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8 of 13 episodes are out there. Not great quality, but better than nothing.

I did get far enough to unlock fast travel, but it’s extremely limited to the point of uselessness.

Red Dead Redemption 2

RDR2 went on sale for $20 a couple of months back which was about what I was willing to pay for it, so I grabbed it then. I tried playing it and it’s just boring. WAY too much riding around on horses just getting to the next bit of action or story. I dropped it and doubt I’ll ever get back to it.

OpenVPN is client/server software for setting up a VPN on your own infrastructure. It’s not a third-party service like ProtonVPN.

I mean, “Cheddar”, the place where the cheese assumedly originated is in the UK.

I feel like this is a false equivalence. Rather than compare the web to TV or radio I think it’s more accurate to regard the internet as a medium then compare that to RF transmission. Just as we went from text communication (Morse code) to audio transmission to video transmission over radio waves, we’ve gone from email to RealPlayer to Youtube and beyond.

I do find it somewhat ironic that television evolved from over-the-air broadcast to direct-connect cable, while internet technologies have gone from landlines to WIFI and 5G.

Pizza is like sex. Even when it’s bad, it’s still pretty good.

some potatoes i fucked into some raised beds

I should take up gardening…

Several years ago I had a client who needed to be able to receive files from a client of theirs. This was before Dropbox and the like, so I just went in and set up a quick and dirty FTP server. Worked fine, client got their files, all was good with the world.

A couple weeks later: “hey, we have another client that needs to send us files, can you set them up on the FTP?” Sure, no problem.

Repeat for about the next six months. The thing turned into this huge glob of a mess that miraculously enough still worked.

Finally, I call up my contact there and tell him if he wants this to be a permanent solution we should go in and set it up right, and to do that I’m going to need a bunch of information from him, who needs access to what, who should not be able to access what, etc. He says fine, why don’t you come on over and we’ll hash it all out.

I go on-site, we end up having a 2-hour meeting (billed, of course) where we go over all this stuff, plenty of notes are taken, decisions are made. We wrap up, I tell him all I need now is the list of users and their access needs and I can clean the whole thing up.

I never got the list. The thing just continued to grow and grow into some kind of unearthly abomination. Fortunately, I left that job before the thing imploded completely. Someone else got to untangle that mess.

It’s on Usenet. Only in Swedish though, and only Swedish subs.

I once had a client who didn’t want to buy new Office licenses for their brand-new Server 2008 terminal server, so had us install an old copy of Office 97 they had lying around. Surprisingly, it worked.

If you really want to stick with Windows there are methods to bypass the CPU/TPM requirements of Windows 11.

Wait until you hear about pomegranates.

I buy manufacturer refurbished drives from serverpartdeals.com. They come with a 2 year warranty but I’ve never had a problem with any of them.

Reminds me of a setup I had for local serial multiplayer on my Atari ST. I had cable going from the ST’s 25 pin serial port to a 9-pin connector, a gender changer, a null modem module, then 9-pin back to 25-pin. But hey, it worked.

Wine is not an emulator.

Remember Webrings?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102558/

TIL Newgrounds still exists.

Bit depth and bit rate are not the same thing.