ManMachine
@max@manmachine.me
this is a public service announcement:
you can use the C preprocessor for anything you want. other languages, html, css, text files. there's nothing they can do to stop you
=)
wrong. you can not do that. if you make an attempt, i will be breaking into your home and pulling every keycap off your keyboard
this is what praxis looks like 😊
@eniko isn't that just m4
@eniko I am curious, how does this work? Like what does the build system look like?
@eniko OH MY GOD, I spent 10 minutes searching and experimenting and found it!
cpp -P template.html output.html
cpp apparently comes with gcc and is, unsurprisingly, the C PreProcessor
this is actually an ancient homebrew version that functions mostly like the C preprocessor i made hence the macros in quotes working, but you could do the same by just lifting the quotes into the macro
@eniko would a typical version of cpp work with single quotes, though? HTML accepts those but C only uses single quotes for character constants.
@fabiosantoscode i think it still ignores single quoted stuff?
@eniko I checked to make sure. It does ignore single-quoted defines, and this does make sense.
I was thinking that maybe it wouldn't, because char constants are known to have one character only.
But for cpp to replace 'MY_DEF' and not 'X' would somehow be smart and dumb at the same time.
@eniko Fun! Reminds me of when I used CMake as a preprocessor for a bunch of platform metadata files to customize them for each game and episode when I was working at Telltale Games.
@eniko how are the error messages if you make a mistake, though?
@Hyperlynx i mean its kinda hard to make errors with macros?
unless its an error in the html, then the error is as good as html error reporting usually is (not very)
@eniko fair enough, actually.
I still remember my first HTML error. I couldn't change the background colour, no matter how hard I tried, because naturally it's "color", and indeed there was no error message to help me...
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@mewsleah@meow.social
@eniko yeah, but it's icky
artemist [Her Excellency The Catgirl Artemis Tosini/sie/她/あの猫] » 🔓
@artemist@social.mildlyfunctional.gay
@eniko i just use python jinja2 for latex
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com
@eniko have we already forgotten the lessons of imake
@eniko fun fact: xrdb (tool to load an X11 .Xresources) will use cpp on your file... if it's installed.
oh and also apparently it also sets definitions according to the man page, https://linux.die.net/man/1/xrdb, my config just used it for #includes though.
@eniko Pro tip: you can use more capable languages as a preprocessor for C
https://ioc.exchange/@shac/115527492056624860
@eniko this was explained in the manual for the clang based toolchain we were selling at my prev job. I removed it...
@eniko Fond memories of https://web.archive.org/web/20060427051005/http://thewml.org/about which let you build websites using a combination of cpp lookalike, magic pseudo-HTML tags, inline Perl and m4 for good measure
since everyone is taking about breaking off from the free slopware movement to start our own "what if we had principles this time" software movement, i think we gotta come up with a cool name for people to rally around. i propose we call it "okiedokie software"
A sticker to place anywhere.
Like hand dryers, toilet bowls, soap dispensers, alarm keypads, coffee machines, thermostats, pedestrian crossing buttons, BBQs, park benches, parking meters...
As well as staplers, pens, potatoes, bricks, brooms, lunch, potplants and speed humps.
Print PDF here, with cut line.
Illustrator editable, though it's a frickin hatchet job :)
http://www.danamania.com/print/Now%20AI%20Powered%20Sticker/
@NanoRaptor Once you've chatted with your tuber, you'll never look back! 
@NanoRaptor Sometimes, dreams can come true... 
@NanoRaptor I go to a hacker conference called “Hackers” (it's semi-famous) and would like to bring a roll of stickers where they would be super-popular. Do you want to add a credit to your design, and I am asking permission although I think you have already granted it.
@haineux go for it! Use as needed :)
@NanoRaptor Do you want credit add a by line?
@haineux nah - I find it more fun surprising myself seeing a thing appear out the world sometime in the future and going hey look at you little design floating around doing your thing!
@NanoRaptor
Hard to see, but here's your sticker in action at a local pro-AI candidate's tent. You're now influencing foreign elections!
Кто?
