Malgas

It seems kind of disingenuous to compare enterprise support contracts for Linux to personal Windows licenses. Especially while also ignoring that you do pay for Windows, it’s just hidden in the cost of the device.

Though it is also true that Linux is gratis and Windows is not.

Connect very slightly cuts off the bottom of the image for me.

https://xkcd.com/1138/

IMO the early game exploration rush is the best part. Anomalies and archaeological digs give that great Star Trek vibe that kind of goes away once everyone is settled into their borders.

On the other side [Wayland] is buggy af.

I’ve been having the exact opposite problem since recently coming back to Linux after a long hiatus. For me, Wayland has been flawless, while anything x11 looks like somebody ran the screen through a shredder, discarded half the strips, and smooshed the rest back together.

I don’t know how to troubleshoot that. I don’t even know what to type in a search engine to get relevant results.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of hard drives speeding down the highway.

First OS on a computer I personally owned? Windows 98. First Linux distro was Source Mage.

If not counting ownership, then Apple IIs at school and then slightly later my family got an Amstrad that was primarily a DOS machine, but could also boot (by switching floppies several times) to some sort of GUI.

That was actually Unix. Specifically the fsn file manager for IRIX.

There’s a Linux clone called fsv.

Or DOS Shell.

This is much prettier, though.

As far as any of those sites are concerned, I was born January first, [the earliest year they allow].

I think TES NPCs have been reacting to clothing since Daggerfall. Back then it was just a disposition modifier based on the total value of what you were wearing, but still.

maybe there can be spin-offs in this case

They haven’t said they intend to stop making D&D games. And every D&D crpg in the last 20-odd years (since Torment, I think) has been set in the Forgotten Realms. So it seems highly likely that future games will be loosely related to BG, just without that specific title.

I would love to see them bring back some of the weird old settings, like Dark Sun, Spelljammer, or even Dragonlance. But I’m not holding my breath.

The thing about fiction is that it has to make sense. Reality is under no such constraint.

Excuse me, but clearly it’s UNIX that leads to Dilophosaur consumption. We know this.

Interpreter: Wait, x is 5?

This code: Always has been.

We, the gamers, the geeks, the golems

What does ‘golem’ mean in this context?

So is that a transcription error on my part, or is the original image nonsense?

The image is pretty blurry, but I’m seeing:

窗户己限位请勿高空抛物

Which Google translate renders as “The windows are limited. Please do not throw objects at high altitudes.” Which still seems kind of mangled, but at least resembles something potentially reasonable.

Maybe someone who actually speaks the language will show up to help us out.

I’m pretty fond of “unscheduled lithobraking” (it crashed).