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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i can't be arsed to spent time on it tbh. either it works out of box or doesn't work at all is the extent of my patience.
mircea_popescu: smartphone, electronic ink, whatever. pointedly NOT actual computer.
mircea_popescu: the exercise of today being a fine point in case - they can't even be used to play games, though they may marginalloy fit it, we'd be all in bed.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and yet i never had this inept sort of bs problem on nvidia cards.
mircea_popescu: course the fact that radeon had a stellar reputation for being an unworking buggy pos throughout the 90s didn't help
mircea_popescu: with the result being much more obfuscation than in the case of nvidia
mircea_popescu: i'm pretty sure it's due to the "driver" for radeon mobility 7500 being a dubious pos which is pretty much sabotaged deliberately.
mircea_popescu: for some reason i had it in my head you had ironed out (or maybe just fought and were defeated ?) blank screen idiocy on thinkpad.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i;m not dedicated enough to getting old games to run on that thinkpad to chase this further. i'll just use a different box.
mircea_popescu: sadly heroes suffers from the same problems of poker, can't play more than 2.
mircea_popescu: like we used to do in lieu of highschool, however many people sign up, then they're randomly paired and play small maps, then the winners randomly paired play mediums, then etc.
mircea_popescu: we should probably have a heroes 2 tournament this winter.
mircea_popescu: i wiped the logs, turned the program on, it killed my gfx, i logged into tty2, stopped x, restarted x, this was the only log present.
mircea_popescu: anyway. it's pretty obvious someone magicnumbered something because i have the distinct impression gfx works fine just offscreen.
mircea_popescu: ie, not documented in the sense of documented ("here's how the fridge works") but documented in the sense of functional usage for illiterates ("here's how the fridge door opens and what happens most times when it does")
mircea_popescu: as much as his pcengine link is. the "how to run geth" level.
mircea_popescu: more and more it becomes evident that whenever something's documented by the open sores folk, it's always for a reason ; and the reason is always ^
mircea_popescu: for the record, the repugnant pos trashes the box so thoroughly i have to log into tty and stop/start x
mircea_popescu: "how do you use this ?" "first, delete it" "oh i see."
mircea_popescu: chiefly because i can't conceive of a mapping between the pile of trash and a log file.
mircea_popescu: who. who keeps making logfiles with no notion of time ? how is this supposed to work ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: oh holy shit Xorg.log has no timestamps for the lines. how the fuck is anyone supposed to make sense of this crap.
mircea_popescu: these aspirational "intellectuals" are shockingly sterile.
mircea_popescu: they literally ran a bunch of sed, /holocaust/global warming/ /jews/racists/ whatever, same exact structure down to the t.
mircea_popescu: the history of bestnesses. Make it say the old King and Queen are liars and villains but the Marquess is a truth-teller and a champion who has released the world from sorrow forever. Make it say she is the only one who can fix Fairyland and make it great."
mircea_popescu: look at it : "I shall tell you what the lion roared. It roared: you will make a new future in your stupid bowl, and it will say all the things we want it to say and none of the things we do not! The new future will say that everything good in Fairyland is down to us and everything that goes sideways is down to our enemies. It will say that we are the best people, with the best plans, and the best words, and the best rulers in
mircea_popescu: anyway, it is somewhat refreshing to see the delusional dorks (self-identified as "liberals" or "progressives" or w/e) simpyl lift wholesale the aggregate production of the neonazis since the 50s, change a few pronouns and bestseller-publish on their oh-so-important notebooks.
mircea_popescu: then they pen bizarre tales about how "but how could we lose, mr unsanitary green"
mircea_popescu: zombies don't tend to notice what parts they lose on the way.
mircea_popescu: permanently disinterested me in entertaining the imbeciles.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i did that when what's-his-name with the harry potter mary sue complex and delusions of computer science / quantum mechanics knowledge made some writing challenge and i fucked him with his own wrists attached to a telephone pole.
mircea_popescu: for the love of all that is literate, can this fanfic wave of subtards gargling words END ALREADY
mircea_popescu: "If you have not guessed it already, this dear and daring beast was a Wyvern. A Wyverary, if we are to be taxonomically accurate, for though his mother was a proper Wyvern, his father was a library. That only sounds strange if both of your parents were precisely the same sort of animal, which hardly ever happens, when you really think about it." << holy shit HOW CAN THEY BE THIS TEDIOUS.
mircea_popescu is vaguely looking for a root for a sane os since whenever, last year ?
mircea_popescu: yeah up to 1998. but the whole exercise was me showing that to young'uns
mircea_popescu: just like everything else "worked", just like how "liberalism" even became a thing. except it never was much more than the vague notions of life&everything of the friends tv show crew.
mircea_popescu: well, no, they're going to neigh york times best author selling publish some crap.
mircea_popescu: "the bravest thing in the us army is this chair. literally."
mircea_popescu: must suck, to be stuck running around with "no, u" as the only tool in the toolbox.
mircea_popescu: ahahaha wait wait, trump was scamming the electorate ? not shillary & friends ? awww.
mircea_popescu: it's a wonder they even botyher burying the corpses, at all. the only focus of interest is what could fucking happen, and there's not so much a corpse could.
mircea_popescu: anyway, none of you understand how the world works. it isn't that anyone GOT shot. at all. nobody gives a shit what happens. it's that someone COULD HAVE!!!! that's the only fucking point.
mircea_popescu: mats in fairness, ohio state prolly best place to pop a cap in their collective mega-ass.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the lulz of all time is the actual count of books required. dipped as low as 100s at some point cca 2010 when i stopped paying any attention whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: in other news, trilema acceess log for this month is 1.2 gigabytes or about 6mn lines. this web thingee certainly came a long way.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the momeny they lead with "X is a nyt bestselling author" you know it's going to be pretty far out there.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hey listen, i have this t42 wich works fine EXCEPT if i try to emulate old games. at first i thought whatever, bad emulation package, but no - be it via dosbox, wine, whatever, same behavior : game works fine (sound, etc) but the screen stays black. seems to be some unhapiness somewhere between radeon mobility 7500 and xorg. do i recall you saying something very similar ? did you ever manage to get display sub
☟︎ mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski incidentally obsequious means pretty much the opposite of what you need it to mean
mircea_popescu: if it gets rejected and that pisses you off, you can always publish on your own blog.
mircea_popescu: considering it costs little to submit, do it and see what happens i guess.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo rereading that god damn that's a kickass manual.