The Man Who Killed Google Search - Where’s Your Ed At blog, by Ed Zitron

I mean, joke’s on them, Lemmy doesn’t have accrual of karma so there’s nothing to really “farm” using an LLM.

Guess we’re all gonna ignore all the drama about LTT from last year?

Saying he’s the one who breaks is an understatement.

It’s especially fun in corporate IT.

“What do you mean user: [me] already has it open? I’ve never been in this folder in life, and I just rebooted!”

Or when it says it’s open by a former employee with a disabled account.

If it’s on a network share, you also can’t rely on the normal tricks with process monitor and the like to look for locks locally.

It’s one thing I’ll praise about using office documents with OneDrive and (Azure based) Sharepoint in a well configured corporate setting: Microsoft finally caught up to Google Doc’s collaboration functionality, and it handles “merge conflicts” fairly well for other file types (add the machine name as a suffix to the file name, keep both copies, and give a big warning message).

Even not super kinky, there’s positions and such that would be easier without those pesky legs in the way.

That’s bitch baby mode. Just use MASgrave to fake activation/license. No need for that silly workaround every time.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s a lot of bullshit with MS’s push for this shit, but I really don’t agree with the collective freakout about it.

There’s plenty of options. Many desktop mobos and CPUs support TPM2 through bios or firmware updates. Other desktop mobos have TPM headers and the modules go for $12-$30, but you have to track down the specific module compatible with your mobo as there is no standard pinout, even within the same manufacturer. There’s also one PCIE TPM2 card I found, but it’s from a company I don’t recognize and their site has no purchase button, just “contact us”, so that doesnct check out as legit to me.

Lastly, TPM2 has been a standard since 2015, with most manufacturers including it starting in 2016. At some point you have to accept that certain experiences will be unavailable to you without upgraded hardware. 10 years out of a computer before you start hitting hard limitations like this is a fucking great amount of life out of it. Like has always been the case, once it hits a certain age you either accept the lack of support or start going down the technical path with Linux to extend the life further.

“Have you heard of our lord and savior, veganism?”

Yes, leave me alone.

Bot account is an entirely voluntary opt in flag the account owner can toggle in their account settings page. You can switch it on and off in your own. I’ve seen some rare human users with it switched on by mistake.

Without any info on how they compile the “Top 50 viral” list, I’m not sure how significant this really is.

Never heard of that chart before, so this feels like it was just an easy article for click farming.

Original Super Mario Galaxy logo: U R MR GAY

Galaxy 2 logo: (backwards) YA I M R U

Super Mario Bros movie logo: U R MR BI

And now, HE MR GAY

There’s precedence for it to be gay, based on the stars on the original game box art.

Yeah, paying off loans.

Alternatively and less boringly, upgrade my desktop and peripherals, new laptop for me and my wife, get nice homelab/server stuff, smart home stuff/sensors, surround sound system for my family room and office/gaming room, proper furniture for my office, new matresses for almost every bed in the house. That would most likely eat most of it, give or take ~$2,000.

I never took to 7 like I did to this one. Couldn’t really tell you why.

I miss how they ditched the more unique character karts for the generic mix and match parts now. Let me race in a backhoe again you cowards!

Oh my god does he pray!

Am I stupid, or is that the equivalent of using a novelty check for like $25 for these rich motherfuckers? That seems like it would be chump change for them.

They’ve kept it up for 5 months. Downvotes and disparaging comments haven’t stopped them. Just block them if it bothers you.

To anyone saying they like the battle system of “turn based with QTE/rythm” you might also like Super Mario RPG, Paper Mario (original N64 and Thousand Year Door), and the Mario and Luigi series (first three of them). Mother 3 also has a rythm element matched to the >40 battle tracks. Go emulate them rather than trying to track them down at scalper prices.

They all use turn based battles with timed button presses for extra damage with attacks, blocking/dodging, and specials. Definitely not as pretty, as good a story, or as complicated mechanics, but same sort of battle system.

Huh, why do I hear someone shouting about Windows 11 requiring TPM?

No-Intro should be pretty easy, there’s significant chunks of the NTSC rom sets up on archive.org

I don’t hoard like I used to, especially as I got into romhacks, but RomVault always seemed to be the way to go.

Now that I don’t just keep full sets sitting around, I usually just pop onto archive.org and grab whatever I need from the nointro sets there. For disc based games, there’s some redump collections on archive, but for most disc based past PS1 or Gamecube I have to check the piracy megathreads for whatever sites haven’t been taken down yet.