It’s looking like this will be another busy week. I’ll be doing a turn n’ burn tomorrow night, so I’m just gonna focus on my endless reading material… and maybe one game before bed.
Open Thread!
Online Shopping In Stupid Times
Today was an online shopping kind of day, something you can’t avoid when living in a rural area. I wanted to restock on two of my favorite cherry blossom teas from Japan, but thanks to Hair Furor and his freedom tariffs I probably won’t be for awhile. When I last bought them they were twelve dollars, and now they’re $21 even before shipping makes it into the equation. I did a lot of business with Japanese snack items too, which now also suffer from tariffs.
I miss the days where the Japanese and US currencies were on par with each other, it made buying their goods not much different than buying any of ours. Which worked out well considering they make A LOT of stuff that we either don’t or lack the ability to… seems like it was only last year.
Oh wait! It fucking was…
Around The World In 80 Seconds
For tonight’s digital outing we settled on Resonite, where we did a long overdue round of world exploration! Plus as an added bonus one of our friends shared a small tour of the country of Norwegia. We also visited some ancient NEOS VR worlds that may have been broken, but made for some interesting museums. I’ll have to sift through the footage, along with all 175 Gigs of the remaining Resonite footage. :v
Exploring Windows 95 In Resonite!
We visit one of the many amazing Creator Jam worlds and find a payload of 90’s nostalgia!
Friday Night Open Thread
Ah, another Friday morning where I had to pilot my ass around the entire day on one hour of sleep and any caffeine I could absorb with no nap whatsoever in my future. This seems to happen at least once a week for one reason or another, and by the time my actual Friday rolls around I spend a good chunk of it absorbing all the sleep imaginable.
Until then, Open Thread.
Ex-Zodiac: Euclides Belt Boss Battle (No Commentary)
One of the more intense boss battles I’ve survived.
Is SteamOS Better Than Windows On Handhelds?
Back in May I read an article about Windows vs Linux on gaming handhelds, and how Linux runs circles around Windows in terms of battery life and performance. Proving once again that Windows is and will probably always will be an overly bloated mess compared to Linux. Something I never get tired of seeing!
Proton has been a game changer in the Linux gaming space. When I originally started experimenting with gaming under Linux during the early days it was hard to compare natively made Linux games to the enormous catalog that Windows offers. Even some of the Linux ports that I’ve played had minor issues or bugs that would make the Windows versions seem less irritating by comparison. But with Valve backing their own version of Proton, it completely changed the Linux gaming landscape!
Now if more dedicated sound cards could get proper support under Linux it would truly be the year of Linux! 😛
This Post Is For Nerds
I made the mistake of running updates on my Linux-Surface Pro over the weekend. When I wake it from suspend under KDE Wayland it wakes erratically. It will wake and instantly go back to sleep, it will hang when trying to bring up the password prompt, or it might not even bring it up at all and just instantly freeze upon waking. Fortunately the Xorg version of Plasma doesn’t have this problem, but now I can’t rotate the screen (first world problems, I know…). At least I can use the Xorg version for now while I casually research the problem, and balance the hundreds of other things on my to-do list that feel like multiple swords of Damocles.
Meanwhile: I started watching the Preserving Privacy lecture in Harvard’s CS50 Cybersecurity class. I’ll probably finish the assignment tomorrow night after I get off of work. So far I’ve really enjoyed the flexibility in these courses. Though I’m pretty sure the paid ones would be more time consuming, and have shorter deadlines.
Monday Evening Open Thread
Another Weekend of self care comes and goes. I started it by having a digital movie night with a friend, played a small assortment of games, and did some video editing/uploading and accidental shopping. My work clothes are in place, and now I have a little bit left of the evening to enjoy some tea, a bit of reading, and maybe a game.
Open Thread!
Breakfast Shroom
Every weekend I always make something nice for breakfast, or brunch if I sleep in. This weekend I did something completely different and did egg bakes inside of portabello mushrooms, and I really liked it.
Not really a fan of the lighting in the pic, it was cloudy when I took the photo… but the taste was great! I took this recipe and made a couple of my own changes for my own liking, like wilting and seasoning my own spinach and using a different cheese. It was the most vegetarian eggs and steak dish I ever made. One was enough to tie me over until dinner, which means breakfast is going to be real easy for the next couple of days.