I learned Ian’s Secure Knot because sometimes you get shoe laces that are slippery and never stay tied. The secure knot is way better than doing a double knot as you can easily untie it.

I also visit the site right after buying new shoes or boots and look up lacing patterns and pick something fun. I’m currently using Spider Web lacing.

Sorry for your loss.

I’m on 145 still. Maybe they are doing an A/B rollout for the UI. I’m not a big fan of all changes, but overall the aesthetic is nice.

Oh that’s interesting. About a week or maybe 2 ago I got a pretty big Firefox mobile update. The entire UI was overhauled. Have you experienced that yet?

I’m very interested in this and will try it out. There was another connection manager that the author posts on Lemmy, but the memory usage was very high due to the amount of docker containers used. A quick glance showed no requirement for docker. The ssh port forwarding could be a very useful feature for my work right now.

Settings -> Customize -> App Icon was the first option on Android.

This is a really neat and well written list of games. It’s so interesting how different these games were from the console games at the time. So many live acted sequences with pre rendered backgrounds. The only game I knew of beforehand was Phantasmagoria, but Dark Seed was ringing a bell. Perhaps a friend had that one. I might have to try some of these games.

Probably because older phones are in maintance mode for the OS. Adding new features always carries some complexity and testing all models takes time. Limit the models to test to only the more recent ones and you save money.

That said, it would be so nice to have a more open system where I can decide that if that goes on my phone myself.

When I was a kid, there was a game like missile command where letters would drop from space and typing the letter would launch a missile which would destroy the letter. I can only find full word versions of that game now online. Was really hoping to find a single letter version for learning where the keys are.

I never played the DOA Beach Volleyball, but I loved the Summer Heat Beach Volleyball, mostly because of a Kylie Minogue song on it. (Then there was you) Now every time I hear that song it makes me think of summer.

I think you could add: “Enjoy a very colourful desktop interface?” and go from Garuda to Garuda Dr460onized.

Does StoryGraph offer anything that could be useful for this project? It’s a competitor to Good Reads. I’ve been using it because I’m getting away from anything that Amazon touches.

Ah shit, I probably need to delete my Origin account… Oh, that’s not even a thing anymore.

Great quote!

32 year old movie… I love/hate when old movie quotes are more relevant today than when the movie came out.

Specifically, the patent describes a situation where:

• A console or other system is being used to run a video game from storage
• The player controls a character in a “virtual space”
• The player can perform an input command to make a “sub character” appear (i.e. summon another character)
• If there’s an enemy where the sub character appears, the player can control a battle between the sub character and the enemy
• If there’s no enemy where the sub character appears, the sub character will automatically move around
• The player can move the sub character to a different location on the field, and if an enemy is there they can control a battle between the sub character and the enemy

AI is not capable of doing wrong or evil. It is a tool; as a hammer or a notepad is.

A tool does exactly what you do with it. A hammer can pound nails or break skulls but it’s always the person behind the tool who causes the action. Generative AI is not like that at all. If it’s a tool, you aren’t necessarily able to control what it does under your direction.

Pff btop is way better than htop.

Didn’t even look at this game. Thought it was related to Life of Pi. Might have to check it out.

Ain’t that fancy if it only has cold water.

I use Mini Review for most of my android game finding. I find that if they give an overall score of 8 and above, I almost always like the game.

I’m currently enjoying the idle clicker Magic Research 2 It doesn’t feel like most idlers. There’s monsters to fight that need some strategy and a pretty good plot where I actually read everything! Most games have plot that is so boring and rehashed that it’s not worth reading, but Magic Research 2 was a lot of fun. I played the demo a bit and bought the full version before running into whatever limits were in the demo.