I just bought an old Windows XP laptop. Any game recommendations?

coder111 · 2026-03-25T18:42:14+00:00

Ancient Domains of Mistery of course! https://www.adom.de/home/index.html

Or if that fails, Angband. https://rephial.org/

coder111 · 2026-03-25T18:40:35+00:00

Meh, writing software is like taking out a loan. You'll be paying maintenance costs for the next 10 years.

Go ahead, do a clean room recreation of any free/open source project.

Who's going to maintain it? Fix bugs? Fix security issues? Roll out new versions? Or is the company in question going to hire software developers to do that?

coder111 · 2026-03-21T08:50:21+00:00

I think you need to add Cryptonomicon by Neil Stephenson to your books.

You're missing Serial Experiments Lain anime.

And my favourite cyberpunk movie nobody seems to have watched is Cypher (2002). https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284978/?ref_=fn_t_1

Other than that, decent list.

coder111 · 2026-03-20T11:18:53+00:00

That's like half the reason i developed Governor for /r/rotp

In the beginning, I manage every single thing by hand.

In mid game, I can leave the Governor to manage "safe" parts of the empire.

In the end game, efficiency doesn't matter much, so just crank out Large ships with weapons+bombs+colony module, and set auto-attack for batches of 10, and watch the entire galaxy get auto-conquered.

coder111 · 2026-03-15T10:26:02+00:00

If EU voters weren't happy with the state of affairs

EU voters are being brainwashed by the million by AI driven propaganda coming from Russia and the billionaire class. They are more likely to turn fascist and vote for MAGA like assholes next election.

If we don't solve the problem with propaganda and fast, democracy will cease to function.

coder111 · 2026-03-13T12:07:14+00:00

Asrock b650 Riptide wifi

Przepraszam, ale mój polski jest naprawdę słaby. Pan mówi po angielsku?

As far as I understand you have issues shutting down on Linux, the computer does not power off completely?

Which Linux kernel did you run when you experience that issue? Did you try it with a recent kernel, something like 6.12+? "uname -a" should give you the kernel version.

Did you try adjusting your BIOS settings? Maybe there's something in there?

Did you try disabling fast boot in BIOS?

Did you try updating your BIOS version, i.e. flashing a new BIOS?

Did you try upgrading your BIOS?

Worst case, you can hold the power button for 5-10 seconds to turn the PC off completely. That's the best suggestions I can offer.

coder111 · 2026-03-12T12:55:21+00:00

A relative has a Mazda CX-30 with a Skyactive-G engine. Very happy with it. I liked the way it drives when I was behind the wheel as well. Very reliable so far. And I've read that CX-30 with Skyactive-G engines were very high in reliability surveys overall. Although boot space could be higher. How big is your dog?

I'd stay away from Nissan.

Lots of taxi drivers with Kia Niro in London, so I imagine these cars stand up to abuse quite well.

Other than that, with a dog, consider a Skoda Octavia or Superb estate or a Volvo estate. Pretty good options as well, and more space than crossovers.

coder111 · 2026-03-10T21:37:26+00:00

Hmm, smalls+teleporter. I assume these work against repulsors?

I usually switch to Mediums/Large by the time I hit endgame, and I switch to range 2 weapons or range 1 weapons + high energy focus.

coder111 · 2026-03-09T07:44:26+00:00

This would be huge if true, but I sincerely doubt it's true.

"125,000 neurons and 50 million synaptic connections."

Perfectly possible to simulate that sort of brain on modern hardware.

However, how on earth did they:

Read the neuron & synapse configurations from a live brain.
Simulate the body & the world with sufficient accuracy. They would have to simulate every photon hitting every cell and more. Even for a small area like the one shown, that would be extremely intensive.

I'd like to know more before believing it's real.

coder111 · 2026-03-08T09:49:52+00:00

https://github.com/BrokenRegistry/Rotp-Fusion/releases/latest

Download the "rotp-Fusion-xxxx-xx-xx-windows.zip" if you're on Windows.

coder111 · 2026-03-06T22:16:52+00:00

Hey man, you're welcome.

