I’ve been using XFCE for so long that it feels really awkward when I have to use Gnome or KDE.

XFCE is solid, reliable, stable, unobtrusive, lean, responsive.

It is also the reason I’ve not used Wayland yet.

I prefer to buy GOG when possible, Steam second. I even have some duplicated titles across vendors.

Excellent that they don’t engage in Nintendo level community hostility and at least let people who care about old games preserve them.

Stream goes one step further and actively maintains their legacy games playable. That is commitment.

Wii was the only console I ever bought. I prefer playing with keyboard and mouse, so consoles were never really my focus.

I had a lot of fun with it, it had some amazing games that made good use of the controllers. It was a great family console that even older people or people that don’t usually play could use.

It was also great at running old school emulators for other consoles (SNES, Genesis) after some tinkering.

It also drove home my main hate regarding consoles: they are closed systems, owned not by you but by the manufacturer. The games were and still are expensive, unlike PCs where games get cheaper over time. They can also disable the servers providing services for your console (news channel, weather channel) when they feel like you should move on and buy their next console.

So I won’t buy another console again, even if I still love my Wii, that I power on occasionally.

You’d expect Microsoft to have figured out how to copy Linux update methods, we have a lot of them to choose from and some are actually decent.

I’m gonna go with Tom’s Root Boot. Or maybe the father of all live distros, Knoppix.

Someone gave me a PowerMac and of course I had to try to run Linux. It was an interesting experience, it would boot to MacOS and then run the Yellow Dog bootloader. Couldn’t get it to boot directly. That little experiment showed me how tightly Apple controlled what would run on Apple machines back then.

Good old Smoothie. Served me well back then. I think it went commercial at some point.

I posted from Boost for Lemmy, but formatted nothing.

52001. Brb.

Both end songs are on my playlist, I love it when the randomize function picks them up. You could say it is a triumph.

I’m still playing this game today. Undoubtedly my favorite game.

I’ve been playing Eldritch. Friggin frustrating game. Ok, just one more go.

I do. I use a Pi-Hole at home along with an adblocker, but I’m not always home.

I’m fine with hack-a-day. YouTube requires me to sit through some ads, watch a sometimes que long intro, cut to the sponsors, more rambling, finally a couple of seconds that answer the title question, and then the obligatory “like and subscribe”. Nah.

I vote with my wallet by buying indie games or old discounted single player AAA games. This also means I can game on a crappy machine. Being a retrogamer also helps. I literally have more games to play than time to live.

The way they casually throw in a bazooka wielding character with zero introduction is just hilarious.

Not when it requires VR, it’s not. I know there are patches to remove the requirement, but the game was designed with VR in mind.

I’m glad you feel that way. Keep it up as long as you can.

gestures broadly at all things

Humanity in general. People are jerks. Maybe Agent Smith was right all along.

Other than that… Half-Life 3 ever being made.