@rene я сначала "... I'm as puzzled as a newborn child I'm as riddled as the tide", а потом мне подсказали, что это 🥧
#japanese_jesus gospel
@prahou mr foldymobilek!
@ozzelot it hates itself!
@moses_izumi @ozzelot i thought the "everything wrong with" was the bit where they somehow convinced you to buy the same thing every year for the past 20.
@prahou the facial expression on the folding mobilek! 
@alderwick they hate each other!
@prahou Ah, so the criticism of “it's two smartphones stuck together” applies literally here 
@Ralph that's a lot of assuming from your end. the *phone* has nothing to do with what he's saying.
stay prayed up.
Small things
@basrungar i don't think cigarettes are very solar punk
@reiddragon @max i don't think that has anything to do with the definition of 'vegan'
Always worth looking at the source code of tools, because you find their easter eggs.
According to the man page for 'xrandr', it has an option --properties, also abbreviated --prop.
In the source code, it turns out that you can also spell it --props …
… and, surely because someone thought it was funny, --madprops.
@simontatham whenever man was invoked at 12:30 AM in a way that didn't display an article, it used to print "gimme gimme gimme" (referencing an ABBA song). This was eventually removed a decade later, after someone reported it was breaking their CI tests; they ran man -w to test whether a man page was installed correctly, and the Easter egg could run in this case if the CI test happened to execute at 12:30 AM.
@curtmack yeah, I think easter eggs ought to at least keep out of the way. Having them invoked by a hidden option seems more reasonable. Ideally one silly enough that anyone trying it is probably _expecting_ an easter egg and not some actually sensible behaviour!
The 'ninja -t urtle' example was another one I found because I was reading ninja's source code anyway to find out something more sensible. But once I found it, I kicked myself for not having thought to try it already.
@simontatham not an Easter egg per-se, but I always use "git commit --amen".
@mk you missed the opportunity to say you do that "for ever and ever"
@simontatham not sure I understand? But I did frown at my loose use of "always" because, well, it's not always-always.
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@emag@strangeplace.me
There is something supremely screwy with the Intel video driver on my laptop, that the Gibson #xscreensaver seems to regularly tickle to the point of lockups. Since Gibson has been fine on previous laptops and my desktop, I'm prone to blame the driver and/or specific chipset in this machine. None of @jwz 's work is in question, it's been solid for me for like over 3 *decades* at this point. Kinda sad to disable that one, though, reminds me of #netrunner a lot (obviously)
Michael Gurski [He/Him, They/Them, whatever is easier for you. I'm easy that way.] » 🔓
@emag@strangeplace.me
Two lockups in one night (first recoverable from C-A-F3 to login and issue a shutdown, second needed a long press on power). Really wish all vendors released reliable and capable drivers for all their chipsets, so reverse-engineered ones didn't have issues leading to hard locks.
And again, this seems to be a driver/chipset problem, as the software has been 100% solid for me on all other hardware.
@emag The XScreenSaver collection has consistently been a glorious stress test of literally everything about the various video stacks for decades and it is frankly malpractice that it has not been a part of the QA pipeline of every hardware and "desktop" developer for decades. I realize that I have skin in this particular game, but also, and I can't emphasize this enough, I'm right.
Michael Gurski [He/Him, They/Them, whatever is easier for you. I'm easy that way.] » 🔓
@emag@strangeplace.me
@jwz oh, in no way do I think you aren't right in this. The collection *is* a stress test, and others should be Doing The Right Thing. This particular Dell hardware is, alas, what I'm dealing with, and it most definitely fails the test. I've been running your screensavers since the 90s on SunOS & Solaris, and later Linux. Definitely *not* your code that's responsible, but almost always the same screensaver that trips up the drivers. I see a lot of "reset" messages when I can investigate.
@emag At some level my code is responsible, and I am responsible, for encouraging you to believe that the Machine could do the Things. Such hope is the source of all misery.
