Tootfinder

@gideonstar@mastodon.gideonstar.de
2025-08-22 10:10:03

That's the greatest fucking thing I've read this year!
#nethack

My other email client is a daemon
I have a slight problem wherein every time I start up a game of NetHack, I completely loose touch with my surroundings for hours on end. Thankfully The DevTeam Thinks Of Everything and there’s a solution that allows communication with the outside world without breaking immersion: the mail daemon! If compiled with -DMAIL and OPTIONS=mail is set in your runtime configuration (the default on Linux), NetHack will periodically check a user specified mbox file (MAIL) for new mail, and upon receivin…