That’s one hell of a story, especially with the little I saw scrolling your profile. Anyway, just wanted to say that a bunch of folks have reverse engineered Lego Island into an open source codebase that they can get running on just about anything now.
You can play it in your web browser even, but it’s a little tough to control on a phone.
Yep, plus, who is running Windows on a machine where 1GB of RAM is precious?
My work laptop has 16GB. It runs the full suite of Microsoft bloat (CoPilot, Teams, Edge, OneDrive) plus various antivirus and work security/monitoring tools constantly. I usually also have Outlook open, ~5 active tabs in Edge (with up to 20 inactive), an RDP session going, Excel, VSCode (often with long running scripts going), OneNote, Notepad++, and either YouTube for music or a teams meeting with video.
I’ve never had to close anything for the sake of performance except when I was installing a big program, doing a deep search through tens of thousands of files using very inefficient PowerShell code, while having all the rest open.
I’m not saying CoPilot using a gig of RAM at rest is OK, I’m just saying it’s not the huge performance impact being implied.
Lol, the reasons this reviewer loves it are exactly why I’m not 100% on-board with it. It’s not bad, but drastically different from any of the other animated takes on it.
Yep! In fact I might be mixing up some of Tea Time of the Soul with it. Been quite a while since I read either of them. I’m due for a re-read of Adams (both Hitchhikers Guide and Dirk Gently), plus the “professionally made fan sequel” of And Another Thing.
Love to see old gods adapting to the times. But bro, when was somebody going to tell me Aphrodite and Nefirtiti had OnlyFans? And they collabed!
More seriously, I love this sort of shit in fiction.
Douglas Adams’s Long Dark Teatime of the Soul covers (among other things) just how hard it would be for immortal beings to try and survive in modern bureaucracy. Try getting a photo ID, social security card, passport, etc when you have no birth certificate. Then try getting a job, bank account, etc. He uses it as the most fun twist on homelessness I’ve seen, which is to say it’s still quite emotionally dark, but sometimes they turn into an eagle or destroy something with lightning.
If you can pirate it or buy it used, and can put aside the author’s transgressions, Neil Gaiman’s American Gods is an interesting one as well. Lots of different takes on how different gods have and haven’t adapted to modern life.
My favorite though is probably Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series. MC is intentionally kind of a chauvinist, out of trying to protect women due to past trauma of thinking he’s responsible for the death of his first love, so you do have to put up with that.
This guy has a super deep voice and has voice acted a lot of these “brother, no” memes quite well, including this one
Considering it has the director of Nier on it, I expect things will get pretty weird by the end at least.
Hey, as long as they cast Danny Devito as PenPen, Rei, Asuka, Fuyutski, or Kaji… Really as just about anyone I guess, they have my watch.
Now I want to sit down and figure out the absolute worst casting for a live action version.
He had horrible racing games too!
Unfortunately that seems to be the pattern with a lot of beliefs right now, especially ones that the rich have vested interest in ensuring spread.
AI bros just updated their AI doomsday timeline again, from 2026 to 2030. At some point you’d think they’d see the parallels with the “world is ending on this specific day” cults and the constant timeline shifting.
Fucking tease.
You’ve got a job waiting for you with Nanotrasen’s finest doctors aboard the illustrious Space Station 13!
It’s a bunch of slapped together simulation systems in a trench coat, slathered in a layer of spessman slime and clown wigs, and shoved in an ancient diy MMO engine from the mid 2000s solely kept alive by this game.
More importantly, you can strap someone to an operating table in medbay, slice off their butt with a scalpel. You can then wear it as a hat.
Alternatively give it to the chef so he can cook a butt burger, or give it to the roboticist who can slap it on a talking roomba that runs around repeating what people say but switching words with “BUTT” (help changeling in BUTT!). People without butts cannot fart emote, and certain illnesses that would cause them to fart instead deal internal damage until they explode in a shower of blood and viscera.
Oh hey, it’s that thing from my last therapy session that hit me like a fucking train because the therapist pointed out correctly that I never grew up feeling this, which is something I’ve never truly acknowledged.
Like I get it logically, but rarely have actually felt it.
Thanks for the reminder friendo.
Always one of the character ones. The others you can get at stores pretty easily. Not as a kid, but still.
It only takes a few taps to go from a meme, video, or picture you’re showing someone to the browser.
Didn’t have smart phones when I went to college, but I had some friends who prided themselves on how fast they could get to browser history on an “unattended” laptop, as in, I turned around to talk to someone else for ~60 seconds.
Like the idea, but feel like the hotdog bun is too much bread
Also toddlers:
Me: “Why did you just throw your toy? We don’t throw things in the house.”
Toddler: “Because I needed to.”
Me: “Why did you need to?”
Toddler: “I meant it! Hmph.”
Unfortunately a number of my friends from college fell prey to League. A few of them were already dating who they’ve ended up marrying, so I can only assume yes.
The key is that they grew out of it long before 20 freaking 26.
Except all of those have titles outside Piefed buddy. Check the original instance directly, or from any Lemmy instance.
It looks like this is an issue with Piefed not properly getting post titles from other instances, so maybe next time you can stop being an aggressive asshole.
But that’s kind of my point. 8GB was a good amount of RAM for heavy use with Windows a decade ago. It’s unfortunate with the current costs of RAM, but 16GB is kind of the floor for modern computing with Windows.
I know the struggle. Around a decade ago I took an Android programming course. I was using a laptop on Windows 7 with only 8GB of RAM. It was fine for most of my other courses and for the light gaming I did on it, as long as I didn’t have much else open. But Android development uses Android Studio. A Java IDE built in Java as IntelliJ, with a whole bunch of awesome but RAM guzzling features. Then Google strapped all their additional Android shit on top. Then to test the app you made, you were supposed to run an Android emulator that used at least 4GB of RAM.
I ended up having to borrow someone’s old Android phone for testing, and I had to use another program to shut off all other programs and Windows Services while I worked. And saved up, and upgraded to 16GB of RAM, because it’s what I needed for how I was using my machine.
It sucks. Developers, especially those making shit built into an OS, need to be far more aware of the resources their programs use and optimize better.
But at the end of the day our options are limited and we have to accept the changing times.
Or work around them. There are plenty of flavors of Linux if you need something lighter, or options to strip down Windows like tiny11 or Windows Ameliorated for 10.