Michael Gurski [He/Him, They/Them, whatever is easier for you. I'm easy that way.] » 🔓
@emag@strangeplace.me
@jwz considering previous laptops and my current Lenovo desktop (which has a *lot* of other, non-video issues, which I had thought were btrfs problems) are perfectly fine with it... The only thing you're responsible for is twiddling hardware and drivers that need a lot more work for stability, and bringing the problems to light.
Not to make either of us feel old, but it's been nigh on 30 years I've been using this. Solid code is solid.
hey
parallelizing your init system is stupid
@khm but fast booting will save humanity
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The new album "COMPUTER METAL" will come out on 30 October 2026 on Metal Blade Records. DOT MATRIX the new single is OUT NOW on all digital platforms (Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube, etc)
ASCII art is TEXT in CODEPAGE 437 typed by HAND with a computer keyboard by TAINTED of the ASCII group FIRE
Mastering by Joel Wanasek
Ten years ago I had one intent: to start a music project that would break the rules by writing heavy metal using only MIDI and boost the power and speed of human composition, to stream the process live and capture my intent as a composer on the fly.
Over the years this project has been mislabeled too many times. Then a voice rose on its own to name what it really was, and that voice said: COMPUTER METAL. It first appeared in comments on the internet, then it became the slogan of our shows. Now it finally becomes an album: a Codex of what this new genre represents and what message it delivers. First written as a fully synthesized album, then humanized by the hand of man.
But the path that led us here has deep roots. I grew up between heavy metal, demoscene and videogames, in my father's computer shop, a software pirate's den from '86 to the late '90s. Cryptography and game design followed me: every album carries crypto puzzles or ARGs, with secrets and bonus tracks to win, running on a server I built and still maintain, complete with a BBS and an IRC server. I developed with my friends a point and click adventure called "VirutaVerse" released on all gaming platforms. Over 44 classic videogame covers later, in 2022 the project evolved into a live band, with guitarist Eddy and Giulio a the drums. Two exceptional performers delivering new energy to the project.
The concept of our live show is based on one simple rule: Machines do Machines. Humans do Humans. For it is nonsense for humans to try to do what machines do best, and nonsense to let machines do what humans do best. Rather than pretending to play programmed music live, as the vast majority of bands do, we let machines do exactly what they are meant to do: render, in real time, perfectly inhuman, quantized, preprogrammed music. And we, as humans, play live together with the machines, giving the music humanity and error, making the live experience a special, unique moment. A baritone guitar, a lead guitar and drums on one side; on the other, a Commodore 64 and an Amiga 500 modified to be played by hand as synthesizers. Yes, these are computers too, but under direct command. CRTs spinning the videos that inspired the project, and visuals synced to the music, in a full multimedia experience.
For it is humans that shall command machines,
and not machines that shall command humans.
THIS IS COMPUTER METAL
SPREAD THE CODE
@mbr Are you no longer selling DRM-free FLAC via BandCamp? I don't see it listed as a preorder option this time.
@thomasfuchs ...meanwhile every content creator/influencer just collectively had the largest orgasm ever recorded.
That thing is going to be a massive hit.
Hey Dungeoneers, ShatteredPD v4.0.0 has been released! v4.0.0 is arguably Shattered's biggest update yet! There's a massive new quest, a bunch of new in-game art, 6 new enchantments, and plenty smaller changes and adjustments.
https://shatteredpixel.com/blog/shattered-pixel-dungeon-v400.html
@ShatteredPixel Thank you!
Will there be a native MacOS Silicon version?
Apple plans to discontinue the Apple compatibility layer.
@masek Yes, I'm currently holding off on it as I don't plan to offer a universal build or separate intel and Apple Silicon builds (the build process I use makes this surprisingly complicated to do), so it will be a switchover in terms of support. Currently about 11% of Apple users are still on Intel (https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/En?platform=mac) so I'll probably wait until closer to the deadline.
I'm finding a renaissance of enjoyment with all the playing i've been doing with Pascal lately, so many years of people saying "Why would you do anything with a language so old? it's dumb, just use Python"
Fools.
