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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Here’s the thing, I don’t want Microslop to apologize. Apologies don’t mean shit from major corporations unless actual change happens. It’s appalling just how bad Windows is compared to Linux, despite the fact that Linux is free and Windows is a “premium” OS. There are so many things, both big and small, that Linux does better than Windows. Microslop is currently worth almost 3 trillion dollars, they have no excuse.

    In fact, something that I saw some time ago, was a video of Tiny 11 being booted into with just 184MB of ram. It didn’t run that well, as it was pretty much unusable for multiple reasons, but this proves that Microslop has plenty of room for improvements in Windows to match Linux in terms of performance.



  • In this particular case, I think the use of AI is tolerable. But as someone who uses Lutris sometimes, I do have concerns about whether or not this will cause issues with running games through it. How do we know if the AI generated code is going to make Lutris slow or possibly cause games to not work properly that otherwise would have worked perfectly fine?

    Whenever I’ve tried running games in both Wine by itself and Lutris, I have noticed that they do often run noticeably slower in Lutris. And I also don’t have the best PC to begin with, so this is a big concern of mine.


  • I mainly use Firefox as it’s the best non-chromium browser I’m aware of for both Linux and android. But I also have Vivaldi installed on Linux for the rare cases where something doesn’t work in Firefox, Waterfox on some of my older android devices because Firefox no longer supports the versions of android they run, and I also have F-Droid’s Fennec on one of my phones because it used to be my primary browser on android and I just never got around to switching to Firefox on that phone.

    For anyone wondering why I stopped using F-Droid’s Fennec, it’s just because at some point (possibly a few years ago) they announced that their browser was outdated and missing several security features from Firefox. It’s possible that the browser is fully updated now, as it does seem to be receiving updates regularly, but I currently have no reason to switch back to using it as my primary browser on android. Now, if they were to revert the UI back to previous one, I’d have a reason to use it again. I really don’t care for the UI both Firefox and Fennec have currently on android.










  • I know of some flash/browser games if you’re okay with them and know how to safely play them but otherwise, I know I’ve definitely played a lot of games like this but I’m struggling to remember them.

    I haven’t played the steam version yet but I know that The Last Stand: Union City is pretty good. It was released on Steam in the Legacy Collection It plays almost like a 2D version of Fallout 3/NV but in a modern setting. I’ve personally been looking for more games like this but I have yet to find any.

    I know it might not be what you are looking for but I know that Terraria plays like this. It starts with melee weapons but you can get ranged weapons and there is a lot of them.

    If you are okay with top-down shooters, I’m also aware of a game called Empty Clip.

    I’m also aware of some adult games but I don’t know if I can post those here.



  • The benefits of keeping old devices. Before we moved several years ago, I had several computers/laptops, storage devices and some other miscellaneous devices that I’d be able to use and actually benefit from if I had kept them.

    • I have games that I can’t get working on either Linux or newer versions of Windows.

    • Hard drives from old computers and laptops can be relatively cheaply converted into external hard drives and, while they wont be fast and possibly not reliable if used too much, they offer decent storage for the price.

    • I often use smaller storage devices (like SD cards and MP3 players) for transferring files from one computer to another and I also like to use them as temporary storage to preserve my hard drives when I don’t need fast storage.

    Another thing I wish I had known about, was just how quickly emulation would get good for older games. I’ve wasted so much money from buying older/retro consoles because I thought that emulation would stay as just a niche interest. Nowadays, while some games and systems are still iffy, you can emulate a wide variety of consoles and a lot of emulators even work well on some older and low end devices.


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    3 months ago

    It’s a minor pet peeve but I’ve disliked it when games have multiple weapons that share ammo, especially when the game doesn’t explicitly tell you this. Some examples of games that do this are Doom and Half-Life. The reason I dislike this, is mainly because of how I play shooters in general. I always try to preserve my ammo by prioritizing my weakest weapons but in games that do this, I’m actually potentially wasting ammo because I’ll either have less ammo for the other, usually more powerful, weapon(s), or I might not even get to use that better weapon because I had no idea it shared ammo with a weaker weapon.