Rose @ umbraroze @slrpnk.net

I'm just one random nerdy trans girl. ...Oh come on, you've been around fed

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I would suggest getting a Wii, but not for playing the games. Softmod it (pretty trivial) and install CleanRip.

Then just start collecting Wii and GameCube games, rip them to USB/SD card, and play them on PC with Dolphin. Use just about any PC compatible controller for GameCube games, and you can pair the Wii controller over Bluetooth for Wii games.

Last I checked Wiis are pretty cheap, and the GC and Wii library has a lot of real gems.

Gustav Adolf: "All right, who's responsible? I'll have them beheaded for this!"
[Sees his own signature on the blueprints]
"Uh, um, I guess this was actually no one's fault, when you really think about it"

Yeah, that sounds like something Trump would do.

Only thing is, nobody would want to raise this wreck. It'd immediately get raided by a crack team of North Korean gold thief divers.

People don't think enough of contrast and colour choices.

For example, icons.

I kept launching the wrong popular streaming video app. One was red and white, the other was white and red.

I have pinned some app icons but I really need to squint sometimes. So many blue icons.

Modern UI trend in graphics apps is to use monochrome hieroglyphs for tool icons. Fuck that, give me colour icons. Can't tell the tools apart. It's not even visually appealing. What.

Games use really creative colour schemes. Then in the first dialog they show in the game, they have two choices, and I guess I just have to guess which button is which because it's impossible to tell which is the "active" colour.

Ooh, fancy scroll bar you have there. Really blends to the background. Can barely see it.

A lot of lectures and presentations are silly when people show a web page and I can barely make out the domain because the rest of the URL is grey mush. And I'm sitting in the front. (I can barely make sense of it the address bars on my monitor. Firefox at least lets you disable this nonsense)

Another big beef I have with modern UIs, especially mobile ones: If you put something on the screen, would it be possible to not randomly move the stuff around? (For example: I tried to click the latest conversation in Signal desktop. In the time between my decision and the mouse click, Signal noticed that it has been several femtoseconds since the last software update, and popped an update notice right where the top of the conversation list is. Guess what I clicked.)

Another thing: Overreliance on scroll wheel. In case you haven't noticed, scroll wheels aren't very reliable. They get gunky and are hard to clean. Give me the bloody scrollbar. In games, let me rebind zoom.

Especially in case of physical media. "Hey, here's a cool game/movie/recording. Now slap it in a box and never use it again."

(well, ROM/optical and other media that doesn't wear away, anyway - if it's a floppy, that's going to probably degrade anyway, might as well slap it in a box)

What do publishers do? Editing, layout, other parts of design (e.g. covers), most importantly printing, marketing and distribution.

Oh you mean what do scientific publishers do? Um... that's a good one, huh... they just kinda take the money and leave everyone else to do the actual work?

Forever ago, Steam added like 1 minute of playtime on games I literally installed once and never played, so I was a little bit apprehensive. Anyway, I figured that was in the past now. I was also encouraged to do this after noticing that Steam's cloud save was more than happy to just fetch save data from games I've literally not touched for 10 years.

I personally don't have the heart to say any of the legacy support stuff is completely useless. I mean, yeah, Windows has support for floppy drives (through standard USB mass storage), but you know what? I can image old floppies through it. If Windows recognises floppy drives and gives it drive letter A, that's not that much of bloat really, just an entry in a list or something.

And also most Linux distributions also have ancient-ass legacy stuff, though admittedly usually you need to specifically install it and maybe even hack a bit to get it to work again. ...why yes, I am going to do physical terminal stuff one day, 1980s style, and I'll be very mad if I need to hack serial getty support in the hard way!

Fun thing, when you attach a USB floppy drive on a modern Windows 11 system, it'll dutifully give it drive letter A: and even has a floppy drive icon. (Which admittedly doesn't look like a floppy drive. At all. But it has a floppy!)

And why yes, I've seen it a time or two in recent years, because I've been archiving some stuff. Imaging shitloads of old floppies.

Reminds me of an old joke about how everything in KDE has a k and it's very annoyink and irrtitatink bekause they have less laks user interface kuidelines than GNOME. (I haven't checked, they've probably vastly improved since then)

Nah. Tried to imply that everyone has sex. Even if you're not thinking about it. (Especially if you're not thinking about it.)