I have escaped the cave.
the hot news today seems to be that an autocomplete will kill us cultist has left anthropic over his concerns
thread: https://xcancel.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843
> Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources.
ok m8
@davidgerard i have often felt that an entire corporation needs to go to jail but until anthropic id never before felt that an entire corporation needs to go to the hospital
Every time someone says "frontier model", Frontier Psychiatrist starts playing in my head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnkK2YEcE
@jwz Oddly, I just posted about them. I love their stuff so much and Frontier Psychiatrist is right at the top of their best songs.
https://c.im/@thisislieven/117237512672777843
Ridiculously excited The Avalanches are releasing a new album 16 October.
“Inspired by the simultaneously magical and insidious ways that advertising and name-brand technology wraps itself around our memories. An ambivalent ode to the nostalgic pull of commercial jingles, proprietary start-up sounds, and long-forgotten audio logos.”
"Frontier" is pretty apt though...visions of lawlessness, theft and rustling, waiting for a sheriff to come bring law and order into town...
I have no love left for linux but I must release a distro. what is it called?
| deeztro: | 43 |
| Blessley: | 11 |
| Hertz Donut: | 27 |
| The Aristocrats: | 70 |
anyone know any good open source mobile games?
important poll pls boost
| i’m a canadian furry with a moose sona: | 6 |
| i’m a non-canadian furry with a moose sona: | 7 |
| i’m neither: | 354 |
OH: "This isn't a distributed system, it's a collection of single points of failure"
Why are GBA games so good on TV with a gamepad?
<theory>
My honest guess would be that:
1. They were designed for a smaller screen that was closer to the eyes, meaning they ended up taking up about the same amount of our field of vision
2. The built in controls were basically a controller
So...
Playing them with a controller on a screen these days is actually very close to the experience they were originally designed for.
</theory>
I'm sure this was probably a rhetorical question, but it got me thinking, so now you have this post, wanted or not. 😛
@eniko I loved the GBA but it (and more so the GBA SP in all its tiny rectangular glory) was really hard on my hands in a way a living room console gamepad is not...
Advance Wars' music needs to calm the fuck down though oh my god
I really gotta make a GBA game some day
@eniko its surprisingly easy using https://github.com/gvaliente/butano im pretty sure i spun up a minesweeper in like a day using butano
@eniko DOS and GBA are our most favorite platforms! and you got that satisfying DOS style down so tight, we're excited to find out what you can do on the GBA
When _YOU_ look at _YOUR_ profile picture on the screen, it [FACES] (looks)...
EDIT: you guys are going to give me a stroke - if there is a face in your profile picture, is it facing right or left.. dont think too much about it. dont worry about the eyes. just generally... my profile picture looks to the right, for example. OK COOL
EDIT7: OK, how about this - where does the NOSE / BEAK / SNOUT / ? point to.
EDIT8: I wish I never made this poll.
EDIT9: If you have an ANIMATED avatar, then judge it on the 1st frame.
EDIT10: If there are both a MIRROR REFLECTION as well as a FACE, decide on the direction the FACE is facing, not the reflection.
EDIT11/12: By STRAIGHT AHEAD I mean looking DIRECTLY at you!
EDIT13: im going to sleep now... please consult the comment section if youre unsure what to click. maybe dont click anything? that is allowed.
EDIT14: if your avatar is looking directly AWAY from the camera, that's also straight away.
EDIT15: If there is NO face in your profile picture, then don't click ANYTHING. this applies to hands, flowers, buildings, bikes, feet. If there is, for example, A FACE drawn on a wall, then judge it by the direction that picture of a face is facing.
(stop boosting this, i beg you - i want this to be over.)
#poll #unix_surrealism #fediverse
| to the right: | 597 |
| to the left: | 470 |
| straight ahead: | 719 |
Closed
This question is woefully underspecified. We (meaning YOU!) must distinguish between MY left/right (looking at the picture on the screen) and YOUR left/right (looking out of the picture on my screen).
Obviously these are different things.
(Signed)
Captain Obvious, Esq.
@prahou@merveilles.town "right" and "left" are all made up comcepts anyway. I think it just looks good. That's all that matters.
