ok. i gave that about 10 minutes. weird as hell. mr bones shooting people was unexpected.

Yes, that’s the thing. Even that graphic is starting to decay.
I remember when it was legible. I wonder how many iterations of screen grabs it took to get that bad.

I’ve just discovered that you can’t buy RCT3 on Steam anymore. Not that they were making much. I bought it for pennies a few years ago.

Hmm. I used to volunteer with Free Geek in Portland OR. It was essentially that, an e-disposal site and we made refurbs for community organizations. But they did have a store for sale to the public.

I have so much computer junk. I got rid of most of it, but then I got a bunch more when we closed the company office. Got at least 10 monitors, 5 PCs, a mini, couple laptops … and a storage shelf to put it on.

They fit.

Buy? That’s garbage. Look in garbage places. Used shops of any sort.
I like the college junk store suggestion. I used to do that.

You better watch it. You will shortly have a closet full of junk computer parts.

The video looked very like Serious Engine, so I downloaded it to see. Nope. Its Unity.

Comically long intro of a narrator and text. Ok, I’m a homeless traitor in Nazi Germany, trying to get my dog back.

Got out of the truck. Oh good. A box jumping obstacle. Hit the space bar. No jump. So I keep trying. And it knocks this box back into the corner, where I can see a mug of something floating there. Health or powerup or some shit. But I can’t get to it because I just kicked this box in the way.

I finally checked the controls. There’s no jump, just kick. You don’t jump in this game. Like old DOOM.

I gave up. I’m in this far. I’ll try it again later.

Despite OP insisting otherwise, I’m gonna assume you are correct. I use a lot of flavors of linux for a lot of things, but I don’t have it on a laptop (other than as an alt boot in case of a crash), so it seems logical to me that’s why this joke went over my head.

Is this mildly infuriating? No. This is a joke comm, not a group cry.

Ok. Yes, my use case is a private document and media store. I’m ungoogling.
VPN seems like a good place to start. But I’d like a simple answer, and I expect there are none to be had. As you’ve illustrated here, I’ll find a reason to punch holes in the firewall. And then I’m going to need to secure a web server. Life happens. I’ll keep it simple for now while I sort things. Thanks for your perspective.

Ya. I understand VPN. I do enterprise IT stuff. The things I build assume a secure environment. VPN is step one.
Nailing down a web server on the internet tho … there’s so many ways to attack. There’s so many things to secure. And its a bit complex to manage all that.
The nextcloud site covers hardening the server, but doesn’t even mention vpn.
I’ve been watching threads like this. I’m pretty convinced vpn is the answer.

Well, I might as well put a dog in the fight. I’m considering my final, actually secure deployment of nextcloud.

This discussion has convinced me that a vpn is the only answer.
And almost everyone says wireguard.

K. Thats what I will build.

And this is the start of the longest crypto nerd fight I’ve seen on Lemmy. Well done, people!

Thanks. That’s well laid out, straightforward. I have resources at home that I want access to through my vps. This is a good blueprint.

Indeed. I guess OP was looking for something besides windows tho …

and I’m just teasing, of course. I’ve got several Linux hosts running right now, but I’m typing on Win11.

Um … because its windows. Really. Almost downvoted you for that.

Now available on Shithub!
https://shithub.us/aap/catvclock/HEAD/info.html

I think what you are saying is that the project I linked won’t work for USB boot on a new EFI system. I imagine your assessment about EFI is correct, but I’m mostly interested in virtualized systems.

Their are several DOOM linux things out there. The version I’m working on builds out with busybox.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asnXWOUKhTA

My eventual intent is to use DOOM agents as a load tester.
I’d like the ISO to boot, look for a local game, and join a bot to deathmatch.
And then the testing metric would be a simple count. How many dooms can it run?
I have lots of projects. I might finish that one some day.

We used to do this back in the day with Win95.
You could change their shell to Notepad or something, and then that’s all the computer would run.
It was a slightly moar advanced trick than stealing their mouse ball.

RTFM. …
… The last thing you try.