Notices by OpenComputeDesign (opencomputedesign@linuxrocks.online)

@Suiseiseki @rl_dane @mirabilos

I did once have a USB battery bank that could output 12v, that I did try to use to run a laptop that could run on 12v. Unfortunately it needed twice the amps the pack could provide, much to my disappointment in realizing that the stated max discharge per port was actually for both ports as well (so one port could provide the full power, or both ports half power) negating my "hack" of using both ports.

@rl_dane @mirabilos In theory a USB-C PD pack should be able to output 20v

In practice USB-C PD has never worked for _me_ but I'm very old fashioned in my ways and don't play well with modern things generally, so :P

I fucking SWEAR if I see "Permission denied" on my OWN computer ONE MORE TIME I'm moving to an OS that doesn't have file permissions LIKE GOD INTENDED

Current state:

Still absolutely flabbergasted by just how _useless_ virtual machine networking tools are.

@maxleibman Arguably it's more ukraine going "I'm gonna join the thing that was created _specifically_ to be antagonistic towards you even though you told me you'd fight me if I did"

@feld This should honestly be considered a federal crime.

Odd how hard it is to convince people I'm a terrible person.

I would thought knowing me would have been enough, but even hours of arguments and thought experiments have been failing to convince anyone :/

@amin You've wha??? of Talking Heads fame?

Stand by for youtube links (invidious links available by request, but I'm shamefully lazy and invidious has been kinda inconvenient lately)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUGWAwTnI_M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8szesQpP2k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IsSpAOD6K8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQiOA7euaYA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6T_X7MXg40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2twY8YQYDBE

Should be enough to get you started ;)

@amin Thought this was gonna turn into a David Byrne song at first...

Uhm, anyway, Yes, I absolutely agree!

I've tried more times than I can count, to start from scratch, reinvent the wheel.

It's just a shame it's so gosh darned hard and I'm so gosh darned stupid :P

TFW you're sleeping, and your brain goes "hey, what if instead of restful sleep, we had, you know, _trauma_"

:(

Nightmares are wild because you've just experienced something, believing at the time that it was really happening, that _had_ it really happened, you'd be so screwed up you'd probably never fully recover. And yet you're just expected to go about your day like nothing ever happened, and no one even wants to hear about it.

@gentoobro It takes all the effort I have not to make anyone else's life worse. I can't imagine being able to make anything better for anyone.

It doesn't actually get better, does it. Life is just shit, that's all there is too it. Things don't change. And if they do, it's rarely for the better. The world doesn't care.

Current state:

Being the dumbass who just looked up "How wide is a 5.25in drive"

@platypus As someone who collects devices from the early 2000s, when a lot of software was already starting to be distributed online only, yes, it's almost all gone without a trace. Sure, you might find the occasional forum post _referring_ to it, but all the links are long, long dead. Just as I've also seen videos I've been actively watching disappear without a trace.

I try really hard to archive anything important to me, as I know it's current source will dry up.

....*grumble grumble* "DMCA" mother f... *grumble grumble* "DRM" bullsh... *grumble*

@flip I'd argue the original FarCry is the best FPS in terms of both visuals and gameplay. Although, I've never played Halo.

@PublicLewdness Yeah, I get that, too. Part of why I buy so much old "new" hardware :P

Buying new hardware is a legitimate response to depression, right?

@anjune Yeah. It also gets me when video games that load for like ten minutes, bring up a "press start" prompt, only to load for like another two minutes before they bring up the menu. I also hate it when games load for what feels like twenty minutes, and then just drop you straight into the middle of something, so before you even know it's loaded, you die, and have to reload. Also the fact that many games put "new game" first, even after you've got saves going, is very annoying.

@anjune God, Farcry 2 has like a twenty minute unskippable cutscene before you can even touch the keyboard. Side note, I've never gotten into Farcry 2