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A Story About My Uncle (PC) Your uncle has been gone for longer than normal. Set off on a journey to a strange new world to find him.
Since much of gaming feels (IMO) like a dumpster fire of soon to fail live service open world extraction shooter clones and reboots of stuff I played when I was 25 (being the same age as old people is weird.), I decided to dig middling deep into my backlog and found this 12 year old little gem.
This is a 3D platformer Portal-ish experience.…

It blows my mind that for £7 I can have a tiny computer with 5Ghz WiFi and program it to make hardware gadgets.
This time I've made a remote controller for PC fans. It sets and measures RPM, and integrates with #HomeAssistant
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MrBeast is on LinkedIn, and I want to throw my PC into the sun. (I don't use it, but they keep spamming me)

I'm oddly sensitive to fan noise. A normal person's "quiet" PC to me is still unacceptably annoying. So I (foolishly) built an acoustic enclosure for my already-Noctua-laden PC.
Lots of faff for shaving off ~5dB(A).

My brand-new powerhouse: MSI Cubi NUC AI 3MG
Intel Core Ultra 9 386H processor, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB NVMe, and much more.
What a beast!
My first Intel-based PC in many, many years. But the new Panther Lake generation is currently superior to AMD. I couldn’t care less about the “Copilot” feature—who needs that crap? I certainly don’t. But I wanted a new, up-to-date, and powerful computer again for the next 5 or 6 years. And even though it wasn’t cheap, if I spread the purchase p…

from my link log —
Monkey Island PC speaker music player.
https://www.thanassis.space/monkeyisland.html
saved 2021-07-29 https://d…

Я почему-то была уверена, что Debian поддерживает только SystemD. Но нет, я относительно легко смогла перейти на OpenRC, и даже ничего не сломалось.
RE: https://oldbytes.space/@millihertz/116531495206492092

Siri (Beta) is really interesting.
On one hand, I don't have to trust any new parties with my data. Apple already has it since they have my mobile devices, so if they were going to maliciously steal (e.g.) my email contents, they could already do that. This opens the door to a whole bunch of LLM data based interrogation that I wouldn't trust with other providers.
…on the other hand, the "on-device only" Siri falls over immediately when disabling the internet c…

Hmmm how do you record a visual artifact that doesn't appear in screenshots?
I have a specific image that appears to trigger some kind of compression or encoding or signal integrity artifact inside my monitor or the link from the PC to it.
When I screenshot the image and zoom to anything other than 1:1 pixel resolution, it looks normal. On my other monitor it's fine. The artifact appears only when I display it at native resolution on this monitor.
I guess I'm go…

Soooo .. I broke the Linux on my PC and you'd never guess how.
I added a line to .bash_profile to run zsh instead, for login shells (i.e. terminal), because I didn't feel like using chsh or configuring my terminal. APPARENTLY FUCKING SDDM INVOKES `bash -l`

I have an Olympia P22 thermal printer, which is *perfect* for my extremely limited needs, except it requires using an app to print the labels.
Does anybody have an idea of how I could control it via PC (ideally a simple linux driver) so I can use it to print labels straight from my own (Django-based) app?
#askfedi
(Suggestion welcome, also suggestions for more targeted tags!)…

nophenia (PC) Wander through the dreams(?) of a wolf girl.
Taking a break from the thinky pain games with nophenia, which showed up in my Steam discovery queue and I thought "well that's odd looking" and just bought it on a whim. I don't really want to say too much about this game(?) as it's another one of those things you just kinda have to experience.
Functionally, it's a low poly 3rd person walking sim in which you traverse some surreal landscape…

This is how open my tech is:
OS PC/Laptop: ⛓️‍💥 🔒
OS Smartphone: 🔒
Browser: ⛓️‍💥
Messaging: ⛓️‍💥 🔒
E-Mail: 🔒
Microblogging: ⛓️‍💥 ⛓️‍💥 ⛓️‍💥
Office Software: ⛓️‍💥
Cloud: ⛓️‍💥
Open Source: 67%
⛓️‍💥⛓️‍💥⛓️‍💥⛓️‍💥⛓️‍💥⛓️‍💥⛓️‍💥🔒🔒🔒
Created @ fingolas.eu/OpenClosed

And no, I’m not going to set up the new mini-PC with Linux today—I’m just too worn out and have run out of patience for that right now. I’ll do it tomorrow when I’m calm and well-rested. But I’m already looking forward to this task—then I can finally put the new MSI Cubi to work as my new workhorse.

With Sony not bringing PlayStation games to PC anymore, I guess I’ll fill my library with other games. I’ll play what they’ve brought, but I am not getting a PS5.

In news related to the "oh crap this disk seems to be failing" issue, my mini PC is now running Ubuntu 26.04. Had to do `do-release-upgrade -d` to get it, and I wouldn't run 26.04 on a production server just yet. But I figure toying with it on a very standard piece of kit would be fine.

