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I actually started playing in 2007 and played on and off since then, my dad having played since late beta and my mom since not long after release. Both of them quit sometime in 2014. I just wasn't old enough to play before then and it could very well have been argued that I still wasn't old...

Asheron's Call closes down on Jan. 31st. It's a little amazing to see the activity that's cropped up in the community, both trying to save the game we have today, and those trying to resurrect a dead server emulator project for the 2004-era game. I don't know which camp I fall into yet, I like...

Happy belated holidays from me to all of you!

I run Office 365 that I got through the school. When that subscription expires I'll likely move to Office 03 with the compatibility pack, since I have a license for that kicking around here somewhere.

Accidental double post, whoever's in charge of that would you please delete this?

Because I like messing around with old crap and I needed something to do for the holidays, I secured a HP T5700 thin client, a 44 pin IDE female to female cable, a 44 pin IDE to CF adapter, and an 8GB CF card. The T5700 has a Transmeta Crusoe TM5800 clocked at one whole gigahertz, 256MB of...

Very interesting tool. It should make my life a fair bit easier, no longer will I have to keep track of a dozen or more flash drives for my bootable utilities, now just one.

I'm already running out of space on the 2TB. By the way, the I/O errors stopped after i pulled the drive out and reseated it. Surprised it was that simple but it was. Out of the 1863 GB available to Windows, I only have 555 still free. If that sounds like a lot, I'm concerned because I'm using...

I run 7.1 (unofficial quark build of CM14.1) on my Turbo and it's slick, stable and speedy. The new layouts (where applicable) make everything more convenient. I use Facebook Messenger to handle my SMS (yes, I know, data mining worse than Google, frankly I'm of the mind that I never had any...

Speaking of Doom 3, I spent a hell of a time (pun definitely intended) getting the Dhewm3 source port to build on my Cloudbook. Had issues packing the data up in a way that it liked. At first I thought all was for naught as it ran poorly even at 640x480 but then I found it had advanced rendering...

Happy late birthday! The only sticking point I still have with Arch on this Cloudbook is that Network Manager refuses to autoconnect to Wi-Fi networks I've set up. I had a brief runaround with CUPS and HPLIP (turns out I need Avahi to start before cupsd, rookie mistake) but that's been solved...

Good to know.

I'd be folding if I had something that'd make it worth the energy cost. As it is only CPU folding isn't anything worth adding to the pool, it'll have to wait until if/when I build a desktop with a real GPU.

My WD Green is probably the best drive I own. Nothing compares. *hides*

In other, less worrying news, the Cloudbook is now running VoidLinux. Why? Because the RAM savings are massive, bootup times are nearly nonexistent, and I had been meaning to do a clean Arch install (in an effort to maybe fix my kernel woes) anyway, so why not mess around with this for a bit and...

I really hope this doesn't turn out like what happened with P5-133XL. :sad:

I use ePDFView here on my cloudbook. But you said for Windows. Hmm. I hear FoxIt is pretty good? I use straight Adobe Reader on the Thinkpad, occasionally settling for the Chrome PDF viewer plugin.

I personally use Anti-Beacon on the Thinkpad. I haven't had any issues.

If Bernie were on the ticket I have a feeling Trump still would have won, because the democratic vote would be fractured.

Look, how about this. If someone decides they like me enough to pursue me, I'm not going to turn them down. Now that we're done discussing improbabilities I would like to point out that I'm not isolating myself, I'm just exercising my choice in not trying to date. So what if I won't be able to...

I have friends. I do social things. I'm just not bothering with the dating game in a world where it seems all the males of my generation are interested in is casual sex and all the females assume that's what I'm after and act accordingly. Not trying to act like an emo teenager but to be frank I...

This in a nutshell is one of many reasons why I don't use dating websites. I'm undesirable and I know it already, I don't need to have it confirmed by lack of attention on the web. I get enough of that outside the matrix. I'm torn between being bitter and lonely, and being glad I won't ever...

I've been looking at SF here in the Wayback machine. The old page layout looks pretty cool, kind of funny there was a dedicated news section, and I'm strangely happy to see the forum hierarchy hasn't changed much. The particular version I'm looking at shows mubs as the newest registered user.

Testing from my Arch install on the Cloudbook running the latest Chrome, everything's fine here as I just tested. Only difference is that I'm using uBlock Origin instead of ABP. If you'd like I can set up another config of it with your addons and test that way.

I'm apathetic about the whole thing at this point. Our votes don't matter, our money does. Or would, if we had enough of it to turn the politicians' heads. The US is completely and utterly doomed no matter which of the two 'real' candidates wins, and all I can see happening is nukes hitting...

