HexagonSun

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[–] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

Probably up next on my retro gaming to-do list!

[–] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

Recently changed to top.

Occasionally you’ll click on an article or photo and there’s a really important explanation or disclaimer as the most-upvoted comment, but you’ll only see that first if you sort by top.

[–] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I’d actually only ever played VII and VIII before recently.

Now I seem to be going backwards through the series. Played VII, VI, and now V, where I currently find myself doing some rather boring endgame grinding to try to defeat the final boss battle.

[–] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

Oldest this year.

But maybe up until this year, or in the last 5 years would have been the more interesting question.

 

Was playing a bit of Stunt Car Racer for the Amiga this week, from 1989, and wondered how far back people are going!

[–] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, Myst was definitely something else when it came out

[–] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, playing Resident Evil for the first time was something incredibly atmospheric and special. I rented it from Blockbuster and knew straight away I had to buy it.

Before it released my friend and I used to speed-run the Resident Evil 2 demo which let you play as far as you could get into the full game, but with an 8 minute time limit.

[–] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I very nearly added seeing the Mortal Kombat arcade to my original post but decided maybe I was writing too much!

[–] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I feel the same way about it being a privilege. I missed the earliest part… but even to have lived through the NES and Master System era through to today has been amazing.

Games will continue getting ever more impressive, but nobody again will witness the kind of seismic leaps in what games could accomplish that people saw between the 70s and 2000s.

[–] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Just remembered that seeing Doom for the first time is another obvious one. Man that game was incredible when it came out.

 

I remember a few from various stages of my life (born 1984).

Seeing the demo footage of Sonic 2 in Woolworths and thinking the leaves falling down in Aquatic Ruin zone was so cool and advanced.

The original Sega arcade of Virtua Racing with the moving cars completely blew me away.

I remember my uncle loading up Cannon Fodder on his Amiga, and a REAL song with REAL music came out, along with REAL photos. I was amazed haha.

A few years on I remember a PlayStation demo disc having promo footage of the first Gran Turismo and it looked so real to me, I watched it over and over. The first Driver on PS1 looked absolutely amazing to me also.

[–] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All my friends and I used to have Yahoo! email addresses. But for some reason around 2010 almost everyone’s accounts seemed to be getting compromised and sending weird messages around to their contacts… and now I don’t know anyone with a Yahoo!

I never figured out what was going on and why Yahoo in particular seemed so affected by it.

[–] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The tiny thumbnail for this looked like a belly button on my phone, had no idea what I was tapping on at first

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works to c/linux4noobs@lemmy.world
 

Hi,

After messing around on various distros as a learning experience, I’ve had Debian 12 installed (via installing Spiral Linux) for a few days now on my old Mac.

I noticed today that gparted asks for the root login when launched and that my own user doesn’t have default access to any partitions I create using it.

Is this expected behaviour or have I messed something up?

Thanks!

 

Hey all,

I’ve currently got Mint running on my old Mid-2012 15” MBP, mainly as a hobby project / Linux learning experience. I have a newer Mac as my main computer.

I’ve already had a ton of failed attempts installing other distros which didn’t work out, I’m assuming because of the now quite outdated hybrid Intel/Nvidia GPU.

I’m currently running the Nvidia driver, but have been reading things about the 390 driver not working on newer kernels. Moving forwards am I going to be better protected from updates breaking things if I switch to using the Nouveau driver instead?

Thanks!

 
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