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The company that could single handedly kill both #Windows and #MacOS market share is @Adobe. If only Creative Suite had a @Linux version…

Whatever has changed @OpenAI @OpenAICodexCli with the way quotas are measured, it makes the Plus subscription useless for coding. I cannot even work on a single (albeit large) project with a single chat at a time without running out of tokens. This never used to be an issue and I’m not going to pay 200$ a month for working on personal projects. Going to try out @claudeai next.

@levelsio I’m being told ten million times a day that you should just vibe code it. Easy! Software engineering is dead 🤡

Does anyone know anybody who could reverse engineer or edit a Windows 3.1 VGA driver so that I can have it run at portrait instead of landscape? All the VGA drivers are like 800x600 or 1024x768 But it'd be nice to flip that to 600x800 so it become more useful to run on smartphones in pieter.com

@exquizitely Great game! The sequel was even better. Forgot all about those. Thanks!

The most "claustrophobic" game ever? Descent (1995) is a first-person shooter developed by Parallax Software, notable for being the first FPS with fully true 3D graphics and six degrees of freedom movement. Players pilot the Pyro-GX spaceship through mineshafts on various planets, infected by a virus that has turned mining robots hostile. There you go, the whole story in one sentence! Movement is the game's hallmark: full six degrees of freedom allows free flight in any direction - forward/backward, left/right (slide/strafe), up/down, and 360° rotation - creating disorienting, stomach-churning zero-gravity combat. For someone like me, being claustrophobic, this was both tough to play yet highly fascinating. I feel Descent is an underrated game that got a bit lost in the shuffle of other great games around the mid 90s.

@X how can I influence the video recommendations? My timeline is solely f1, tech and games, but every time I watch a video the next one that automatically starts is some tiktok slob. Nothing that remotely interests me…

@exquizitely Mi2 100%

Lucasfilm Games (LucasArts) created some truly iconic adventure games over the years. I went through my collection today and was thinking "what's the best adventure game they ever made?" - and while the answer to that is obviously quite subjective, I tried to narrow it down to three games and then one winner. Here are the ones I played: 🏆 Labyrinth: The Computer Game (1986) 🏆 Maniac Mansion (1987) 🏆 Zak McKracken (1988) 🏆 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade(1989) 🏆 Loom (1990) 🏆 The Secret of Monkey Island (1990) 🏆 Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (1991) 🏆 Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (1992) 🏆 Day of the Tentacle (1993) 🏆 Sam & Max Hit the Road (1993) 🏆 Full Throttle (1995) 🏆 The Dig (1995) 🏆 The Curse of Monkey Island (1997) 🏆 Grim Fandango (1998) 🏆 Escape from Monkey Island (2000) My top three are: Maniac Mansion, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, and Monkey Island 2. If I had to pick one game that stood out as the best adventure game, I would go with Monkey Island 2. How would your top three look like? What would be your #1?

@yoch3m @mitchellh @chrisbycreme +1 🙋‍♂️

@mitchellh @chrisbycreme For me to drop tmux: - detachable sessions and a way to visually select them (like tmux choose-tree iirc) - a "prefix mode" like tmux, where the keybindings don't have to be pressed simultaneously - a (mouseless) copy mode where I can select and copy text

crazy that ghostty is tracking to replace my entire terminal setup one day native, done right, is so much better

I've completed Part One of "Movie Theater" - Day 9 - Advent of Code 2025 adventofcode.com/2025/day/9 #AdventOfCode I do not get what is being asked in part2. Will revisit tomorrow.

So in todays #AdventOfCode #Day8 union find or disjoint set data structures were the key ingredient: grokipedia.com/page/Disjoint-… This type of data structure stores disjoint groupings of data and provides means to find and merge/join groups. The find method below recursively finds the parent and the union method merges the groups (in this case just updates group sizes) and sets the new parents. Super useful for today's puzzle.

