A candy that plays music while you eat it

This is the sort of misapplication of technology that traumatised me as a kid, dammit

Ultrasonic chef’s knife

3 years ago I wrote a cyberpunk novel for NaNoWriMo. In it, one of the hoodlums was waving around a “compu-knife”. A knife that you have to pair to a smartphone app over Bluetooth, or it won’t work.

All together now: Cyberpunk was meant to be a warning, not just an aesthetic.

(I know, I know, the article doesn’t say the knife needs to be paired to an app. I feel lucky about guessing it does though)

Back when the original Tux drawing was made, we didn’t have boot partitions. In LILO days, the bootloader barely fit in the MBR and the kernel was located and loaded with sheer magic incomprehensible to most mortals. So that’s why Tux has no shoes.

Wherever you are on Mastodon, back up your data!

Dear lazyweb (or lazystodon or lazyverse), are there dead simple scripts for periodic backup? You know, something you just authorise to act as a client and then stick into a crontab to run daily/weekly and it’ll keep a local copy of your stuff. Preferably something you can just install via pip or gem or (oh please gods no) npm.

This is kind of a side note, but in addition to Pico-8 I also recommend checking out TIC-80. Has an Android build on F-Droid.

It is a platform very similar to Pico-8, but it also has integration to the website where people post their projects. Just type “surf” to browse and download and play games automatically.

I forgot where I read it, but someone said in the 1990s Sun’s marketing was going on about “Year of Java”, but ultimately nobody could tell what year the Year of Java actually was, because it just kinda happened. And given that in the 1990s the big push was for Java applets, which was a bit of a misadventure, you could argue that the Java breakthrough was ultimately something the marketing didn’t focus on (full blown desktop apps, backend Web code). Sometimes in a way that the marketing didn’t approve of (J2ME was kinda popular, but know what dwarfs it? Android. And that’s not JVM and that makes Java marketing sad.)

So don’t worry about the Year of the Linux Desktop. You won’t even notice it. It’ll happen.

I’m so sorry about this thread and everything. I was drunk and I had no idea what I was doing and I really shouldn’t post some stuff when I’m drunk.

This place? Retro gaming community? Here? Now? What are you talking about?

edit: Sorry about the angry shitposts, I was drunk

None of this makes any sense. Why are you voluntarily talking to me like that? What the fuck provoked any of this?

I assume you know where your basement is. Go back there. Wait for the signal.

Mild edit: You’ve not been on Internet discussions for long, I take it? Oh, I can tell.

Extra edit: Sorry about the angry shitposts, I was drunk

In the 90s they put random English phrases instead of translating.

Buuullllcrap. Sure, the translations of many games didn’t “match” the original, strictest literary sense, but a whole lot of cultural references just didn’t translate well, and they also had to work with platform limitations. Had to do with what they did.

Come on now. Prove it. Give me the original Japanese line from POCKET MONSTERS (apologies for slight mispronounciation, I’m drunk, I swear I won’t do this soon). Let us compare it to the official English translations. Let us see how RANDOM it got.

GIVE US THE CAVALCADE OF BAD TRANSLATIONS YOU PROMISED.

The fact that everything alive must someday die, isn’t really that dark in Eastern cultures/religions.

Obviously not. Everyone’s still traumatised by Marowak shit. And Lt. Surge’s undiscussed war history. What was he doing.

you still don’t understand what they’re saying.

Okay, what were they saying.

WHY DID THE COMMENT SECTION TURN TO THIS

edit: Sorry about the angry shitposts, I was drunk

Boomers in the 1980s: “Those damn robots took our darn jorbs”

Trump in 2025: “We’re giving these jorbs to the robots”

Why do anything? Isn’t existence pointless?

Nintendo is making downloading ROMs mildly annoying.

Meanwhile, ripping discs yourself, ensuring checksums match with Redump, compressing them to RVZ and keeping the collection straight in Dolphin is kinda fun. And best of all, Nintendo can’t do shit about it.

Edit: Also happy I could preserve my old GameCube memory cards (using GCMM) and my Wii’s flash memory. While dumping the Virtual Console titles, I found some wild shit.

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.

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)

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.

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)

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.)