See also: GNU’s Not Unix, WINE Is Not an Emulator…

And in a slightly different way: I’m So Meta Even This Acronym (ISMETA)

My guess is a typo, possibly supposed to be 11 or 12? Is 1998 too early for TF2 design to be occurring?

Team Fortress 2 was announced in 1998

According to Wikipedia. So that looks plausible.

The post however talks about gathering feedback from players of TFC, which didn’t come out until 99. Maybe Robin meant the original mod, which he also worked on, or maybe he just misremembered at what point TFC came out or when they actually explored the death stuff that resulted in the freezecam.

Baguette is pain

This reminds me of my practice French oral exam at school, so not a typo but still:

As part of the conversation my teacher asked what sort of things I liked to read, and I decided to talk about a then popular technology magazine called T3.

“T trois” sounds rather like “Tais toi” (shut up), and she was a bit taken aback!

Thankfully though we learned not to use that in the real exam.

Ooh! Are you one of today’s lucky 10,000?!

The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins

Thanks for the tips.

I’m a dev by day, and no stranger to bash/zsh and powershell. That said I don’t want to constantly be tinkering in the terminal just to use my OS.

Cheers for the pointer to Nobara, I’ll look into that as an option too!

Agreed. I have a deck and I’m now definitely gonna switch my main pc from Win10 to Linux. Steam deck desktop mode helped show me I could be comfortable using it, and the deck in general showed the gaming support is there nowadays.

I now see no reason to not put Linux on my desktop. Just deciding on which distros to check out. Probably mint. Maybe garuda…

My anecdotal experience is that Apple silicon support is not usually a major problem. Plenty of stuff seems to be fine through Rosetta. The worse case is 32 bit only games which are unsupported in modern macos versions regardless of CPU arch.

The client on macos was buggy as hell, but after the UI refresh update a month or two back it’s fine again now

A person of culture, I see!

I found EU day hard, I need to replay Kotor, or actually read some of the books ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Oh no, I had a droid meme waiting 😅

It was fundamentally broken in 64-bit Windows for a long time due to a practically unfindable bug, so they just removed it once that was a mainstream option (Vista onwards).

I think it’s been fixed or recreated now though?

Full Tilt! was first published in 1995, comfortably before the inclusion of the Space Cadet table in Windows, which iirc was either '98 or Plus! for '95. I’m confident it wasn’t in any of the vanilla releases of Win 95.

Apparently not, in the web UI at least

Fewer*

Oh god email clients are a whole other world of pain from browsers. My condolences.

They’re non breaking so he should be, well, not broken.

A key stroke?

Cos he did in the template I used 😅 not intentional, my bad.

They’ve played us for fools!