I’m not in IT, just a lowly office grunt who is forced to use Windows on their laptop. I know most people here have forgotten that 99% of the working world has to use Windows, so let me remind you how much it sucks.

It doesn’t matter how you change the laptop power settings, Windows will look at your settings and then just do whatever the fuck it wants when the lid closes.

Sometimes it goes to sleep

Sometimes it stays powered on and quietly overheats in your laptop bag.

Sometimes it completely freezes up and forces you to hold down the power button.

Sometimes it just logs you out and does nothing else.

Sometimes it will go to sleep, but the moment you open it back up it decides what you REALLY wanted was to restart.

Changing the settings has no effect on what Windows decides to do.

I know people on this site like to sit on their gilded Linux throne and sneer at all the lowly peons forced to use “Microslop” instead of their clearly superior, self-hosted, FOSS, Linux distro; but it is a real problem with Windows laptops.

I will accuse Gabe of being a piece of shit once he does something that makes him a piece of shit. He has yet to do so. I don’t see what’s so hard to understand about this.

Unfortunately there’s not one source, I used multiple guides and videos, and started over multiple times. This video was maybe the most helpful, but he doesn’t cover everything. You have to do some hunting on where to find the product keys for each system that needs them, and some systems require some extra steps to get working.

The only system I can’t seem to get running at all is Sega Saturn for some reason. The PS2 emulator needed some extra fiddling with the graphical settings on some games. The WiiU needed a lot of extra steps to get working, both in the set up and in the settings. And for the switch, I managed to get the Eden emulator working, but don’t ask how I did that. I tried a couple times with no success until one time it magically showed up as an option. I also havent tried emulating any XBox games because most of them are available on other systems, but I might try getting the 360 working soon.

I think the biggest thing that tripped me up is that the bios/keys files don’t typically go in their respective folders (with some exceptions like the WiiU), instead they all just get dumped directly in the Emulation\bios folder together. A lot of guides I found were giving the wrong directions for that.

Just keep at it; if I can figure it out, I am certain you can too!

I mean, personally I started rolling my eyes when I saw the comment section almost immediately turned into .ml users simping HARD for China and North Korea, despite literally no one bringing them up.

Oh totally agree with car culture. Walkable cities are fantastic. But again, it’s not like cities were more walkable in the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s. Hell, if anything, cities have become MORE walkable in recent decades than they were back then.

I’m not picking up a psp.

I’m just emulating it on my steam deck.

“pEOple WeRe jUsT mORe ActiVe iN thE PasT”

I call bullshit. Like sure, in the early 1900’s and before, people were more active. But in the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s? We had cars. People still used them a lot instead of walking. People still chose to sit and watch TV, or read, or listen to music. People still worked in offices and spent the majority of their day sitting. The average number of steps between a person back then and today is really not that different. Maybe a bit higher, but no where even fucking close to explaining the obesity epidemic.

Claims that the extreme increase in obesity is simply due to increased sedentary lifestyle just fucking reeks of lobbied attempts to shift the blame from the real problem.

It’s the food, stupid. High-volume processed bullshit with low-cost additives and filler ingredients SWARMED the shelves and replaced nearly every good product with unhealthy convenience with a longer shelf-life. Our portion sizes didn’t even change that much, it’s just the quality of what we’re eating has dropped tremendously.

You can’t even fully escape it by trying to only buy fresh food. Modern fruits and vegetables have been bred to be full of sugars and starches. Raw chicken is pumped full of salt and preservatives, sometimes making up more than 30% of its weight.

They are poisoning people and then blaming them for the consequences.

If you do anything OTHER than ignore them, your number gets marked as “active” and then sold to other scammers. I roll my eyes at the people who gleefully brag about all the ways they “fuck with spammers” without realizing that by simply answering the phone, they have already given them what they want. Sure, the low level worker on the phone (who might actually be a slave) might want you to fall for a scam and give them money, but the people running these call centers are perfectly fine if all they get is confirmation that you have an active number which can then be sold to other call centers.

Stop answering spam/scam calls.

“I’m trapped in a sewer with a confessed arsonist!”

This game was legitimately amazing, I feel bad it got such a lukewarm reception on release. I would have loved to see more of it.

No force powers. No Jedi. No greater political intrigue. Just scrappy individuals with a good blaster at their side, trying to survive and make their way through the galaxy. The title described the game perfectly, I really felt like a outlaw just living in the Star wars universe. And the settings felt so ALIVE! Like sure, the NPC’s during combat were pretty generic and unimpressive, but simply walking through a city or a cantina felt SO engaging! You could just hang out and listen to random NPC’s having full on conversations. It’s also simply gorgeous, the level design really made you feel like you were a part of the SW universe.

There are a few minor flaws, and I wouldn’t say it’s an absolutely perfect 10/10 game, but it’s pretty high up there for me. In fact, I’d argue it might be best Star Wars game out there. If all you care about is force powers, and lightsabers, and Jedi, this one probably isn’t for you. But if you like literally any other part of Star Wars, this game knocks it out of the fucking park.

I’ve been told on good authority that life… uh… finds a way.

Except Boomers all have lead poisoning from growing up around leaded gasoline, which means their generation is uniquely antagonistic, selfish, and stupid. This is not an “every generation” thing, there is an actual reason their generation is so short-sighted, uncaring of future generations, and has fucked everything up.

I finally got Emudeck working properly so I’ve been enjoying a ton of old games! KOTOR, Tony Hawk Underground, Jak and Daxter, Shadow of Colossus, Mario Sunshine. I tried putting every NES, GB, and GBA game on there, but it wound up flooding my collections and messed up the folders, so I think I need to spend some time curtailing what I keep installed.

Yea, but you can get partial DNA sequences and then fill the rest in with frogs or some shit.

I think you have a childlike understanding of what “proof” means.

Man, I’m going to need more than “just look at it, it’s obvious!” as pokemon designs have been pretty uninspired for several gens now, and AI wasn’t a thing when those were made. This just looks like typical gamefreak laziness. You have any proof besides feels?

Does gen 10 use AI? Or are smooth-brained people just calling whatever they don’t like AI-slop these days?

Suspicious cropping on the left hand side. If you open up excel, that is not where single digit numbers are oriented in the column underneath the triangle. They do have the orientation of two digit numbers who’s 10’s place has been cropped out though.

What’s happening here isn’t AI giving a wrong answer, it’s someone who has more numbers entered above and has cropped the image to make it look like AI hallucinated. The rows shown aren’t 1-4, but 11-14.

There are lots of reasons to hate AI, but don’t fall for fake rage-bait. Especially when it’s so low effort.

That’s why they always showed photos in black and white. It wouldn’t do to remind people that this was very recent, historically speaking.

How much of that is from Steam Decks?