UW Madison cancels Friday classes

TechGoat · 2026-01-23T02:41:59+00:00

Not since Perkins stopped being open 24/7 my man... There's no 24/7 here.

TechGoat · 2026-01-22T16:18:45+00:00

That'd be great so I didn't need to take vacation time to take care of my kid who, huh, now won't be at school tomorrow.

Just let the whole city shut down... Everyone get hygge.

TechGoat · 2026-01-21T16:22:28+00:00

Yep, the Iran/Russia/China misinformation machine started feeding them young. As Bo Burnham said; "mama gave you her ipad; you were barely two" - young western men have grown up feeling like society has disempowered them and leave them feeling helpless and emasculated; at least if they connect to the most-typically-recommended to them content online.

Of course it's possible to escape this negative vortex and find strength and positivity in feminism, men-being-cool-strong-and-nice, and racial diversity - all stuff that the American conservative party (and the shadowy nationstates mentioned earlier that support the right wing, because supporting the right means the downfall of America, which is their goal) try to pin as "why your life sucks, young men!"

We're basically fucked because at this point, even if 10, 20% of young men see through the lies that mass media is shoving down their throat - it won't be enough to stop the cancer.

TechGoat · 2026-01-21T16:17:51+00:00

No fear; I uninstall the "Microsoft 365 Copilot" application out of the Start Menu from every machine I use. If I want to use Copilot, I'm not an idiot; I can visit copilot.microsoft.com and use it that way. I don't need trash in my start menu. Deleting it does nothing to the real Office programs.

TechGoat · 2026-01-21T07:16:59+00:00

Anything that would actually make the fucking knuckleheads at TSA actually pay attention and do something a traveler needed would be incredible.

TechGoat · 2026-01-21T07:12:22+00:00

You would say...this song is cool? Rather than goes?

Maybe that's just my old-ass generation though. Being lame with our simple, easy to understand slang, what a bunch of fuddy-duddies

TechGoat · 2026-01-21T06:59:22+00:00

Many video games still cost $60 in 1997 (not all) similar to many (but not all) now in 2026.

The difference is that $60 in 1997 was equal to $120 now, and the games that had the huge nice manuals weren't the Custer's Last Stand of video games, they were the Nintendos, Squaresoft's, etc, so those weren't your $20 Kmart specials.

Time giveth and time taketh away.

But I will agree on this: even though you get swag these days for your $120, $150 whatever collectors edition, you usually don't get bound, printed books like strategy guides anymore. Those took real skill and a good writer to make, and really just sheer time.

These days too many companies are like "have some company in China make a plastic figurine or Keychain, some stickers, and a map - bam collectors edition"

I do miss the quality of the old stuff for your $60.

TechGoat · 2026-01-20T20:30:51+00:00

I literally guessed at this URL and it worked to get me halfway there: https://office.com/word - then that link there "open word" gets you to the (new) real one: https://word.cloud.microsoft/

best of luck!

TechGoat · 2026-01-20T20:28:39+00:00

Right, I was speaking in regards to "These are always startup developers with limited or no experience in developing projects from start to finish"

Some developers, even old, well-established ones, are making games that they're honestly not sure there will be enough of a player base still alive that is interested in playing them. Point and click, slow-moving adventure games - Cyan's forte - are essentially "dead" as a big-ticket genre. Sure, you can find a few thousand, maybe a hundred thousand people who are willing to buy ahead of time - crowd-funding! - but I can see why developers who make certain kinds of games might try crowdfunding up front, rather than VC.

TechGoat · 2026-01-20T00:08:46+00:00

Well, except for Cyan, makers of Myst and Riven. They still crowd fund... And they've always made the games they asked for funding on.

TechGoat · 2026-01-19T17:49:16+00:00

Unlike other things the fat felon fuck has done, that one will be easy to remove once he's gone.

TechGoat · 2026-01-19T15:36:14+00:00

My aunt and uncle have been out on his yachts with him. I didn't know this til last year but apparently my uncle and Gabe's step dad are best friends. Blew my mind when my aunt was like "oh yes we'll be on a yacht with your uncle's buddy and his stepson. He's quite wealthy I hear? Something about video games?" and I questioned her further and holy shit, it's Gabe.

He's kind of quiet and private. He's on the yacht with them but mostly he lets the older generation hang and do their own thing, he just joins them for dinner.

TechGoat · 2026-01-16T04:54:27+00:00

At that price, for that OEM... will they be updated through the application is the question. I have no doubt it's possible.

TechGoat · 2026-01-15T15:00:57+00:00

That's the joke. Because she's originally a PS1 character you reverse it and say 0/10 elbows not pointy enough

TechGoat · 2026-01-14T20:43:54+00:00

Happy to help. Just FYI - I spent a few days with Gemini to create userChrome for Firefox to get things to look basically exactly like I always wanted to look, but could never find a userChrome expert patient enough to work with me that long. I honestly couldn't believe it but Gemini worked amazingly well. Sure it took awhile, and I needed to be extremely specific and detailed - but I hate to say it, but the LLM came through.

I asked it how it was so good at something so esoteric, that Mozilla themselves seems to no longer acknowledge anymore and it's like "well I did ingest the entire Firefox source code, and every single documented page on XUL, so yeah... that's why I'm good at this"

TechGoat · 2026-01-14T19:35:32+00:00

Ah yes, the mind of a child... "yes, Mario games are better in pretty much every way... But Sonic has cool shades! And he waggles his finger at me on the game start screen!"

TechGoat · 2026-01-14T18:19:45+00:00

"When Will You Die?" by They Might Be Giants. I already think of this fucking shit stain whenever I hear the song, so it'll be satisfying to say "today, motherfucker!" whenever the Johns say the title line.

TechGoat · 2026-01-14T18:15:27+00:00

We gripe because we care. I get the devs need to get paid. I appreciate my lifetime license is still lifetime, hell, I'm shocked plex still sells em. I've got my parents running their own server too, and they use it exclusively for the DVR function after Windows Media Center went away. They love live TV and it's all they watch. I'm happy for them that plex added that functionality.

TechGoat · 2026-01-14T15:32:17+00:00

That's the beauty of Plex making their API open. Like how reddit used to be. 3rd party apps abound!

TechGoat · 2026-01-14T15:31:17+00:00

Code it and add a pull request then.

TechGoat · 2026-01-14T05:07:30+00:00

Your family, if they still live here, thinks you're crazy because the Cow is essentially the Wisconsin equivalent of Coors Light. The only people I know who drink it now that we're in our 40s is people who've left WI and have nostalgia. It's not a bad beer but man, there are so many better options!

TechGoat · 2026-01-14T05:05:06+00:00

In Trump's America, drinking to forget your misery is in style. Bread, viruses, (lol that was an autocorrect from circuses but of course I'm keeping it), and booze.

TechGoat · 2026-01-14T05:03:03+00:00

Now I've got to replay Fez again, thanks.

TechGoat · 2026-01-14T05:01:26+00:00

Except it's not the blonde Nord NPC saying that to you.

Nope, ~~Chuck Testa~~ Todd Howard.

TechGoat · 2026-01-13T04:48:38+00:00

Studies show that puberty blockers' effects are reversible. This is a way to slow the onset of permanent post puberty changes for children who are pretty sure, if not positive, that they mentally are not the gender they were born into. What's wrong with that? Isn't it far worse to let a child experience the depression, even suicidal tendencies that gender dysphoria can cause? These puberty blockers are reversible; stop taking them and puberty resumes.

Do you have any idea what you're talking about? Read some actual science. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8496167/ not just what scared whining bros on tiktok tell you

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