M68040 [they/them]

Rocky Linux 2

I miss Wesley Willis.

Am I gonna have to pay for a vpn that actually lets me fake being outside the ‘states? I usually self host on a VM host to avoid incurring expenses, but it seems like that’s not really an option here. Seems like I might have to go for a AWS instance running PiVPN or something.

Yeah, that’s kind of what I was wondering. Turns out you can’t really do much useful with a self-hosted local VPN, but I like having the option of using one be something my VM host server provides.

Oh hey, I had some good results with Krita when I was still making digital art way back when. It’s been like a decade. I should get myself a new tablet.

2024 year of the consumer PowerPC comeback

I wish I could just keep using a GSM/CDMA phone from 20 years ago indefinitely sometimes.

I tried to run TF2 on a A4-3400 without a dedicated graphics card under Mint with Wine once like twelve years ago. It was…uh, not playable

Arcade games 2: but now every game is Double Dragon III

The Simpsons: Hit and Run had a similar gag in one of the maps.

Napster mindset

I like IRC and still use it daily to keep up with other hobbyists. Then again, vintage computers are my main hobby horse and of course those circles are gonna lean towards platforms that remain usable on a VIC-20.

Part of how I got here involves reading an assload of textfiles from the '90s and growing disillusioned with the fruits of that optimistic '90s techno-libertarianism

Make it look like IRIX, cowards

Yate Haugan

Shit, third spaces and public squares would also still be a lot more of a thing if anyone cared about the children. The situation with hostile architecture just makes things worse for everyone. People out there trying to invent ultrasonic devices meant to deter teenagers from hanging around and shit.

I ended up a terminally online washout in part because there was fuck all to do aside from sitting around the house and going to school when I was a kid. That was 20 years ago. I can’t imagine the situation is much better these days.

I hang around a bunch of artists who make money through NSFW art…or shit, they just draw it for fun. This isn’t gonna be great for them. Why should me and my friends’ thirty year old asses have to hold back so Little Timmy doesn’t see a boob or something? Shouldn’t their parents be the ones making sure that doesn’t happen?

I’ve always kinda wondered what System76’s stuff is like. Battery life’d be the main priority for my use case. (I really like my M2 Air for this)

Been meaning to transition to a distro with a focus on being pretty low maintainance yet not too top heavy, leaving Windows to a VM on my Proxmox server. Haven’t gotten around to it yet, since I’d need to get the server a dedicated graphics card.

Could just use WINE, I suppose, but I’m assuming it’s still as rough as it was last time I messed with it twelve years ago.