Leaving the TV going in the background (whatever is on) drives me absolutely nuts. Way worse if it's something with commercials, but miserable either way. I can't stand the constant background noise. Some people, I guess, hate peace and quiet.

I miss working with larger teams (I've been taking a break for the past year or two), but I'm waiting for the industry to finish imploding before seeking work again because no way am I going to work for the misery factories run by these assholes. Might be fun rebuilding things after the collapse.

Gene Wolfe's works immediately come to mind as a source of impressively obscure words that I wouldn't blame people for thinking they were made up at first glance.

If there was any justice in the world, some of these would be in the dictionary as examples for "evocative."

So say we all.

The writing in Qud is an absolute delight. I reflexively examine everything because it's always a treat.

Though that's a 32" display for workstation-y computer-ing stuff. Gaming generally feels fine on something lower resolution (I only recently moved to 27" 2560x1440 on the gaming box).

I like 4K on a 32" display and feel like there's some value there, but 4K on a 65" TV across the living room is not doing much for me that 1080p can't do. Maybe I'm spoiled having grown up with NTSC SD TV, but 1080p seems pretty luxurious. If only streaming service video compression was less crap...

When I was in high school, in the 90s, I crashed my car on the way to pick up a friend on the way to school... I was fine. Car was very much not. Backroads in the middle of nowhere. Eventually a school bus came by and radioed it in and the police, a tow truck, and my mom showed up some time later...

No avoiding it. But I don't see any downside to buttering him up now to delay the inevitable.

"Look at that sad little octopus."

Had to figure out which Portal (2) video this was from... and now I'm kinda tempted to play Portal yet again...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7rZ...

I believe I have managed to forget almost everything I knew about Xt and Motif. But it's possible that if I were to look through some source code it might suddenly come back, so I'm not going to take any chances.

The zuluscsi guy did a refresh recently to address some of that: shop.rabbitholecomputing.com/products/zul...
- Ultra Wide SCSI @ 20MHz
- 68-pin SCSI connector (both internal AND external, includes retention tabs)
- Up to 34 megabytes per second read, 15 megabytes per second write.

I am solidly in a "I don't have any machines that require IDE/ATAPI drives at the moment but I might have to buy one of these just in case" situation... (pretty much all my old retro machines are SCSI based and I have a handful of SCSI emulators).

I'm pretty sure it was a Type 316 or 317 -- just flipped through a bunch of pictures of old Tek scopes to refresh my memory and those are the closest match.

And more! Cropping the photo lost the oscilloscope too. I believe that little red B&W TV was the one hooked up to the ZX80 clone that was our first computer, prior to the C64.

I also think there are people out there who want to play "PC games" but not deal with the hassle of a PC -- Mac users who bemoan the lack of games on their beloved shiny computers or Switch users who don't want to wait years for indie title ports, but don't want to deal with an icky Windows PC.