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asciilifeform: ( the 1 i got, was this )
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: iirc he had a diff crackpottery for each. i never got the airplane 1.
BingoBoingo: <nicoleci> the last email i glanced at he mentioned me being part of the international police << Through your affiliation with the Republic you are an international authority figure of the sort the uninitiated may call police.
BingoBoingo: Dude wanted ~infinite money to finance "tesla of aviation", solar powered electric airplanes. Never mind the lack of utility or range
nicoleci: the last email i glanced at he mentioned me being part of the international police
nicoleci: lol he didnt mention it, he was mostly being asked to leave the room though ☟︎
BingoBoingo: Can't hurt to blog the guilty
nicoleci: he was weird in person but this is something else
BingoBoingo: If feigning could be a hail mary attempt to get some indemnity for earlier idiocy
BingoBoingo: Holy fucksticks the hamster in that one
lobbesbot: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: !Q later tell phf plox to snarf ch19, ty.
asciilifeform: “Finite Field Arithmetic.” Chapter 19: Peh Tuning and Demo Tapes.
mircea_popescu: right, now truckers all serbs and army all mammie
BingoBoingo: Was, was the same demo.
mircea_popescu: afaik army ~= trucking. same demo.
BingoBoingo: Could be this last century hasn't had Janissaries. Just social security in disguise.
mircea_popescu: not during the last century or so
BingoBoingo: I thought janissaries were somewhat effective in the field
BingoBoingo: Anyways, at this rate US activists complaints are likely as useful as active intelligence gathering to foreign analysts.
BingoBoingo: Meanwhile in the US war machine: "“I seem to be getting inundated with black female officers who are being disciplined for dumb stuff,” says Coretta Gray, who spent 13 years as an officer in the Air Force Judge Advocate General’s Corps, the military’s branch for military justice and military law, and continues to consult on cases."
asciilifeform: ^ apropos of http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-21#1914829 thrd. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: a game being, definitionally, "i don't want to KNOW what it does, i want to DISCOVER what it does"
asciilifeform fwiw has moar 'toilets' than 'kitchens', so happens
a111: Logged on 2019-06-01 12:49 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, i'd much rather dump a package deal than baby this box. i figure the grand or so it cost ain't worth an hour of my time
mircea_popescu: the logic behind http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-01#1916530 if it wasn't self obvious : secure box and gaming box are exactly opposite design constraints. computer games (as a distinct and opposite category to eulora) are by definition code that'll run on your box without your having run it. if you're going to do that ANYWAY, might as well save your time. ☝︎
asciilifeform: a troo gem imho.
asciilifeform: was esp. great on 'hard', where you gotta leave the guards alive
asciilifeform: i liked the old 'thief'
asciilifeform will eagerly read mircea_popescu's review if he tries this or similar
mircea_popescu: hmmm... The Dark Mod (apparently thief remake) may be interesting
asciilifeform: i knew a d00d who almost flunked school from overindulging in 'freeciv', shit thee not
mircea_popescu: you wanna get paid, bill net30 or some shit wtf is this.
mircea_popescu: but i will not consider this upfront sorta nonsense.
mircea_popescu: i generally pay whatever, 20-50 bux / mo for a game i'm actually playing, on the theory that the fucks who made it, let them eat.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in principle. ( this is where asciilifeform confesses that he has never in entire life eaten game other than from warez... )
mircea_popescu: i ain't fucking doing this.
mircea_popescu: not a bad racket, 1k to build box + 2-5k/mo to buy virtual cartridges.
asciilifeform: ( textures! )
mircea_popescu: so basically, if i install steamos, then i can pay eg 35 eur to play sme random title.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: naodays aint even uncommon to see game eat 50-100GB !
asciilifeform: i saw one vaguely original thing coupla yrs ago, iirc was 'far cry' -- very ornately graphixy thing set in... stone age. ( twist : character is able to tame animals and lead a sort of army )
diana_coman: out of curiosity I went and checked "requirements" for "no man's sky" (I keep hearing of it, possibly because it's made a few km away from my location): ps2 or windows 7; and the game will take up around 10GB of storage, lolz.
asciilifeform: the irons cheapened, but game people lost the spark of life, very little made these days that eats 3d card other than infinite variations on tired old shooter theme
mircea_popescu: https://store.steampowered.com/steamos << apparently they made a debian 8 flavour
asciilifeform: i recall this time.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, when i was a kid, a top notch gaming comp was like a year's labour.
asciilifeform: about 1k dubloons gets you all the game warez box anyone might want
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, i tend to play things like heroes, diablo, fallout etc.
asciilifeform: indeed it can, i dun think this is surprise to anyone
mircea_popescu: amusingly, a "great" (according to all the slobbering kiddies) gaming comp can be had for what a slut trip takes per day. notwithstanding the suddenly looming question of whether there's even anything to do with it once you get it.
