I drove in Kuala Lumpur once, traffic was crazy, super crowded, improvised lanes and bumper to bumper traffic with motorbikes going all over the place. LMAO no are you kidding? I didn’t drive, I used their awesome metro system I got a week card for cheap so I could go all around the city without even thinking about it.

Joe could go out like a real chad if his last words as president are: “It’s Joever”

Yeah the “Analog stick” is just a DPad, it doesn’t have pots or anything like that, just binary buttons. And I have to say, it’s terrible. It feels bad, it pushes your thumb upwards with a really awkward angle. For some reason it’s really hard shiny plastic and the edge stands up so it digs into your flesh. It’s concave instead of convex like modern sticks are (and even sticks back then were really). Doing fast inputs is impossible since you need to move it quite far before it responds and diagonals don’t work very well at all.

So it sucks, but it just adds to the charm as far as I’m concerned.

One trip to my trusty room of boxes full of old shit and I found it!

Along with its official carrier case and TV out cable in original packaging. The screen protector has seen better days tho.

And it still works just fine:

Yeah I think I have one of those still around somewhere. I remember when they released it they didn’t release any sources at all, even though it was full of software that required sharing in their license. So the community got together and helped them publish it all. Some of the drivers were still binary blobs, but that was the maker of the chips fault and not GameParks fault.

Once I got one I created a small little side scrolling game engine and a couple of games for it, a couple of other people used my engine to make some games for it as well. To imagine that’s 20 years ago. We had a small little forum of enthusiasts setup and shared code in attachments. It’s all lost to time now, but those were the days.

Luckily there is a distro for anyone. There’s plenty of super stable distros out there. But if you want the cutting edge, stability will be comprised. And the cutting edge is pretty cool at the moment, so for me it’s worth the issue once and again.

No, but depending on what’s wrong that might not be the best thing to do. If the new version is broken, rolling back to a previous working version might fix it. But when the update broke something, it might not fix it and could even make it worse. I’d rather figure out what went wrong and how to fix it, it’s a good skill to have. And if the new version does turn out to be broken, it’s good to have dug into it so you can make a proper bug report.

I use Arch BTW.

Today the liquidctl integration of cooler control died, making all my fans go into a safe profile which makes a lot more noise than normal. Imagine having to listen to that for an hour trying to get it working again. I did get it working luckily, somehow the coolercontrol-liqctld python module didn’t register properly. Once I got the module registered everything was working, for now…

My idea of a responsible adult: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmsbP13xu6k

Sure just saying, not trolling at all.

Solar drives energy prices down, not up. In the summer the energy price regularly goes negative because there is so much solar available.

And it isn’t even remotely true, other countries have higher energy prices than Germany within the EU. The Netherlands for example has crazy high energy prices. And that’s in absolute numbers, not even corrected for things like GDP.

Yeah that sucks, they haven’t shared the source, only what site it’s from.

This is the closest I could find: https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE&interval=year&year=-1&source=public

But this includes all sources, where the chart shown only includes renewable sources. I can’t find it on the site, but I’m kinda dumb so maybe somebody else can find it.

Don’t lose hope, there is a chance yet!

I think you completely missed the point I was making.

In both cases a murderer is elevated to a higher stature because the people backing them believe the victims deserved to die. This is to me inherently wrong.

With the right I can understand them supporting someone for shooting protesters, because they believe they have the right to oppress others. And I can understand the right fawning over Luigi, because they think justice with a gun is the way to go.

What I can’t understand is the left taking the same opinion. The side who is against oppression, against guns, against violence. The side that has done the most through better regulation, union, strikes etc. Non violent solutions instead of violence like in centuries past.

Some misguided people may think Luigi will trigger some sort of revolution where the people holding all the money and all the power somehow capitulate, because one of them got shot? I’m sure a lot of misguided people on the right thought Kyle’s actions would usher in a civil war, where it’s open season on blm protesters and anyone they didn’t like. Luckily that didn’t happen, but in the same vain I don’t think Luigi will trigger some revolution.

And when it comes to revolution, I would prefer if we threw our shoes into the machines of industry in the form of sabotage, protests and strikes. Not in the form of an all put civil war where killing someone is the norm. Not just because to me that is morally repugnant, but also because the wealthy control most of the guns and power.

Yes, it is a good thing the deep problems in our modern society have been given a spotlight. But it’s not like these things were a secret. It’s been a hot topic for a long time now. And given the chance to vote for someone to be in charge, people have voted for the ones who amplify these problems. Not just in the US, but over a lot of the Western world. Far right is gaining power fast and they are very clear they want to oppress people even more and elevate the billionaires to not be the de facto ruling class, but the actual ruling class.

Elevating these murderers to something they are not is never a good thing. Kyle was just a dumb idiot with a lot of hate and a gun. Luigi was a guy that was pissed off (rightfully so), but chose to act out with a gun. Neither one was a fighter for their side, they had their own motives. They were both very wrong in the things they did and do not deserve any of the praise or attention they’ve gotten.

Respectfully disagree. Look at how much progress we have made in Europe since the second world war. We’ve done so much through diplomacy alone. Sure there has been conflict and there still is, but nothing like what it was before.

There are less wars, less murders, less crime than ever before. Prosperity is up across the board. Sure it’s not perfect and we have a long way to go, but there is so much we have done.

The current disparity between the ultra rich and the general population is a huge issue that should be addressed asap. But it should be done using the right means.

I refuse to believe the only way to stop being oppressed is to become the oppressor. It might be the US is lost in this regard, but I hold out hope. But I’m sure in Europe we can deal with it the right way, without getting violent.

Explain how it’s different beyond “I agree with them”

“Yeah but he hot tho” must be the most insane defense for murder I’ve ever heard. Surely that will hold up in court, because of your giant chad energy you are acquitted of all crimes and will run for president. With how insane the last 10 years have been I might actually believe it.

Sure and I think the system should change for sure. But in both cases they are persons that murdered people their backers thought should be murdered. The right wants to oppress, so killing in the name of oppression is right for them. The left wants to break the oppression, so killing in the name of breaking oppression is right for them.

But the truth is, both were wrong, killing someone is never the answer. Preparing to go kill someone, planning to kill someone is a sign of mental health issues.

Nothing is going to be fixed by this. It only further polarizes the world. It only escalates the conflict. We need actual solutions and people in charge that know what they are doing and can bring about systematic change. Maybe using the guillotine in the late 1700s was the right solution back then, but I hope we as a society have evolved way beyond that point. Plus when it comes down to a fight, the people in charge of, you know, literal armies would probably win.

Elevating a literal murderer to the point people see them as a viable political candidate like in this meme is simply insane. We need more tree huggers like Bernie, not insane gun wielding thugs that think violence can solve anything.

I’m probably going to get downvoted into oblivion for this, but I don’t care. The “left” fawning over Luigi is the same energy as the “right” fawning over Kyle Rittenhouse.

Hollow Knight

But depending how you feel about bugs it might not be as much cute as it might be nightmare fuel

People calling each other at new years was a thing in the before times when texting was non-existent, expensive or not widespread. People would call each other usually on land lines and caused a lot of stress to the network. It could take hours to get through. When mobile phones became a thing, people tried to be trendy and call from a party, leading to total collapse of the local cell network.

Later when texting became the norm, it would also be easily overloaded and texts could take a while to get through. These days since everything goes through the internet, I wouldn’t expect there to be any issues. The internet can handle sudden increases much better.