@prahou are we talking eyes, head direction, spatial orientation, or the very flimsy, subjective and wispy idea of such a thing as right and left at all
@prahou trick question, it's just a picture, it can't look anywhere! Just kidding, I can't tell, maybe the eyes are closed?
@prahou wait this poll is about my profile picture, not yours?
@prahou Is this from my view, or from the pictures perspektive? Is it, if its facing the direction, or if its e.g. standing facing right, while looking right (so my left?)?
@screwlisp how did you vote, out of curiosity?
@prahou Oh I didn't, but I think you are facing left as per stage directions. I was enjoying people variously interpreting your question.
@screwlisp it's funny how vintage your profile picture feels to me, not dated, just.. i don't know. it's a weird feeling. It's been a couple years. Too many.
Thanks for wearing it all this time.
@prahou @screwlisp
only my mobilek knows
@Joe_von_Saporski @screwlisp if you didn't click to the right, i .. well, i dont know.. i would expect you to troll me on this..
@prahou feeling nostalgic for a false past
@xan to anyone reading, undecided as to how to vote:
ALL OF THESE WOULD CLICK "TO THE RIGHT"
Maybe Game of War could click straight ahead....
fuck
@ozzelot what did you click?
I am not convinced the profile pic has eyes. The place where eyes are typically found on humans look like inky voids.
@alienghic tell you what, Diane, you don't have to click any of the options. But if I were to be pedantic, I would ask you to click _to the right_ :')
@prahou if two characters have avatars looking the same direction, they're not allowed to talk to each other
@prahou you know, there's an old koan about trying to get people to stop staring at your finger when you point at something... I forgot how it goes.
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@49016@mastodon.catgirl.cloud
@prahou what about "animated gif that spins"
@prahou oh crap uh I’ve got me and my dog and I voted based off of the direction I’m looking how do I add a vote for the direction my dog is looking???
@prahou wait, but mine is looking in both directions? …but, i guess at first glance, it does look like it's looking to the left
@prahou i think mine is hard... Is it ?
@prahou PfP has two creatures gazing in opposing directions. Went with right because from the perspective of the panda nearest to the camera, the gaze is to the right.
@trashpanda definitely a tough one.. thanks for powering through it and figuring out a solution
@prahou I would say straight ahead but I'm also leaning to the right. It's an oddly framed shot because both I and the photographer are hanging off the side of a cliff.
@prahou this is the funniest thing I've seen in days, you have no idea how much joy this brought me.
(I voted left I swear I'm not part of the problem X3)
@prahou what happens when your avatar rotates? 😄
(Just for the sake of the poll, I'm taking the first frame of the gif)
@prahou having contributed to the poll and boosted and now following the post edits which completely changes how I should have voted. This is great. Thank you. Hope you had a great night
@prahou but what if the mirrored version of the face is the prominent one and there is also a small bit of face, or if the head is showing its back?
@prahou how come you can edit your post and still retain the poll numbers?
@mdione that's a pretty good question lol. but i think if i changed the poll options at least, it would reset.
@uoou flip a coin
@uoou click to the left
@uoou yes, then right, this was already discussed. the nose direction is important, upside-downity is irrelevant.
@prahou@merveilles.town i dont understand the question. the details of the face are too blurry to use but the silhouette is obviously facing right. is this a trick question?
@nycki YOUR profile picture.
@prahou@merveilles.town ah, kind of a trick question, but maybe not on purpose then. uhhhh i dont know if i can edit my vote sorry
@prahou
Damn.
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@prahou i thought about this when i made mine
@prahou wait, is “right” here from the perspective of the viewer or from the perspective of the person on the profile picture???
@prahou I mean this is going to require a loose definition of face
@prahou I can’t believe that no one in the comments has suggested disambiguating the poll by using “port” and “starboard” (famously known to all people, not just those in aviation and maritime fields).
@prahou Thank you, all your edits made me laugh 😊 . So I boosted. Sorry about that.
