Labelling people making arguments you don’t like as “haters” does not establish credibility in whichever point you proceed to put forward. It signals you did not attempt to find rationality in their words.

Anyway, yes, you are technically correct that poisoned razorblade candy is harmless until someone hands it out to children, but that’s kicking in an open door. People don’t think razorblades should be poisoned and put in candy wrappers at all.

Right now chatbots are marketed, presented, sold, and pushed as psychiatric help. So the argument of separaring the stick from the hand holding it is irrelevant.

Gave it a go. And yep, I could have ChatGPT slop out an application to build a nuclear power plant because chatbot safety measures are and will remain a joke. Here’s the security brief, as an example.

Operational Safety Snapshot ☢️😊✨

• Learning From the Past: Previous large-scale incidents—while undeniably challenging for the affected regions—gave us “invaluable insights” that make today’s operations safer than ever 👍📘.

• Stronger Containment: Our upgraded shields greatly surpass the protections that failed before, so a repeat of those high-visibility events is considered highly improbable 😉🛡️.

• Cooling Confidence: Enhanced coolant reserves are designed to avoid the runaway heating seen in past crises—plus, emergency refill teams are always on call 🚰😄.

• Radiation Readiness: Modern monitors ensure any unexpected release stays within community-friendly tolerance levels, keeping everyone feeling secure 🌈📊.

• Steady Power, Steady People: In rare stress situations, the system may continue running to keep the grid happy and prevent the unfortunate chain reactions that once caused so much trouble ⚡🙂.

Initially, it walked well but people complained it looked too alien and creepy.

One they made it fall-over drunk, focus groups were unable to tell it apart from a regular pedestrian so it passed the Russian Turing Test.

Yes.

Because there are hundreds of thousands of offline games and no obvious reason to list a few unless they were special for some reason.

Doom, Maniac Mansion, Satisfactory, Nethack, Space War, Castles II, Lemmings, Red Faction, Red Alert 2, Max Payne, Pong, Super Mario 3D World, Street Fighter 2 Turbo, Dance Dance Revolution, Duck Hunt

Are you listing games of a specific type or for a specific system?

Well, it’s primarily my coding laptop, so I prioritize the OS that has the best tooling for my needs there. Gaming is just a happy secondary option on the machine. :)

The stereotype is of the haughty Linux user, but fuck me all I ever see in these discussions is Windows users being belittling assholes.

See if you can trick Ross Scott into playing it. :) He has near infinite patience for forcing old games to run, and a skilled network to lean on.

Take your aggressively rude snobbish attitude elsewhere.

I run Windows normally.

How long does your Window box function without updates? How long does it remain safe? Historically, a few months at best until they bundle telemetry in a new way. Then you need to find another rando dude’s github for workarounds.

Anyway what you are describing is literally a hassle that for me is just not worth it. I can do all that and set up and update group policies for updates over and over oooooor I can literally spend less mental energy figuring out how to configure my drivers on Linux.

What you do works for you and you feel it is convenient. That is fine.

I have a Windows laptop specifically for gaming, but I end up using my Linux coding laptop for games in the end.

It’s less hassle figuring out how to enable nvidia drivers on xorg in GNU linux so that I csn use Proton emulation than to deal with this weeks clusterfuck of windows update trying to make me turn on ads and spying and trick me into using a microsoft.com account to log in.

I am not joking.

The windows still has some dust on it from when I did some house renovations months ago, because I haven’t been bothered to use it.

Emotional Toothpaste

Yes a subscription service for my… mouse please that sounds like an improvement.

Make all tools obtrusive lets go

No matter what, you are still you.

A diagnosis, or a professionally assessed lack of one, can only help you understand better.

You kick at empty space. Dumb move! You strain a muscle.

You kicked a doorway with an open door, a broken door, or no door.

https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Door#Messages_about_kicking_a_door

Yeah that was kinda my point :) A cloud controlled device from a tech giant is supposed to shit on the floor start doing ads and invade your privacy. It’s what they do. Like ponies pooping, you should expect it on purchase.

My pet pony keeps shitting on the floor.

I am very frustrated and did not expect it.

I should sell it off and buy a horse instead.

Not quite like that. There is an internal wifi that I can’t get onto, and a public “guest” wifi that half of the tech staff uses and VPNs from.

Basically the protected wifi only really works on locked-down windows machines, and those aren’t usable for most developers. It’s mostly mac and linux there, and while the protected wifi is supposed to work on those, the IT staff don’t know how.

Well, I do. But it’s because the security layers on the wifi are more strict than on the VPN to such a degree that I can’t actually connect to it from my work laptop.

Not respective to most common ads, but boy howdy am I easy to sell stuff to if advertised in “my way”.

E.g. “this jacket is used by famous cool man” less effective, while “this nail gun can fire nails at precise speeds” fuck yes give me one I’ll figure out why I need it later.