Hak Foo :verified_blobcat:

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2026-03-26 00:33:43 UTC

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I honestly like VGA because it's the hassle-free choice. Compatible monitors are everywhere and the DIY TVGA9000 card is always a fallback if you can't find a compatible one in your parts box.
It won't run a handful of demos, but that's true of anything short of a balky old CGA 5150. Conversely, CGA for GeoWorks is awful :P
I wish the Graphics Gremlin could do VGA modes since the HDMI-ish output is even more forward compatible than VGA.

2025-10-25 17:11:23 UTC

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I've had only three dodgy Linux gaming experiences in recent memory:
* Blade and Soul Neo: Didn't even get past the launcher. Probably anticheated to hell.
* Breath of Fire IV (GoG release). Works but doesn't map one of my gamepads correctly.
* Genshin Impact: Since some 5.x release, it works fine once it loads, but you have to turn off the network for 10 seconds during the load process.
Lutris is great even on a decidedly off-normal system (Void)

2025-09-07 16:46:13 UTC

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If the first transistorized computer fell into my lap, shouldn't it be "what you do with it AFTER the significant surgery to repair your obliterated lower half?"

2025-08-21 04:55:16 UTC

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Not only are we wasting fossil fuels, we're doing so in the least profitable way.
The long-term value for oil is in chemical products. It's a lot harder to retool the whole world of synthetic materials than switch out a power plant.
If we saved our supply for chemical use, it could sustain high-margin products for decades to come.
But no, let's pump it all today trying to outcompete ever-cheaper renewables because an old man literally tilted at a windmill.

2024-12-19 19:57:47 UTC

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I suspect photorealism appeals as a risk-management strategy. The more avant-garde and abstract art becomes, the higher risk you missed the plot and end up feeling the sucker who paid $1500 for crap. With photorealism, it's easy to dismiss anything surprising as "low technical quality".
It might go all the way to being an "independent benchmark" that can be read without content. The picture is a 92.45% accurate rendition of the scene, and only 95% is Art(tm).

2024-11-12 04:40:03 UTC

One positive of the election ending is that my spam is one sixteenth what it was.
3.95 years in a row of "Spedly Gluppo needs my $6 in the Illinois 137th District." Really? Can't find someone less than 2000km from your home territory to beg from? If you want my money that badly, get a freaking OnlyFans.
TBH, I'm amazed no candidate has done it as a publicity stunt. "Now my donors know exactly the quid pro quo they're getting, and so does all of America. Foot pics start at $49."
#uspol

2024-10-26 05:48:53 UTC

My phone's SD card blew up, so I listened to #radio while working on a project today.
So many right-wing ads, heavy anti-immigrant and anti-Harris. One of the ads literally started "Hey, young Americans" in a way that I can only hope was ironic awareness of the Fellow Kids meme.
I wonder what demographic they were expecting; the station is 'alternative' format, the sort that brought out Rise Against for their annual charitable concert pre-pandemic. Can't imagine the audience skewing MAGA.

2024-10-15 01:01:22 UTC

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Even his supporters must admit he has the social graces of a rabid water buffalo, but pretty much everything he said about the tech ecosystem was clairvoyant.
We need to make sure that important messages aren't wrecked by a distasteful messenger.

2024-10-09 05:39:40 UTC

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If he had been a little more savvy about it, he could have dispatched a gift wrapped set to each G20 nation in a big ceremony promoting our 'innovation' and 'leadership' in every medical field except actually enforcing policies that would slow the spread.
Say "letting ANY major world leader suddenly keel over from Covid is bad for Global Stability" and it doesn't look quite as much of a giveaway to a patron.
If I can figure out how to cover an ass in 3 minutes, why can't he?

2024-08-26 04:09:58 UTC

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It feels like there's less experimentation than you'd expect.
Everyone's doing a POSIX-shaped system, maybe a basic GUI for a terminal and Tetris. It supports just enough "hardware" to run in Virtualbox. Sometimes it's written in a new language, but the user experience is the same.
I wish we'd see more new visions of userspace, maybe even atop existing kernels. For all its faults, Linux-as-Android got to focus on the user experience rather than reinventing SATA drivers.