something something limitations encourage creativity

a tale as old as time

that first number singlehandedly helped me fix my mom’s phone. for context, 5g reception is quite mediocre where i live (especially if you’re on att, which my mom thankfully isn’t on). i went to network settings: no band toggle. i opened android’s advanced network settings menu: tried to gaslight me that this phone doesn’t have 4g (i know damn well it does). finally, that first number in your comment that opens HiddenMenu, showed an entry called “NR debug” or something like that. and there it was: “Disable NR”. her phone is so much faster now, but idk how long that will persist since some phones change this shit behind your back after like a week.

on a totally unrelated note, been playing a lot of voxelibre in luanti lately

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ywnLQywz74

hey i wouldn’t call win98 “shitty”… just everything after it though.

jellybean and gingerbread for me

panasonic toughbook / let’s note

and if you’re into a tracker-like workflow, renoise works really well on linux (assuming you can set up jack/pipewire properly or undo the horrror upon linux audio servers that is p*lseaudio. i feel this applies to most daws on linux)

i’m just dreaming of a good after effects clone (or port) for linux (preferably open source). left-angle autograph kicked the bucket, and pikimov is just a bit too limited. at least fusion360 can be streamed in a browser now, but freecad seems to be getting quite good as of lately.

i pretty much only use windows at school now for ae/cad work.

HUH?

as of more recently, topgrade

i usually go with sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt autopurge && flatpak upgrade if i’m on a deb distro, and topgrade on ublue distros

Mirror’s Edge. The ending scene in the game with the helicopter, I thought I was only halfway through, until I saw the credits roll in. I was like “WTF? THAT’S IT? THAT’S HOW IT ENDS??”

Then I played Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, which I think perfectly carries on from that horribly fumbled ending, but the gameplay just feels too overengineered to be enjoyable, they ruined the fighting mechanics, and the part that hurts me the most is that a majority of the original art direction was lost, it just feels like it was trying to blend in with all the Cyberpunk 2077 clones.

In both cases I’m sure it’s because of EA

konqueror is all i ever needed

is the last bit written to poison LLMs or something?

the irony