supply" charges, "delivery" charges, sales taxes, and system benefit charge, I calculate that my electricity (from Con Ed, in NYC) costs about 33.5 cents per kWh (plus roughly $30/mo basic service fee & tax surcharges).
Which is.. a lot. I calculate that my two (classic) CR boxes at 50W each cost about $25/mo to run 24/7, so switching to more efficient fans (PC fans or efficient hepa filter units) would pay for themselves reasonably quickly.

Thoughts of Silksong so far: feels friggin' great. I really wish they had "fixed" the map as I wasn't a fan of Hollow Knight's mapping system, but that's my only complaint. It feels like Hollow Knight, plays like butter on the PC and Legion Go, and just a blast.
#hollowknight

Of course, I don't know 'hardware', as you can tell from my technical description, but I have a sample from another tuning peg gear, and the peg and gear for testing, I get to Home Hardware and they have loose bolts of small dimension. I quickly learn that #6 is too large, #4 is too small and they have no #5's where the thread matches.
But you know what works? Do you remember those little chrome bolts with the hex-wrench heads that used to hold expansion cards in the ibm-pc? Perfect match, only 5mm too long, easily compensated by buying a matching nut and my 53-years owned pawnshop 5-string, my first banjo, is back in action!

Some of the first images made with my new ZV-E10.
Haven't really done any grading, mostly just the raw images, saved to JPEG on PC and done.
(side-note: Camera can do JPEG conversion in-body but it looks horrible)

Streaming Star Wars: The Old Republic from my Linux PC tonight. My character is on the Dark Side, but the power of the open-source community is with me. #SWTOR #LinuxGaming #TheOldRepublic

@… Funny, I was in the midst of trying Xfce on my Linux Mint, and liked the theming. I agree that Xfce is more themeable than most DEs, but I've decided to go back to Cinnamon, I think. I'll leave Xfce on my PC, in case I change my mind.

Also had to sit all day at pc, trying to understand what happened to the immich database, in short they changed the storage method and all my photos were gone.
In short praise the 3-2-1 backup rule

Anyone have experience getting hibernate to work on Fedora 42 with Secure Boot?
Was surprised to find that I can't hibernate fedora without disabling Secure Boot on my dual boot gaming PC. Unfortunately, that's not an option. After doing research, it is wildly complicated to fix.

My nephew never wants to use Windows 11 in the future. Never! He only wants Windows 10 on his gaming PC. I said maybe he can get Steam OS on a desktop like he has on the Steamdeck.

🧙‍♂️🎂 It's my birthday, and I'm celebrating by wandering Middle-earth on a Linux-powered PC. Sauron fears penguins, right? 🐧🔥 #LOTRO #LinuxGaming #BirthdayStream

Just replaced CMOS battery on my desktop. I am hoping this would improve POST time by a few seconds.
To be fair this PC (although just sat on the attic for 80% of its time) is 8 years now so I guess it was time to replace it.
#desktop #maintenance

Zooparasite is a first person survival horror game coming to PC & consoles this Friday the 8th where apparently you're an agent that's been assigned to investigate toxic sewers below the city (with no weapons, just a flashlight)- and you need to outsmart grotesque mutated creatures to do so. Sounds like very much my kind of thing 😂
Creepy/gross trailer:

FRB 20250316A - A Brilliant and Nearby One-off #FastRadioBurst Localized to 13 pc Precision: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adf62f -> Physical properties provided by Keck Observatory data reveals surprising FRB environment / Origin of Mysterious Radio Signal Possibly Discovered: https://keckobservatory.org/rbfloat/ / https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/origin-mysterious-radio-signal-possibly-discovered

@… Thought you might like this
https://oldbytes.space/@gloriouscow/114874406309915115

A thousand years ago, I began to abandon the idea of becoming a lawyer because (without having a clue what I was doing) I installed the now defunct Mandrake Linux with KDE on my PC.
But the feeling of success (and feeling like a real hacker) came when I opened the Amarok player and was able to play 'Comfort Eagle' by CAKE. It worked on right away! Now I feel nostalgic every time I hear it.
Looking back, I think that was a key moment.

