tynansdtm

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am only now discovering the sheer addictiveness of Sid Meier's Civilization.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve played the first five Civ games and I have fond memories of buying units with diplomats! There’s also FreeCiv which is an open source project that’s very similar to Civ2 but probably supports modern hardware better. It’s been built for android but from what I understand they’re built by third parties so if you’re tech savvy or feeling adventurous you could build it yourself. I played it many years ago in a really rough state where nothing was explained and my own knowledge of Civ 2 was the only thing that made it playable but from what I have heard it’s much better now.

  Fun fact, Civ1 was ported to the SNES and Civ2 was ported to the PlayStation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨System76 on Age Verification Laws⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This article was so well-written that I was briefly surprised to encounter the term “nerfed” in the middle. I guess it’s common parlance in tech circles at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember when the whole family had to share it because you only had one⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife and I both have our ownn logins on both computers, even though we tend to only use our own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it already did, and that’s why it was dangerous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FINAL FANTASY VII - now on GOG⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Darn, I just bought it on Steam. Well I can probably de-Steam it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SVG clickjacking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow that adder was honestly impressive. Great article overall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On paper, I like this solution better than every app/site developer having to hack together (or outsource) their own age verification system. But I’m sure it opens up a ton of potential problems. And if it’s open source, someone could just fork it and make a version that always says “yes” so unfortunately it’ll never be FOSS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bend the market to your will in the roguelike Insider Trading⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s very interesting the concept they’ve been able to turn into rogue-like form. I played a calculator rogue-like where you purchased additional buttons to make equations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan: Here’s How It Went⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I still have my PSP 1000. I bought it from a pawn shop with my very first pay cheque. Bricked it with an official update. Maybe salvageable, I’m a lot better at tinkering than I was back then, but my wife’s 2000 is modded and probably still working fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they coming to harvest the RAM from my computer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bend the market to your will in the roguelike Insider Trading⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Coming soon: “Rogue-like Game Tycoon: the Rogue-Like.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ancient hyperfixations⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A black and white photo of a man with a tabbard featuring pool balls and cues, holding a pool cue, and flanked by two children dressed as pool balls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Acciracy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got one in my wallet right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm fed up with Copilot, and I'm not sure it can be fixed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Humans are historically pretty good at offloading mental capacity to some sort of tool in order to tackle larger and more complex problems. Consider solving a math problem mentally. Compare that to the kind of problem you would be able to some with a pen and paper. Then consider what you could do with a pen and paper and a calculator. An LLM purports to be all of that, and more, for any subject. It doesn’t matter that the results are often horrifically wrong, once they’ve offloaded the entirety of their mental capacity to the magic box and refocused their attention somewhere else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recently got a place with my boyfriend and he thinks this is perfectly fine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fancy 16-ply toilet paper. That’s why they’re so worried about the rate, it costs $20 a roll.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Negotiating with other family members⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Greg is a terrible name for a car. At least call it Gregory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turning Gaming Handhelds into Digital Audio Players: An Interview with Riley⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Similarly they ported Rockbox to the RG Nano and even sort of to the Nintendo 3DS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 556 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Very fond memories of this game but it’s been so long I’m not sure it holds up. I know I’ve changed, I don’t really play shooters anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's on the market for...?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve saved the wax and tried to come up with a creative use for it, but I’ve never decided to make it somebody else’s problem and then make them pay for the privilege.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My PSP Scrapbook: Part Retrospective, Part Collage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a GBA and DS growing up but a used PSP was my very first purchase with my first day cheque. The idea of playing PS1 games on the go still seemed so revolutionary to me. What a fun little device to tinker with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “AI is untrustworthy, therefore you can use multiple AI services in our product.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨who is searching this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  youtu.be/SQEhBai711o

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While I agree being shitty is a human problem, shitty people are using AI to be shitty faster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switching the breaker to offn't position⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just hold it down until it sticks in place!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pebble Time 2 has screws⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a new pebble? Wow!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A chill gaming community for the 30+ crowd⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Neat! I’ve signed up!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Perplexity the first AI unicorn to fail?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve only heard of Perplexity because I got a free year from my cell provider. Also does anyone else feel like this article is missing punctuation or something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iPhone Pocket: $229.95⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is pretty egregious, but honestly anyone who wants to buy it should. They deserve to be swindled have what they paid for. Anyone who doesn’t want to buy it, won’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GameHub Lite, GameNative and the Android PC Revolution: An Interview with the Developers (my article!)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought about GameHub when having trouble with Winlator. Read an article titled something like “I installed GameHub so you don’t have to.” Happy to hear there’s a less intrusive alternative!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for controller recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the GameSir X2 Pro and I love it. It doesn’t fit your criteria as it doesn’t fold into pocket size but maybe this is a recommendation for the brand?