Same, on all counts.

Problem is that we’re above the temp where the AC can really do anything, where I am… it is simply too hot outside.

So, if I turn on the steam machine, im just wet bulbing myself in the next hour or two, even if the shower itself is cooling.

It’d turn into a sauna, one that I can’t really meaningfully air out, because it is also humid outside.

… Still 86F. Might be 80F in 2 or 3 hours… uggggh i am a bog monster lol.

Oh, but I’m a crazy conspiracy theorist when I tell people something like this almost certainly exists…!

… god fucking damnit.

Yeah. Yeah this is what the TPMv2 push was for.

This is why dual booting is always impossible in practice, because Windows can rewrite the boot sector, whenever it wants, and the Pluton system allows Windows to have an effectively below ring 0 level of access to the kernel, and… you cannot audit this.

https://en.ittrip.xyz/windows11/pluton-firmware-event

Windows 11: Bonus Combo Bundle with unremovable NSA rootkit!

Its for your health!

… they never needed to do this, it makes and it made no sense to throw away so much goodwill/reputation by just declaring the vast majority of the worlds pcs are now e-waste, upgrade to our new hardware standard for secure computing!

The only explanation that could ever make sense was that they wanted total control. Because its insane brand suicide from a purely capitalistic pov, the juice is not worth that hard of a squeeze.

Fucking… Windows is malware, by the FBI’s own guidelines for that from not too many years back.

… they just applied the same approach they did to making Xboxes non hard-moddable… to all PC hardware.

Make it so the system physically cannot function if you remove or even poke the part you’d need to poke or remove, once it has their software on it.

People think the Israeli pager thing was a well done supply chain attack.

… MSFT invented this shit.

Used to work for em, had a veteran co worker tell me about the one time he got deployed to Saudi Arabia to flash the bios of hardware destined to be installed in Saddam’s CnC/Air Defense systems.

And that was for Gulf War 1, by the way.

As far as I know, that is still fucking classified, because I’ve never heard anyone else talk about that, anywhere, ever.

… fuck.

Doesn’t matter now, I guess.

In all fairness to Romero, and many other heroes/legends of the ‘birth of fps’ era…

These dudes are getting old.

Getting old sucks.

Everything hurts, you’re always more tired than you used to be, you can’t pull 7 all nighters in a row anymore, it might actually kill you.

While the present circumstances are not … exactly awesome, dignified, ideal in any way…

… there would always one day need to be a changing of the guard.

All our favorite studios from the 90s/00s… they’re all mostly gone, they just have the same name sometimes, like the ship of Theseus. People leave, teams get shuffled… and the captains that are still there, are growing gray.

Don’t mourn this.

Be inspired by it.

Do what they did, but with that extra/other thing that you always thought they should have done, but never actually did.

It doesn’t have to be any graphically fancier than what they did decades ago… graphics age, gameplay is timeless.

You can do it, if you are curious, persistent… and humble.

Freedom.

You vastly overestimate the number of companies that are ‘worth anything’.

… I can’t shower or draw a bath until it gets below at least 80F … or … my entire apartment will become a sauna and basically give me heat stroke.

Yay super el nino… ughhhhh…

That would be my guess, yeah.

Pie = short/stout circular cylinder, involves some kind of dough/bread, tends to have a crust, tends to have stuff witin the uh, semi-enclosed volume made by the bread.

Can have bread/dough on top also, but doesn’t need to.

I think that works for a chicken pot pie (apparently also shepard’s pie?), a pizza pie, an apple pie, a lemon merengue pie…

That at least seems plausible/likely to me, but, I am only me.

… maybe some very bored linguist or statistician has actually polled people on this?

I am far from well versed in baking, but my brain basically considers a cobbler a subset, or type of pies.

Grandma would make pies and cobblers with the same circular pans, same dough, same crust… so… its just a specific kind of pie to me.

… also, said damage cube is comprised entirely of Red40

interpret this as you will, DMs

…sonuvabitch.

