I’m thinking of old text adventure games where it would repeat your invalid command back to you.

>eat pussy

I can't "eat" a "pussy" right now!

>fuck yourself

I can't "fuck" a "yourself" right now!

GoldenEye has the dual controller schemes too. A bit awkward in that you still have to be able to access the A & B buttons from the center grip; “2.1 Plenty” and switch the camera control off of inverted, personally. Hold the right controller at a slight angle to reach A & B and it’s not horrible… 😅

Can you tell my family’s been getting back into N64 lately? Some are experiencing the turn-of-the-century gaming for the first time. Although I’m spoiled from playing the recompiled Perfect Dark on Steam Deck and having total “control of the controls” including gyro aim.

Look, if he was dying, he wouldn’t bother to type “aarrggh”. He’d just say it!

That’s so good! Minibosses have a badass medley of Mega Man II as well.

I’d love a 20V battery for power tools that just has a USB3 plug instead of special chargers.

Good news, I’m starting to see products like this on the market!

To be faaaaaaair… The devices no longer have the DC voltage and current ratings listed on them like they used to.

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Tension makes me think of how one “can’t let go” if high-voltage AC is flowing through their arms. 😬

…and warnings in multiple languages. HAUTE TENSION!

Potential or electromotive force. “Voltage” is long accepted. The only use of “amperage” you’ll find in The Art of Electronics is in the index: Amperage, see current. Ampère called current “intensité du courant”, hence I in V = I × R.

I don’t know why it bugs me. This is Mildly Infuriating… The place for nitpicking! 😅

That’s the joke. Edit: oops, you got the message already! 😂

For some reason, “amperage” mildly infuriates me. It’s current.

Voltage equals amperage times ohmage.

Try booting with the HDD disconnected. Try disconnecting the battery and BIOS battery (where is it on this model?!) for a few minutes.

You would still need good RAM to get into the BIOS update…

GPU failure, since a text-mode boots but not much else?

No problem. I think in my case only Wine/Proton games were doing it and native Linux games were fine. I shake my fist at Nvidia and carry on. 😂

Try this setting: Display Configuration > Screen tearing: Allow in fullscreen windows. Whatever it’s set to, try the other setting. I had a similar issue once and this fixed it. The issue came back a long time later and switching it again fixed it. 🤷‍♂️

It’s a difficult issue to pin down. I’ve also read about video stuttering while trying to stay synched to pipewire audio which is having buffer underruns, even if your audio sounds fine. To check the audio buffer, you install and run pw-top and then watch it while you are having the video problem.

Japanese clothing company FUCTARD also went out-of-business… 🥲

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A weatherman saying it went viral ~9 years ago, if anyone wants to hear the pronunciation:

https://youtu.be/fHxO0UdpoxM

Sorry, I was not trying to put words in your mouth. I just usually hear, “Linux not good for me because it doesn’t support my setup well enough” when it should be “Linux not good for me because the manufacturers of my hardware don’t support Linux well enough”. Trying to put blame where it belongs in hopes of raising awareness to both users and manufacturers.

I also mistakenly thought you mentioned a newer Nvidia card when you are considering AMD. 🤦‍♂️ Good luck in your computing future!

It’s not the fault of the creators of an operating system that Nvidia refuses to write comparable drivers. Nvidia are the only ones with the technical knowledge of the GPU’s internals that is necessary to write the 100% functional driver. Open-source Nouveau drivers exist but are less functional because of this, its programmers have to try to reverse-engineer and do a lot of guesswork and testing, and for free.

Basically: If you value FOSS software at all, buy from manufacturers that are friendlier to FOSS software, or you may unknowingly lock yourself out of it.

Edit: Buying newer (especially of Nvidia) is probably a bad idea if you intend to run Linux. Older cards have had more time for them to fix the inevitable bugs. I run a GTX980Ti 😅 with the closed-source drivers on an Arch-based system and I’m honestly surprised a video driver update hasn’t seriously broken anything yet.

You’re right. I got a “Timex Sinclair 1000” at a garage sale, it’s a 2KB modified ZX81. The other manufacturers you mention had more software available, and Commodore often played dirty.

I’m tempted to replace the TS1000’s failing keyboard with one of those new ones with tact switches, but that’s a bit of an investment for what would sit on the shelf anyway. My C64 at least still gets played and demoscene stuff showed off!