And I will skip the question I had about the direction of my nose versus the direction of my eyes. 😜
@prahou I wanted to boost, then saw your last comment. I don't have any questions, just wishing you well 💝
@prahou@merveilles.town my instance tells me the poll ended. but your instance tells me it's got 11 hours left of collecting answers
@max <page from an illuminated medieval manuscript with a squiggly drawn devil sitting on a log and diddling on a trumpet or something while having the worst delirium in his entire existence.jpg>
bluesky added a little 1/x marker at the end of posts to show number of posts in a thread and frankly fedi needs to copy that right the fuck now
edit: before you reply with "just use a server with a character limit you're happy with anything else is twitter bullshit" please consider that there may be other reasons why one might wish to append a reply to a post one wrote earlier
@eniko The fediverse doesn't need such "thread" abomination.
Just use a server with a high enough character limit and make it a single post.....
Everything else is old twitter bullshit we don't need here.
seriously one of the most annoying things about fedi is this stupid ass superiority complex that makes *some* people here go "oh we don't need that very useful and convenient feature, because that's for other *lesser* social media places"
I think the annoying thing about fedi is the double edged sword that having no algorithmic feed means those comments are given the same level of prominence as comments that aren't shit.
@eniko I agree, one of the issues often for open source I see is they build software, even ones made for many people, as if it is only for themselves. Where as in my open projects I came in with the perception of “what if others don’t want it exactly my way?”
Ironic when open source is about community
There's nothing to feel superior about. I think part of Bluesky's quick uptake, is that they had their house in better order right from the start.
I'd love fediverse to make something of a paradigm shift away from app-centric fedi with its clunky UX, where we focus on delivering solutions. Introduced as services to a more unified social networking space to participants on the network, and better tailored to their needs.
The 1/x marker would be a line of business logic in the specification of a Microblogging solution then, to be adopted by devs in their app or service implementation.
Wrote a blog post about it recently. Biggest challenge holding us back is social in nature.
muting this because jesus fucking christ
@eniko Oh no, what happened?
*looks inside*
Ah, once again Eni said something that should be common sense but is somehow considered controversial by a bunch of creepy weirdos
@eniko reminds me of this thing I saw yesterday where people said to just delete your discord account to show em
I get the sentiment but like, then I can't chat with friends anymore, and they're not about to move to one of the few options with tons of missing features.
Relatedly, I would love a "break up this long post" button that automatically breaks it up at the nearest paragraph breaks and applies the "1/x" marker and copies any hashtags at the end of the post to be at the end of each one in the thread.
Would need a slightly more complex UI change to give the ability to edit before posting but would be nice to have.
@eniko I would love for threads' posts to be more obviously connected, currently it's really confusing.
It's as confusing as on the website engineered to have as many misunderstandings, context-free outrage and discord as possible.
I for one hate super long posts, but maybe I’m weird.
I self annotate my threads with 1/ 🧵 and 🧵 / end etc but it is kinda a drag.
Does it? You can just put the whole thread in a single post, eliminating the need for threads in the first place. Unless your instance still limits to 500 characters, that is…
@eniko listen here, there's a specific level of convenience that's acceptable and it's exactly whatever I'm personally used to at the moment. Anything less is laughably primitive, anything more is for lazy people, which is bad.
@eniko Couldn't we also have that x be replaced by the actual depth of the thread? Perhaps too much CPU/storage when the world is selling off all excess computation to Big Techbro?
@eniko Yes! I’ve long thought something like this would be an improvement.
It could help keep threads in the right order or allow clients or servers to reconstruct a thread with missing parts after a federation hiccup.
Clients could opt to show all responses underneath the thread instead of breaking up a thread with a response to post 3/7.
It could help the creation of a decent UI that allows insertion or reordering during the drafting phase.
1/2
@eniko For this to make sense I think Mastodon would need the concept of multipart post.
YMMV, but I would prefer having proper threading (i.e. a tree) in more clients, and some degree of awareness of multipart posts or of a post group (could be used for these counts, and also to present these parts differently in the thread tree).
(I have no idea if this already exists, maybe there is some other system in the fediverse that actually does all that, I should investigate at some point, as I'm curious...)
