Digital media just kills me. Back in the CD and DVD days I sent back a bunch of discs that were too scrarched to use and i would get coupons to replace them. Often times the publishers included an extra one just because they didn’t want you to pirate stuff. Buying physical media meant you licensed it even when you physically couldn’t so they were compelled to solve the problem.

I just self host gitolite. I wrote a script for archiving tagged versions to zip files as well as an optional parameter to pipe code into a markdown file and convert that to HTML for code i wish to show people. Everything else I do through the cli and have no use for a fancy UI.

They were all in the Click n Cutscene style (think they all may be ScummVM games)

• The 7th Guest / The 11th Hour
• The Tex Murphy series

I had a guy come in for a test with his wife. She just studied the questions and he went the understanding route. She passed and he didn’t. It was the Tech level, they just wanted something better than CB in their vehicle so there really wasn’t a lot they needed to know, just pass the test and stay on frequency.

Wow, one of my childhood friends and I were just talking about our favorite old games and Journey Project was on that short list.

I was always more of a retro gamer even back in the day. 80s and 90s playing MUDs or Atari and getting an SNES late to the game. My computers were always hand me downs from my parents so i never really got into the best games when i was a kid.

But when i got that issue of PC Gamer with the demo of what Halo was going to be like, with the dinosaurs and cut scenes built into the engagement with your targets…wow i wanted to play that.

In the original release of Myst you weren’t necessarily prevented from stumbling upon things you would find as you follow the progression. My parents got me the game and i ended up clicking on everything and found the last room where the whole story comes full circle…well before i hit up the individual book worlds.

That was the big thing I brought up when giving exams. You just need to pass and then you can start learning.

Oh of course. Half of the staff at any of these types of apps are looking for a huge sell out which requires bastardizing the concept. I just wish for once one of these apps would stay true to their original stated purpose. Ride Share means you’re going this way for a reason too, not just to be a taxi.

I studied all the legal questions for all three license levels through brute force using that site. Went through the questions so many times that I could tell you the answer within the first few words.

Now is that a good thing? Meh, i think most of the learning occurs once you’re on the air. Then again, i do have a EE degree so the radio science part i already knew.

Very true, that was a simple answer. A wrong answer, but a simple one.

I feel like HURD is the generational starship of operating systems. Will never be completed in my lifetime but eventually my great great grand children may some day use it.

Think less about time sharing and more about using all the computers you own together.

You would have a netbook with no compute power as your UI sitting on your couch. You could connect to your beefy desktop to do all the computations for your video editor or playing a game and never have to be sitting at your desk.

You could also have a big file store device with lots of drives to store stuff.

We can do some of this now, I ssh into my desktop from my couch and have a NFS in the basement. But they all operate as separate devices that i have to really work at getting to operate together. Plan9 was designed where you’d just pick devices off of the network and the tasks operated normally. Pick your video card, local or over the network to the beefier GPU.

Oh we need a Jarrarium community too. As well as one to talk about isopods and springtails.

Honestly i thought the concept of Uber would work. I’m commuting and you are too so you give me a few bucks to go my way. It was supposed to be “Cash, grass, or ass” minus the grass and ass.

But then people started driving purely to get people to pay them and suddenly its a taxi service.

When the last big Twitter migration to Mastodon occurred there were a lot new users complaining about things like documentation, bugs, etc. Old users and FLOSS supporters kept pushing the “its open source, write a doc or fill out a bug ticket” and evem included documentation on how to do those tasks.

Most people just continued to complain. /facepalm

Game List from video:

0:03 Astro Boy : Omega Factor 0:26 Boktai 2 0:49 Car Battler Joe 01:11 Castlevania Aria of Sorrow 1:33 Cima : The Enemy 1:56 DBZ Legacy of Goku II 2:18 Demikids 2:41 Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 3:03 Fire Emblem the Blazing Blade 3:23 Golden Sun 3:46 Gunstar Super Heroes 4:08 Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland 4:30 Lufia : The Ruins of Lore 4:53 Lunar Legend 5:18 Mega Man Battle Network 5 5:44 Mega Man Zero 4 6:07 Metal Max 2 Kai 6:32 Metroid Zero Mission 6:58 Monster Rancher Advance 2 7:23 Onimusha Tactics 7:50 Rebelstar Tactical Command 8:12 Riviera the Promised Land 8:37 Shining Force : Resurrection of the Dragon 9:00 Sigma Star Saga 9:22 Sonic Advance 2 9:44 Summon Night : Sworcraft Story 10:02 Sword of Mana 10:24 Tactics Ogre Knight of Lodis 10:47 The Legend of Zelda Minish Cap 11:10 Yggdra Union

What servers are people on? Just created a room on dal.net #lemmy

The specific protocol for irc is called DCC (Direct Client to Client). It enables a lot of non-chat functionality, one of which is sending/receiving files.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Client-to-Client

Person to Everyone. In the context of this discussion i can post an image, video or file to a discord channel and everyone who goes in there can download it.

In IRC you make a client to client connection and send files directly to one another. You can setup a bot to respond to individual requests and transfer files but there is no “hey everyone download this”