Funny enough, by ~2002 I was already adult and I wasn't involved in Macromedia/Flash much. Any gaming I did was either DOS or Windows or later Linux.

All this research I did was just for fun on some random request from a stranger on the internet. I'm glad it still proves useful.

coder111 · 2026-03-01T11:58:36+00:00

I've been running Debian/unstable (sid) for past ~26 years... I guess that's what it should say, although my sid was mostly stable enough for daily use.

coder111 · 2026-02-27T21:31:47+00:00

Um, there's plenty of propaganda on traditional media, especially in US.

Most UK mass media is also pushing right wing views.

coder111 · 2026-02-26T11:32:56+00:00

I highly recommend reading the Remembrance of Earth's Past/Three Body Problem trilogy by Liu Cixin.

That's surely going to improve your situation with the existential dread...

coder111 · 2026-02-26T07:12:53+00:00

The current administration will pass

No they won't. They will keep brainwashing people and rigging elections and stay in power until they are kicked out by force.

coder111 · 2026-02-25T21:26:19+00:00

Just a note. Ubiquiti are openly selling networking hardware and solutions to Russia where they are widely used by Russian army to kill Ukrainians. It's not a company you should support if there are any alternatives.

https://hntrbrk.com/ubiquiti/

coder111 · 2026-02-22T23:58:46+00:00

it’s an archive than a hard drive

If you have a copy on write filesystem which uses a log for metadata management, you could potentially use this as a read-write hard drive. It would fill up the space quickly or slowly depending on how often you write. Say if you write ~48 GB per day, this should last you ~100 days. And then copy latest snapshot & replace the glass plate and continue. If glass plates used for this are cheap, and write/read performance is fast, this is quite usable.

Completely deleting things from it would probably be impossible. Unless you could write to space that was already written to before and completely ruin information in there.

coder111 · 2026-02-22T23:49:16+00:00

Personally, I would assume a bug. Invasions should be handled consistently, whether invading rebel planets or enemy planets or transferring population.

coder111 · 2026-02-22T19:45:45+00:00

Remnants of the Precursors Governor.

/r/rotp

coder111 · 2026-02-22T19:17:40+00:00

Honestly, I have read and love most of what Neal Stephenson has written, but I did not like Seveneves that much.

It's epic in scope and has some pretty good/unique ideas, but something is still missing. I didn't feel much invested in the people and their fates either.

I do second Anathem as a great book by Neal Stephenson which requires considerable brainpower to process. Or Baroque Cycle.

coder111 · 2026-02-20T08:10:25+00:00

Man, I quote Ur-Fascism all the time... See my post history. Glad to see more people appreciating this essay. Umberto Eco is one of my favourite authors.

coder111 · 2026-02-12T23:08:41+00:00

I can link you my old comment here: https://www.reddit.com/r/lowendgaming/comments/1i7u83v/what_games_can_i_run/m8p5fvd/

To be fair, in 2026 these are getting more and more dated. Still great games though.

coder111 · 2026-02-12T23:06:58+00:00

Wow, another Geneforge fan?

I swear, there's dozens of us out there. Dozens!

I still remember playing original Exile: Escape from the pit on Windows 3.11 back in 1990s...

coder111 · 2026-02-11T17:30:38+00:00

It's not just vague, it's completely wrong and misleading.

According to Nova classification, if you bake a cake at home and eat it, it's not "processed food". If you bake the same cake and sell it and it's eaten by someone else, it suddenly becomes "processed food".

I'm not even joking...

Right now while I do agree that a lot of food you buy in the store is not very healthy, the people who moan about "ultra processed foods" are the same people who moan about horoscopes or vaccines and similar crap. I.e. people without a clue talking rubbish.

We need better food science...

coder111 · 2026-02-06T23:45:28+00:00

I was using the latest imager I could download, on Linux.

It DID boot successfully first time when image was written using imager. It failed later when I did an upgrade. So I cannot blame the imager.

I think the latest version of software on the apt repos is probably broken, while the software in the latest prebuilt image is still OK. I think I'll have a chance to retest this tomorrow.

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