You know what would be really nice (but nobody is ever going to build)?
Oscilloscope that replaces the ungodly slow USB3/1000baseT PC interface port with NVLink.
Forget PCIe and Thunderbolt... 900 GB/s of bandwidth straight from the ADC to my GPU? Sign me up.

Power went out for a minute.
weirdly, my UPS kept my computer running but not the monitors/tv. I have my peripherals plugged into the ' follow master' outlet. (It's quite handy to just turn off/on the PC and everything else follows suit)
I assumed the UPS switching to battery would still keep those going but apparently not?

Found this terrible picture of my computers circa 2000 (shot on a 640x480 Vivitar digicam). The janky-ass PC is a dual PPro Linux box. The other one is an SGI Indigo² Solid Impact.

In anticipation of #SteamNextFest , I've been going through the demos on my Steam account ... at least the ones playable on Mac (I'll have to borrow a PC for the rest).
I love the art style of Date Time❤️: Melissa❤️, Morris❤️, Anna❤️ & it's not overly scary for a #HorrorGame , but also not quite my cup of tea

This is where my tech comes from:
OS PC/Laptop: 🌍 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
OS Smartphone: 🇺🇸
Browser: 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
Messaging: 🇺🇸 🇨🇭 🇦🇪 🇺🇸
E-Mail: 🇩🇪
Microblogging: 🇩🇪 🌍
Office Software: 🇩🇪
Cloud: 🇩🇪
Payment Service: 🇺🇸 🇸🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇸
Streaming: 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
AI: 🇺🇸
Percentage of 🇺🇸: 54%
Created @ fingolas.eu/MyTech

I think it's funny, that Nintendo assumes, that I would not just put the gallery content on the micro SD card, to put it on my PC and share it from there 🤭
The cards arrive on Wednesday, so will probably upload some stuff, then ^^
#TomodachiLifeLivingTheDream #TomodachiLife

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (#ICCL) has released an open source tool designed to reduce LLM hallucinations.
If my 15-year-old PC had a GPU I'd be tempted to give it a try.
https://www.

ICCL launches open source tool to reduce LLM hallucinations
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has released an open source tool designed to reduce LLM hallucinations.

This is where my tech comes from:
OS PC/Laptop: 🇺🇸
OS Smartphone: 🇺🇸
Browser: 🇩🇪
Messaging: 🇨🇭 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
Microblogging: 🇩🇪 🌍
Office Software: 🇺🇸
Cloud: 🇺🇸
Payment Service: 🇪🇺 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
Streaming: 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
AI: 🇫🇷🇦🇹
Percentage of 🇺🇸: 60%
Created @ fingolas.eu/MyTech

Hexara (PC) Hey so if you're old enough to have any kind of fond memories of the game Hexic on the 360, this is basically an exact clone of it available on Steam. It's got the same exact gameplay without straight up stealing the assets. Also the dev responded to my (and another) review mentioning repetitive music by patching in more tracks of chillout tunes, bonus. Was an easy 1st day buy, and cheap. Even has a leaderboard (I'm currently in 2nd place woo)

In my head canon blue micro-diskettes (3.5”) are for the Amiga, Macs have white or beige disks and PC is all black

Sooo apparently Windows was trying to install updates while I was in the shower (with plastic wrap on btw bc yk) and my Grub defaults to booting Linux
My PC autonomously rebooted into Linux for me 😇

This is where my tech comes from:
OS PC/Laptop: 🇺🇸
OS Smartphone: 🇺🇸
Browser: 🇩🇪
Messaging: 🇨🇭 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
Microblogging: 🇩🇪 🌍
Office Software: 🇺🇸
Cloud: 🇺🇸
Payment Service: 🇪🇺 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
Streaming: 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
AI: 🇫🇷🇦🇹
Percentage of 🇺🇸: 60%
Created @ fingolas.eu/MyTech

Unbricked laptop after connecting a PC keyboard (since the Chromebook keyboard doesn't have native F-keys to switch VTs, and I don't keep an ssh server running for paranoia reasons). kwin (_x11 and _wayland) was trying to access a symbol in kscreenlocker that was somehow not present in the installed version of the library, causing it to bomb out, causing the entire house of cards to collapse. I shoved a decent binary into place, and the box began working. As per my personal policy of…

Total Reload (PC) You wake up in an AI's droid body, and are quickly tasked with solving your way through the puzzle maze he's been building for millennia, with quite the lofty goal as your reward.
This is a pretty good Portal inspired FP puzzle game. Has all the things you'd expect: a disembodied "AI" talking to you, cubes, a gadgety gun, lots of rooms that require you to figure out the what the order of actions is.
Gonna get my 2 nitpicks out the way…