Ok, today I had to cheat. I was stuck at part 1. I had the vector distances sorted, but I couldn't find out how to build and manage the groups. I sent the problem to Gemini to ask what algorithm to use and he suggested to use a union find. I did not understand so he generated a helper class for me. After that, finishing part 1 and 2 were easy. adventofcode.com/2025/day/8 #AdventOfCode

Today was a cool one! Part 1 tripped me up with the adjacent splitters for a while. Part 2 reminded me of Day 12 in 2023. Although not exactly the same, the challenge was similar in that you needed to find all possible combination using recursion and memoization. adventofcode.com/2025/day/7 #AdventOfCode

@Ronald_vanLoon @mog_russEN If only 😂. Video generation is getting insanely good.

Step on Waves: The Shoe That Lets You Walk on Water by @mog_russEN #EmergingTech #Technology #Innovation

@johnnieisle @yakwaxlips The Drifter was great!

@yakwaxlips In no particular order, Dexter Stardust: Adventures in Outer Space, Beyond A Steel Sky and The Drifter. All phenomenal games in their own way

2025 is almost over so tell me what has been your top 3 adventure games of the year?

@davepl1968 What's soccer?

Soccer is for floppers, football is played by men.

Day 6 "Trash Compactor" done and dusted. Today I spend way to much time fighting the #zig compiler. It is nice to play around with these low level languages, but it makes little sense to use it on these types of puzzles. Anways... Another one bites the dust. adventofcode.com/2025/day/6 #AdventOfCode

@denicmarko Just because you can, doesn't mean you should 😉 Scene looks great though.

This is written in JavaScript. Amazing! Is there anything JavaScript can't do?

@saykodere @onscreenlol Seriously underrated comment

@onscreenlol You’re a wizard Harry

My monitor has been flickering off and on randomly for a while now and I’ve been ripping my hair out trying to figure out why. Well today I figured it out… wtf?

Today part 2 was a breeze as I had already merged the ranges in part 1. Also used a binary search in part 1, so I could brag about it here on X. 🧐 Man I love these little puzzles. Are there any other free events that I need to know about? adventofcode.com/2025/day/5 #AdventOfCode

@davepl1968 🤡🤣

192-core CPUs, modern phones that fit in your pocket and outclass a 00s supercomputer, solid-state drives that don’t die every time you sneeze on a hard disk, commercial jet engines that are quieter, safer, and burn less fuel per passenger-mile than ever, MRIs and CT scanners that can see tiny tumors that were death sentences 30 years ago, minimally invasive surgery that sends you home the same day instead of a week in the hospital, modern anesthesia like propofol that makes surgery vastly safer, vaccines and antivirals that turn once-terrifying diseases into annoyances, electric cars that need almost no maintenance and still smoke 20-year-old hyper cars off the line, gas cars that routinely go 200k+ miles without a rebuild, airbags/ABS/ESC that mean far fewer people die in crashes, LED lighting that uses a fraction of the power and lasts for years, solar panels that are orders of magnitude cheaper and more efficient than in the 80s, heat pumps that can efficiently heat and cool a house with one system, noise-cancelling headphones that turn a jet cabin into a library, 4K HDR TVs that make VHS and early cable look like a bad dream, home internet fast enough to stream lossless video to multiple rooms at once, video calling that lets grandparents see their grandkids daily instead of once a year, GPS directions that mean you almost never get truly lost anymore, translation apps that let you navigate a foreign country without speaking the language, digital cameras in phones that beat the point-and-shoots we used to carry, cheap cloud backups so a house fire doesn’t wipe out every photo you’ve ever taken, online maps and satellite imagery that make paper atlases look like cave drawings, power tools and cordless batteries that make DIY ten times easier, 3D printers that let a random person fabricate parts at home, hearing aids and cochlear implants that actually restore functional hearing, cochlear and retinal research that’s pushing toward restoring senses at all, safer childbirth with drastically lower maternal and infant mortality, and an overall life expectancy that’s longer largely because all of this stuff actually works better than what we had. Now quit whining and get off my lawn.