Ah, I thought Windows always used its own paging file thing located on the Windows NTFS drive, and couldn't be made to use Linux swap.

If so, enabling that thing probably isn't a good idea if you are dual booting, yes. Can see all sorts of problems coming from that.

It's a Unix derivative. To get the fundamental software thing working, someone has likely had hot gay sex. To get the modern software going, someone has had hot transgender sex, hawt furry yiff, and autistic sexual intercourses. ...What I'm getting at, sex won't make Arch unbootable. Guess you just personally fucked up somewhere.

What

Linux swap partitions have no bearing on Windows boot times. Or Windows in general. Windows doesn't care about partitions it doesn't recognise. (It might, on occasion, fuck with the bootloader though, but I hear it's a little bit less of a headache in UEFI days)

Obligatory Jacob Geller video

These days Windows boots really fast to the login screen (which has a reboot option).

If you log in, it'll start loading all the usual shit, and that will take a few moments on SSD. (And a few geological megacycles on a HDD.)

The Church of Alpha the Utterly Indifferent, from "The Songs of Distant Earth" by Arthur C. Clarke?

Back in the day, I got the weird idea that it'd be handy to grab information from the XMMS music player as it was running. So I made an extension that basically dumped the information about the player state as text to a named pipe. A few people wrote scripts for their IRC clients and whatnot to tell others what they were listening.

(Back then, none of the GUI music players really had any kind of RPC capability. Nowadays, you can probably do this stuff easily with D-Bus or whatever.)

One time, late at night, I was just listening to music in bed with headphones, controlling XMMS via infrared remote controller (LIRC). A random cool track came up. I had no idea what it was actually called. I went "wouldn't it be cool if I could hit a remote button and it'd say what song is currently playing?" ...so I got up, got back to the computer, and wrote a script that reads the pipe, takes the artist and song title, and feeds it to Festival TTS, then added that to LIRC configuration.

Having really hard time converting Kindle books lately, especially since last time I tried this, the deDRM plugin couldn't handle the newest Kindle for PC versions. Is there an easy way that doesn't involve getting a physical Kindle device? Does the Android thing work?

Google Play Books allows publishers to set the DRM policy. Some titles are not protected and can be just downloaded as EPUB. For the DRMed books, it can send them to Adobe's ebook reader/sync app, which (last I checked) can be decrypted by the Calibre deDRM plugin.

I don't hate AI (specifically LLMs and image diffusion thingy) as a technology. I don't hate people who use AI (most of the time).

I do hate almost every part of AI business, though. Most of the AI stuff is hyped by the most useless "luminaries" of the tech sector who know a good profitable grift when they see one. They have zero regard for the legal and social and environmental implications of their work. They don't give a damn about the problems they are causing.

And that's the great tragedy, really: It's a whole lot of interesting technology with a lot of great potential applications. And the industry is getting run to the ground by idiots, while chasing an economic bubble that's going to end disastrously. It's going to end up with a tech cycle kind of similar to nuclear power: a few prominent disasters, a whole lot of public resentment and backlash, and it'll take decades until we can start having sensible conversations about it again. If only we would have had a little bit of moderation to begin with!

The only upside AI business has had was that at least it has pretended to give a damn about open source and open access to data, but at this point it's painfully obvious that to AI companies this is just a smoke screen to avoid getting sued over copyright concerns - they'd lock up everything as proprietary trade secrets if they could have their way.

As a software developer, I was first super excited about genAI stuff because it obviously cut down the time needed to consult references. Now, a lot of tech bosses tell coders to use AI tools even in cases that's making everyone less productive.

As an artist and a writer I find it incredibly sad that genAI didn't hit the brakes a few years ago. I've been saying this for decades: I love a good computerised bullshit generator. Algorithmically generated nonsense is interesting. Great source of inspiration for your ossified brain cells, fertile grounds for improvement. Now, however, the AI generated stuff pretends to be as human-like as possible, it's doing a terrible job at it. Tech bros are half-assedly marketing it as a "tool" for artists, while the studio bosses who buy the tech chuckle at that and know they found a replacement for the artists. (Want to make genAI tools for artists? Keep the output patently unusable out of the box.)