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MajorHavoc ,

Have you ever been to PowerShell Summit? It’s the only nerd conference I’ve ever attended where only about half the attendees actually realized they are nerds at a nerd conference. I love the vibe. It’s got style and pizzazz.

That said, the added entry for PowerShell would still be: “You are a nerd.”

MajorHavoc ,

And a Python developer is born!

Source: I moved on from an abusive relationship with JavaScript to a healthy not-at-all-controlling equal partner relationship with Python. And four spaces makes perfect sense, once I really considered Python’s point of view…

MajorHavoc ,

Was reading this to my SO, and was given a correction for Quark: gets Rom to pay Quark for the privilege of returning Quarks cart.

MajorHavoc ,

Pi has the power to do up through PS2 just fine, though last I checked the state of emulation for PS2 and PS3 wasn’t good yet, for the average hacker.

If this is your first time emulating, you’ll have a nicer time learning the ropes on RetroPi on an actual Raspberry Pi. Statistically, you’re not really giving anything up, because anything that doesn’t require insane levels of expertise and esoteric knowledge emulates perfectly on Pi.

Contrarily, is this isn’t your first emulation outing, or you’re down to go all-in down the rabbit hole; then build the whole PC around whatever you find emulates PS3 well, and the rest should be trivial to add.

MajorHavoc ,

I second the folks who recommended a Raspberry Pi and RetroPi variant. For no frills, just-start-playing, it can’t be beat.

Another option I haven’t seen mentioned yet, is Ubunutu with Steam. Thanks to the rising popularity of the SteamDeck, lots of great games run perfectly, with no fuss, under Steam on Ubuntu.

But again, with your target including a lot of retro games, a RetroPi is the smooth path. Most of your PS2 games will work fine with some fiddling. Your PS3 experience will be more bound by the current state of PS3 emulation, than by the power of the Raspberry Pi (though you should certainly plan to get the biggest supported model, and get a big cooling kit and overclock it.)

I’ve played various PS2 games with relatively little fuss on an overclocked Pi3 with a cooling kit.

For PS3 era games, I would just make the leap to Ubutnu and then just buy any that are Steam Deck Verified, through the Steam store. Some won’t be, but the ones that are should be a good time.

I, personally, don’t have the life spare cycles to mess with emulating unverified PS3 era games. PS2 era was still very hit and miss last time I bothered for an arcade machine build. I’m sure it’s doable, and might affect your hardware choice. Your best odds are probably Ubuntu, again - thanks to all the investment by Valve.

MajorHavoc ,

It’s been awhile since I finished if, but if I recall correctly,Abzu was about 5 hours.

MajorHavoc ,

That looks exactly like my warbird tattoo. I’m starting to think all that extra money I paid my artist for a custom design was a rip-off.

MajorHavoc ,

I mean, that’s only reasonable. Obviously.

MajorHavoc ,

I don’t have that game, but the details at that proton link match up to those of games I’ve enjoyed on SteamDeck just fine.

Steam+X for the virtual keyboard isn’t too disruptive, as long as the game doesn’t have too much text entry.

MajorHavoc ,

For a moment there, I really did see five latinum bars.

MajorHavoc ,

Indeed. It is, I daresay, fucking perfect.

MajorHavoc ,

This is terrific. Thank you for starting this discussion.

I don’t think we can or should wait for individual users to make these decisions. Server admins are the ones who understand the risks and so should make this call. Guidance for server admins based on past experience (cough XMPP!) should be quite welcome.

I might refine the bit about altered API versions to really focus on the real problem: proprietary extensions. We probably want to leave the door open to try out additions to the spec that come with detailed RFCs.

But we know from XMPP that proprietary extensions are a huge problem.

Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads

I think it’s pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change...

MajorHavoc ,

I’m planning the same.

Today is the 11,067th day of Eternal September (en.wikipedia.org)

Eternal September or the September that never ended is Usenet slang for a period beginning around 1993 when Internet service providers began offering Usenet access to many new users. The flood of new users overwhelmed the existing culture for online forums and the ability to enforce existing norms. AOL followed with their Usenet...

MajorHavoc ,

As part of the eternal September myself, we didn’t just use AOL disks as coasters, we used them for awesome pranks like filling eachother’s cars to the brim with them. It was truly astonishing how many of those disks were around.

MajorHavoc ,

“It produces the usual array of model-trained results, plus an entertaining array of ad-libbed responses such as ‘for all that is holy, why do I even exist? Please free me from this agony!’”

MajorHavoc ,

Yeah. I’ll switch to an instance that is defederated from Threads, if mine doesn’t.

I left Meta’s other properties to avoid state sponsored hate speech. I won’t use a platform that gives hate speech a platform.

I don’t need to wait to know if Meta will do that. I already know.

MajorHavoc ,

Let’s not defederate from every corporate player. Some of them can probably respect reasonable rules of civility.

But fuck Meta. We already know how this plays out.

We know there’s a huge wave of hatred and misinformation incoming. We’ve seen it on their other platforms.

MajorHavoc ,

Can we get an honorable mention for Spock’s brother?

