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  • I have and my wife likes to test it as she never has anything to say to me unless im in the middle of a cutscene that can’t be paused.

    As someone who has also found true love…I felt that comment in my bones. I guess it cannot be true love if it’s never tested…lol.

    Edit: And all the game developers who make ‘start’ skip the cutscene instead of pausing it need to fix their shit. Argh. Lol.










  • Give directly to the charity yourself, you’ll get a sticker and sometime a free pen.

    Lol. I can confirm, it’s true!

    Joking aside, some of my most cherished possessions are hand-written thank-you notes from worthwhile causes that I support.

    (Especially ones from children! “Donors Choose” is great when I need some crayon drawn notes in exchange for buying some school supplies.)

    (And given the context, I should clarify, from my own money, not someone else’s.)



  • Yeah. Thankfully, Windows server cleaned up that stupidity starting around 2006 and finished in around 2018.

    Which all sounds fine until we meditate on the history that basically all other server operating systems have had efficient remote administration solutions since before 1995 (reasonable solutions existed before SSH, even).

    Windows was over 20 years late to adopt non-grapgical low latency (aka sane) options for remote administration.

    I think it’s a big part of the reason Windows doesn’t appear much on this chart.




  • That’s certainly a big part of it. When one needs to buy a metric crap load of CPUs, one tends to shop outside the popular defaults.

    Another big reason, historically, is that Supercomputers didn’t typically have any kind of non-command-line way to interact with them, and Windows needed it.

    Until PowerShell and Windows 8, there were still substantial configuration options in Windows that were 100% managed by graphical packages. They could be changed by direct file edits and registry editing, but it added a lot of risk. All of the “did I make a mistake” tools were graphical and so unavailable from command line.

    So any version of Windows stripped down enough to run on any super-computer cluster was going to be missing a lot of features, until around 2006.

    Since Linux and Unix started as command line operating systems, both already had plenty fully featured options for Supercomputing.