Welp, there I go, projecting again, hahahah!

… did not know that.

Yeah… Todd and Emil… are gonna have to… actually make something good.

For the first time in a decade.

Right so like Asha’s statement said that no publically announced games have been cancelled.

… Does Elder Scrolls 6 … actually count as publically announced?

Its never had a release date or window, its only ever had one trailer, basically just a panning landscape shot…

FallOut 5 certainly isn’t any kind of actually ‘publically announced’.

Yeah I can see enough wiggle room there that Asha can basically be a fascist and just straight up tell Todd and Emil exactly what to do, and threaten to fire them if they don’t.

Also just… as a former MSFT employee… I do not have enough lols to type in response to ‘we’re going to make sure there are no more than 5 layers of management, and also having a COO is probably a good idea’.

Yeah. Yep. I … actually just straight up agree with that one, yep.

Too bad expressing such sentiments a decade ago wasn’t exactly uh, well reviewed by my superiors at the time, oh well, cest la vie.

Excellent!

If Dr Who ever randomly abducts you, you’ll be slightly better suited for the experiencd than most!

I think MO sells his own merch shirts, with linux inspired/related designs.

Like the penguin with showering equipment… that he almost certainly designed to be worn to conventions, with linux people, to politely remind them to bathe, lol.

Hah uh yeah, sure!

Though, As I’ve said elsewhere… in terms of actual implementation of this, I’m really a novice at best, maybe up to ‘intermediate’ at a few things.

From the rest of this thread, it seems kyliann0087 is more well versed in this, has their own bit of an ongoing service set up in i2p land…

I am happy to try to help, but you might ask them what you’ve just asked of me, I suspect if they agreed, they’d be more useful than I would be.

I’m uh… more of an I2P fanboy/evangelist, lol.

EDIT

ok here are some of the resources i mentioned earlier/elswhere in the thread, but was too lazy to link earlier:

Mental Outlaw:

Intro to I2P (5 yo youtube video)

Make Linux Ungovernable with I2P (much more recent youtube video)

How I run Darknets From My Home Internet (5 yo odysee video, because some of this content/info is apparently too spicy for YouTube)

An ‘Awesome-I2P’ list, basically a curated list of many different I2P projects/software:

https://github.com/mikalv/awesome-i2p

Which of course is why we need kernel level anti cheat.

Because they stop all of those hacks!

…That are still rampant…

…despite the kernel level…

Wait a minute.

Exterior Government Aviator

I fly a Raytheon, Psychic Debaser

Exterior Government Aviator

I fly a Raytheon, Psychic Debaser

Biology, means nothing to me

Wire up the birds and schizos will flee

Tinfoil hats, do not wash well

With a good enough joke, they will sell

Feathers, will fly

Beamed through the sky

Bird brain, magnets

Deniable dragnet

… approximately to tune and cadence of:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0OEbuDP5Yys

Did you account for the switch from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar?

Don’t worry if you didn’t, this has tripped up a number of apocalyptic religious cults as well, they had to rewrite their time tables to Doomsday when somebody pointed it out to them.

But yeah, basically, 10 days got wiped out of conceptual existence in the uh, great time refactor of 1582. … and more confusingly, it wasn’t like, globally adopted at the same time, so, sometimes, in some places, adoption resulted in the nullification of 11, 12, or 13 days.

Happy to be an annoying yet hopefully ultimately positive influence, lol.

Its almost like a game that requires or significantly involves regular monotonous grinding is … like, definitionally, a poorly designed game.

You can have a regular, repeated activity or loop.

But if that loop itself is boring, rote… the game has failed at actually being engaging, thus rewarding.

The loop itself should be what offers the potential for reward, and that reward should be experiential, not… systemitized sequential progression.

Petition to change the phrase:

‘You can’t compare apples and tomatoes.’

… now it makes considerably less sense, and also does splash damage against the concept of a vegetable.