Edit: Thought it would be less concerning to those who'd seen this post to edit rather than delete. I promise I will seek help if of becomes necessary.
Very familiar with anxiety and panic and here to talk to if you ever need it.
Only good advice is also the most obvious: Take time for yourself. Don't force yourself to do things when you know you can't. The exhaustion builds up and takes a toll. People are generally very understanding in my experience.
@uoou There are some rather urgent things that need my attention, but I'm going to take a day to collect myself before I address them. I wouldn't be doing anyone (myself included) any favours if I attempted to solve this in my present state.
So Merry and Pippin pull out their laptops, realize the door opening API call is unsecured, and use curl to POST "X-Authorized: Friend" to it, being sure to set the language encoding to Elvish first.
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@pseudonym @Unixbigot @LapTop006 when I broke my arm, I got home and realised there was no way I could get my DESFire fob out of my pocket to get in to the house. Thankfully there is a way to log in on my phone, which I could just about manage left handed!
Achievement unlocked: making a Costco run on transit.
I brought a camping pack and filled it to absolute capacity. It was a bit of a challenge, but doable... and still better than dealing with the parking there.
Internet was dropping packets like crazy (up to 50% packet loss). My ISP's tier-1 tech support didn't even know what the ping tool was.
I've worked tech support for a telco before, I know what the quality of the training is like because of the ridiculous turnover, so I get it, but geez...
This begs an ettiquette question: what is the correct response to the following conversation that doesn't involve being an asshole?
Tech: Your connection seems fine on my end. Me: It can't be. I'm getting about 25-50% packet loss. Tech: How do you know that? Me: The ping tool. Tech: What's that?
After a long pause, my response was "a very basic network diagnostic tool." That came across more condescendingly than I had intended, but I couldn't come up with a better way of saying it.
razorblades were discovered behind fash posters at a station just outside London a few weeks ago (a lot of fash are also "tradmasc" types so may be buying the blades anyway for the "grandad" safety razors they like using)
There are also various scrapers you can get cheaply (sold for removing stickers from car windscreens) which can be used to attack suspect stickers without putting yourself in danger..
@vfrmedia This is good to know, because I haven't seen any nasty stuff like this yet, but I'd probably reach out with my bare hands if I hadn't just been warned. 😅
Incidentally, I'm super lefty and I use an old steel "mid-century" razor with double-sided blades myself, a choice I made some years back to avoid putting all those plastic disposables into the landfill. 🪒
@vfrmedia Also, did you say "straight razor," as in the flip-out thing that can slit your throat? I could never. I live in earthquake country after all.
I had a similar experience in the Covid pandemic. A bunch of conspiracist anti-vax stickers appeared on lamp posts around town here. I took to tearing them off, or if stuck down too well I'd apply a marker pen. The next week I found someone else had got there with the marker before me, and a couple of weeks later they stopped appearing.
Okay, I'm done making pen rolls. This is the first one I actually didn't eyeball and am reasonably satisfied with the finished result. Made an identical one for Katy. #FountainPens
PSA: if you're using a laptop with a recent Intel CPU and running Linux, install and enable thermald if you do not have it already. you will likely notice substantial performance gains
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@Krafting Can confirm. Just did the same. I didn't compare it word for word, but mine seems to have omitted the part about not ever repeating the prompt. The rest looked pretty much exactly the same.
It should come as no surprise to anyone who's been paying attention that I've grown disillusioned with capitalism over the past several years. What's interesting to me though is that any time I express this publicly, there are no shortage of capitalists who falsely assert that I am claiming that communism is the ultimate solution to everything. This is a false dichotomy.
I am not saying I have the answers to the world's problems. I just have eyes to see that the emperor has no clothes.
Just beautiful. Great reminder how pure and powerful Unix once was.
Thinking about it, my first serial-line terminal login on a SysV machine was back in January 1990, eons ago. It was a big tower case server with a 68020, and even then it was considered an older machine for legacy projects and unimportant enough to let newbs like me have a go at it. Your machine is about a generation or two older, and still running strong. Great job!
Used to run some mainframe printing off a PDP-11 back in the '80s. Trying to remember if that was used in conjunction with a Xerox laser printer or was something else. My memory is fuzzy about that.
Have you investigated interactive fiction? The game that has stuck with me as a good introduction to the medium was Photopia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photopia
There are likely many other on-ramps to text adventures, probably newer and better games, but I just thought that one had pretty colors 😉
@craigmaloney oh yeah I did add Mille Borne, I haven't played it yet but I've heard people say that Monster Maker (an 80s Japanese card game I have) is similar in the sense of trying to play distance cards to the right length and stopping other people from progressing. Just with a little more Gandalf (who in later printings got renamed to Gandawulf), so I've always meant to try that game digital or otherwise.
A remake of Xor by Astral Software for Linux, using Ncurses. - GitHub - jwm-art-net/XorCurses: A remake of Xor by Astral Software for Linux, using Ncurses.
Also man I would absolutely love more like...turn based management sim kinda games, I'm looking for a good port of Oregon Trail for Unix terminals, and I've been enjoying checking out more evolved games that came out of Hammurabi, so games like this I would love recs for. I assume there's some form of Lemonade Stand out there too if I look. Gimme all the business/city sims you can.
I believe old versions of Dwarf Fortress have an ncurses mode which runs in the terminal. Dont think its supported anymore on the steam/itch release though, sadly.
(I hope DF doesn't count as a roguelike or dungeon crawler 😀 )
@operand I should look into that, I've played an absurd amount of hours of DF but I've never played it in a terminal so it'd be a fun thing to check out
A game, written in Bash, that is a somewhat retro-a-like shoot 'em up. Hopefully. - GitHub - wimpysworld/antsy-alien-attack: A game, written in Bash, that is a somewhat retro-a-like shoot '...
Super Star Trek (although the version you get in modern Linux is unrecognizable to me personally), and text adventure / interactive fiction games like Colossal Cave Adventure and Zork.
The way you are asking you probably know about bsdgames, but I wanted to specifically recommend hunt from there as a multiplayer shooter. Surprizingly fun for what it is. Only works in multiplayer though.
@timorl I grabbed it but haven't looked at everything in there, I'm also working on a pubnix for some local folks though and thought about putting it on there since I know it's on a lot of pubnix servers
@ramin_hal9001 @skyfaller seriously I'm sitting here thinking I need to start designing my own terminal games along the lines of the Oregon Trails or Lemonade Stands of the world, but with more depth because it's 2023
exceptionally cursed but: I once hacked a ncurses TUI display mode into a Gameboy emulator, using half-height unicode blocks to get 2 square-ish pixels per text character. worked badly, but worked nonetheless
unfortunately I don’t think I still have a copy I can share, but if you have the time and the know how it is both possible and very funny
@joshie 🏳️🌈 badly or not, the fact that it woked at all is pretty impressive. If you should happen to find it kicking around on a drive somewhere, I'd love to see it in action.
Text-based games are often forgotten and neglected. However, there are many ASCII gems out there waiting to be explored which are immensely addictive and great fun to play.
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It's nice to know that someone cares even an intermet stranger.
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Only good advice is also the most obvious: Take time for yourself. Don't force yourself to do things when you know you can't. The exhaustion builds up and takes a toll. People are generally very understanding in my experience.
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