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Hold on! @holdon.templeoftherat.com · 25/08/2026

Give me a Minecraft terrain mod that's more noisy and has more small cliffs, plateaus, and ledges. If you need to screenshot your terrain mod from 1000 blocks in the air, then your terrain is too large and it'll feel flat during gameplay. <-- good BAD -->

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Bill Gates, Windows 98, Blue Screen of Death

I was barely old enough to remember using win 98 and XP but, regardless, BSoDs were so common that it's now permanently embedded in our culture. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW7R... A buggy website isn't comparable to a BSoD but we really take for granted the people that care to make software work.

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YouTube video by failednation

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It used to be a constant daily problem and now it's not. I can't say the last time I've ever seen a bluescreen. Last time was probably when I installed a CSGO hack on a crappy laptop (which often have buggy 3rd party drivers)

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The issue is less about kids using ChatGPT and more about poisoned business culture. We can have good monopolies like Steam but there are fewer people with money today who care about quality. The culture has shifted and there are thousands of interconnected reasons for that which we can't understand

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Hold on! @holdon.templeoftherat.com · 14/08/2026

"How many people will use a Mac? Five million? Say you shave 10 seconds off boot time. That's 50 million seconds saved — every single day." -Steve Jobs Bill Gates oversaw quality at Microsoft and vanquished the BSoD, saving hundreds of years of lost work. He was not a saint but he was decent.

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You made the house and neighborhood look even better than the photo

Hold on! @holdon.templeoftherat.com · 13/08/2026

More sketches on my gallery at nemmy.net/@admin/gallery because I don't feel like posting them yet

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Hold on! @holdon.templeoftherat.com · 08/08/2026

This effectively sells Rust as "the language for AI, complete with guardrails." Rust has its uses, but for anything fun or creative like gamedev it is extremely un-ergonomic. Whether Zig is appropriate for Bun is a different discussion, but now there's less funding for langs that devs will love.

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Hold on! @holdon.templeoftherat.com · 08/08/2026

Unfortunately this affects Zig, a native lang which I really love and which is comparable to Jai for my usecase (gamedev etc). Bun is heavily vibecoded as of late. They rewrote its code from Zig to Rust and pulled their funding from Zig. They want Rust as a safety measure around their generated code

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Hold on! @holdon.templeoftherat.com · 27/07/2026

It happened AGAIN! Both times while alt-tabbing and(?) while I had Helium browser open. Why Helium browser? Because the Chrome Flatpak can't run WebGL. Why Chrome? Because Firefox gives broken stack traces for wasm apps. I'm done with Linux for now. It's been fun y'all.

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Hold on! @holdon.templeoftherat.com · 27/07/2026

My desktop suddenly turned solid black and I can't see anything. Returning to the lock screen showed something for 1 second and now it's stuck as black again. I can hear the volume controls working, it's just the display that's broken. Now I have to reboot my PC again and lose all my work.

Hold on! @holdon.templeoftherat.com · 26/07/2026

Because chapter 5 is gameplay with minor plot. I felt strangely isolated. The darkeners are simple creatures living in the moment and they act distant to me. Susie does nothing so I think she should've run off with Noelle and maybe leave us alone to bond with someone new.

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Theoretically I could publish an executable that installs itself and its icon to your start menu. It seems app listings are kept here. Does everyone else have this directory? Also, VSCode isn't present here, so the icon is installed some *other* way. So how did vscode.deb install its icon???

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Now I'm playing the package game: apt install fuse? fuse2fs? Nope. Ohhh it's "libfuse2". How come other AppImages didn't need FUSE? Maybe I was on a distro with FUSE pre-installed a while back. I'm starting to understand a fundamental problem with app distribution on Linux now.

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Okay so AppImage doesn't always work. GearLever is really nice and gives the apps a nice icon and puts them in my apps menu but it I couldn't figure out the error. I had to re-dowload the AppImage (GearLever deleted/moved the original file) and play the terminal game to see what's up.

I'm being told by three other people now that this is an extremely common issue. It's a shame because I like using the sleep button so I can go to bed and leave all my work open.

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Hold on! @holdon.templeoftherat.com · 22/07/2026

Do NOT let Linux go into sleep mode because when you wake it the screen might be stuck looking blank and you'll be forced to reboot it, killing whatever you had open. This is default btw.

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Nightmare-level difficulty: Distribute Windows binaries from Linux. If I cross-compile from Linux with GCC or whatever then it won't statically link some runtime garbage and 80% of Windows users can't run it without installing some extra garbage (VC++ redist files)

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Yeahh I think I'll have to set aside most of my Linux complaints as Nvidia problems or installer problems. It seems stable once installed... for now (and so long as I avoid 3rd party flatpaks and snaps)

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Got Kubuntu working. Installing Nvidia drivers was a breeze. I just ran "sudo ubuntu-drivers install" and restarted. Installing .deb files is easier than I remember, although the installer makes you wait for it to load some package info before you can click install. Kinda annoying.

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More notes: Fedora messed up my Windows install, says it's in "hibernate" and can't be written to. No boot option for Windows anywhere. Not sure how to repair it. Ubuntu has always been good with dual-boot installations and laptops. Seems like that still holds up.

I went to install Kubuntu, because hopefully Ubuntu will give me the GPU drivers I need to run KDE Plasma. I clicked "install" and it turned gray. Lang picker doesn't work. I can still select a network. It's doing nothing right now. KDE distros are on a losing streak. Can't even install it.

Which distro have you been on the longest, and for how long?

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I even reverse engineered CS2 on Linux not long ago. Pretty sure it was using my GPU just fine. I was most likely using Ubuntu at the time

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GTX 1050 Ti. Bought in 2017 and still playing CS2 and Rust with it

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So it's not using my GPU as I suspected and nothing really seems to fix it. I don't think it's possible with a card as old as mine. For giggles, I had an AI try to fix it and it bricked the install. Let's see how Ubuntu fares again.

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