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found an unnamed txt on my desktop where i apparently wrote this
i'm always thinking about the concept of a “clone” in videogame discussions, partly because i've been walking around for about a decade thinking about the claim that there was a “flood of doom clones” after 1993, a phenomenon that, as far as i can tell, simply did not occur.
further linux on steamdeck notes
having spent another day linuxing on the steamdeck, i have come to a number of conclusions that might be useful to you.
linux on the steamdeck lol
the general response on e.g. reddit to “can I use [x] on the steamdeck” is “yes, because it's just a PC, so you can use anything that would work on a PC” and while i commend that response in the general case (the fact that the steamdeck is essentially Just A PC is incredibly vital to its usefulness and should be highlighted,) i suspect it's become a thought-terminating cliche.
silly shit i had to do with git submodules
it is not generally in my nature to spend any length of time talking about git or github or anything related to programming but i did find myself in a situation a couple days ago that was not easy to google, so here's what i figured out.
640x480 was just the resolution your parents used
here's windows NT 3.51 running at 1600×1200, on 1995-era hardware. seems wacky, but this was probably not that unusual.
doing nonsense on the computer
tbh not actually nonsense. as silly as this looks, it's probably a thing that happened a lot
incredible cellphone news
in 2018, Nokia finally made a reissue of the 8110, their incredibly distinct 1996 handset with a sliding bottom half which was made famous by its use in the matrix
. . .
but it's a <$100 hyper-low-end offering running KaiOS
why am i interested in flip phones
every time i talk about flip phones (and this has been going on for years, not just recently) people start going “yeah yeah yeah let's go back i want my nokia back” and i do not understand why this happens. well i do but the point is that i would never even say it because i hated flip phones
three useless phones
today i bought three phones which are completely useless. i didn't know that at the time but i probably would have bought them anyway if i had.
making dokuwiki useful
well okay, that's not fair: the real title should be like “making dokuwiki pretend it's a blog despite that being an unreasonable request.”
making a website is hard
and every year it gets harder. you can skip this post, i'm just an old man yelling at cloud.
J2ME review: Pac-Man
Bandai-Namco's port of Pac-Man to J2ME flip phones is shockingly competent. i'm not a Pac-Man expert but I'm pretty sure this is the closest they could have gotten to an arcade-perfect conversion; if you wanted to play Pac-Man while waiting for a bus, you wouldn't have any complaints about this version, it is completely satisfactory. but it does have one hilarious quality