Ah man, I completely forgot about DoD, also only played the retail version running the original Gold engine…

Can still hear the M1 clip ping…

My first game on Steam was Counter Strike, but I had already been playing the retail release for a while. They had some one-time activation to bring over your CD key. When they launched Steam, it was horrible. Remember, this was the time of single core processors (Pentium 4), so any anything that interrupted the cpu would effect your FPS. Plus it was buggy and crashed all the time.

I boycotted Steam and Valve and kept playing pre-steam CS 1.6 till the Orange Box came out. But TF2, Portal, and HL2 plus episode 1 was too good of a deal to pass up, and I had a new AMD Athlon that felt like a beast at the time.

Kinda sad I forgot my original account, would have been neat to have an account as old as Steam. Oh well.

How sad that Aaron Swartz was there for the creation of RSS and Reddit. Like spitting on his grave by removing access to data and putting up walls.

I’m following a GitHub issue asking for Linux support information. Hopefully it gets an official response, or at least some community reports as the hardware ships out.

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamVR-for-Linux/issues/946

Now this is a real shit post

Hi Mike, going to need to have you calculate a new slingshot trigectory to Earth after I get through your list of jokes with Wyoming.

You should read “The Roads Must Roll” short story by Robert Heinein. He takes this idea to a whole nother level.

https://ia801208.us.archive.org/32/items/calibre_library_178.219.147.208/Robert A. Heinlein - The Roads Must Roll_4359.pdf

Seems more like an article the Sun would publish 🤣

I still enjoy Yahtzee on Second Wind since the whole Escapist debacle. They seem to be trying to stoplight more indie games which I really appreciate.

If they sold it a $400 they’d be at a loss, at $300 they would crash the desktop market. People would by it for general desktop use. Similar how so many PS2 were bought just because it was the cheapest DVD player and didn’t buy games.

Hell, there was a supercomputers built with PS3 clusters. Maybe that explains why the Steam Machine only has a 1Gbps nic…

I’m most surprised that they removed SMART tooling. My primary pool is still spinning rust for the foreseeable further. And I just retired a drive based on SMART testing and TrueNAS’s alerting.

Why not just link to the actual source? It gives more complete information anyway

• TrueNAS blog post
• TrueNAS docs Release notes

Sounds like the beginning of a proper Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Actually having something telling me Don’t Panic is big friendly letters would help my mental health…

Easy, just convert to hex, 0x0F

I’ve been wanting to tryout all these N64 decompiles see if they are an improvement to emulation.

Actually looks really easy to setup the Mario Kart one

https://github.com/HarbourMasters/SpaghettiKart

Relevant Tom Carty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DtPkr8yJ00

Don’t think I noticed in Hollow Knight, but there is definitely less input lag for the Proton/Windows version of Silksong when docked.

Silksong ftw.

I had issues with my 8bitdo controllers right trigger acting stuck (would keep running). Seems like a bug with the Linux version. Changed compatability to Proton Experimental and everything runs great now.

Man, I remember lusting over getting a WD Raptor back in the day. They were so much more expensive and lower data density it I couldn’t justify for my low budget.

As was already said, 160 was pretty common, think increments of 20 or 40 is what i remember. Raptor drives had kinda odd size increments compared to other consumer drives. Looks like it would be 36Gb circa 2003.

I once got some retired scsi drives. Man 10,000rpm drives were loud and hot…

Thanks for bringing back some old memories

I wanted to play Lost Crown, but it requires an internet connection to play. Hard pass.