I was trying Greenlight for streaming my Xbox console games on Bazzite Linux, and I noticed there's still hope for Microsoft 🧐 🥰 🥳 🎮
#gaming #Xbox #Greenlight

Finally cleaned up and reorganized the consoles along with some of the audio stuff. I really need to dust more often...
#retroconsoles

May the Force be with me... and my stream! Firing up my Linux PC to stream Star Wars: The Old Republic tonight. Hope to see you in chat! #StarWarsTheOldRepublic #Streaming #Gaming

Streaming LOTRO from Linux tonight. The game is running so smoothly, you'd think the dwarves of Moria built my PC. Come say hi! #LOTRO #LinuxGaming #Stream

After some drilling and bending i finally got my first inverted pc case)
It's based on a old Deepcool case

Bus Flipper Simulator (PC)
It's House Flipper, but on the open road!
As an RV tiny home "enjoyer" (yes the quotes mean I'm being sarcastic as f), Bus Flipper caught my attention during the most recent Steam Nextfest. I checked out the demo, impressed enough to wishlist it. I bought it on launch (as a bundle with another car based sim I'm reviewing next) and while it's the same game as the demo, I'm a bit disappointed with the full game, but I'm n…

Tonight's forecast: 100% chance of me accidentally jumping into a Sarlacc pit while streaming SWTOR from my Linux PC. Come for the epic storyline, stay for my inevitable, clumsy demise! #StarWars #LiveStream

Tonight, we're throwing a Retro Pixel Party! My Linux PC is geared up to stream The Settlers (1993). Get ready to witness some vintage city-building, pixel by glorious pixel. Will my settlers ever find their way? Tune in to find out! https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus

I got tired of trying to find inverted pc cases in our country. The only ones are from bequiet and they are either too big or too expensive (if not the size and stock problem id buy the black 802).
Just now i noticed that the front panel on my old deepcool matrix 55 is almost reversible (minus the middle pins), why not try and reverse it?)

Streaming some more #SWTOR from my #Linux PC tonight! Let's jump back into the galaxy far, far away. Hope to see you there! #StarWarsTheOldRepublic

Hey everyone! I'm live streaming some #SWTOR from my #Linux PC tonight! Come join me in a galaxy far, far away. #StarWarsTheOldRepublic

It's a #LOTRO night! Firing up Lord of the Rings Online on my #LinuxGaming PC for a live stream. Tune in! https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus

Live streaming some #LOTRO from my #Linux PC tonight! Come hang out and explore Middle-earth with me! https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus

Tonight's adventure: diving into Middle-earth! I'm streaming #LOTRO live from my #Linux PC. Come join me for some quests and camaraderie! https://www.

Back in the galaxy! Firing up SWTOR on my Linux PC tonight. Get ready to jump into the action. I'm going live soon, so tune in and let's go on an adventure! #SWTOR #LinuxGaming #StarWarsTheOldRepublic

My Linux PC and I are venturing back into the Old Republic tonight! Expect epic space battles, questionable dialogue choices, and me probably falling off something tall. Tune into the #SWTOR stream! #StarWarsTheOldRepublic

My Linux PC and I are venturing back into Middle-earth tonight with #LOTRO! Expect epic quests, questionable fashion choices, and me probably getting stuck on a rock. Join the adventure! https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus…

Tonight's the night for a Retro Pixel Party! We're diving deep into nostalgia with The Settlers (1993), streaming live from my Linux PC. Get ready for some classic resource management and pixelated perfection! Hope to see you there! #RetroGaming #TheSettlers

My #Linux PC and I are ready for another night of #SWTOR streaming! Prepare for questionable life choices, accidental jumps off ledges, and probably a few droids that just won't quit. Join the fun!