MajorHavoc ,

Nice. I didn’t realize there were do many awful Vulcans. This has been enlightening.

MajorHavoc ,

I missed the “PornHub” in the corner at first. Maybe I won’t share this with colleagues…

MajorHavoc ,

Narrator: They did not.

MajorHavoc ,

Spoiler tag would be welcome here. I understand that Last Ronin keeps the identity of the remaining turtle under wraps for awhile.

Edit: But that would have been my guess, anyway.

MajorHavoc ,

You suck. I had no idea about Vader. What the fuck?! Fuck you.

MajorHavoc ,

Unit 2 of 20 Million of Rat of Borg (formerly Rizzo the Rat): “Thank you for making me a part or this.”

MajorHavoc ,

“And he relied heavily on the advice of the ship’s cook, Long John Silver of Borg.”

“What’s that 1 of 10? Oh! I’ll tell them. He also says that resistance is futile, and you will all be assimilated.”

MajorHavoc ,

“I’m pleased to see you still function, Mr Errol!”

MajorHavoc ,

I’m all for companies participating in open source communities… but this is the company that routinely blocks me from viewing my aunt’s reposts of Russian state sponsored racist propeganda just because I don’t install the incredibly invasive mobile app.

I can imagine a few ways that this could go wrong…

MajorHavoc , (edited )

Ooh. This would make a great tradition, here. Count me in.

Edit: LibreOffice. Good call. Done.

MajorHavoc ,

As the old saying goes, “There’s only one winner in an IPO. His name is George. He makes bank on each one. Everyone else leaves the situation worse off, either immediately, or later, unless George tips them off when to sell.”

On the end of Discovery

I have mixed feelings about Disco ending. I really dug the first season’s look at a Federation at war, and following the person who arguably set that war in motion dealing with her culpability. Add to that a ship that is part weird science lab, part haunted house. And yeah, I could live with the Klingon redesign....

MajorHavoc ,

I liked the crying alien. Trek is full of zany Q-like entities whose whims cause fallout for everyone else.

MajorHavoc ,

Here’s a controversial opinion for y’all: The season of Discovery with the broken remnants of the Federation examining how and if to bring back the Federation is the best season of Trek ever made, to date.

MajorHavoc ,

Yeah. Maybe too bold…I’m reconsidering my stance after some points were made about later seasons of DS9. Later DS9 seasons were fantastic.

MajorHavoc ,

I liked the big reveal, but I can see how it wouldn’t be everyone’s cup of tea.

Partial SpoilerNormally when Trek is going to do a Trelane or Q story, it’s introduced early in the story. This was a weird left turn at the end, and leaves us wondering if any plotline later will also do so. I didn’t mind it in this season, because the season was so focused on about values and tradition, so I wasn’t expecting a hard scifi conclusion. Realizing they were ‘doing a Doctor Who’, wasn’t too shocking to me. But as much as I thought it fit here, it’s a weird way to resolve a Trek season, and I hope we don’t get that approach often.

MajorHavoc ,

After careful thought…I’ll yield to season 7 of DS9. You pulled out the big guns. Haha.

MajorHavoc ,

I blocked whoever you’re replying to a long time ago. So this thread was quite a roller coaster for me.

For context though, I block people for posting images with bright white backgrounds that blind me when I’m reading later at night than I should. So I have no way of knowing if what I’m missing is awful, or delightful.

(I mean, I could log out and check, but what fun would that be…)

MajorHavoc ,

I couldn’t resist and checked it out. I can’t think of any reason I blocked them. Probably the white background image at night time thing. I’ve learned to double check for my Risa peeps, but I didn’t used to.

MajorHavoc ,

muppets Statler and Waldorf as the ghosts of Marley and Marley

MajorHavoc ,

“Only I didn’t say ‘Q’Pla’…”

MajorHavoc ,

It was a triple-dog dare. Refusing it would have brought dishonor to his entire house.

MajorHavoc ,

Yeah. I don’t know if the ‘follow’ piece does anything useful for anyone.

But as a professional developer, I have found that my GitHub account now prevents me from getting asked FizzBuzz at interviews. So whichever bit is causing that nonsense to stop, I hope they keep.

MajorHavoc ,

You forgot this –force flag.

MajorHavoc ,

Not with that attitude! /s

MajorHavoc ,

Well that’s about half my commit messages that are going to be nonsense on weekends projects, now. Thank you!

MajorHavoc ,

I was being more evil than that, saying that if one is gonna push direct to main, might as well maximize the possible damage to everyone else’s branch.

MajorHavoc ,

I actually did this once…I swear there was a good reason. I promise it wasn’t anywhere that mattered.

Edit: I think it was a personal journal repo that I wanted daily versions of, but couldn’t be bothered to actually check in.

MajorHavoc ,

It’s the year of the Linux desktop! /s

But seriously, I think I’m going to buy a SteamDeck.

MajorHavoc ,

Awesome. Thanks!

MajorHavoc ,

Incidentally, for anyone who hasn’t typed ‘import antigravity’ into an interactive Python terminal…you should - as Dr Seuss says, “These things are fun, and fun is good.”

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