asciilifeform: in 'portal', a chix walks around with a sort of blaster that opens wormholes b/w any two targets. 3distic puzzler thing.
asciilifeform: ( asciilifeform's brother slaved for 'valve' for a spell, but it's been some yrs since this )
mircea_popescu: all these game platform people are fucked in the head for not making their own serials-filed os.
mircea_popescu: "Manjaro Linux comes in XFCE, KDE, Gnome, Cinnamon and a host of more desktop environments. Do check out the official website." lawds mercy
asciilifeform: ( the last 1 i personally touched was 'portal' )
mircea_popescu: i was gonna go for steam but then they took off bitcoin. so meh.
asciilifeform: ( there is nominally a 'steam for linux' . asciilifeform not tested. )
asciilifeform: sounds like it's condemned to eat w7 then
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, i DO have a use for the box. "find out how the other half lives"
feedbot: http://trilema.com/2019/further-unboxings-continuatory-motorcycle/ << Trilema -- Further unboxings (continuatory motorcycle)
asciilifeform: generally i have a use thought up for box before arising off arse to sew one , lol
mircea_popescu: and it already took about half that ordering an' puttign together
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, i'd much rather dump a package deal than baby this box. i figure the grand or so it cost ain't worth an hour of my time ☟︎
asciilifeform has not, never felt compelled to use oddball bindist linuxen just because sewn box with 3dcard
asciilifeform: then anyffin that talks to openglism-under-x worx.
mircea_popescu: anyone tried the mint thing /
asciilifeform: afaik this mostly means microshit
mircea_popescu: i wanted to try the outside world
asciilifeform: as i understand mircea_popescu's own eulora knows what to do with 3d card tho ( can't picture why would need whole 1070 however , for such )
asciilifeform has not gamed much in recent times; not since embarking on multiyr maffs grind
mircea_popescu: well then ?
asciilifeform: presumably you didn't buy the card to draw transparent backgrounds in shells with lol
mircea_popescu: so far "get a modern gentoo" seems the only (if vague) option ?
mircea_popescu: i don't mind the hardware -- i just wish to know what software anyone knows of.
mircea_popescu: then i did other things, and i come back 15 years later to discover -- "linux, wut, where you been granpa"
mircea_popescu: last i looked into this, cca 2004, linux was JUST about to eat windows' lunch
mircea_popescu: notryl tbh
asciilifeform: ( naturally winblows will eat the 1070, but i dun imagine mircea_popescu was asking 'which winblows to get' lol )
asciilifeform: but i confess, not tried
mircea_popescu: but i can't fucking run old gentoo on it. for one thing, what games even run on old gentoo ?
mircea_popescu: took it off, put motherboard in screws first, then added it again
mircea_popescu: innit tho ? lifting the motherboard with it i had this distinct impression it's gonna snap right under it
asciilifeform: i'd stuff that thing in a chassis of some kind btw. else it's only matter of time till you elbow it and snap the card edge imho
asciilifeform: asciilifeform's old gentoo with evil kmod turd from nv, currently
asciilifeform: i think exactly same brand even
asciilifeform: lol i have 1 of these in a recently-sewn box
asciilifeform: oughta be doable on any linuxism with relatively recent (3+) kernel, iirc. incl. the cuntoo draft.
asciilifeform: asciilifeform has not had chance to try this any time recently, and afaik no one in l1 reported such an experiment.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: thinking re 'gfx-heavy' : might be interesting to try the recent years' opensores nvidia driver. (supposedly it actually worx.) perhaps send a pet to set it up.
asciilifeform: if i omitted anyone else's ffaisms, plox to lemme know. ( PeterL: your item will be in 19 )
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-01#1916464 << updated with fixed typo and with link to diana_coman's illustrated ch1-4 guide, originally missing ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what do you think of as 'gfx-heavy' ?
mircea_popescu: hmm, so since i'm building a gaming station... what's the republican notions for gfx-heavy os ? ☟︎
asciilifeform: questions, nitpicks, iron timings, welcome.
asciilifeform: the likbez tapes given in 18c will be rolled into vpatch of ch19.
BingoBoingo: Title fixed on latest post to read "Three Godzillas Or The Inadequackecy Of Professional Critics"
feedbot: http://bingology.net/2019/06/01/three-godzillas-or-the-inadequacy-of-professional-critics/ << Bingology - BingoBoingo's Blog -- Three Godzillas Or The Inadequacy Of Professional Critics
mod6: Good evening, Lords and Ladies. Here's this month's Foundation Address, http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2019-June/000331.html
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: by all indications , it at that pt already also blue