TTimo

Software freelancer. Previously id Software. Valve contractor: Linux, Steam Deck, Steam Frame. Other tech startups. Opinions are my own.

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2026-04-18 13:42:46 UTC

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My local car mechanic actually has a working IBM PC in his waiting room with a drive. I could probably try to read the disk, but I have no way to get it out. Maybe with some serial to usb thing?

2026-04-18 13:39:14 UTC

Do I know anyone in DFW who can retrieve the content on 5 1/4 floppies? I have some really old stuff I found - the very first game I wrote actually - that I'd like to recover (and fix - damn there's still a dumb bug I remember).

2026-04-04 12:26:27 UTC

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@nprofile…ml9f very nice! That's what I got a Subaru for. But I still need to get that setup .

2026-03-21 20:16:08 UTC

It's interesting chatting with non-tech people about the wave of age verification laws. They are broadly in favor. The same way nobody actually cared when cell phones were going to track everyone everywhere.

2026-02-21 23:06:52 UTC

I found a label maker in the Airbnb and I'm labeling all the things. Plz suggest name for a little hatchet used to cut firewood.

2025-12-28 15:01:18 UTC

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@nprofile…rtt8 g'damn what a year that was :)

2025-12-20 15:27:27 UTC

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@nprofile…lggw I was thinking about what we learn in Yoga and how it applies to our mental health also. We can put in effort and push on a stretch, but if it gets painful we should just pull back. Mental self care is oh-so-important.

2025-12-20 14:11:26 UTC

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@nprofile…lggw 2 steps forward 1 step back .. not much fun but that's how it is sometimes

2025-11-24 18:37:15 UTC

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@nprofile…dfpj @nprofile…pdue as an experiment you could go to pc part picker, build a system of equivalent performance and write that down - see how far off the mark once it's announced :)

2025-11-24 16:29:56 UTC

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@nprofile…ftwc @nprofile…syqt right, other than memory layout, marshalling access is the main issue there?

2025-11-24 16:24:57 UTC

Great #SteamController #SteamMachine #SteamFrame interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvu66Y2VLq8&t=3263s

2025-11-13 14:43:29 UTC

Ok I need to put a KDE, noob friendly distro on my wife's aging Surface Laptop. I was thinking Mint but it doesn't come with KDE? Looking at EndeavorOS but it might be too Arch-y?

2025-11-12 18:22:13 UTC

Alright, this is what has been keeping us busy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmKrKTwtukE

2025-11-12 13:08:29 UTC

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@nprofile…dfpj just use the same password everywhere!

2025-11-11 22:27:07 UTC

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@nprofile…4zgr using static libstdc++ linking can also break stuff (std::atomic shared between modules). Best distros are the ones that modify upstream the least imo.. (Arch!)

2025-11-11 21:58:17 UTC

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@nprofile…4zgr which packages would they patch specifically?

2025-11-07 14:07:14 UTC

Friday wisdom: meditate .. and medicate.

2025-10-22 12:03:50 UTC

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@nprofile…vnzn ouais mais la musiiiique ..

2025-10-18 21:43:33 UTC

I spent a few days R&R in west Texas and the Big Bend area. Some observations (1/n):

2025-07-16 12:41:35 UTC

Hilarious SNCF connect - I try to recover my account last week, sends me an email with a verification code. The email just came in, one week later .. "valid for 10 minutes". Rofl #sncf

2025-06-12 21:35:07 UTC

"Do you take dietary supplements?"
"Oh yeah, lots."
"Ah, which kind?"
"Xanax."

2025-05-05 02:19:55 UTC

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@nprofile…xyvy does he even realize that this merely doubles the price. That's weak, why not declare all anime "degenerate" and make it illegal?

2025-04-29 18:51:22 UTC

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@nprofile…lwhf nope, even before we started the Bezos vs. A head of lettuce comparisons, he had already backed out.

2025-04-03 12:15:27 UTC

Hard times ahead for Americans. It looks like that good karma is running out, although it's still nothing compared to some other populations in the world.
I hope some of them rediscover kindness and empathy, and realize that selfishness and xenophobia put them where they are headed now.

2025-02-20 18:34:07 UTC

I've been using Mission Center on Linux and it's pretty nice. I have some build ops that tend to overwhelm the system and I need to balance core vs memory budgets.
https://flathub.org/apps/io.missioncenter.MissionCenter
It's quite unstable though .. I thought software written in Rust was utterly perfect and incapable of failure .. what gives?

2025-02-06 01:54:01 UTC

Overheard on discord: "All my best ideas start as shitposts."

2023-12-16 23:37:35 UTC

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@npub14fs…qegk 😋

2023-12-16 23:12:57 UTC

tfw when you didn't decide on the CamelCase naming of a variable, and when you try to compile you have 2 or 3 variants of the spelling all over ..

2023-10-25 14:22:47 UTC

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@npub1tvq…l6jk slow progress but we'll get there. Appreciate everybody's patience.

2023-08-21 21:24:45 UTC

TIL there's an idtech.space #mastodon server.

2023-08-20 21:34:42 UTC

I got around to ship an updated set of GtkRadiant binaries with Quake II: Remastered support for Windows https://ttimo.typepad.com/blog/2023/08/gtkradiant-167-package-for-windows-with-quake-ii-remaster-support.html #quake2

2023-08-19 17:50:36 UTC

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@npub1tvq…l6jk they are some of the most fragile things to support in Proton too

2023-08-18 15:24:25 UTC

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@npub1tvq…l6jk 'tis only the beginning .. upgrading our compilers and we are doing a pass on runtime compatibility.

2023-08-04 18:37:31 UTC

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@npub1l3g…vu48 don't use #xero though. Completely overpriced.