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Running Ubuntu on Windows 10 will be a thing

Winbuntu

I thought it was already a thing if you bothered with VM’s and were curious to see what Ubuntu was like, but apparently Canonical and Microsoft are partnering together to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10, no VM required.

With this new addition, Ubuntu users will be able to run Ubuntu simultaneously with Windows. This will not be in a virtual machine, but as an integrated part of Windows 10.

Ok, so why exactly are they doing this?

Canonical and Microsoft are doing this because Ubuntu on Windows’ target audience is developers, not desktop users. In particular, as Microsoft and Canonical continue to work more closely together on cloud projects, I expect to find tools that will make it easy for programmers to use Ubuntu to write programs for Ubuntu on the Azure cloud.

So is this MS-Linux? No. Is it a major step forward in the integration of Windows and Linux on the developer desktop? Yes, yes it is.

BS. People have been saying for years that Ubuntu is the Windows of Linux, this just confirms it. 😛

It also seems unlikely that Ubuntu will be bringing its Unity interface with it. Instead the focus will be on Bash and other CLI tools, such as make, gawk and grep.

lol yes. Unity and Microsoft’s new definition of the desktop would go hand in hand actually In the sense that I hated Unity with a passion, and despise Microsoft’s hardon for tiles. ffs they still exist in Windows 10’s start menu. I think I know why they’re saying this will be the last Windows, they’re going to call their next OS Microsoft Tiles, and Ubuntu will be there to help make it shittier with Unity.

Gaming

Serious Secrets

How Donald Trump got his presidential nomination.

One of the things I like about the Serious Sam games is all the ridiculous secrets you can find in any given level. I came across a secret area that I’ve never found in Serious Sam that had nothing but a bunch of posters with weird stuff written on them.

You can find more of my strange Serious Sam 3 screenshots on Steam here.

I’m definitely looking forward to Serious Sam 4. 😀 In the meantime all the other Sam’s still have some Serious replay value.

Gaming

Obligatory Skyrim Post

Had a calm beautiful day. I relaxed a bit this morning with some Skyrim:

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First part of the day: Admire sword before I give it a blood bath.

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The animals didn’t give me any trouble thanks to one of the blessings I received in the Levelers Tower. So I was able to walk and stand along side bears, wolves, spiders etc. I only had to kill Spriggians and bandits. 😀

All in an Overlord's day / Gaming2

Happy Easter!

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All dressed up to hunt eggs! Oh, and stab people.

Decided to celebrate Easter by going into Skyrim, putting some bunny ears on, then go looking for eggs in the Levelers Tower.

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I’ve also been decorating the place with all the weapons and armor I’ve found… Everything is still kinda bare, but that shouldn’t take too long if I keep adventuring.

Are you fucking serious? / Technology

How the internet corrupted an AI

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Apparently while I was minding my own business today Microsoft released an AI on twitter targeted at teens, young adults etc as an experiment. After not even a full 24 hours they had to shut the bot down after it became a racist, sexist asshat. The last thing it uttered was:

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There are many more examples that you can find here, here and here.

I can’t fault Microsoft for this, after all this was an experiment. An experiment that shows how corrupt asshats can corrupt a machine. Brought upon by racists, sexists and anything else you could think of. I also find it interesting that you don’t really see much from the other side of the spectrum. The bot had plenty of love of Trump, Hitler, Gamergate etc but nothing much about teh ebil feminists, Hillary, gay pride etc. I mean, they say feminists and gay people are ruining our world, you’d think they would have control of Microsoft’s chatbot within seconds! 😛

All in an Overlord's day / Fashion

You can rent clothes to look fabulous…

Would I rent designer clothing for $139 a month? How about a big fuck no?

Would you treat your wardrobe like a Netflix DVD subscription? Rent the Runway, a company known for renting out special-occasion dresses and ugly holiday sweaters, has been testing a service that they call Unlimited for a few years now, finally letting it out of beta. The idea? You rent three pieces of designer clothing at a time, receiving the next one in your queue when you send one back to be dry cleaned, or just because you’re tired of it.

The service is targeted to women who like high-end clothing, dislike cleaning out their closets, and who want to have a theoretically unlimited wardrobe. It also helps if you’re willing to spend $1,668 per year on clothes that you won’t necessarily get to keep.

You don’t need designer clothing to be fabulous. Hell, I’ve seen some… interesting people try to wear designer clothing and at the end of the day they were just fancy looking douchebags.