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I got Dark Souls for free on the Games with Gold on Xbox 360.

Was like "hey, this seems pretty nice, love the art style and music."

Only months later I heard this was supposed to be this notoriously hard and frustrating game for real pros.

I was then like "Well it did seem a little bit unforgiving, yes. Maybe I should leave this for later. You know, after I've 100%d Metroid Prime 2."

(Metroid Prime 2: Echoes on GameCube is balls hard. I beat the last major area boss. Then my Mad Catz memory card died. Did the whole game again. Beat it. Didn't get 100% because I missed one scan. I will do it again, probably soonish now that I've dumped the disc for Dolphin, but I'll wait a moment if there's a Switch rerelease.)

I have enjoyed some other Soulslikes - Elden Ring is great fun even though my tangible progress is quite slow.

Funny thing, Pixelfed isn't even a competitor to Instagram in the very very strictest sense.

Pixelfed is a federated service for posting photos.

Instagram started out as a service for posting photos, but it has become this... thing. I don't even know anymore.

In addition to the stuff already listed:

In the Swedish film version of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", Lisbeth and the hacker dude use Ubuntu, especially in the scene where they recover the stuff from Lisbeth's broken laptop. (In the US version, they decided to use Macs instead. And included a scene where she goes to an Apple store with the broken laptop and they helpfully tell her shit's unfixable. Realism.)

rm -rf / can brick your system

Well good thing there's basically no legitimate reason to ever even use rm -rf / anyway so GNU version is perfectly within its rights to refuse to do that by default, am I right? If you know what you're doing and want to nuke partitions, that's what cfdisk and mkfs are for, dammit

As I understood it the typeface is distributed this way because the roadsign makers will handle the letters as graphic elements, not text.

And I think someone actually unofficially adapted it as a font at some point.

• Yes
• Yes, and also delete Electron
• That, and also make me forget I ever even heard about Electron in the first place

Probably the silliest thing I have run into was some game. It asked you to set two passwords. You needed both to login. The second password couldn't be changed. This is why it was secure, see. (...What.)

When I created my account and set the second password, I couldn't log on the second time. Because I had entered a 20 character second password. It was accepted and verified during the account creation just fine. On the second login, it only accepted 16 characters. (It let you enter 20 characters but said it was too long.) Trying to enter first 16 characters of the second password didn't work, of course.

I then contacted the support, and they did manage to reset the second password anyway. (What is this even)

Turtlie! Ancient shellmaster! Aww.

I wouldn't have expected Musk to have read it.

Who said he actually did? The term "grok" is listed in The Jargon File / The New Hacker's Dictionary. Musk probably read it long ago. ...Like every proper geek. Nowadays, every time he drops an epic meme (as kids say these days), it's a hazily remembered reference to something nerdy from ages gone by, and it just demonstrates he has absolutely no idea about the context.

Oh yeah, pineapples have always been associated with toughness.

My hierarchy goes something like this:

• A relatively trivial configuration file? TOML
• A configuration file that needs a bit of complexity and nesting? YAML
• Is it getting so complicated and longwinded that you're actually unlikely to touch it by hand anyway? JSON
• Have we become downright enterprisey? XML

Wait. What if Garfield eats lasagna all the time because the freezer is literally an endless pocket dimension full of lasagna...

Shit, I need my morning coffee. I hate Mondays and it's only the Sunday morning now.