Do you run DOS on period hardware? Do you own a Gravis Gamepad (or other gamepad that uses game ports)?
| no period hardware: | 74 |
| period hardware but no gamepad: | 13 |
| period hardware and gamepad: | 13 |
| other / results: | 5 |
@eniko Unfortunately I don't have the period-correct hardware. Never had a chance to own a Gravis Gamepad either :(
@eniko Do more Windows-era gamepads count, like the og SideWinder Game Pad which is MIDI port, not USB?
@transcendentempress game port only
@eniko @transcendentempress
aren't midi ports (that gamepad can be connected to) a superset of gameports?
EDIT, or, less complicated: soundcards that had "gameports" used them for midi as well, with an adapter, IIRC
@eniko Closest I have is a Pentium II, which is very capable of playing latter-day DOS games! I also have a Sidewinder banana pad somewhere, but I'm not 100% sure it's Game Port and not serial.
...I also have a Vortex86 board but still no idea how to power it
@eniko I really need to re-buy a Gravis Gamepad... I had one when I was young(er), but I think it was sold/trashed when the new PC didn't come with a gameport anymore...
@eniko
I might have a DOS era portable in storage at my parents' place, and possibly a gameport joystick too.
Mostly it's just DOSBox on my Linux workstation, keyboard and mouse.
Do they male usb game port dongles? Seems like a thing that should exist.
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@matildalove@wetdry.world
i am not overreacting. i am regular reacting to some shit that is overhappening
how many times in your life have you awoken to ants crawling on your face?
it's twice for me btw
| eniko what the fuck (zero): | 180 |
| once: | 28 |
| twice: | 9 |
| three times or more: | 20 |
oh good its not just me
@eniko I live in Central America, ants not only invade my room, but my bathroom, kitchen, and if I'm unlucky enough they'll get inside my electronics, I miss my DVD player 😭
@NullTheFool sounds very familiar to here
@eniko ants, never, but on one unforgettable occasion, a cockroach...
once, when camping, we couldn't sleep almost the whole night because it felt like every ant in the whole patch of woods was migrating through our campgrounds, but I've never been awakened by ants
@eniko I answered one, but now that I think about it, probably 2-3 but it's usually just 1-2 medium-sized ants and I'm in camping. I don't think I've ever had, like, a trail of them marching on me.
@eniko this is nothing. At uni we had a terrible ant infestation. One morning I opened the fridge, unwrapped a pasty, took a bite, and THERE WERE ANTS INSIDE THE PASTY
Traumatic, to say the least...
@eniko Never happened to me.
I did come back from work some years ago to find them invading a counter.
It is then that I decided to commit to never having any fresh food outside of a sealed container or a refrigeration device, and to stay on top of vacuuming.
I'm happy to report that it worked. I rarely see one or two and they just don't stay.
The wire shelving (bugs love their hiding spots), prompt disposal of cellulose-containing items and ventilation also contributes to being less friendly an environment to various bugs.
@lispi314 sounds lovely to live in a place where you're not constantly besieged by ants from all sides
@eniko least offensive insect I've woken up to but yes.
@d_rift I find it offensive to wake up to any type of insect on my face especially when there is more than one at a time
@eniko
Not ants. I wish it was ants.
Once when I was a lot younger while on vacation I had a cockroach walk on my face. It tried to get in my mouth.
I have yet ever to wake up as fast as I did then. I can also tell you that I got quite good at getting the place completely cleared of them, with the help of a nearby ant nest.
Never a good experience being woken up by any critter walking over you. Be it a fly, mosquito, ant, or whatever. Brrrr
Zero, but they do keep crawling up my legs when I'm sitting at my computer at my desk, and then biting me.
Not fighting, I think, just to see if I might be a big piece of tasty food they could haul back.
I usually squish them and yet I have to seriously admire their chutzpah.
@eniko Never woke up to ants but I *have* woken up to spiders on my face a few times (maybe they were after the ants)?
@eniko
Actually I'm unsure about ants, specifically. Definitely >3X for bugs in general. Maybe >10X.
And also definitely ants on other parts of my body.
@eniko Twice I remember clearly. Maybe more? I’m usually an “evict” type but that crossed a line, their lives are forfeit.