So do I. Not just for the price, though. I prefer simplistic, functional looks. If I absolutely must have LEDs please for the love of god make them white, and dim so I'm not blinded when I look at them. I have nothing against cool-looking stuff, it's just not for me. It screams "Please steal...

My concerns would be mechanical switches (whether they care or not, they'll likely learn to appreciate the tactile feel), LED backlighting (not necessarily user-definable color but it's good for more e-penis points), and a feature that I think is called n-key rollover (which means more...

Worked out why I was stuck on the LTS kernel. The edd=off, noapic, modprobe.blacklist=pinctrl_cherryview parameters, necessary to boot and have a functioning system on the normal 4.7.2 kernel and LTS kernels, are no longer necessary with 4.8+ and now actively cause it to hang while loading the...

So it's not worth it all around, then? IMO an extra 500MHz isn't worth the cash. No idea what bumping up the TDP does for it, other than consume more power.

Yeah, not when all the i5 would add is maybe a slightly better IGP and marginally better clockrates. That 256GB SSD is kind of small, but then I use my Thinkpad for everything, so I have much higher than average storage needs. My Cloudbook makes do with a 25ish GB / partition (a bit more than...

For some reason I can't edit my post. It just sort of hangs trying to load the "edit" block or whatever it is. Fixed my script. Changed nm-applet & to nohup nm-applet & and added another two second sleep timer at the end to give nm-applet time to start.

So on my Cloudbook occasionally I'll have weird networking issues, and because I'm lazy I take the quick and easy way out that is stopping and restarting the networking service and applet. I have a shell script set up to do this, here it is: Now the problem with this is that nm-applet refuses...

I think the Ukraine applies as well. It's similarly far away, similarly dubious as to whether the service would actually work, etc.

I have enough space for my music and pictures, I can lose the setups without caring much (with the stuff that's impossible to replace being easily backed up) and my movies (I think) are actually already backed up to my old 1TB I have in cold storage. Just had to think more about it -- I think I...

The problem here is that I have nothing to move it to, unfortunately -- didn't have the money to spring for a backup solution, and when I did I had more important stuff to deal with. Like I said, the stuff that's really important is on my OneDrive (not a perfect solution either, but I trust...

In other news, my hard drive is failing. Yes, the 2TB one I just bought a few months ago. SMART says all the attributes are either in the "old age" or "pre-failure" state. And what makes me think it's right is that after leaving it on long enough, I get I/O errors. No backups, either, nor do I...

Got woken up by an emergency alert, an Amber Alert from Tennessee. I had my phone set to silent except for my alarm, and the tone used for emergencies is rather spooky if you're half asleep and don't know what the tone is for. So, despite the fact that for the first time in a while I'd gone to...

I use uBlock Origin and I don't think I've had a single website flat-out refuse to serve me in a few years now. Obviously I've only switched to uBlock recently, though. It tends to be lighter than Adblock or Adblock Plus/Edge.

I guess my eyes just suck then, because I can't notice pixels on my 1080p monitor.

I used to consider it a challenge, now they don't feel much stronger than one of those Icebreaker things.

Why would you need such a high resolution on such a small display? I figured 27" to be on the small side just for 4k! The pixel density must be mind boggling. Meanwhile I just upgraded to a 21" 1080p panel for a secondary monitor just a couple months ago.

Used to be I couldn't handle a single Altoid. Now I can eat a whole tin without noticing. Is it just me or did they get weaker?

Watched Deadpool with some friends. It's hilarious. I deeply enjoyed it.

Absolutely, I should elaborate on what I meant -- I'm not saying they should stop the telemetry altogether, just be more transparent about what they're doing and offer easier ways of opting out.

It's my personal opinion that MS really needs to start backpedaling on some of the decisions they've made, telemetry and draconian update policies chief among them. Meanwhile my group policies seem to be holding firm. Thankfully. But I also only have one Windows machine to administer right now...

I don't think I'm the only one who kept using Classic Shell with 10...

So I was looking up how to clean my trackpoint cap as it was getting rather grungy, and the option that seemed to show up the most was toothbrush+toothpaste. Worked like a charm, though it's still discolored -- I don't think I can fix that, though. I've also heard you're supposed to change...

I personally think it would be an interesting thing to see, only Apple would have the necessary clout to force people onto a new architecture (since they did so not once, but twice, even a third time if you count the 32-bit support cutoff) and in turn it might bring about a second try at doing...

I'll explore my options on that one, but I doubt they're free, and if they are then I imagine there's a wait list a mile long.

Civ VI looks like it's shaping up to be a good one as always, unfortunately as usual nothing I have will run it satisfactorily. Emphasis mine. I think it'd run, or at least I'd be able to coax it to run at minimum settings, but it wouldn't be any fun. Looks like I'm sticking to Civ 5 for the...