I’ve been playing Dark Souls for a couple weeks on and off. First time playing any game like that. Took me a long time to get any idea what I should be doing, but I’m getting the hang of it. I think I’m in the mid game now.

That game is obtuse af. It gives off a vibe similar to a difficult, shoddy, cryptic retro game sometimes, but a lot of it is obviously designed with excellent attention to detail. So is all of that intentional? I don’t know. Even if all or most of it is intentional, I’m not sure it’s actually good design.

I do like it though.

Looks okay, I just saw Kamala defeat Pork Officer on the way up Trump tower by giving him funding.

Did he acknowledge the creators of that track which would be (British) Sea Power? Because dick move if he didn’t.

I’ve been replaying Celeste because last time I stopped in frustration at 5b. Now I’m on 7c and oh boy the last screen is something else. I’ve been stuck for two hours already.

Oh god why is this presentation so earnestly serious about le epic history simulator of human progress.

They better not increase system requirements so much that I need to get new hardware.

idk let them do what they want to do

like i hate rpgs, but i gave up on my campaign to send every rpg developer and player to the gulag years ago, and now i’m barely even seething when someone mentions an rpg

I’m a bit torn on the story actually. I’m easily cringed, and some of the dialogue made me cringe. I also think the story takes a very individualistic approach to mental health. You need to overcome stuff yourself and so on (yeah there’s Theo but he’s just a barely relevant acquaintance). It fits well with the gameplay, but it’s a terrible message.

The gameplay is fucking great though.

Celeste is 90% off, in case anyone hasn’t played that yet.

20th century food court from last call bbs was really good

Story-rich, narrative, role-playing etc. Except if it’s comedy. I can do comedy. Sometimes.

Also Obra Dinn I like and that has “story-rich” (I just checked), so whatever, I’m a hypocrite.

How did you manage that Pacman ghost prompt?

No… Not in practice anyway, maybe in theory. I know on ARM SoCs there’s lack of auto-configuration (like you have on PCs with e.g. PCI), and the kernel has no way of knowing what hardware is available. So there’s a file that lists all the devices, and how to talk to them, called (I think) a “device tree”. This file gets appended to the kernel image, and so the bootloader just loads that together with the kernel. The kernel doesn’t do any auto-configuration and rather just reads this file and loads the relevant drivers based on that. I guess it might be (in theory) possible to do this on PC, but I’ve never heard of such a thing. I also don’t expect that to make any noticeable difference for boot times. Pretty sure boot times are dominated by user space, and not the kernel anyway.

Sidenote (don’t do this): You can compile your own kernel (this used to be pretty common back in the day). You can select only the drivers you need, and can also select whether they should be compiled directly into the kernel or as modules that can be loaded later if needed. Pretty sure the auto-detection happens regardless for most hardware, since the driver needs to be initialized and told where the hardware is to be found. Compiling a driver right into the kernel just means the driver code is in memory right from the very start. I don’t recommend doing this btw, the only difference you will notice is shit not working due to you screwing up, and you’re going to waste a bunch of time and electricity compiling your kernel with every update. You sometimes needed to do this to get all your hardware working, but I haven’t done this in ages.

Should just work. No need to reinstall. You are correct in thinking that all the drivers are included, and furthermore, the drivers on Linux are typically loaded automatically when the hardware is detected on every boot, and this is not configured anywhere in a file or anything like that.

Usually, anyway. In theory it’s possible that you manually (or some tool) hardcoded drivers somewhere, like in xorg.conf, but I’m willing to bet that isn’t the case.

It’s not though? Like what percentage of matter in the universe even is in these states?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_of_matter

Debian’s popcon has by-category lists, so e.g. here are the most popular packages from the category “shells”, sorted by most installed:

https://popcon.debian.org/main/shells/by_inst

What file structure? I just put everything in /home and then try to vaguely remember part of the filename and glob *part-of-filename*.

Ok, actually, every couple of years, I move all my files into a new directory, /home/old. I think I’m up to /home/old/old/old/old/old right now. I recommend using find to look for files in there.

Oh god I actually watched half of this. He says the left (apparently Jeffrey Sachs is left now?) just bought Putin’s argument about security concerns, but (big reveal about halfway in, choir music swells), Putin is actually driven by mystical thinking and megalomania.

So Putin is lying when he talks about realpolitik or says anything that makes any sense. But when he speaks of history or the motherland or whatever, then he’s telling the truth. He’s definitely not just doing a bit of story telling to hit on those emotions. No Sir! That’s a window right into his soul. And apparently his personal feelings are enough to move whole armies.

Maybe, just maybe, there are actual material reasons for why stuff happens, and it’s not just ideas in the minds of individual “great men”.

I’m mocking you. You’re the one that drew a line from Germanic tribes and their heroic culture to modern-day Ukraine. These are some pretty völkische theories you got there.

Well that’s better! Someone so interested in tales of Germanic valor should be ready for another Volkssturm. What I don’t get is why you wouldn’t sacrifice yourself in Ukraine, what with the blood relation and all. Maybe Ukrainians aren’t quite as Germanic in your mind after all?