Notices by OpenComputeDesign (opencomputedesign@linuxrocks.online)

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

As for security, are there really that significant of _hardware_ security advancements happening?

Because I tend to hear far more about all the new hardware ways of _tracking_ your computer.

Apparently Microsoft claims that once a computer turns four years old, it'll cost companies $4,000 per computer they _don't_ upgrade, due to hardware failures and hardware related data breaches.

I find this _completely_ unbelievable. For one thing, several years ago I bought an entire stack of retired Core 2 Duo Dell Optiplex 960's from a college, where several have been put into near continuous use, and not one has suffered a single hardware failure since. And these are now 14 years old iirc.

@codythedragonrude Microsoft is also the company that doesn't support computers more than about four years old for Windows 11...

Using Meamo Leste on my pinephone reminds me just how much Nokia knocked it out of the park with the N900

@urusan Luckily my printer is _always_ out of color ink!