MercuryCDX

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Talkin' about old games, mostly Sega. They let me talk on the HG101 Podcast sometimes by mistake. He/him/they/them, these are all fine.

Maybe with how shitty the RAM situation is, folks will revert back to the Unix philosophy and minimalism. But considering the number of software developers using AI for the bulk of their work, we're probably gonna end up with like the most simple-looking text editor using 40GB RAM on a blank file.

I switched to Heroic Launcher from Lutris pretty shortly after hearing that Lutris was being vibecoded, because coincidentally around the same time, Lutris suddenly became a huge piece of shit that never worked properly.

Me at the beginning of my Linux journey a little over a year ago: "This is kind of intimidating but thankfully tools like Lutris and GE-Proton exist" Me now: "Fuck all this vibe-coded shit, I got Leafpad installed, I'll make this work."

Noctalia was doing this weird thing where Steam was showing up with a generic unknown application image in the taskbar/dock when running. It did not have the right click Steam context menus, but had "steamwebhelper" pop up. Renaming "steam.desktop" to "steamwebhelper.desktop" fixed the problem.

Moved over from a whole X11 desktop environment package on my Linux PC to something cobbled together from a bunch of programs for a Wayland setup and this is great, having a desktop that scales properly is great. *several hours later* Xwayland hates all of my old games using X11.

Hadn't played Sonic Racing Crossworlds in a while so I fired it up to test some Linux related stuff, and I didn't expect to see Oshama Scramble added to the music list among other songs. I guess I hadn't been paying attention much recently.

An actual pro wrestling match finally broke out at The SummerSlam and the crowd is just plain DEAD for it. Amazing. Completely unsurprising, but amazing.